When Primavera Sound announced its 2025 lineup, the big news was that it could headline Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan. However, it is clear that festival organizers understand a convergent fanbase on every scale that meant booking bands like Cap’n Jazz and Los Campesinos on Saturday, June 7th. (Uses Emo status), Fontaine DC and Black Country, New Road (shaking the post-punk label), or Chatpile and Turnsty (transcending hardcore). However, Primavera is also the only festival where MJ Lenderman can hear shred just minutes before he hears guitar solos on “Pink Pony Club.” that Head directly towards the Machine Girl’s merciless noise punk. Here are five highlights from the last day of Primavera Sound 2025, chronologically.
Christian Lee Hatson’s tranquility, people in heaven
“I’m not shrinking the violet/I like to be quiet,” Christian Lee Hutson sings in “The Carousel Horse.” He hyped the softly spoken but friendly, only musician, violinist Odessa Jorgensen, while shutting down fan claims Quitters Cut ‘Teddy’s Song’ is the best song ever written. (“That’s true. The best songs ever written are “Girls just want to enjoy” and more.”) beginner He created a devastating “North Cedar”-like track, wrapped in the same universe as his latest album. Paradise Pop 10. Not only is it nice, but the set reminded me of how his songs bring back to each other.
Los Campesinos! Leave the show hell
Few people felt more comfortable playing festivals than Los Campesinos this year. Leader Gareth David, in their furious victory set, mentioned a video that fans sent him about a video they performed at last year’s festival in PA, and he seemed to suffocate as he sings. This is just one of many cathartic and recharged moments in the show. This applauds “long painful” and “Romance is boring.” Some of their albums were represented by at least one song, but the set focused on their latest ones. Everything hell. “It’s a banger,” David insists, recommending it as a starting point for beginners. He stretched his voice to the absolute limits of the opening “psychic wounds” and cried cartoonishly at the line “The punk on the playlist rings for kindness.” (The idol was on the main stage the day before. I just said that.) “If I leave after this to see Fontaine, I’m taking my name,” he says, considering their set is contradictory at the end. It wasn’t until the end of their set that I headed. The two bands had at least one shared message. This was free for Palestine, but I stayed twice.
MJ Lenderman’s Eerie, Ecstatic Guitar Heroics
Everyone has a great time and it’s the only sound check. This could be the atmosphere of the entire show and no one in the audience would care. They skipped Chapelle Lawn and saw the 26-year-old North Carolina riser and his incredible live band. There were also other indie-leaning choices: squid, cap’n jazz. But for those who gathered on the Capra stage (which turned the Himbo Dome) on Saturday night, Lenderman was an indie locker with an unparalleled heroic status, and this was the last stop on their European tour, so they were about to count it. “We won’t give you fuck anymore,” he says before the obligatory “joking,” which says, “Don’t laugh, only half of what I said was a joke.”
The hint of loneliness is deceptive. Lenderman (who also joined Waxhatchee the day before) is mindful, his band is absolutely locked in, and his loving nasty matches their collectively immovable dynamism. The show ecs with an undercurrent of swelling eerieness with the final stretch, from “moon bark” to “like a cost” feedback (“Knock in”, “Wristwatch”, “She’s leaving you”). The audience was coincidentally not only by cheering and screaming, but at one point they sang “I, Me, Me, Me” to the song “MJ.” Samuel fired his guitar solo on “Rudolph,” Miller sang Carly Hartsman’s backing vocals “She’s leaving you,” and Chelmith’s pedal sang Solitary Duck in “I Don’t Know the Shape I’m in.” Listen to him screaming on the next Wednesday record.
Chat pile rattles train movies on train line
Chat pile and kick the butt on the train stage. Raygan Bush wears a shirt in the photo. Chat pile on the train stage: Raygunbush rattles train movies. Can’t stop With Denzel Washington. train Leader Bart Lancaster. “This is all for you, the train.” I’ll train to Busanperhaps the best zombie movie ever. “I’m in a changed state.” “I’m a dog now.” I’ve read it Social Contract Jean Jacques Rousseau? “Why do people have to live outside?” Mystery Train. The first great train robber. Everything from the train movies. We’re by the beach, right? Beach. Leonardo DiCaprio. A man’s favorite movie. “Tropical Beaches, Inc.” old M. Night Shyamalan. Fuck old. Of course, this guy LetterboxD account. I wonder how short their set would be if they were on the other side on the Schwarzcoff stage. “Funny Man.” Free Palestine. Chat pile. train. Kick your ass.
Starting the Turnstyle Summer
A year ago, Charli XCX launched what was quickly known as Brat Summer on late night sets on Amazon Music Stage by Primavera Sound just a few days before the album’s release. She returned to the festival this year to celebrate this year BladeIt’s a year anniversary, but it’s not that he didn’t suggest that “Turnstyle Summer” was a valuable successor before, so it’s fitting that Baltimore costumes play the same stage at 3am on the final night of the festival. The crowd was excited to hear them just one day after release It’s never enoughFollow-up on 2021 breakthroughs Shineerupts on every song on that album, but already familiar with new material. Balance made the show booked by footage of waves crashing on the beach more milder, contemplative and vulnerable than the 2023 Primavera performance, but less buoyant. Being soft and pensive as their music gets is a completely positive energy that can be fed for the next few months.
