Day 1 | Momo Festival | Cardigan Inn

Amsterdam’s Cardigan Inn brings an abundance of suave, swagger and high-energy shenanigans to the stage. While some peers pen angular garage pop/new wave tunes with the objective to tackle our earthbound concerns, this fresh-faced quintet leans boldly into feelings of nostalgia, carelessness and wide-eyed adventure. Imagine David Byrne fronting Parquet Courts, or perhaps a more glammy New Order, and you’ll get a nice approximation of what Cardigan Inn brings to the table. The group’s new EP …As in Sweater Hotel is an all-killer, no filler affair – yet the combination of biting guitar melodies and singer Pablo Nollet’s ‘wedding crooner on the dole’-mystique makes Cardigan Inn an unadulterated live sensation to witness fully in-the-flesh.