ACCLAIMED Scots art-rock band Django Django have released their first track in two years leading to speculation of a new album.
The former Mercury nominees new single Spiral comes with new video created by Maxim Kelly hich takes the viewer on a psychedelic journey through multiple spinning mandalas.
The track is their first new music since 2018, and heralds what their people describe as "the dawn of a thrilling new era" for the four-piece Edinburgh-formed band.
The video created takes the viewer on a psychedelic journey through multiple spinning mandalas.
Maxim Kelly said: "The approach behind Spirals by Django Django was to translate the psychedelic trip through The Victorian technique of the phénakisticope.
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"The visual illusion generated by spinning the disks at the correct speed coupled with the shutter of a camera is both confusing and hypnotic.
"I was drawn to how the animations flow in and out, drifting and duping the mind and then back again. This felt a lot like the psychedelic experience tome. The challenge was to fuse the old with the modern. The analogue and the digital. Updating and modernising the technique."
The band which started out as a group of friends, classmates and flatmates attending Edinburgh College of Art in the early-2000s produced their third album Marble Skies in 2018.
That was the follow-up to the band’s 2015 sophomore album, Born Under Saturn, and their 2012-released Mercury Prize-nominated self-titled debut.
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