For a long time I scoffed at metamodernism. Now it has made the last 30 years of composition music hang together. But it is misleading when music scholars call metamodernism a school.

From Old Testament wisdom and hippie dreams of community to erotic nightclub atmospheres and dark, rumbling techno. Roskilde Festival 2026 is a wild ride through eras, genres and mental geographies – and a good place to practise carrying dreams carefully through the extreme conditions of our time.