Lucky Dragons - Widows

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This record is great--sorta broken-noise-pop goodness. Does anyone know anything about Lucky Dragons? Or have any rec's for stuff that's along the same lines?

― treechewer (Maximillions), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

i've bought a 45 (on english muffin) and an album (on 555) by these guys, both of which did fuck all for me, in fact the album was almost entirely shite. is the latest one not irritating?

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

sorry to sound harsh, that 555 album really is awful

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

oh man my band played our first club show with these dudes. can't say i really enjoyed their stuff but they were nice.

― mango selassie (teenagequiet), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

No way to tell if what I think is good you think is shit, and I can't speak to what I think about the record on 555 because I haven't heard it, but Widows sounds sort of like an aired-out attic. It's all melodic scraps and slow rhythms and incidental noises. Definitely somewhat self-indulgent, but the majority of the songs are short, so it gets away with the noodling. Don't know if that helps.

― treechewer (Maximillions), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

I saw him about a half year ago at PS1 in New York and thought he was great. It's just one guy, I think from Philadelphia, named Luke Fischbeck and his website is http://www.hawksandsparrows.org . When he played he did this thing that involved the sound of people rubbing their skin. There was also video projection, I think. In terms of music like his, Yacht (www.teamyacht.com)has some similar sounding songs, and I think did a split EP with him. If you look around those websites and the sites they link to, you'll probably be able to find similar stuff, or at least stuff made by similarly minded people.

― jordan b (pandawhistler), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

i thought they were pretty cool when we played with them - i still have some old cd of theirs that i bought there.

― Maf54 (plsmith), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

yes, lucky sparrows are awesome, but impossible to pin down re: their sound. everytime ive seen them its something totally different.

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

er, lucky dragons.

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

big fan, maria?

― Maf54 (plsmith), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

all ive heard is A Sewing Circle and it sucked.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 6 October 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

i liked the 555 album

― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 7 October 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

lucky sparrows haha

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 7 October 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

i nearly jumped out of my seat when i heard lucky dragons' "heartbreaker" on the soundtrack to shane meadows' film "dead mans shoes".

stuff that is similar - the books "lost and safe".

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 7 October 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

jk btw mts

― Maf54 (plsmith), Saturday, 7 October 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

yeah right

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 7 October 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in the pro-Lucky Dragons camp; I find a lot of his music really absorbing - especially the tracks collected on A Sewing Circle. There are over 40 tracks on that CD, but I think that the variety of sound sources used keep it from becoming exhausting - that's perhaps why they are difficult to pin down, and what keeps me interested.

He uses acoustic instruments, field & voice recordings, and record samples (Mexican fleamarket joints, and Nico!), so even if they are being manipulated in very similar ways, the variety of sound still comes through and the tone differs throughout - albeit with a default setting of 'pleasant'. Also, considering there is so much scrapbooking going on in there, for the most part, the music keeps from sliding into "I've got a Mac with some creative applications and I'm gonna use it!" territory (although there is one track featuring someone crying which could have been lifted straight out of that film Tarnation).

I've always felt as though this kind of stuff - glitchy, DSP'd laptop music - is like hearing sounds right up close: there's a sense of shifting scales that I've been unable to throw off from any similar music (Lucky Kitchen, Oval, even some Radiophonic Workshop). Coupled with the way that Lucky Dragons weaves a thread of nostalgia into nearly everything, insufferable as this may be, it's pretty much my soundtrack to reminiscing about scuttling around looking at insects as a child.

I can't comment on the 555 CD so much - my cat always got scared by the fireworks so I filed it away somewhere, but Widows has its moments, and I like that it's a concerted 'album', although I didn't find it as affecting as previous releases. I do enjoy the whole shamanic-folk thing that it does - it reinforces my view of this person as being Snufkin from Moomins.

http://img66.photobucket.com/albums/v201/eutsnufkin/snufkin.gif

By the way, there's a film here about the 'Make A Baby' touching skin thing which Jordan refers to upthread.

― AJ (o1000ir), Saturday, 7 October 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

Lucky Dragons is brillaint.
If you want similar stuff try listening to Y.A.C.H.T, who's also on marriage recs/states rights. Get his album called "MEGA", and the split he did with Lucky Dragons.
They're also both playing in London on the 17th, supporting BARR. Which will be awesome.

― Tom Evans (alien), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

stuff that is similar - the books "lost and safe".

i'm wrong here but "heartbreaker" is books-like.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

all lukcy dragons is greatness

― ()()()---()()() (internet), Sunday, 8 October 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

This is the only Lucky Dragons thread

― Pompoussin (admrl), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:24 (fourteen years ago)

REALLY?!

― Boehner & der club of GOP (Ówen P.), Monday, 20 June 2011 22:55 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

Best Spotify recommendation ever.

― eris bueller (lukas), Saturday, 19 October 2013 21:00 (twelve years ago)

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