Feather
Little Dragon
Machine Dreams, 2009
Peace Frog
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Gothenburg, Sweden based Little Dragon (who I’ve written about before) just played their second show at Le Poisson Rouge supporting their new Machine Drums album, released in September (the other show was in July, before it came out). I missed the first one but got to see this one and it was really good. “Feather” was a highlight. They really stretched the song out and I was hoping it wouldn’t end. They could have seriously played the song for a half hour and I would have been happy. The song really enveloped the room and the echo-ey wood clap sound (that first at happens at :25) was way more pronounced and so pleasing. Even though they inserted an extended instrumental section into the live performance, I could never quite predict exactly when the clap was going to happen.
I didn’t realize until right now (although it does ring bells, I’m sure someone told me) that Yukimi Nagano, Little Dragon’s lead singer sang vocals on several Koop songs, including “Bright Nights” (iTunes link), one of my favorites.
Bonus download: “Fortune (AFTA-1 Remix)” (you can probably find it here).
Songs are available for two weeks.
