King Midas Sound and Fennesz sparkled 125m below the ground but Current 93 disappointed at Kraków’s risk-taking festival that kept half its artists a secret until they went on stage
If you’re the kind of festival-goer who likes to have a laminated spreadsheet of who to see and when, this year’s Unsound would have made your teeth itch. The theme for the Kraków-based festival was “surprise”: about half the artists were kept a secret until they went on stage, forcing its attendees to succumb to serendipity and even disappointment.
The theme this year was a much more lighthearted interrogation of how and why we talk about festivals, compared to 2013’s Unsound, which banned audiences from taking photos, in a Canute-like denunciation of the Instagram age.
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