“It’s finally happened,” I thought when I first heard this track. “Somewhere out there, a group of swedish people understand what It feels like to live in 90-feels-like-105-degree weather.” The first word I could think of when I heard Little Dragon’s “Brush the Heat” was scorch. Something about those eerie four minutes made me feel like I needed to drop everything I was doing, pull out a fan and hope it served as a remedy. Perhaps Its suggestive title is to blame, but there’s no denying that reverberating percussion, that feedback and those choir-boy-like vocals that seem like they’re evaporating as they hit the air make you all hot and bothered. Such is the case of most of the group’s new album, “Ritual Union,” released late this summer. All ten songs make me feel like i’m being seduced in the most discreet way possible, slowly getting worked up by the most basic and bare sounds and instruments; its the rawest form of musical foreplay. The band’s US tour kicks off in october at LA. Check out the official site for more dates and sweet spots.

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