Reason is the opposite of Pop – Culture News: Music

Sony Music's talented scout may have experienced moments of doubt after giving up a well-financed recording contract to the 2005 MGMT New York retro gimmick project, which gave him complete artistic freedom.

A freedom to which the duo has since faced and who does not take their musical action too seriously: "We write certain songs just because we want to know how to be particularly bad in a certain genre", was the twin in an interview recently, and was amazed that people – among them some Paul McCartney – still love these songs.

Now this band is on the second biggest stage of the Paleo Festival in Nyon, throws itself into impossible retro musical poses and makes it as bad as possible, but as musically complex as possible like: psychedelic flower child with references to classical music with the windschiefer voice head? No problem Boom Pop with precarious digital synthesizer inserts and even more precarious references to the machinations of the Pet Shop Boys? There you go!

Aesthetic Suffering

The MGMT concert is a desperately overloaded assortment of all the trials and tribulations of the history of pop. And yet, it is difficult to avoid the stimulus of this music. After stages of aesthetic suffering, the reward center is fed from time to time. Especially with the disco tubes connected to the startup phase ("Kids", "Electric Fields"), which are then being riddled with euphoria. But nothing is certain with this group. Everything is eaten up by the irony and cynicism of pop culture of yesterday and many others. The dance floor could collapse at any time.

An irritating interaction between genius and trash that MGMT also performs visually. The aesthetics of cheap computer games alternate with real-time animations, gimmicks and contemporary video art. Looking elsewhere does not work.

Old School Rock: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with Peter Hayes. Image: Keystone

"The reason is the opposite of pop," said Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys. MGMT seems to have internalized this slogan. Pure unreason – in the best sense of the word – could also be blamed on the programmers of Switzerland's outdoors. For years, the Paléo de Nyon has engaged in a radical mix of styles, defying the craze that so many other outdoor events have been victims of. Wednesday, at the Village du Monde, the Portuguese fado singer Ana Moura brings on stage the desperate and yet so graceful music of her half-breed people, and at the same time the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with much more casual methods. Stomps on the ground. The artistic contrast could hardly be more striking. Ana Moura begins impressively: With tons of odes to love and sorrow, with fado in all its dark splendor.

But the singer seems less and less confident in the elemental power of Fado: her desire to make her dance their attempts in pop infiltrate into the kitsch, and intermezzo jazz fusion of their band only triggers interrogating faces in the auditorium.

The Moura fado does not have a bitter taste, but rather unpleasantly sweet. A few meters away, the Rock & Roll Black Rebel Motorcycle Club cries for its nicotine and bitter alcoholism. The trio celebrates a resurgent form of rock music, revealing a wonderfully careless approach to sound, instruments, popularity and feedback.

Abgetakelte Pracht

The Belgian group Warhaus had brought even more form of songdienlicherer on stage. The solo project of Balthazar singer Maarten Devoldere is the nonchalant that pop music has to offer at the moment; These defeatist ballads are so beautifully untagged, so light and so easy, this time muddled, sometimes filled with blues from the big city in his ear. There is also the xylophone, the galloping congas, the trombones that sound like the funeral mass, and the guitar solos that enchant each friend with an intoxicating, intoxicating and intoxicating substance.

Warhaus creates a sinister splendor. A splendor that could soon be over. The Balthazar group has put together and recorded a new album to be released in January. But you do not want to erase this Warhaus project after Nyon's wonderful concert.

Oh, yes, Nyon. There is an oscillation between the stages of the festival, styles and temperaments. Even if everything does not work tonight, nobody will have left the site to quarrel. A beautiful party, this paleo. (Tages-Anzeiger)

created: 20.07.2018, 15:51