Then it’s into some industrial-edged rap from their new album, and back to sexy techno and crunchier takes on their peppy anthems like One (Your Name) and Don’t You Worry Child. Another chops up 90s vocal house and breakbeats. In SHM terms, their set is fairly diverse: one song has the punch of Justice and a whiff of the riff from Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name. “Allow us to reintroduce ourselves,” Axwell yells, before an assault of whirring electro, warped trance, piano arpeggios and sandstorm visuals lands with the subtlety of a slap. Running 30 minutes late, the three Swedes finally appear on stage and assemble like bouncers behind a table about to check your coats, under a giant halo. For once at Coachella, the stakes feel fairly high. They’ve barely had time to put it together. Together, they have promised a show in three parts: a bit of SHM boingy-boingy, a thrill of Weeknd nihilism, and a collaborative megamix bit. His own most recent album, Dawn FM, meanwhile, is his most experimental yet and leans heavily on the noirish electronic pumpers. The Weeknd is one of a smattering of its big guest rappers and vocalists like Ty Dolla $ign, ASAP Rocky, and some guy called Sting. Mafia men Steve Angello, Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso are using this to launch Paradise Again, their debut album 15 years in the making, with an apparently darker, more apocalyptic sound – a move to distance themselves from the now taboo EDM tag, which has become together with gimmicky acts like Marshmello. He hardly needs these three.īesides sharing a manager, their pairing makes sense on paper. The Weeknd is at the level where he commands the Super Bowl half-time show and, reportedly, West’s $8.5m appearance fee. They last played the festival in 2012, breaking up not long after. A landmark rock act, perhaps? An unexpected pop maven? Nope, it’s a mash-up between Canada’s brooding prince the Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia, the trio who helped usher in the decade’s turbo-hetero wave of maximalist EDM. W hen Kanye West dramatically pulled out of his headline Sunday slot just two weeks ago, without a reason, few people could have predicted his replacement.
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