In these times of fragmentation and impatience, Primavera Sound remains committed to storytelling. The festival lineup cannot be understood only via its individual parts as each artist has been meticulously chosen and plays their integral part: each name has its raison d’être. That is why the free jazz legends Art Ensemble of Chicago can coexist alongside the all stars of hardcore Dead Cross (with Mike Patton from Faith No More and Dave Lombardo from Slayer), a flamenco freethinker such as Capullo de Jerez alongside local punk heroes La Banda Trapera Del Río or the unclassifiable Sparks, the return of Mike D (revisiting the classics by the much-missed Beastie Boys), John Maus and of Peter Perrett of The Only Ones, the new radical project by Fermín Muguruza with The Suicide of Western Culture alongside the celestial post-rock by Lift to Experience, Madlib’s futurist sound and the African tradition of the diva Oumou Sangaré, or Watain’s black metal alongside the electronic experimentation of Nils Frahm. Altogether they make up the character of Primavera Sound.