Watch Little Dragon and R&B legend Faith Evans connect on surprise collaboration Peace Of Mind

We’re really excited to have an exclusive first-look at the video for Little Dragon’s collaboration with R&B legend and hip-hop royalty Faith Evans.

The laid-back R&B jam was left on the cutting room floor after the Swedish electro-pop band delivered their fifth studio album Season High earlier this year. Faith was then invited in to lay down extra vocals for the track and the piece was complete. As the band’s Håkan Wirenstrand told us, “We’d been working on Peace of Mind for a while, but we kind of got stuck with it. Then Yukimi had this brilliant idea of letting someone else sing it…”

“Faith is a huge inspiration and for me vocally,” singer Yukimi Nagano told us, “She’s someone that I listened to a lot all the way through high school. I tried to sound like her and realised I will never sound like her so let me try and sound like myself.”

The track was produced by esteemed American record producer and songwriter Raphael Saadiq who jumped at the opportunity to work with Little Dragon. “They called me and said “Could you take this track that we’ve been working around with and invite some other people to work on it?” Of course I wanted to say yes. I’m a huge Little Dragon fan but I was also aware I didn’t want to touch anything they do! So it took me a while to embrace the idea, but then I did and they liked it and I was like “Okay cool!””

It’s an intoxicating cocktail of Little Dragon’s weightless neon-lit R&B and Faith’s nostalgic-sounding soulful vocals. Watch the studio-set visuals in the player above.

Little Dragon tour the UK and Europe next month. Find the full schedule here.