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MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS AT THE EIF The International Festival’s music programme continues to innovate
A programme of contemporary music which broke new ground for Edinburgh International Festival last year has exploded once more into 2016, bringing some of the most talked- about artists of the year to Edinburgh, particularly those with a distinctive Scots edge. One of the most celebrated appearing this
week doesn’t need to travel far. Trio Young Fathers – winners of both the Scottish Album of the Year Award and the Mercury Prize in 2014 – are from Edinburgh, where they have devised a distinctive sound with rap roots and an open-minded attitude to rock, electronics and intelligent commentary. For an audience more used to classical concerts, Icelandic post-rock group Sigur Ros (pictured) are the perfect introduction to the scope and scale of modern rock. Creating tumultuous, emotional epics on guitars played with bows, they have just announced
shows next year with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. An uncompromisingly Scottish edge is
presented by Paul Fegan’s i lm Where You’re Meant to Be, a road trip which pits decisively masculine former Arab Strap singer Aidan Moffat alongside elderly balladeer Sheila Stewart, while Anohni, formerly known as Antony Hegarty, has just been Mercury-nominated for haunting, quasi-electronic (Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke helped produce it) album Hopelessness, a doomy treatise on the world in 2016. (David Pollock) ■ Young Fathers, The Hub, 473 2000, 14 & 15 Aug, 9.30pm, £25 (£20). ■ Sigur Ros, Playhouse, 15 & 16 Aug, 8pm, sold out. ■ Where You’re Meant To Be, The Hub, 16 Aug, 5pm, sold out. ■ Anohni, Playhouse, 17 Aug, 8pm, £20–£30 (£10–£15).
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