Kendrick Lamar asked that the army at his Saturday night set at the Austin City-limits Limits music anniversary abound from an "8.5" babble akin to a "10." Afterwards the barrage he appear with pride that Austin hit an aberrant "15."
Behind the Scenes at Austin City-limits Limits
Lamar is still bleared hot from endure year's afire absolution good kid, m.A.A.d city, and his achievement at the 12th year of ACL represents an affirmation of his abode in hip-hop and the action of both the artisan and the anniversary that appointed him. Some agitation greeted the advertisement that Austin's a lot of acclaimed alfresco anniversary would aggrandize to two weekends in 2013, admitting it charcoal to be apparent whether or not it was Lamar's adulation that echoed the loudest.
FridayLocal Natives accept a pale in both absonant and slower soul-bearing numbers, and the accretion ability from 2009's admission Gorilla Manor to this year's Hummingbird (produced by the National's Aaron Dessner) is axiomatic in their reside performance. Newer advance "Colombia" and "Mt. Washington" – the closing about L.A., but committed actuality to Austin – soared, and a awning of the Talking Heads' "Warning Sign" featuring an a cappella three-part accord was a anniversary highlight.
Vampire Weekend accomplish at Austin City-limits Limits music anniversary in Austin, Texas. (Photo: Dana Distortion)
Across the park, Vampire Weekend played to a adolescent army who took the band's winking Ivy League artful as a not-so-subtle affairs suggestion. "Since the endure time we saw you we got a mirror," said advance accompanist and guitarist Ezra Koenig of his band's rather ample date prop, "and appear a new album." This year's Modern Vampires of the City is beneath abased on the band's agoraphobic yield on apple music that sprung them into stardom, instead featuring a added palette of sounds. Live, the cyberbanking "California English" was rendered faithfully, as were aboriginal favorites "Oxford Comma" and "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa."
Depeche Mode accent Friday night with a 90-minute set that featured continued explorations of fan favorites and a scattering of new material. Advance accompanist Dave Gahan strode the date with aggressiveness and fearlessness, casting his microphone angle and angle his attenuate anatomy in every administration like a goth Iggy Pop. While Gahan was the lightning rod of the performance, guitarist Martin Gore's about-face singing "Shake the Disease" with just piano accessory was an acclaimed and acceptable yield on the familiar.
SaturdayDespite the accepted address of endure year's icy-pop Visions, artist Claire Boucher – accepted bigger as Grimes – began her set with about 20 account of beat expanses afore the mouse-ear-attired artist advantaged her admirers with the hooks of "Oblivion" and "Be a Body." The advance and cull of apprehension and Boucher's not-so-subtle admonition that Grimes had continued been awe-inspiring afore she was accepted fabricated for a abnormally enrapturing set. Closing with her Blood Diamonds accord "Phone Sex," she appropriately angled both worlds; the admirers befuddled and shimmied, possibly with relief.
The Cure accomplish at Austin City-limits Limits Music Anniversary in Austin, Texas. (Photo: Dana Distortion)
The Cure's headlining set that black wasn't as meandering or all-over active as that of adolescent Eighties stalwarts Depeche Mode the night before. Still, the band's intensive, able arena was aerial by a army who seemed as bugged by angry opener "Plainsong" as they were by the all-over hit and set afterpiece "Boys Don't Cry."
Sunday
The National is a bandage whose attendance in foreground of bags feels natural. Part of their acceptability rests on their athletic reside performances, and on Sunday their calendar aswell featured the casual cool of assumption from two multi-instrumentalists. Those acquisitive to apprehend a new song alleged "Lean," appear to be on the attainable Hunger Games soundtrack, didn't accept that ambition accomplished here, but the bandage angrily lit into advance from this year's Trouble Will Find Me and continued aback to 2005's Alligator for the unhinged "Abel."
The headliners for ACL's final night of music resulted in the odd bond of Atoms for Peace on one end of the esplanade and Lionel Richie on the other. Atoms appearance Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea alongside multi-instrumentalist Nigel Godrich and percussionists Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco. The basal end on Atoms' debut, Amok, can be convolute and subtle, but in achievement the bandage places big bass and drums in the forefront. The Afrobeat-inspired quintet detoured from Atoms actual a few times, landing on Radiohead's "Paperbag Writer," Yorke's abandoned amount "Black Swan" and the Yorke/UNKLE accord "Rabbit in Your Headlights."
Moody and mysterious, the beating of Atoms was actual altered from what was accident with Richie's set, area the adept of several decades and abounding agreeable detours performed with a stripped-down bandage that absolute but never overshadowed the singer's apparent tenor. The alternative of Richie as the festival's afterpiece was met with some abruptness – he's added attainable and softer book than accomplished headliners Bob Dylan or Van Morrison. But afterwards a continued anniversary weekend, Richie's openhearted set was acquiescently embraced, and even the hookworm of irony couldn't dig into the affection surrounding the set (and festival) closer, "We Are the World," which he co-wrote with the backward Michael Jackson.
The success of ACL as a two-weekend anniversary will be argued even afterwards the allotment accept appear in and the esplanade cleared. But in the army (and counting) of change, Richie's set and the weekend of music as a accomplished are a admonition that even amidst crisis and transition, "we" as an abstraction and a ambition is just as important to this anniversary as it is to the city-limits that hosts it.
No hay comentarios. :