Today, the highlights of Dour Festival according to Andy Inglis (The Luminaire)

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Today we follow Andy Inglis from The Lumiaire’s choices.

Pet Shop Boys

So they’re not new and they don’t wear skinny black jeans. Pet Shop Boys do not concern themselves with such things. They care about writing pure pop music you can dance to and if they can do it dressed in avant-garde tailoring (Neil Tenant) and forward-thinking sportswear (Chris Lowe), all the better. In fact, to those who know about these things, Chris Lowe was the best dressed man in the world from 1986-1991. But never mind that: go dance.

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Fuck Buttons

An experimental two piece from the UK, signed to ATP, Fuck Buttons specialise in enveloping, swirling atmospherics, percussive mayhem and all-out noise. They usually play on the floor in the audience when they’re doing club shows, but hopefully they’ll stay on stage at Dour, so you can see them on their hands and knees, squeezing every last squeal from their synths and assorted toys.

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Caribou

Dan Snaith (with a Ph.D in Mathematics) doesn’t play live much, so this is a rare treat. Intricate melodic structures weave themselves around super-sharp beats while vocal ideas slide in and out of the kaleidoscopic mix. If Brian Wilson had been born in 1978 instead of 1942, this is the kinda thing he’d be getting up to.

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O’Death

This Brooklyn six-piece draw upon folk, bluegrass, punk, gypsy music, metal, swing and jazz. Great musicianship and wild abandon collide to create their unique blend of howling, boot-stomping “goth-country”. A fantastic band, both live and on record.

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Aphex Twin + Hecker

You never know what you’re going to get with Richard D. James. Will he show up? If he does, will he appear on stage, or will he perform from somewhere and send two 8ft tall dancing teddy bears out to entertain you (as happened in Glasgow in the early ’90s)? Regardless, you can be sure the music will be as uncompromising as usual. Or maybe it won’t. Who knows? That’s the fun of Aphex Twin.

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It was Andy Inglis‘ highlights for the Dour Festival (The Luminaire).
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