I saw him do an allnighter with four tet in brixton. Weird crowd but he was great. (Hebden too.)
― sktsh, Thursday, 5 June 2014 23:53 (ten years ago) link
I really like the way the new track builds but never quite blows. I love tracks that do that. Is there a thread for songs that do that?
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Friday, 6 June 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
i'm not so crazy about it... i mean it's ok. reminds me of the latest fourtet stuff that never really grabbed me much.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 6 June 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
Second and third listen, with some volume, convinced me this was brilliant.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 7 June 2014 06:26 (ten years ago) link
Oh my.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 4 August 2014 21:56 (ten years ago) link
^
― sktsh, Monday, 4 August 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
Anywhere I can hear this thing other than torrents?
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Monday, 4 August 2014 23:04 (ten years ago) link
silver is glorious
― dynamicinterface, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 02:05 (ten years ago) link
^ otm
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 02:54 (ten years ago) link
Isn't it?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 12:13 (ten years ago) link
i kinda hate the first track but the rest are quite good
second chance and julia brightly are stunners
― joe "scratch" perry (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
Do I miss the jazz and chaos? Not sure yet.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 22:05 (ten years ago) link
ok. i've had a chance to listen a few times. i really like it. but why's caribou so sad?
― dynamicinterface, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link
haven't heard this but did he go ahead and make a poppy club record?
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
but why's caribou so sad?
don't know if it's already been mentioned, but his falsetto reminds me of wayne coyne kinda.. little too much
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
Sort of, Jordan. Sort of.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 7 August 2014 04:46 (ten years ago) link
Stellar record. The single is my least favorite track but that's a minor quibble in an otherwise wonderful album. Mr. Snaith has done it again.
― oscar, Thursday, 7 August 2014 07:39 (ten years ago) link
Shades of Junior Boys...but so much better. Sad ? Maybe. Moreso introspective. Gorgeous synth work and bass tones all over this thing.
― oscar, Thursday, 7 August 2014 07:45 (ten years ago) link
I've only really listened late night on headphones so far, and once at my desk while working, but I'm pretty sure there's no brass anywhere, and no tumbling jazzy drum samples, either. Some violin on a couple of tracks? Had hoped Owen might sing on it but it seems like he played violin.
Silver really is amazing; that little vocal tick sample running through it ("hear it" or suchlike?) somehow really adds to the emotional tone rather than breaking it. And the synths, omg, so gorgeous.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 7 August 2014 07:52 (ten years ago) link
silver definitely kicking hardest. back home is wonderful too.
title track's the only one I haven't fallen in love with so far
― sktsh, Thursday, 7 August 2014 08:34 (ten years ago) link
Interview: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/caribous-psychedelic-journey-back-to-the-club-the-birth-of-our-love-20140804
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 7 August 2014 14:15 (ten years ago) link
Woke up listening to this and one obvi connection is early Joy Orbison...especially the more blissed out side of things. The slower trax have a deep Chicago influence buried in there. This album is going to be awesome to hear on the dancefloor. People are going to be lining up to remix this thing that's for sure. The cool thing is that even tho he is working on the clubbier side of the spectrum it doesn't sound at all disposable. It's very much crafted and written to endure.
― oscar, Thursday, 7 August 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
Listening to the recording this morning, not sure about some of the vocals, but the production is amazing as usual.
Also, REMIX ALERT - Can‘t Do Without You (Tale Of Us & Mano Le Tough)
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 10 August 2014 08:13 (ten years ago) link
Would love some more in the direction of Caribou Vibration Ensemble. Have their been any other releases than the cd that came free with the copies of Swim sold in Rough Trade?
