You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs,
and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Little Dragon is a Grammy-nominated band from Gothenburg, Sweden.
They formed in 1996, and they released their fifth album, Season High, in April 2017.
In this episode, singer Yukimi Nagano and drummer Eric Boden break down the song, Sweet.
My name is Yukimi.
My name is Eric.
And we are from Little Dragon.
This was a track that we wrote right after coming off tour.
Being on the road for a long time, it creates a vacuum almost inside you.
You really want to fill that vacuum with new beats.
We started with the bass line.
We listen to a lot of South African house music that has been a big inspiration.
Eric's wife is South African.
So we go there every other year and my wife,
she's the aunt to many kids and some of the kids are DJs.
So I just give them a USB and please fill it with as much as possible, you know.
There's one song by DJ Sindo.
She's an awesome house producer.