Ritual Union
Little Dragon’s original blend of cool vocals, bouncing electronics, and classy beats comes together perfectly on their third album, *Ritual Union*. The rubbery bass and propulsive percussion of the title track provide a slinky soundtrack for singer Yukimi Nagano to chew over the pitfalls of marriage and monogamy; elsewhere, her soulful voice is swept along by gorgeous synths on the catchy, R&B-kissed pop of “Shuffle a Dream,” and then layered with reverb over the cold electronic pulses of “Little Man.”
Sweden's Little Dragon have a distinct and immediately alluring style, and on their third album, they double down on their futuristic pop sound.
In 2002, Swedish duo Koop released the single “Summer Sun,” a groovy appropriation of ’50s American lounge jazz featuring a female vocal that could have been sampled wholesale from a dusty old hi-fi record. The voice happened to come from precocious 15-year-old Gothenburg resident Yukimi Nagano. Five years later, she…
I don’t think I like electronica. The emphasis in that statement should be on the word think . Because while I don’t think…
Diverse post-Machine Dreams collaborations with Gorillaz, David Sitek/Maximum Balloon, Raphael Saadiq, and SBTRKT made Ritual Union the most anticipated Little Dragon album yet.
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Little Dragon doesn’t break much new ground on their third album, but that’s beside the point.