Beyond the usually notable array of names (this year figures like Rosalía, Blur or Depeche Mode), Primavera Sound offers many other artistically high-profile offerings in its leafy lineup in Barcelona. We are highlighting ten concerts with a delicatessen profile among more than 200 artists who will be performing at Fòrum starting this Wednesday.
The Pink Panther
Thursday 1, 21:50 (Abundance). Among the few things TikTok can be thanked for is the fact that this British singer and producer rose to fame in early 2021 at the intersection of bedroom pop and nineties very British dance genres, particularly jungle and 2-step. Their songs are rarely two minutes long, but they stay in your head forever. It’s a matter of melodic intuition and world-class rhythmic engineering. Juan Manuel Freire
central cee
Thursday 1, 22:55 (Ron Brugal). “I hope a trap boy is your type (I hope a trap boy is your type)” Central Cee tells a girl on “Obssesed with you.” The young London rapper, whose face is concealed (for whatever reason) and who perfectly disguises his rudeness with a melodic or harsh tone, is one of the training ambassadors, one of the cultured stars with his feet on the ground and on the street. . , and he leaned back in a corner to check what was there. Ignasi Fortuny
Avalon Emerson and Charm
Friday 2nd, 5:10 pm (Ron Brugal). Until recently, Avalon Emerson was known for her smashing sessions (mostly) house and techno, but on her debut album “& The Charm” she recorded a wonderful collection of dreampop songs with the beauty and softness of the Cocteau Twins. .as the main reference. So no, he doesn’t perform at dawn, but is determined to sing along with a full-fledged band in the afternoon. JMF
Beth Orton
Friday, 2. 18:00 (Santander Auditorium). This British woman made her way as a neo-folk singer-songwriter who woke up in the ’90s with electronic drivers (appointments with The Chemical Brothers) and now ‘Weather live’ is a lush album dominated by jazz profiles and ebbs and flows. reappears with Greets friends who aren’t there (Hal Willner, Andy Weatherall). A solid comeback in high hours after two decades in Barcelona. Jordi Bianciotto
Julia Holter
Friday, 2. 19:30 (Santander Auditorium). For almost a decade Primavera has been helping develop this intrepid artist, the creator of a ‘flashy’ songbook with a view of parallel realities that bridges pop and contemporary music. Its aesthetic and intellectual challenges embodied in the ambitious film “Aviary” (2018) and this year’s “Behind the wallpaper” with Alex Temple and the Spectral Quartet are worth taking part in. JB
wall mass
Friday 2, 01:00 [ya del sábado] (Boiler room). In the vastness of the Fòrum there is a place where the scene is unconventional: it is round and (almost literally) a boiling cauldron. Undoubtedly, the most enthusiastic images of this were seen in the last edition of the festival. And it will happen again this year, without the risk of making too many mistakes, with the Mura Masa dj set, among others. The chosen English making talent is the best excuse to be part of a good wine. IF
Wednesday
Saturday 3rd at 6:05 pm (Amazon music). In the gorgeous “Rat saw god,” Wednesday’s ingenious formula—a country-rock compositional foundation, a jolt of emo intensity, and plenty of shoegaze haze sprinkled over it—sounds better, more lush than ever before. There’s a healthy concern about how they’re going to hit “Bull Believer” with Pixies-like direction changes, or “The Chosen”, a confessional hymn that endorses Karly Hartzman as a singer who can act without exaggeration, on live air. JMF
John Cale
Saturday, 3. 7:30 (Santander Auditorium). Legend precedes him: co-founder of The Velvet Underground, author of such masterpieces as the beautiful “Paris 1919” (1973) or the edge-punk “Sabotage/Live” (1979), this Welshman in New York has always been successful. to replace excessive registrations with class and creativity. He returns with “Mercy,” an immeasurable recording of the dawn’s pity for humanity in a narcotic dawn’s songbook featuring the memories of Nico and Bowie. JB
Laurie Anderson
Saturday, 3. 21:30 (Santander Auditorium). With her album ‘Big science’ (1982) and the ‘vocoder’ voice of ‘O Superman’, this New Yorker from Illinois proclaimed herself an avant-garde great woman, combining the concept of pop with the non-exempt multidisciplinary ‘performance’. from political accents. One of the songs on that recording, “Let X=X”, is the title of his current tour, backed by Sexmob, a heterodox jazz band from Knitting Factory. JB
Tokischa
Saturday 3, 22:10 (Abundance). The overwhelming Tokischa, an uncontrollable force of nature from the Dominican Republic, emerged without apology, much more so to place the dembow at the center of Latin music. The great Spanish public knew him from his collaboration with Rosalía (“Linda”), but his highly distinctive figure is so special and transcendent that even Madonna called on him to do the “Hung up” remix (and the occasional kiss). IF