Pitchfork Music Festival Paris began with Blood Orange performing at L'Olympia, featuring Devonté Hynes, Eva Tolkin, and Ian Isiah presenting material from Essex Honey alongside older favorites and a minimalist string rendition of the Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?" The festival included performances by Saya Gray and Erika de Casier and hosted Pitchfork Avant-Garde, a three-day, smaller-scale showcase concentrated across nearby venues to enable easy movement between sets. London quartet Saint Clair made its first French appearance in a compact bandshell, wearing heritage band T-shirts and delivering a wholehearted, '90s-inspired set that included "Warm," "Dreams," and the closer "Nevermind."
"Pitchfork Music Festival Paris kicked off on Monday night, November 3, with a show from Blood Orange before a packed house at L'Olympia. Against a backdrop of screens, Devonté Hynes, Eva Tolkin, and the especially magnetic Ian Isiah played from the new album Essex Honey, to go along with older favorites, and a minimalist string version of the Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?" It was a winning way to start the week."
"In the tiny bandshell in the underbelly of La Mécanique Ondulatoire, vocalist and guitarist Toby Bardsley was wearing a Blondie T-shirt-the iconic Debbie Harry's sly gaze radiated outward from his chest out to the crowd. Meanwhile, drummer Beth Diana was wearing a Deftones T-shirt behind her kit. The members of the London quartet-rounded out by guitarist Lawrence Bordean and bassist Adam Anderson-had just-right messy hair and fringes hitting at the eyebrows, but, luckily, they weren't merely looking the part of indie darlings."
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