La Société Expéditionnaire | With a name like Dragon Turtle, the 2-piece Brooklynites sound like they might steer through some pretty temperamental elements — maybe a bit of the ferocious and fire-breathing, perhaps a bit of the slow-paced and lackadasical. Musically there ain’t much angry to Dragon Turtle, as opposed to the much more subtle and ambient. Lyrically, however, it’s a different and rather epic story — there’s a bit more of the destructive in the prose of a song like “Moon Fallout”, which tells the story of a young Israeli boy whose dream is interrupted by the sounds of bombing outside his home — than in “Belt of Venus”, which is more like a free-floating trip in space you might need to interrupt the pathos. They might remind you of Hammock or any of the other 2-piece post-rock, semi-shoegazing acts that have stumbled onto the modern rock scene in the past decade or so. Their new work, Almanac, is out now on La Société Expéditionnaire.

Dragon Turtle – Island of Broken Glass

Words by Jeff Nau