Little Dragon have announced their new album Slugs of Love, out July 7th via Ninja Tune. The Swedish electronic band has also shared the latest preview, “Kenneth,” and its accompanying video.
Recorded at Little Dragon’s Gothenburg Studio, the 11-track album blends soulful pop, electronics, and R&b. It includes features from their prior collaborator Damon Albarn (“Glow”) and Dreamville rapper Jid (“Stay”).
“We’ve been exploring different ways to collaborate and communicate. Dissolving patterns and making new ones,” the band said in a statement about the project. “Nurturing our ability to curiously press down keys, to bang — sometimes hard sometimes gently — on different things, strumming strings, recording sounds and investigating the limits for how much or little a sound can be tweaked.”
The new single “Kenneth” is about “getting caught in bitterness and taking the wrong turn mentally,” the band explained in a statement. Over a grooving bassline, vocalist Yukimi Nagano sings,...
Recorded at Little Dragon’s Gothenburg Studio, the 11-track album blends soulful pop, electronics, and R&b. It includes features from their prior collaborator Damon Albarn (“Glow”) and Dreamville rapper Jid (“Stay”).
“We’ve been exploring different ways to collaborate and communicate. Dissolving patterns and making new ones,” the band said in a statement about the project. “Nurturing our ability to curiously press down keys, to bang — sometimes hard sometimes gently — on different things, strumming strings, recording sounds and investigating the limits for how much or little a sound can be tweaked.”
The new single “Kenneth” is about “getting caught in bitterness and taking the wrong turn mentally,” the band explained in a statement. Over a grooving bassline, vocalist Yukimi Nagano sings,...
- 5/3/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Swedish electronic band Little Dragon are back with “Slugs of Love,” a spirited new single. Check it out below.
Slugs are famously slow molluscs, but “Slugs of Love” wiggles at a much quicker pace with propulsive bass from Little Dragon’s Fredrik Wallin and animated vocalizations from Yukimi Nagano. It’s the type of song the Gothenburg group says should be played “by a bunch of youngsters with rubberboots in different sparkling colors.” As for the slug reference, they clarified:
“Did you know that Leopard Slugs perform a very sensual and acrobatic dance, an exchange between two individuals carrying the same set of reproduction systems? Maybe we are all yearning for love and ecstasy, as we turn more sluggish and slimy trying to convey this urge.”
The track marks Little Dragon’s first release since last year’s Opening the Door EP, which featured an appearance from Jid. Their last LP,...
Slugs are famously slow molluscs, but “Slugs of Love” wiggles at a much quicker pace with propulsive bass from Little Dragon’s Fredrik Wallin and animated vocalizations from Yukimi Nagano. It’s the type of song the Gothenburg group says should be played “by a bunch of youngsters with rubberboots in different sparkling colors.” As for the slug reference, they clarified:
“Did you know that Leopard Slugs perform a very sensual and acrobatic dance, an exchange between two individuals carrying the same set of reproduction systems? Maybe we are all yearning for love and ecstasy, as we turn more sluggish and slimy trying to convey this urge.”
The track marks Little Dragon’s first release since last year’s Opening the Door EP, which featured an appearance from Jid. Their last LP,...
- 4/5/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Little Dragon have announced they will embark on a European and North American tour in 2020. Preceding the dates, the Swedish band released new song, “Tongue Kissing.” It’s the group’s first new music since 2018’s Lover Chanting Ep. They previously teamed with Flying Lotus for “Spontaneous” earlier this year.
“So alive when the band are by your side/So ever grateful for the nights I cried,” frontwoman Yukimi Nagano soulfully sings over a quirky pop soundscape. “Forever broken words so unified/Take me apart, take me apart.”
“The song...
“So alive when the band are by your side/So ever grateful for the nights I cried,” frontwoman Yukimi Nagano soulfully sings over a quirky pop soundscape. “Forever broken words so unified/Take me apart, take me apart.”
“The song...
- 10/23/2019
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Flying Lotus unveiled a cosmic mini-suite of two new songs, “Spontaneous” and “Takashi,” from his upcoming album, Flamagra, out May 24th via Warp.
“Spontaneous” features Little Dragon vocalist Yukimi Nagano singing over a roiling low-end groove shot through with dusty drums and and a galaxy of various synth sounds. After just a couple minutes, “Spontaneous” fades out and gives way to the opening thump of “Takashi.” The song — a dense, dizzying jam centered around a skittering clavichord — is named for Takashi Kudo, an artist in the teamLab collective, whose worked...
“Spontaneous” features Little Dragon vocalist Yukimi Nagano singing over a roiling low-end groove shot through with dusty drums and and a galaxy of various synth sounds. After just a couple minutes, “Spontaneous” fades out and gives way to the opening thump of “Takashi.” The song — a dense, dizzying jam centered around a skittering clavichord — is named for Takashi Kudo, an artist in the teamLab collective, whose worked...
- 4/23/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Swedish synth-pop group Little Dragon have unveiled charming new song, “Lover Chanting.” The song is the title track to their first Ep.
The dance-driven, R&B-flavored tune features bright clavinet winding around drum and synth bass grooves. “Do you want to be my girl?,” drummer Erik Boden sings. “I wanna be, be your man.” He and singer Yukimi Nagano’s voices playfully intertwine, their cadences adding another rhythmic dimension to the polyrhythmic song.
“It started with [bassist] Fred [Källgren Wallin] searching for a wedding march inspired by a Swedish prog funk folk keyboardist called Merit Hemmingson,...
The dance-driven, R&B-flavored tune features bright clavinet winding around drum and synth bass grooves. “Do you want to be my girl?,” drummer Erik Boden sings. “I wanna be, be your man.” He and singer Yukimi Nagano’s voices playfully intertwine, their cadences adding another rhythmic dimension to the polyrhythmic song.
“It started with [bassist] Fred [Källgren Wallin] searching for a wedding march inspired by a Swedish prog funk folk keyboardist called Merit Hemmingson,...
- 10/9/2018
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Seattle-based downtempo/future bass duo Odesza have very quickly reached a considerable fan base over their short time as an outfit. 2014 saw the release of their sophomore album, In Return, and in the months to follow they’ve played sold out shows at nightclubs, venues and festivals across the world.
In conjunction with the announcement that they will release a deluxe edition of the same album in September, the duo have put out “Light,” a brand-new track featuring Little Dragon vocalist Yukimi Nagano.
Nagano’s contribution beautifully compliments the effervescent synth work of the track, which showcases the outfit’s melodic prowess. It’s commonly known that Odesza use live controllers to perform every track spontaneously, jamming out each part and improvising it in the moment – and the structure of the “Light” certainly lends itself to that if you know what you’re listening for.
The deluxe edition of In Return...
In conjunction with the announcement that they will release a deluxe edition of the same album in September, the duo have put out “Light,” a brand-new track featuring Little Dragon vocalist Yukimi Nagano.
Nagano’s contribution beautifully compliments the effervescent synth work of the track, which showcases the outfit’s melodic prowess. It’s commonly known that Odesza use live controllers to perform every track spontaneously, jamming out each part and improvising it in the moment – and the structure of the “Light” certainly lends itself to that if you know what you’re listening for.
The deluxe edition of In Return...
- 8/19/2015
- by John Cameron
- We Got This Covered
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