Critiques

Pia 9 XII – ATP Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Battles, Caribou & Les Savy Fav

Caribou
Nisennenmondai
The Ex with Getatchew Mekurya
The Psychic Paramount
Wild Flag

Fri 9 Dec – ATP Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Battles, Caribou & Les Savy Fav

This was my seventh ATP. I love ATP festivals. It's got to the stage now where I will book the tickets without knowing who is on the bill as I always have a good experience. The ATP Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Battles/Caribou/Les Savy Fav was no exception. Well, sort of. My overall verdict was it was good and not great. Unusually there was no act I was really looking forward to. I'd seen many of them before and, looking at the line up, there was no one that really made me sit up.

Here's what I most enjoyed and in particular order:

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WALLS by Nige B, on Flickr

Walls who I'd never heard of, and knew nothing about, really impressed me. There were a lot of blokes on stage twiddling knobs and doing stuff on their Macbooks and frequently I can take or leave electronic music (Four Tet and The Field being a couple of…