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‘Klapp Klapp‘ is an appropriate title for a song more infectious than gonorrhea.

More importantly, it’s the first single to be lifted from the highly-anticipated 4th album by Swedish trip-hop and electro outfit Little Dragon. And of course, it doesn’t disappoint. Prepare for an elastic onslaught of colourful, carbonated synths and crystalline vocals…

Every buzzing noise emanating from the keyboards, bubbles and joggles wildly, as if it were all trying to burst free from Klapp Klapp‘s own stomping, onomatopoeic beat (klapp, klapp, klapp, klapp, klapp, klapp, klapp, klapp; it sweats and chugs along rhythmically like a sonic steam train.)

Vocalist Yukimi Nagano has a voice cooler than sherbet and sorbet spread on a bed of angel delight, floating somewhere between Janelle Monae and Alison Goldfrapp in dreamy soulful sparks (NB. yet if you heard it in a club, you’d think Yukimi immediately – her electric tones are still completely distinctive in their own right!)

This single definitely gets my vote as one of the top 5 hottest tracks of 2014 thus far. Plus, it won’t be long until the full-length, ‘Nabuma Rubberband‘, drops in the UK on May 12th.

OH THE JOYZ!



Raj Rudolph
Founder/Editor-In-Chief

Rajan Rudolph has been an electronic pop music obsessive ever since he heard Madonna's iconic debut album in the 80s. When he couldn't stop playing "Music For The Masses" by Depeche Mode, he instantly knew that electronic and pop music would be his life-long passion. Rajan is a dual citizen of the US and the UK and has lived in London since the summer of 2000. He created EQ Music as a passion project from the ground up having interviewed some of the biggest names in pop like Lady Gaga, Sia, Mika, Kelis, Robyn and every member of the Scissor Sisters. EQ Music is one of the UK's longest running influential pop blogs, regularly hosting showcase nights for emerging and established pop acts in the British capital. Rajan is also a full-time digital tech professional working at Warner Bros. Discovery and has contracted for MTV, Google, Huffington Post, Vogue, GQ and WIRED.