posted by Jessica on October 27, 2011
Little Dragon at Chicago’s North Coast Music Festival. Photo by Jessica Mlinaric.
“Summer’s Last Stand,” that’s the tagline behind North Coast Music Festival, a three-day fest that features an eclectic mix of electronic, hip-hop, and jam-band acts. Held last month in Chicago’s Union Park, the second annual event boasted a bill including David Guetta, Of Montreal, Thievery Corporation, Fatboy Slim, Gogol Bordello, Bassnectar, and Common. Amidst the DJ sets, and pervasive animal spirit hats, Swedish band Little Dragon paid tribute to the season’s closing with their blend of deliberate electro beats and wistful R&B.
Weaving like a gypsy, front woman Yukimi Nagano cast a spell on the Technicolor-clad kids in the crowd with her signature smoky melodies, draped in a scarf and spinning on stage. Although formed in 1996, Little Dragon has been turning heads lately with their third album, Ritual Union, and recent collaborations with Gorillaz, Big Boy, David Sitek, and Raphael Saadiq. Simplistic yet soulful, the yearning title track offered the summer a dream-synth sendoff. With an atmospherically stark but entirely upbeat pop sound, Little Dragon has timed every vaporous vocal and snap of the snare to count, the whole effort airily radiating like the late summer sky.
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» Meaningless labels: Danceable • Dream Pop • Electro • Female vocal • North Coast Music Festival • Synth • Upbeat
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October 28th, 2011 at 1:26 am
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