Little Dragon, “Blinking Pigs” MP3
Yukimi Nagano’s airy baduizms are a beautiful thing, and after her Sweden-based group Little Dragon gained a cult American following off its first online album and a series of twinkly videos, the band is releasing the slightly more electronic-based Machine Dreams and touring its face off. “Blinking Pigs” starts out like some chemistry fanatic’s basement noise project, then whorls into what Little Dragon does best: make easy-breezy, souljazz-flecked pop songs as a proscenium for Nagano’s dreamy warbles. The new record drops October 20, tour dates after the jump.
Download: Little Dragon, “Blinking Pigs”
Video: Little Dragon, “Swimming”
- story Matthew Schnipper
The idea of collaborating with your parents might seem tantalizing at first—family bonding by a team of level-headed adults—but then a bunch of weird shit comes up and you remember the best way to collaborate is just to do the dishes after the food gets eaten and remember to bring Scrabble home for Thanksgiving. Creative partnership is apparently much easier for Swedish pop group Little Dragon’s singer Yukimi Nagano, whose father, illustrator Yusuke Nagano animated their video for “Swimming,” from their almost-out album Machine Dreams. It’s a pretty jaunty number—that one FADER staffer just called a “Gwen Stefani song produced by Rich Harrison”—with peppy line drawings to match. Everything seems copacetic until Nagano draws his daughter’s hair into a big fish that eats her face.
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posted on Aug 24, 2009 in MUSIC, MUSIC VIDEO tags electronic/dance, Little Dragon, rock, Yusuke Nagano
Stream: Little Dragon, “Blinking Pigs”
- story THE FADER
Swedish electroacoustic soul darlings Little Dragon are finally releasing a new album on August 19 after touring off their excellent debut for what seemed like ages. The single from said album is called “Blinking Pigs” and is now streamable from their MySpace page. Not sure what blinking pigs have to do with Little Dragon’s serene sound and everybody’s fave jazzy warbler Yukimi Nagano’s sweet voice, but the song jams. Also Yukimi started a blog where she is posting a bunch of good videos, so you know, get on that.
SF: Little Dragon at Elbo Room
- story THE FADER
If you were lunching a month ago, you missed us freaking out for Little Dragon, a Swedish quartet who play some droned-out lovey dubs. And now along with LA public radio station KCRW, we’re presenting their first ever show in the Yay Area at the Elbo Room tomorrow night. If you’re not a baby (ie under 21), you can get tickets here. And don’t stare at Yukimi Nagano too much because Jose Gonzales will beat your face in with a gently strummed acoustic guitar. Full semi-terrifying flyer after the jump.
Video: Little Dragon, “Test” (Not To Be Confused With Lucky Dragons)
- story THE FADER
You know when you have those moments where you’re all “MY HEART IS A CALCIFIED STONE. I WILL NEVER LOVE AGAIN,” but then something happens and you realize you actually will love again, you were just being overly dramatic? That just happened in the FADER office, when we heard this band LITTLE DRAGON, and realized we were over the fricken moon. They are from Sweden and they are MySpace friends with former FADER cover stars Love is All, and their music is like spaced-out minimal R&B lullabies with piano and weird but totally not misplaced moments of dub echoes and free jazzy solos (!) and their singer Yukimi Nagano’s smoky, conversational mic swagger is one of the loveliest sounds we’ve heard in a minute.
Also if you click on the “Audio / Video” section of their their website, you can see the video for their piano ballad “Twice,” which has PUPPETS in it—proving that Little Dragon + The FADER=Soul Mates. Please go fall for them yourself—abstractly we are into Big Love nahmean.
