26 Jul Little Dragon – Ritual Union | Album Review
Swedish electronic and synth-pop band Little Dragon return with their third studio album Ritual Union. Having won us over on their 2007 self-titled debut album with their adept left-field interpretation of contemporary American R&B and Soul music and with such beautiful songs as “Constant Surprises” and “Twice,” Yukimi Nagano and her Little Dragon quartet returned in 2009 with Machine Dreams. A further move to the left and away from the R&B and Soul roots of their debut album, Machine Dreams delved into more experimental, rich and luscious sounding Electro-Pop domain and boasted such exceptional records as “Fortune,” Thunder Love” and my personal favourite Little Dragon song, “Blinking Pigs”. Two years on and it seems the band have kept their fans waiting for long enough - but has our two year wait been well worth it?
I should have known I’d arrived in the future the minute ‘Little Dragon’ sailed in on a wave of fizzy, electronic, reverberations. But at that point I thought it was still the 13th of March 2009. Little did I know that the band had taken my sense of hearing – and to some extent my sense of sight – on a melodious temporal excursion to some far, distant and debonair region of time.