[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]A[/dropcap]midst the fish and fado at NOS Primavera Sound festival, Trebuchet’s man in Porto was well-wooed by Battles.
A lineup missing charismatic ex-frontman Tyondai Braxton was no hindrance; the now three-piece fed Warp-y experimental garage mathrock grooves to an adoring crowd and made it glossy.
Words on the festival to come, for now: the pictures.
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- Battles at NOS Promavera Sound, Porto, June 2016
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- Battles at NOS Promavera Sound, Porto, June 2016
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- Battles at NOS Promavera Sound, Porto, June 2016
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- Fans of Battles at NOS Promavera Sound, Porto, June 2016
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- Battles at NOS Promavera Sound, Porto, June 2016
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- Battles at NOS Promavera Sound, Porto, June 2016
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- Battles at NOS Promavera Sound, Porto, June 2016
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- Hopeful fan exerting influence on Battles at NOS Promavera Sound, Porto, June 2016
Trebuchet editor and art critic. Kailas is often away in some distant city searching for the latest artistic vision of the future. He has written for Trebuchet for over a decade, specialising in art theory as it evolves in contemporary art, the re-emergence of the monumental, and the personalisation of Modernist tropes in individual works.
