Free songs from Little Dragon
Gothenburg, Sweden’s Little Dragon features vocalist Yukimi Nagano & her close high school friends Erik Bodin (drums), Fredrik Wallin (bass) & Håkan Wirenstrand (keyboards). The band stepped into the spotlight with release of their first double A-side single on Peacefrog, “Twice/Test”.
This year they returned with a spectacular 2nd album. Recorded in their home city of Gothenburg, Machine Dreams is a gigantic leap on from previous material but still maintains a distinct sound that can only be Little Dragon. Håkan explains:
- “We have become a family literally with all the baggage that comes with it. No matter how tough it feels to co-oporate at times we have grown dependent on each other to create.“
Be it Yukimi’s warmly inviting vocals, Erik’s dextrous drumming, the vast array of synths & bleeps created by Håkan or Frederik’s bubbling bass lines, together they don’t sound like anything else around right now. The move towards a more electronic sound was a conscious one, as Yukimi explains:
- “The title Machine Dreams seems obvious. These days, humans seem more and more like machines, and as technology evolves, machines feel more human and it becomes fuzzy and beautiful & science fiction-ish. We feel dependent on our machines to create and live, and their sounds reflect us.”
With disparate influences from Depeche Mode to Prince, LCD Soundsystem to James Holden, Dancehall to R&B, Jazz & Soul, Little Dragon take their place among artists who straddle many genres, yet somehow create their own and in doing so create “sounds that make time stop” (Yukimi).
“Looking Glass” | download
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“Feather” | download
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