I'M FROM BARCELONA - Let Me Introduce My Friends Review

Two months ago, nearly 100 acts played the sixth annual Primavera Sound festival, in Barcelona. Among them were Animal Collective, Deerhoof, Lou Reed, Sleater-Kinney, Television Personalities, Yo La Tengo, and a 29-member pop collective that claim to call the Catalan city home. ...full text September 15th, Brixton Jamm. A stripped down version of I'm From Barcelona (a mere 22 members, as opposed to their full complement of 29), is bouncing through the Gig Of The Year. Frontman Emmanuel Lundgren dusts the dancing fans with handfuls of confetti, balloons bobs across the 250-strong crowd, band members rattle fruit maracas and work handheld bubble machines, guys with kazoos are hauled out of the audience, the atmosphere the happiest thing this side of The Flaming Lips....full text The sleeve credits 29 “friends” (plus Emil Svanangen from Loney, Dear who sings on ‘This Boy’) but the additive sugar-sweet pop of I’m From Barcelona is confected by Emanuel Lundgren who wrote, produced and mixed everything here....full text