There was transcendence with Arcade Fire, euphoria Grimes and a distinct Portuguese representation (Isaura, Francis Dale, Paus or Mirror People) on Saturday, the last day of In Alive in Algés, that it will have been one of the issues complete festival, with names that pull crowds but maintaining the artistic validity, sellouts, a lot of foreign public affluence and the novelty of synthetic turf. The only problems took place just this overcrowding with fluidity in the room and outside, outside, sometimes resent at times when the crowd converges to the same directions.
It was a night of strong emotions. The first chords of Rebellion (lies) Arcade Fire, was the concert of Canadians already in its final stage, a couple of Spanish ahead to quiet then starts pounding, you hear the battery and the bottom line checked, then enter other instruments of percussion, brass, strings, guitars or keyboards, with a dozen musicians on stage in great agitation. At many Win Butler pretends reportedly is playing guitar, shouting “ every time you close your eyes, nah, nah “, with the crowd chanting the letter with him, and the rate goes up, Hear violins up there, and he returns to sing with fury “ lies, lies “, while the music gets more intense flowing into a cathartic final wave, with the embraced couple in a mixture of laughter and tears.
costs not believe it would be an evocative song of any relevant time in the existence of those two people. In the last ten years have existed rock group that was imposed in large arenas, playing to the masses, but still managed to communicate as if you were to do for each of us, were they. The songs that cause this feeling of elevation are housed primarily in the first two albums ( Funeral 2004 and Neon Bible 2007). That is, at present, one concert is not only a thunderous epic experience as in the past. There are also dance moments of irony and even solemnity, which is not surprising when you hear the other two albums, The Suburbs (2010) and Reflektor (2014).
The concert went through several phases. On stage, the passion ever. But the primary energy goes hand in hand the more subtle refinement. There nerve but also physicality, sometimes with overlapping instrumental layers, sometimes with a less saturated sound, exposing a greater wealth of options, which we do not see much around when thinking about bands of this size. They started with energy Ready to start , passed by the romanticism of The suburbs , gave a colorful kaleidoscope night with the voice of Régine Chassagne in Sprawl II , released the grand lyricism of My body is a cage , put everyone to dance with Keep the running car or funk refinement of Afterlife , made the throats heard in No cars go and at the end of the heavenly Intervention , cited God save the queen of Fri Pistols.
in the final part, so that should not remain doubts, they were exciting with what must be one of the most domineering live sequences that one can experience live these days, with songs like Neighborhood # 1 and the aforementioned Rebellion (lies) to do release an energy that few groups can expose that frantic way, ritualistic, the edge of the outbreak, with everyone clamoring loudly. The following is the disconcerting Here comes the night time with the New Orleans gigantones to invade the stage, for all end with Wake up , musicians and audience are one, a practice of collective resilience that still echoes in the inner memories of each, fulfilling another magnificent concert of Arcade Fire in Portugal.
If they have a clear generational weight who grew to music in the last fifteen years, Grimes fellow begins to have it for a newer audience. In Portugal the phenomenon is not clear, but it is clearly a case of global cult, not surprising that they were mainly foreigners who are willing to listen to it in alternative spaces.
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