Live Review: Caribou at Budapest's A38 (10/17) — consequenceofsound.net

On the famed Danube in Budapest rests A38, a venue, bar, and restaurant that describes itself as a “cultural center.” For its sold-out Caribou show on Friday, it certainly succeeded in attracting a large group of people from a pretty impressive mishmash of cultural backgrounds. There were the Canadians who I ran into on the walk over—who took every opportunity possible to jay-walk. (Americans…  I figured at first. I’m allowed to say that with disdain because, y’know, I’m one of them.) There was the woman from Bratislava and her boyfriend, proudly donning his rainbow-patterned Caribou t-shirt. There were plenty of Hungarians, of course, from a variety of tongue-twister cities. Even the ship itself was “multi-culti”—yes, A38 is on a ship—an old Ukrainian stone-carrier ship, to be precise. And there was the vodka I chose for the night, hailing from Finland. Like the music of Caribou itself, the night was an attractive fusion of different backgrounds and influences—blended together and united by a vibrant pulse.

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