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"Little Dragon&amp;apos;s latest LP,&amp;#xA0;Nabuma Rubberband, is filled with slinky electro-R&amp;amp;B slow-jams &amp;#x2013; not your run-of-the-mill inspiration for music videos filled with bloodthirsty zombies. Director Nabil&amp;apos;s creepy new clip for &amp;quot;Pretty Girls&amp;quot; continues where the Taylor Cohen-directed &amp;quot;Klapp Klapp&amp;quot; video left off, with a zombified female transported from a graveyard to a bar beauty contest &amp;#x2013; where all hell breaks loose.\r\n50 Best Albums of 2011: Little Dragon&amp;apos;s Ritual Union\r\nWhile not as disturbing as the &amp;quot;Klapp Klapp&amp;quot; video (which featured an unnamed female writhing in a religious temple and bleeding from her hand into a freshly dug grave), Nabil&amp;apos;s continuation of the story is still deeply weird. As the character is bound and thrown into a van by a gang of evil-looking men, another zombie emerges from the grave; a foreshadowing of the bleak events to come.\r\nAfter arriving at the pageant (and getting dolled up backstage), the female zombie walks out in front of the crowd and sings a few words of &amp;quot;Pretty Girls.&amp;quot; As tension rises between the drunken bar patrons, a horde of zombies arrive at the scene &amp;#x2013; but the clip cuts out just before the true gore erupts. (Let&amp;apos;s hope another sequel is in the works.)\r\nNabuma Rubberband was released on May 9th, with singer Yukimi Nagano noting the musical inspiration of pop icon Janet Jackson earlier this year.\r\n&amp;quot;When you put some of Janet&amp;apos;s really slow stuff on you feel like you&amp;apos;re floating,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;That feeling really influenced me and maybe that&amp;apos;s why there are quite a lot of slow jams on the record. In the past we&amp;apos;ve been a bit self-conscious about making slow jams after &amp;apos;Twice.&amp;apos; Then we wanted to make dance music which we did with Machine Dreams, and then Ritual Union still had a dance vibe, but with this album it wasn&amp;apos;t about that. The intention was about whatever we felt strongly about.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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