Little Dragon @ Grand Central 10/22/11 Miami
hot damn and hallelujah. seeing Little Dragon live is a sensory experience of such a caliber that it leaves you feeling like a spent firework, wondering if that was indeed your life’s climax, and yes, there’s a good chance it was. Might even need to start a support group to help others readjust to life after yukimi.
The band’s live set releases plenty of endorphins. They have a textured, layered sound, and there is something alchemical about the songs, they are always morphing, chords prolonged and unresolved shift and change into hypnotic beats. The effect is incantatory.
In interviews the band has described an unconventional process that might account for some of this quality; Yukimi Nagano works with each guy separately on songs before they ever work on them as a group, so its like 3 bands in one.
its also refreshing to see a band that clearly still enjoys playing with one another, which is evidenced not only in the fact that they extend every song into a jam session, but also in the kind of hive-mind that connects them, the way they chase one another with sound, then regroup seamlessly to play as one entity.
Something must also be said about Nagano’s stage presence. She moves that tambourine around like she is conjuring spirits, the video below does not do her justice. She moves in brief vivid motions that evoke an apache rain dance, like her body is directly married to the music.
My friend Justin wrote this. So I don’t have to.
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