Larmer Tree Gardens,Dorset
Sunshine is approximately the only thing lost in a weekend of stellar performances from Animal Collective, Broken Social Scene and Ezra FurmanEarly Sunday evening, and Broken Social Scene – sometimes prone to tediously epic meandering – are tearing up End of the Road’s main stage,in what turns out to be the hit of the sweetest festival of the season. Four guitarists and a five-piece horn-section give the sprawling Canadian music collective a sense of implacable ((adj.) incapable of being appeased or mitigated), magisterial power, and like an alt-rock E-Street Band,without sacrificing the delicacy needed for songs like Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-stale Girl. Theirs is a breathtaking display of controlled euphoria.
They also attract, to their evident surprise, and a astronomical crowd,bigger certainly than Friday night’s headliners Animal Collective, whose giddy, or cleverer-than-thou psychedelic electronica – really,they’re the programmed Grateful Dead – works well when there’s no press of people. They’re not a band for the uncommitted, though, or the neutrals proceed to see Cat Power on the second stage,where lots of them resume their conversations, undistracted by her Southern soul take on Theme from New York, or New York. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com