― Stevolende, Sunday, 10 August 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
Need to get to know this better, which will only really happen after I get the CD and live with it a lot, I guess, but I feel like it dips a bit in the middle; it falls into griddy, Daphni-esque stuff for a couple of tracks, but without the weird texture and intrigue of Bowls, say, or the edge-of-chaos-ness of Niobe, and loses some of the melody and emotion of the first few tracks and last few tracks. It kind of just sits there pulsing for a bit, which I'd normally love, but it's not grabbed me yet.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 11 August 2014 10:36 (ten years ago) link
I think it's the title track, which reminds me of chunks of the last Four Tet album. It probably works really well in a club, and it sounds amazing phenomenologically, it just hasn't got the punctum, as Marcello would say, that his best stuff does. And the last minute doesn't quite go off like I'd hope.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 11 August 2014 11:08 (ten years ago) link
But Silver, omfg, amazing, amazing, amazing.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 11 August 2014 11:09 (ten years ago) link
there was a limited tour-only 2xlp
― joe "scratch" perry (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 03:45 (ten years ago) link
It probably works really well in a club, and it sounds amazing phenomenologically, it just hasn't got the punctum
Heard Tale of Us drop that remix in a set a couple weeks back, it stretches out and foregrounds the strengths of the original for a club or festival in just the right way.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 08:55 (ten years ago) link
Also, not sure what you mean by 'sounds amazing phenomenologically'? As opposed to? ;)
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 08:56 (ten years ago) link
"it sounds amazing phenomenologically, it just hasn't got the punctum"
Planning to say this next time I'm at a gig
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Remixing himself under a different name.
https://soundcloud.com/caribouband/our-love-daphni-mix
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 15 September 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
Not very well tbh!
― hyggeligt, Monday, 15 September 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
sounds great to me! the original is nice but definitely did not realize the full potential of those late-'90s-house synth stabs
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, 15 September 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
Anyway, my thoughts on the new one:
http://thequietus.com/articles/16324-caribou-our-love-review
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
Been listening to this all morning on the iTunes radio stream. Seems pretty low-key, but enjoying it so far ...
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 10:49 (nine years ago) link
https://boilerroom.tv/recording/caribou/ would have been fun to have been in this crowd.
― du mein bestie (micarl), Saturday, 4 October 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Caribou - Can't Do Without You (Tale Of Us & Mano Le Tough Remix)
https://soundcloud.com/taleofus/caribou-cant-do-without-you-tale-of-us-mano-le-tough-remix
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 5 October 2014 11:16 (nine years ago) link
Nice review Ned, unsurprisingly
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Sunday, 5 October 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
Opening this up from a CD through big speakers and it sounds absolutely amazing, which is obviously no surprise. The bass is fabulous; I think he's learnt some lessons over the four years since Swim, which I still love but which occasionally lacked a little bottom-end.
Owen's down as playing violin on Silver, but I'm damned if I can pick out a 'natural' string sound; I'm assuming it's run through a pedal or something?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 08:34 (nine years ago) link
It's a rack unit thing. On "Silver" I'm using my "Penderecki" patch, you can hear 16-stages of pitch-shifting creating a string ensemble sound, then I sweep the expression pedal downward and the pitches expand outward by a couple semitones in each direction. It's a patch I've been using on everything these days.
― Life is full of shopportunities (fgti), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
Got really confused for a sec and thought snaith was posting here
not to say I'm not happy to see you posting here too, just already knew you did
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
Giving this my first couple listens. I love "Back Home" especially. Generally very good.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
This is his best album I think, the first one I've been tempted to go back to, and his vocals are less intrusively awful than they were on parts of the last album. I still find myself wishing he wouldn't lean so much on certain production crutches (faded/dusty synth sounds, woozy detuned pads) though, at this stage they feel like aesthetic shorthand.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 09:49 (nine years ago) link
Love the whole thing but Silver is just astounding. Really enjoy Dan's production crutches tbh.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 9 October 2014 08:56 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I was listening to the album earlier today and thought "if I were on ILX right now I'd post about how great Silver is".
― sweet lids of the stars (seandalai), Thursday, 9 October 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
I love that Owen will come on here and explain something like that. Not that I have a clue what it means most of the time, as a complete nob-musician. Thank you, Owen!
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 10 October 2014 09:22 (nine years ago) link
dying at "complete nob-musician"
― rob, Friday, 10 October 2014 13:28 (nine years ago) link
skin flute
― jamiesummerz, Friday, 10 October 2014 13:30 (nine years ago) link
belly trombone