should there be a thread for little dragon?

i sort of think so. never heard the first album, but i like this new one pretty well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvxak6zQaOE

new one is great as is the first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQAT_nOuYVo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z384TE8nuOY&feature=related

Very good band, hope to see them again next time they're in town in a few weeks. Did a brief interview with them earlier in the year.

This came out on Peacefrog right? I think that threw me off. Really thought it was bland. Not sure peacefrog need to trouble themselves with middle of the road indie-pop.

i don't know if i agree with that genre-fication

it's euro downtempo/trip hop with femme vox

Ok, indie-pop prob. isn't the exact genre for it, but it's def. the style of music that's popular on KEXP, a local station that pretty much only plays 'electronic' music when it's filled with weak vocals and 'real' sounding instruments. That's what makes me equate this album with indie-pop. It's basically Hooverphonic for a new generation.

And as Hooverphonic are v. good, all is well!

Should there be a thread for Hooverphonic?

definitely trip-hoppy, tho i'd say trip-hop by way of richard x. (or trip-hop that's at least heard richard x.)

you can't just call anything you want indie pop

good album, "feather" is an awesome song. I also heard trip-hoppy in this, but much less so than what I'd heard from the first album. Mostly just spare, atmospheric synth pop. that's not the same thing, right??

there's r&b in there too

Saw them live yesterday playing for free at my city. Amazing act. Yukimi has a very powerful voice for such a small body and drummer did some sort of jazz playing every now and then which was brilliant.

Would definitely recommend catching them on tour, they are very different live than on record.

heard Machine Dreams for the first time recently and i love it. they're playing in london in a few weeks, looking fwd to it.

unexpected:

http://vimeo.com/18865279

This band is ok, but only ok.

brilliant and underrated band

New album details:

Little Dragon will do a short run of shows in the US at the end of May leading up to their performance at The Roots 4th Annual Picnic on June 4th, 2011 in Philadelphia.

RITUAL UNION

TRACKLISTING

01 Ritual Union

02 Little Man

03 Brush the Heat

04 Shuffle a Dream

05 Please Turn

06 Crystalfilm

07 Precious

08 Nightlight

09 Summertearz

10 When I Go Out

11 Seconds

Enjoying the new album so far

This track has a nice 'Auto-Rock' feel to it.

http://open.spotify.com/track/49Su9fsYwmnnuJSyxj48kL

Curious as to why this band, which appears to be getting bigger and bigger, never elicits much response here. I can kind of get how they're not the kind of band to make people love or hate them -- maybe too pleasant? -- but also, I don't really know any other bands who sound like them.

Great first album...following albums=law of diminishing returns

I like Little Dragon but mostly wanted to remark on how odd it is that "Ritual Union" has become such a huge slow burn hit (at least in Australia). I hear it all the time now.

'Klapp Klapp,' the single off of the upcoming record is great:
http://open.spotify.com/track/43AUUVifvKCgPL7dLbX6Co

We never talked about this year's album did we.

I feel like I always need to reserve one space in my end of year top 20 for an Andy K record.

I love the TEED remix of 'paris', remember the original version being ok, but never investigated any further.

OPIII:
Klapp klapp
Cat Rider
Pretty Girls

Killing Me also is great

whole new record is great rlly

/ Should I / stood out for me on the new one. Also / butterflies / which was kind of nice and abstract. Like the last one, album seems about half keepers.

Second to / high / - but that one was a single and definitely one of my top 5s of the last minute and a half

Been meaning to listen to this. They strike me as the ultimate hit and miss band. Always worth a listen though

https://open.spotify.com/track/0WPOxxoEVoglAvhqroDpQA?si=Od4akDIMRomihXfmlWRP3Q

They’ve been hitting it out of the park recently with their singles

Eh, Season High ended up one of my favorite albums of 2017, but the new one is doing zip for me.

I was supposed to be seeing them last week :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7VSswF24Eg

Like the relaxed bass groove on this track a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZW25hXzNV4

sighhhh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8566UtalG_o

I've seen little dragon live about 4 times, a big fan of their first couple of album particularly, that gorrillaz collab posted above has always interested me as I don't like gorrillaz much but the little dragon verses on this track is some of their best work or at least a sound I think they do very well. This collab is odd from the point of view of its sounds like gorrillaz for exactly 50% of the song (like to the second) and then little dragon for the last half, it's like they never met up and gorrillaz sent them half a track and told them to finish it. The start and finish are literally different tracks by different bands

lol yes. I could give two shits about gorillas but as you say the LD part is magic 🪄

These guys I’m never in a particular mood for them but whenever their music appears on shuffle or I overhear a “deep cut” on a coffee or bar I think for a brief minute they’re actually amazing.

Today I overheard a song from Nabuma Rubberband which I don’t think I had heard before but made me reconsider picking that one.

https://open.spotify.com/track/4dPimg8olUWKxHZXPD3KOO?si=EtPOxBOFQ7eZr7Ce4EI3-w&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1DZ06evO44MWfS

new album in July
https://littledragon.bandcamp.com/album/slugs-of-love-2