Festivalens första spelning sker på White Stage, en gång i tiden namngiven helt sonika Teaterladan. Låt oss fortsätta att kalla den för det, denna klassiska Hultsfredsscen. Kanadensiska Braids albumdebuterade så sent som i år och spelar en experimentell shoegazerock som ligger oss varmt om hjärtat. Hoppas du gillar't.

"A couple of years ago we wrote about a young Calgary band, the Neighborhood Council. They had a single self-released EP. The band’s still pretty young, but have since moved to Montreal, changed their name to Braids (no, not Braid, emo boy), and are set to release a full-length, Native Speaker. With the name change has come a shift in angle, too:  Last time through we mentioned “an early Pacific Northewest sound, like what you might expect from the Softies, only on a more shoe-gaze tip with gentler dueling Excuse 17-style harmonies.” This time it’s Velocity Girl who keep surfacing amid the piano, guitars, extended pulsations, and ambient breaks and builds. They’re still not afraid to let things flow — a couple of the album’s seven tracks are above eight minutes, two are above five, and none dip below four and a half. See, for instance, opener “Lemonade.” It’s like a baroque “Crazy Town." Stereogum

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