Dragon Inn 3 – Trade Secrets (2023) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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The long-anticipated sophomore release from Dragon Inn 3. Features 10 brand new songs plus a fantastic cover of Yazoo’s “Only You.”Led by Philip Dickey, co-founder of Midwestern early aughts indie-pop phenomenon Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Dragon Inn 3 began as an experiment more than a decade ago. In 2012, Dickey wrote the theme song for a short film, Ghoul School, a teen horror-comedy hybrid told through an ’80s look and feel. This synth-centric instrumental eventually doubled as a jumping-off point for the infectious, pulsating sound heard throughout Dragon Inn 3’s stellar 2018 debut on American Laundromat Records, Double Line. Enlisting his sister, Sharon Hamm, and his wife, Grace Bentley, for vocals and co-writing, the group took a DIY approach to tracking, recording in fits and starts over six years amid busy work-life schedules spread across Los Angeles, Kansas City and Springfield, Missouri. Double Line flew quietly under the radar, nonetheless earning heaps of praise from critics, music supervisors, and devoted fans who considered it one of the best synth-pop albums of the decade.The band returns with Trade Secrets, a striking sophomore effort, in 2023. Not only does Dragon Inn 3 not suffer from the infamous sophomore slump on it’s second album, but the band delivers some of it’s best songwriting and studio craft to date. Like Double Line, Trade Secrets is a lovingly-crafted take on the sultry, mysterious and rhythmical sound heard in 2011 action-drama Drive, and the soundtrack of television’s breakout cultural phenomena Stranger Things, at once nostalgic and futuristic, familiar and foreign, a pleasing amalgam of foxy Italo disco, sidelong experimentalism and commercial ’80s pop.Kansas City synth pop quartet Dragon Inn 3 return with Trade Secrets, a natural follow-up to 2018’s charming Double Line. The ensuing five years have done little to diminish the band’s nostalgia for glowing ’80s pop, which they continue to mine with pleasing results. As on their debut, the aesthetic they present is a curious mixture of noirish sci-fi and romantic sweetness with punny undertones of corporate intrigue. Led by producer, multi-instrumentalist, and former Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin frontman Philip Dickey, the group benefits from the airy vocals of Grace Bentley and Sharon Hamm, who inject enough earnest intent into repetitive lyrical hooks like “I can’t stop” and “it’s not enough” to make them lay just right. Nods to ’80s largesse are scattered throughout the set, especially on the yearning, pastel-hued “Out of Control (Bad Boy 2)” with its steamy sax solo, and there is even a cover of Yaz’s arpeggiated 1982 synth pop classic “Only You,” but by and large, Dickey gets the tone just right, avoiding outright genre parody by simply making catchy, enjoyable pop music. Without breaking out of the overall arc, Dragon Inn 3 move through different tones on the new wave-leaning “Teleport,” the bright indie pop of “I’ll Be Right Over,” and the lush and dreamy “Trade Secrets Theme,” giving the album some variety as it zips along. Well-crafted and easy on the ears, Trade Secrets is another strong entry in the band’s catalog. – Timothy Monger

Tracklist:

01. Dragon Inn 3 – I Can’t Stop (02:45)
02. Dragon Inn 3 – Out of Control (Bad Boy 2) (02:41)
03. Dragon Inn 3 – Not Enough (02:07)
04. Dragon Inn 3 – See It Your Way (02:29)
05. Dragon Inn 3 – I Could Never (01:48)
06. Dragon Inn 3 – Teleport (01:51)
07. Dragon Inn 3 – I’ll Be Right Over (02:08)
08. Dragon Inn 3 – This Party Sucks (02:03)
09. Dragon Inn 3 – Trade Secrets Theme (02:09)
10. Dragon Inn 3 – Only You (02:54)
11. Dragon Inn 3 – Finally Going Down (02:48)

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