Album Review Little Dragon - Ritual Union

I didn't begin the year tasked with finding four quite terrific new albums from my homeland of Sweden.    Yet it happened with Lykke Li's Wounded Rhymes, PB & J's Gimme Some, Those Dancing Days' Daydreams and Nightmares, and now with Little Dragon's Ritual Union.    Little Dragon assures itself significance in modern pop with urgent R&B vocals piled upon fresh synth work and spacey rhythms on their third LP.    Stereolab meets Broadcast with the thickly layered beats and quirk like that of Mux Mool or Dabrye.    The evolutionary tracks: Please Turn and Shuffle a Dream.

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Little Dragon - Ritual Union (Kontur & b0wler Refocus)
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Little Dragon - Ritual Union (Kontur & b0wler Refocus) by Kontur

Little Dragon - Ritual Union (Irrelevant Remix)
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Little Dragon - Ritual Union (Irrelevant Remix) by irrelevantsounds

Little Dragon - Ritual Union (Cook's Hardcore Ritual Remix)
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Little Dragon - Ritual Union (Cook's Hardcore Ritual Remix) by Steve Clouded Vision (DJ)

Twice, Little Dragon Second Edit
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Twice, Little Dragon Second Edit by Josh Fernandez 3

Little Dragon - Fortune (Bluntspeakers Remix)
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Little Dragon - Fortune (Bluntspeakers Remix) by bluntsports

Little Dragon - Please Turn


Little Dragon - Shuffle a Dream


Little Dragon - Little Man


Little Dragon - Nightlight




1. Ritual Union - Little Dragon - (Album: Ritual Union)
2. Little Man - Little Dragon - (Album: Ritual Union)
3. Brush the Heat - Little Dragon - (Album: Ritual Union)
4. Shuffle a Dream - Little Dragon - (Album: Ritual Union)
5. Please Turn - Little Dragon - (Album: Ritual Union)
6. Crystalfilm - Little Dragon - (Album: Ritual Union)
7. Precious - Little Dragon - (Album: Ritual Union)
8. Nightlight - Little Dragon - (Album: Ritual Union)
9. Summertearz - Little Dragon - (Album: Ritual Union)
10. When I Go Out - Little Dragon - (Album: Ritual Union)
11. Seconds - Little Dragon - (Album: Ritual Union)

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