FUSE TV - Little Dragon Interrupt NYC Vaudeville Show for Surprise Set

In the midst of a late, late night NYC theater of varieties performance at The Box—a Manhattan venue that boasts drag, girls suspended on trapeze, fire-spitting bartenders and plenty of pasties on the regular—the genre-bending electronic outfit Little Dragon dropped in for a surprise set featuring new material from their upcoming fourth album.

Prior to their entrance, a guy wearing a giant teddy bear head and chaps was performing around 2:30am when stagehands abruptly cleared the stage. Suddenly, drenched in warm purple lighting, Little Dragon emerged.

The Manhattan socialites and local downtown regulars at the Box were dressed in black-tie attire to honor the venue's seventh anniversary, but they quickly went from dispersed clusters at VIP tables to a unified mass standing at attention as frontwoman Yukimi Nagano opened with "Ritual Union," the title track from their last album.

After greeting the crowd and introducing her band—who've crafted more than one classic collaboration with Big Boi—the night continued with "Klapp Klapp," a single from their highly-anticipated fourth album Nabuma Rubberband. The sweet electro-percussive sound of "Klapp Klapp," a single that officially dropped earlier that afternoon, was accompanied by a sole female dancer doing what looked like a modern take on the robot around Yukimi. 

Little Dragon saved another enticing glimpse of Nabuma Rubberband for the end of the night with a performance of "Killing Me," a dark track with the futuristic synth undertones. If these two songs are any indication of what we can expect from Nabuma Rubberband, it might be their best record yet.