Little Dragon announce new album ‘Nabuma Rubberband’ for 12 May, Share New Video & Sell Out Village Underground

“A band on the cusp of being very big indeed” Dazed & Confused, January 2014

After nearly three years since the release of their universally acclaimed 2011 album Ritual Union, Little Dragon return with their highly anticipated fourth album, the futuristic sounding Nabuma Rubberband, via their new label Because Music (Justice, Metronomy, Django Django, Major Lazer) on 12 May 2014. Having premiered as Zane Lowe’s ‘Hottest Record In The World’ last night, listen to the sheer force of nature that is first single ‘Klapp Klapp’:
https://soundcloud.com/littledragon/klapp-klapp

The Gothenburg electro-R&B adventurers were the latest artists to be invited to curate a ‘Dazed Visionaries’ takeover on Dazed Digital this week, highlighting the work of artists who have inspired their creative life, culminating with the video for ‘Klapp Klapp’ premiered today. ‘Klapp Klapp’ is the first in a two-part collaboration with the creative director Nabil (Frank Ocean, James Blake, Kanye West). Part one is directed by Taylor Cohen and features an enigmatic young zombie girl in a post-apocalyptic landscape at the start of her life / death. Watch the striking piece of film here: http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/18840/1/little-dragon-day-1-klapp-klapp  Part two will follow later this year and is directed by Nabil.

Musically inspired by the more experimental pockets of Prince’s back catalogue, club culture and the vintage Janet Jackson slow jams Yukimi used to listen to wandering around Gothenburg during the unrelenting winter, Nabuma Rubberband has a different feel to previous Little Dragon albums. “When you put some of Janet’s really slow stuff on you feel like you’re floating,” Yukimi explains. “That feeling really influenced me and maybe that’s why there are quite a lot of slow jams on the record. In the past we’ve been a bit self-conscious about making slow jams after ‘Twice’. Then we wanted to make dance music which we did with Machine Dreams and then Ritual Union still had a dance vibe, but with this album it wasn’t about that. The intention was about whatever we felt strongly about.”

There are some bands who fit nicely into certain genres, fulfilling expectations and generally confining their sound within a specific set of parameters. Little Dragon aren’t one of those bands. Yukimi Nagano, Erik Boden, Fred Wallin and Håkan Wirenstrand make a slowly-unravelling, constantly evolving melange of R&B, electro, pop and dance, anchored by the otherworldly vocals of their incomparable front woman and an innate way with melody. Over the course of three critically-lauded albums, Little Dragon have established themselves as a band keen to never rest on their laurels – not only prodding and playing with the boundaries of their own sound, but collaborating with the likes of Gorillaz and SBTRKT to expand their musical horizons still further. With strong influences from Prince and Janet Jackson through to Frank Ocean and OutKast, Nabuma Rubberband is their most exhilarating record yet and will catapult the Dragon’s into another realm, as its title suggests.

Little Dragon announced a string of European dates this month, including London’s Village Underground on 27 February, which sold out in less than five minutes.

Little Dragon European Dates:
Thu 20 February Amsterdam Trouw SOLD OUT
Sat 22 February Hamburg Moondoo
Mon 24 February Berlin Heimathafen
Thu 27 February London Village Underground SOLD OUT
Mon 3 March Stockholm Debaser Ballroom SOLD OUT
Wed 5 March Paris La Maroquinerie SOLD OUT

Nabuma Rubberband Track List:
Mirror
Klapp Klapp
Pretty Girls
Underbart
Cat Rider
Paris
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Nabuma Rubberband
Only One
Killing Me
Pink Cloud
Let Go

Praise for Ritual Union:
“A minimal but tune-laden strain of electro-pop, which merrily hopscotches over the divide between the mainstream and the underground” ‘Pop CD Of The Week’ 5/5 Daily Telegraph
“Little Dragon have already won over our minds. Now they’re after our hearts” ‘CD Of The Week’ 4/5 The Sunday Times
“Little Dragon’s is a blindingly seductive package, full of sonic invention and conceptual possibility. They’ve yet to put a foot wrong” ‘Album Of The Week’ 4/5 Time Out
“Their most arresting album” ‘CD Of The Week’ The Observer
“CD Of The Week” Independent On Sunday
“Nothing less than captivating” 4.5/5 The Sun
“Addictive and rewarding” 4/5 The Times
“Intoxicating” 4/5 The Guardian
“A unique mix that sounds like little else out there” 4/5 Mojo
“Ritual Union makes it three albums without a remotely dull or duff moment” 4/5 Uncut
“This album gets better and better” 4/5 Mixmag
“Captivating… Little Dragon provide a thrilling combination of down-tempo electronics and fast-paced beats” DJ
“Ritual Union is (the) groups’ finest album so far… unabashed slinky pop that’s destined for the mainstream” NME
“4/5” The Independent
“Catchy without being commercial, arty without being obscure” 4/5 Evening Standard
“Ritual Union is artfully structured yet full of feeling” 4/5 Financial Times
“A thoroughly impressive third album” Shortlist
“8/10” Clash
“8/10” Vice