Notes on ritual union by little dragon

I'm stuck on the sweds first pb&j and now little drago. Well pb&j are more of rock and are easily listenable but little drago is more electronic and hard to access to musically. I have defeated the hard feat of listening to em in their 2nd album machine dreams and grew into them during the plastic beach collaboration in 'empire ants' and 'to binge' and when I heard on Facebook of a ritual union ep I was thinking to myself "an albums coming soon!" I was right but it was sooner than expected and I have big expectations for Little drago.

1. Ritual union: already hearing the hard to listen beats, weird noises, and wtf sounds. Vocals are amazing and I'm not too crazy about female vocals but she has a great falsetto. The lyrics arent as abstract as the sounds the song has but hey I like the sounds regardless of how weird it is its a new trend too. Weird is the new cool for us indie rockers anyway.
2. Little man: basic at first simple beat then it grows and gets faster. The vocal placement makes me happy she's gotta have a great mind to do that. Most electronic bands are brilliant at making their lyrics "fit" this song just adds to the reputation.
3. Brush the heat: dashing song very flirtatious, and my favorite song on this LP by the way. The looping vocals, the great synth on the back the wheezing and woozing beeping and booming. The lyrical placement amazes me once again the weirdness projected has just the right amount of chaos and prder to make it work so im really digging this song.
4. Shuffle a dream: holy crap this sounds so 80's electro-pop that it rediscovered the lazer beam. The sounds here are so messed around with I can only identify two instruments: bass and drums the rest is abstract.
5. Please turn: *shake skake shake shake shake shake* idk what's making that sound but its cool, nice vocals. Nice synth? If that's a synth. Yeah not much going on here there's less change in the song than the past songs but its tame and that's what they desperately need.
6. Crystalfilm: starts off with propeller airplane taking off noises. Then a highly pitched guitar? Nice little drum snar tittering here and there. The lyrics are relaxing. This is a very chill out type of song its good for when your sitting and waiting or laying around just chilling.
7. Precious: drum roll on a plastic trash bin? Bleeps and bloops at start off. Bassy sounding synth. The techy sounds start but her voice doesnt get along with the music so far and the music keeps getting weirder by the second.
8. Nightlight: resembles the song before but it has a tribal feel to it and I'm not digging this song. its supposed to be a single but its not that good there are way better songs on the album.
9. Summertearz: humming and more tribal feeling to the song the vocals are a little slower but that chages alot and I'm digging this more.
10. When I go out: pitter pattering of drums tribal as before weird effect on vocals which suck ugh its a disgusting combination of high and low vocal ranges. The music is preety good though the vocals throw it off though.
11. Seconds: bleeps and bloops resembling the collaborations with gorillaz and the soft slow vocals that no one can resist. Catchy, cool, chill.

Man this band is hard to listen to at times, really really weird as hell but always full of spirit and fun and if you can last more than a minute through a song you'll be greatly rewarded. One of the best experimental albums I've heard this year. Recommended if you listen to gorillaz plastic beach, experimental rock, and indie synthpop.

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