Little Dragon: Ritual Union – review

(Peacefrog)Swedish quartet Little Dragon spent 10 years playing together before they got around to releasing even a single. They're now on their third album, but that history of self-containment still seems to colour their music. They can sound aloof, as on the title track, with its keyboards that sound like glittering icicles. Or they can sound combative: the bass melody running through Please Turn buzzes oppressively, while top of the mix in Brush the Heat is a high-pitched whine that bores in...

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