I like Little Dragon but I love their Ritual Union album.
There is little not to like about the Swedish band: it’s explorative, it’s pioneering, and it’s fun-filled and characterized by variety in its ultramodern dance sound. Yet, that’s it, as a band they are likeable. Forging the experimental in what may sound like ”for the sake of it” and discharging an excessive the ghostly, the Swedish band has maintained a decent reputation in light of electronics.
Yet, they last two albums have been like a premature relationship: like a COMMITMENT unfulfilled, like a vow that is clouded by reluctance.
So I have always been inclined not resign myself to their blinking beats and bloated synthesizing.
Yet, on Ritual Union there is a command by the band. Refined and definite, there is musical direction. Not only just an attractive experimental waffle… but the start of a commitment.
Still ethereal, the band forwards its musical approach with vibrant dance anthems, mingled with a pop-sensibility, yet with an advanced artsy-landscape in composition. Yet there is humor, in the midst, of every track in this excursion-of-an-album.
The title track, Ritual Union, is an attractive dance-mode. The song is commanded by Yukimi Nagano’s sensitive, light and friendly voice. The song lives in a space between dub and trip-to-the-hopping . It’s perfect, because it is so fun.
Ritual Union’s dance theme is bright and fun yet still leaves me unconvinced.
Hence, I like Little Dragon but I love their Ritual Union album.
Dig their style:-)
hey nkuli. I know what you mean….