About
Who exactly are Cajun Dance Party? Well, there’s bassist Max Bloom, a multi-instrumentalist who taught himself to play bass guitar and also adds trumpet and banjo into the Cajun mix. Keyboardist Vicky Freund rebelled against her classical training by falling for Miles Davis and Aretha. And there’s classical violinist, Robbie Stern, 17, who fell in love with pop music after going to see the Buddy Holly musical at the tender age of seven – and is the man responsible for the whole thing: it was Stern who introduced schoolmate and drummer Will Vignoles (whose dad is classical accompanist Roger Vignoles) to singer Daniel Blumberg, now 18, who pre-Cajun Dance Party was listening mainly to '(What’s The Story) Morning Glory' and had never written a note of music in his life.
However, the combination of Blumberg’s musical naivety with Stern’s intense classical training would become the catalyst for the pairs’ exhilarating songwriting partnership, during a period that also saw the lead singer’s fledgling musical knowledge rapidly expanding via a crash-course of recommendations from band-members and new musical friends including Bernard Butler, who simply handed Blumburg his iTunes.
The five have been busy since signing to XL last year. As well as glorious, hyperactive gigs with the likes of Kings Of Leon, and a nationwide headline tour, there were show stealing-slots at last summer's Glastonbury, Reading and Underage Festivals and a new album, The Colourful Life which is a really special album. Just take the spellbinding title track "Colourful Life", which opens the album in glorious style.. Next single ‘The Race’ is joyously crafted; a trajectory of heart-stopping strings earthed by super-tight bass and drums, whilst previous limited releases ‘Amylase’ and ‘The Next Untouchable’ both benefit from next-level attention whilst the panoramic ‘Time Falls’, semi-acoustic love song ‘No Joanna’ and the final, Screamadelica-gorgeous track ‘The Hill, The View & The Lights’ provide vantage points from which to see how far this band could go.