Sasquatch 2012 in pics - the rest of Day 2 (Metric, St. Vincent, Shins, Dum Dum Girls, Araabmuzik, and more)

May 29, 2012

photos by Chris Graham and Rae Graham

Metric/St. Vincent

7:32pm Metric wrapped up a touch early; partly because one new song (“Lost Kitten”) was stopped 10 seconds into it and Emily decided to strike it from the set. Aside from that odd error, Metric played a fair set. They cited the show as their “public debut” of Synthetica and they did play mostly new material (7 out of 11 songs), most of which sounds promising. It’s always hard to judge new material accurately as the audience doesn’t know it so it always comes across slightly weak or stiff. Metric opened their set with newbie “Artificial Nocturne” (also the album’s opener). It was one of the stronger new tracks. The other stand outs were “Youth Without Youth” (when played live it seemed to lose it’s sluggishness of it’s studio version) and “Nothing But Time”, a synth/piano number that builds each verse until drums kick in and the song finishes with a flourish of Emily Haines’ Pro-One synth. The band closed with an acoustic version “Gimme Sympathy” that had pretty much the entire amphitheater singing along. [The Province]

Here’s more pictures from the super-stacked Saturday (5/26) line-up of the Sasquatch Music Festival which happened Memorial Day Weekend in Gorge, Washington — including Metric, St. Vincent, The Shins, Dum Dum Girls, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Couer de Pirate, Sol, Com Truise and more. The first set from Saturday (5/26) are HERE and Friday (5/25) are HERE. More from Day 2 below and still more Sasquatch pics to come.

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