LCD Soundsystem's Incredible Rhythm Machine

• BBK A radiant Phoebe Bridgers opens the festival

• BBK Live A festival for families in Bilbao

Beware:

are going full blast.

They are already at the top and have just started, they are maturing more and more a new strategy for collective dance and frenzy.

They let it grow even more, they are not in a hurry although they go very fast.

Another compass, a new layer of sophistication, another instrument that makes the great and deep tunnel through which we are climbing grow.

Or falling.

You could get dizzy, you could stumble and be left behind.

It's a beastly rhythm machine.

Danger: the mirror ball has begun to multiply the brightness of the eyes of the more than 30,000 people gathered on the grass of

music festival is being held until Saturday .

The rhythm machine never rests, it never lets up.

Look:

kicks the cymbals, suddenly contorts, has started to scream like a punk singer, but the bass rumbles loudly in the ribcage as if

were playing in the night of this formidable campaign, it is a catharsis and a cowbell sounds, although we run free like a cow without a cowbell, in the euphoric celebration of returning to the festival, after two consecutive cancellations in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid, floating on this great rhythm machine.

Oh yes: people dance and dance and dance and also scream between drinks.

Is incredible.

You can not be cooler than.

It's a punk-rock band playing disco music, it's a krautrock band with funk guitars, it's an electronic synth band with two drums, it's a post-punk band that knows house.

It's a meteorite that crosses into the stratosphere, we're going on top of it, don't collide with this hard rhythm machine because you could go very badly.

And so we spend an hour and a half of our lives, dancing and singing to LCD Soundsystem on this memorable summer night, one of the best groups of the century, not the one that has best defined it, not the one that has had the most influence, not the that more reproductions adds in

but one of the best.

A wonderful rhythm machine.

A few hours earlier and on the same planet,

appeared radiant, elegant from her dress pants to her unshaven armpits, with black sunglasses for the evening sun that protrude from her right shoulder as the clouds cleared.

The young singer-songwriter no longer wears her skeleton costume to act, now her entire group does, while the ghosts that illustrated the cover of her first album seem to float between her songs.

Her sound live, as it happens on her albums, has the dreamy texture of psychedelia.

Just as in her lyrics, she speaks with great lyrical power about fleeing from reality and about being absorbed in melancholy, about feeling that there is a dissociation between what happens inside her and the external storm, a bit like in a story. of

her music also evokes an inner escape and a kind of private limbo.

It's pop like that of the

but underneath it runs the subterranean source of pain that defines the music of Bridgers and, by extension, of a whole generation of pop and rock singer-songwriters who have coincided in recent years in the

and who are defining the new identity of the indie sound.

Just yesterday, on the first day of Bilbao BBK Live,

and

the former much more interesting.

In her author's pop we also find the confessional will and the electric guitars of the indie tradition.

And some songs rounder than a donut, hits of our time like

with which she started her solid concert.

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