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La Route de Rock Festival takes over the tranquil French seaside town of St Malo with an eclectic programme of music.

Brooklyn band Bodega have a lot to say about the evils of modern living, but they're always ready to couch their gripes in catchy riffs and punk defiance. They bring new tracks from their 2022 album Broken Equipment to La Route du Rock. 

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Punk riffs and modern malaise: Brooklyn band Bodega bring wit and fuzz to La Route du Rock.

Bodega

Taking their name from a Velvet Underground deep cut, The Black Angels have updated psych rock for our disillusioned era. 2022 album Wilderness of Mirrors twists guitar sounds into new shapes, confronting global social and political unrest with dark, droning euphoria.

Texan psych rockers The Black Angels bring the winds of revolt to La Route du Rock.

The Black Angels

Brighton post-punkers Squid started making waves after a string of original singles showcasing their tension-filled, nervy sound drawing on influences as far flung as dub, This Heat-style experimentation and classic 70s British post punk. Their anxious debut Bright Green Field shone a light on Britain's modern malaise and saw them heralded alongside contemporaries Black Midi and Black Country, New Road for signposting exciting new directions for English rock. They bring their latest album O Monolith to La Route du Rock.

Wriggling, cerebal post-punk from one of the groups at the vanguard of modern British rock.

Squid

How many albums have they released this year? Probably three more by the time you read this. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have built a rapid fan following across the globe over the past few years for their legendary live shows, their jawdropping prolificacy - and their stubborn refusal to be tied down. From mutant funk to facemelting garage psych, from ambient jams to thrash metal, the 'Gizz has tackled them all with their trademark freewheeling nonchalance.

The reptilian overlords of genre-hopping psych give an unmissable powerhouse performance at La Route du Rock.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Dry Cleaning's second album Stumpwork lets the light in after the dry deadpan post-punk of their debut. Vocalist Florence Shaw's delivery explores new juxtapositions and new emotions, showing the group can be fun and yet deadly serious, angular and opaque but always generous while sifting through the surreal humour of the everyday.

Sardonic, spiky rock soundtracking the humdrum details of modern life: It's the one and only Dry Cleaning. 

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Bodega

La Route du Rock 2023

The Black Angels

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Squid

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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

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Dry Cleaning

La Route du Rock 2023

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