Gothenburg bliss-poppers Little Dragon will follow 2007's excellent
self-titled debut with Machine Dreams, a new album for Peacefrog on
August 17.
According to vocalist Yukimi Nagano, "these days, humans seem more and
more like machines, and as technology evolves, machines feel more human
and it becomes fuzzy and beautiful and science fiction-ish. We feel
dependent on our machines to create and live, and their sounds reflect
us". So we guess you can expect a movement towards a more electronic
sound. Their first album was one of 2007's most underrated
full-lengths; a slick Portishead-indebted pop number featuring one of
the year's highlights in 'Test'. They were also pretty ace when we
caught them at Sonar last summer.
The first single from the album will be titled 'Feather', and will be
released either very late August or early September.