Lucky Dragons – “We Lost” MP3/download
From Widows to Dream Island Laughing Language (the title alone gets me), I’ve counted myself a Lucky Dragons fan for a long stretch now, and yet they’ve disappeared from (my terribly idiosyncratic) view like a lot of the other crazy, almost Tinker Toy-ish acts I used to dig on, including Secret Mommy, Twink and other Marriage Records-affiliated mindbenders I can’t conjure at the moment.
It’s great to have them back; I hope they stay awhile. There’s nothing quite like a new Lucky Dragons release. A lot of bands think they change a lot from record to record, but it’s all a charade of tiny tweaks, slightly different chords and changes and a new coat of paint slapped across an old, broken-in-umpteen-times formula. I WANT ACTION, and LD know how to kick up some serious dust, treating each album as a vacation to a new place — and what happens in _____, stays in _____, often forever.
Tall praise, so don’t get too weirded out when I tell you “We Lost” is the best thing I’ve heard from this troupe of two. The first few seconds almost remind me of the intros on that Riceboy Sleeps record by Jonsi & Alex. Soon enough, some rhythmic bloops and almost comical bleeps rise out of the swamp like L. Skywalker’s X-Wing, representing the second movement.
The third segment thumps and bumps, joyful in its poly-beats and as organic as presumably electronic music gets. A bunch of robots tapping the bottoms of empty pill bottles with tongue depressors under a cracked, slow-motion disco ball: you know the drill right? Sending the whole shebang home is a soft chorus that … well, it lets me know what the song is called.
Weekend are up next and they don’t add up to a whole heap of trouble like Lucky Dragons do. That doesn’t eliminate them from the conversation, I’m just having trouble digging this as mu- … OOP, I think I get it now. Well done/played/delivered; halfway through this fucker I realized I was focusing on the wrong part of the song altogether, a cunning trick on their part, pulling the old bait and switch with a smooth, soft lift.
Seems like there’s a lot of this electronic no-vox stuff going around — a beat, layered synths/effects/progressions — and the end result is a lot of music that’s temporarily arresting and eternally forgotten. It’s tempting to liken Weekend to a more lo-fi strain of this forever-twisting strand of music, but I hear a lot more going on, ranging all the way from Black Dice/Eric Copeland to Gobble Gobble. Pretty good.
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