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There are many ways to defend a festival.

For the income it generates;

for the social thing;

because

crushed so many times, and even more so with the plague.

But perhaps the main reason is that, discounting the obvious figureheads, it provides a necessary showcase for theoretically minority proposals.

To justify the rivers of people and the seven stages, the (great) taco and sandwich stalls, their tents and their screens, it is enough to write that this Friday people like the Lisbon and British rapper, of Angolan origin,

.

Her menu, rich in

, gains weight with every foray into

and every nod to

His was the role of replacing the

who were suspended for health reasons.

It hurt, and a lot, the fall of

and

, makers of a look with echoes of

or

Despite the obvious difficulty of the native public with English, IAMDDB did everything possible to raise the emotional decibels of a

that had to be won inch by inch, inch by inch, like someone taking a hill.

Almost immediately behind her was

the trio of Los Angeles sisters.

In 2020 they presented their best album to date,

.

They started off powerful, rearing up with guitars and percussion.

A fuselage that helps to strengthen a proposal at times slightly adolescent.

The public, very devoted, chorused his lyrics.

Subdued by a sun that wouldn't let go of your throat, rocked by a melodic trend that mirrors memories of

if you closed your eyes you could imagine yourself in

With

,

was going to reach one of its most interesting moments.

's group

, whom you saw more than a decade ago, in

has grown based on kaleidoscopic records, consolidating the atmospheric fluctuations of its beginnings with the teachings of

,

and

.

They are no longer the great bet on the future of an

acid

, but rather its immediate present.

Imagine the evocative rolls of

and the

the romanticism with the heart to knives of

.

Add drops of

and shake the mix for the compositional talent of an Imperial

.

The result is songs like gliders of nostalgia, wave after wave in cinemascope.

They are not the fierce, avant-garde group of their early days.

They must be careful not to fall into the AOR.

They have changed experimentation for classicism, but it is welcome when you face it with duende.

At 12:15 pm the scowling

but unlike Thursday's wonderful

, scheduled for 12:40 pm, I'm far from sorry.

They started too late to make it to the paper's closing time.

What we win.

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