Lucky Dragons is really quite and intriguing offering. It’s experimental music with a real world music leaning, focussing on these percussive textures, though often adding these shy rhythmic vocals. It begins with the sounds of distorted gongs, so what do they call it? Clipped Gongs – way to cover up a mistake. Except I hope it’s not a mistake because it sounds great. There’s a certain carefree genius at work here. Every rule you’ve ever known gets carelessly broken in a unselfconscious savant kind’ve way. It’s incredibly minimal, repetitive, with very few elements, and an almost cyclical drive, which taps right into the spiritual world music angle. Yet it’s also at times quite electronic with these looped electrical flecks existing alongside spasmodic bursts of acoustic guitar and the odd dose of moaning. Lucky Dragons are not trying to do too much, they get a groove going and stick to it with a vague slightly hysterical bent- these short fragments of song that never wear out their welcome thanks to their brevity. It’s LA based Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara who are part of a collective that has spawned 18 previous offerings, though, if anywhere deserved a little dose of unexpected lo fi post electronica spirituality it’s that terrible joint. It’s innocent, possibly stupid and very infectious as these incredible loops continue to build until you find these fully formed ultra funky fragments of sound and you wonder to yourself, why am I not dancing?
Bob Baker Fish
