Some of the Primavera Sound/Second Weekend/Friday headliners had their start times scheduled for late last night and early today. upon return from
One of the attractions that had undoubtedly aroused the greatest expectation in those previous hours was the New Zealand singer Lorde, who, in addition to her outstanding voice, has a very own vision of pop. She is touring Europe presenting her latest album, Solar power, which gives rise to an attractive ad hoc set design. She started with a song from the aforementioned album, Leader of a new regime, said she was delighted to be "next to the ocean" again, and then went through her previous albums until offering about fifteen cuts (Royals, Mood ring Secrets from a girl. . .), all enthusiastically chanted by a largely Anglo-Saxon crowd.
He'd had a world-class aperitif an hour earlier on the next stage. The mass was crowding, but it was still possible to circulate, and it was possible to verify that the black rhythms of a very varied style penetrated relentlessly in an audience rather predisposed to other types of music. The person in charge of making it happen was the powerful and formidable vocalist Brittany Howard, a stage animal who moved with knowledge of the cause and, above all, conviction on a sound cake based on soul, some aroma of gospel, r'n'b and good funk, and conveyed mainly through his album Jaime , ending with his unstoppable version of Nina Simone's Revolution. In the unforgettable evening she inserted some conscientious statement in addition to her mandatory greetings to Barcelona, where she could be seen and heard in 2016 at the Cruïlla festival when she was still a member of the glorious Alabama Shakes.
But the day began by very different paths. For starters, a double dose of fast pace to loosen up the still relatively few fans who, starting at five in the afternoon, had come to the Parc del Fòrum. Perhaps names not very classifiable for the indie mainstream, but what Nueva Vulcano offered and an hour later Triángulo de Amor Bizarro was synonymous with energy and adrenaline. They are bands that are newcomers, but whose way of understanding, living and sharing rock and pop is fully current. In addition, the Nueva Vulcano have the proximity factor since they are considered a reference of the once rich Barcelona underground. The work needs of its three members mean that their albums are very intermittent, the direct ones are the same and that the group spends more or less long periods of lethargy. A couple of seasons ago they released their album Essay, a compendium of their different faces and musical moods, and now they are making it publicly visible in their own way, that is, how and when they feel like it. Bass, drums, guitar and the imperfect but sanguine voice of Artur Estrada traveled to the past and much to the present. The other part of the chute came from the Galicians Triángulo de Amor Bizarro, a definitely atypical band of the Spanish pop-rock scene since they emerged almost twenty years ago. Through the voice and vigorous charm of the singer Isabel Cea, the band reeled off a varied sample based on post punk, funk well marked by the bass, quite light noise and poppy psychedelia. Go enjoy.
In the extramusical section, a day of enormous public attendance starting from Lorde. The day before, something similar happened when Gorillaz performed, and then Dua Lipa, which caused connectivity problems –wifi failures, difficulty paying with a card at the food and drink stalls–, which were resolved a few hours later.
