classsssic theres plenty to love on andorra and human kindness but yea up in flames is best. i always forget what start breaking my heart sounds like.
― sleep, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I find UIF a little too ADHD for me these days; I like the space, calmness and lower-keyness of MOHK and Andorra more, I think.
Hearing Dirtroad for the first time though, fucking hell...
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Start breaking my heart is a straight up classic. Sparse, fast and clever.
UIF is fairly patchy imho. MOHK a bit mawkish, as in it's not a clear progression on from UIF. Andorra is just fantastic. So dense and well thought out.
Roz, did you see him live? I've seen him a few times and he's great fun. Got to talk to him a bit after the last gig. Very friendly guy!
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 10:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I still need to hear Andorra. I'm in the "Up In Flames = flawless" camp (no better album for lazy summer driving), but Milk of Human Kindness never really clicked with me.
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 11:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not mad about the 2007 Tour CD. I probably just need to give it another couple of goes.
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 11:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd love to get my hands on real copies of both the tour CDs. Does anyone know where they can be bought online?
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Posteverything.com? That's where I've found his stuff before.
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 11:22 (sixteen years ago) link
(In return could you tell me where you found your drop leaf table that I saw in the record collection thread? I am having a doozy of a time tracking one down!)
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 11:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll have a look at Posteverything.
Table = http://www.johnlewis.com/Home+and+Garden/Dining+Room/Dining+Room+Furniture/Tables/173/230176366/Product.aspx
Tesco and Argos online both do similar ones that are much cheaper (and feel it).
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 11:26 (sixteen years ago) link
The 2005 one is deleted, and they don't have the 2007 one. Hmph. Have to set-up an ebay search.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 11:28 (sixteen years ago) link
You can have my signed one (including his usual sketch of manic Dan) for a million dollars. Bargain.
Cheers for tip about table. No John Lewis here but I'm sure they deliver.
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 11:30 (sixteen years ago) link
They do indeed. The amount of John Lewis stuff in our house is unbelievable. (My girlfriend worked for their outsourced online ordering system for ages, so when we bought a house she was all like "we NEED this table and these placemats, I've sold loads of them".)
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 11:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Happy days! I unfortunately seem to have missed the sales. Also broke from builders. Still, it'll all be a distant memory in a year or two. Hopefully. Must get a Bob :)
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Exciting new album news! Pfork's take:
Monday, January 25Caribou Reveals New AlbumHear the first track now Caribou Reveals New Album2007's Andorra, the last album from Dan Snaith's ever-mutating psych-pop project Caribou, appeared on our year-end list and won Canada's Polaris Music Prize, so hopes are high for the follow-up. That follow-up will arrive April 20, when Merge (in North America) and City Slang (in the UK and Europe) releases his new album, Swim. The 4/20 release date feels oddly appropriate.Snaith recorded the album in Wales and in Junior Boy Jeremy Greenspan's Hamilton, Ontario studio. Guest stars include a quartet of Toronto free-jazz horn players and Born Ruffians' Luke Lalonde, who sings closer "Jamelia". At this site, anyone who gives an email address can download opener "Odessa".In a statement, Snaith described the album's sound thusly: "I got excited by the idea of making dance music that's liquid in the way it flows back and forth, the sounds slosh around in pitch, timbre, pan... Dance music that sounds like it's made out of water, rather than made out of metallic stuff like most dance music does."Swim:01 Odessa02 Sun03 Kaili04 Found Out05 Bowls06 Leave House07 Hannibal08 Lalibela09 Jamelia
2007's Andorra, the last album from Dan Snaith's ever-mutating psych-pop project Caribou, appeared on our year-end list and won Canada's Polaris Music Prize, so hopes are high for the follow-up. That follow-up will arrive April 20, when Merge (in North America) and City Slang (in the UK and Europe) releases his new album, Swim. The 4/20 release date feels oddly appropriate.
Snaith recorded the album in Wales and in Junior Boy Jeremy Greenspan's Hamilton, Ontario studio. Guest stars include a quartet of Toronto free-jazz horn players and Born Ruffians' Luke Lalonde, who sings closer "Jamelia". At this site, anyone who gives an email address can download opener "Odessa".
In a statement, Snaith described the album's sound thusly: "I got excited by the idea of making dance music that's liquid in the way it flows back and forth, the sounds slosh around in pitch, timbre, pan... Dance music that sounds like it's made out of water, rather than made out of metallic stuff like most dance music does."
Swim:
01 Odessa02 Sun03 Kaili04 Found Out05 Bowls06 Leave House07 Hannibal08 Lalibela09 Jamelia
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 25 January 2010 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
EXCITING
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 25 January 2010 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Between this, Four Tet and Spoon, I'm really looking forward to the first 3-4 months of 2010.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 25 January 2010 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Stop being me.
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 25 January 2010 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Liking Odessa.
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 25 January 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
glad for this thread, 'cause i always get caribou/manitoba and four tet confused. two new threads for two new discs will help keep it all straight in my head.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 25 January 2010 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/Caribou_Swim_cover_art_hi-res.jpg
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 25 January 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
one of my fav dudes in the game 2day
― thank u 4 being a fiend (m bison), Monday, 25 January 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone know of any Four Tet and Manitoba/Caribou collaborations? i have one remix they did together of the Notwist song "This Room" that is ridiculously good.
― Moreno, Monday, 25 January 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
There used to be a Manitoba remix of Hilarious Movie Of The 90s floating around.
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 25 January 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
xp the Four Tet remix of Melody Day is beautiful
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Monday, 25 January 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Odessa sounds quite good. The late April release date has me pretty excited too. I'm could definitely go for some early springtime cruisin' to the new Caribou!
― dynamicinterface, Monday, 25 January 2010 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
vocal sounds very erlend oye
― out comes stanley, Monday, 25 January 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Four Tet mix of Melody Day seconded, it really is something special:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKvZtD8V6Kc
― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
So I went back and listened to Milk of Human Kindness after dismissing it long ago for not sounding more like Andorra. Everyone up thread who were championed this were totally right. I don't know that I'd say I'd prefer it over Andorra, or even Up in Flames (easily two of my favorite albums of the past 10 to 15 years) but this ranks right up there.
Dan Snaith is dream a boat I tell ya.
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 04:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Just realised that Swim comes out just before I get married. Nice.
― brain thoughts (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 07:40 (fourteen years ago) link
cover connection
http://img12.nnm.ru/2/9/7/e/a/297eaef79cca17feca1bae2e337c01b3_full.jpg
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
― dynamicinterface, Monday, January 25, 2010 9:49 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
is that song streaming somewhere online?
― Dr. Goon Medicine Woman (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Never mind streaming; download the damn thing here - http://www.caribou.fm/swim_download/
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 28 January 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
sweet thx nick
― Dr. Goon Medicine Woman (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 28 January 2010 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
odessa is funky and kind of gangster
― cholula bankhead (m bison), Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Dan did this grrrrreat mix for his Nightmare Before Christmas day, well worth checking out: http://www.atpfestival.com/assets/cariboumix/index.html
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
Jamie will you be at NBC?
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
yes indeed, might even be djing if there's a free slot somewhere
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
Bonza, see you there.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
Has anyone been peeping Dan's dance edits on the Resista label under his "Daphni" alias? They've been pretty killer so far and i like that his love for African music translates into some very dancefloor friendly edits of songs by Balla et ses Balladins and the like. and then the track he just dropped on Jiaolong, which uses an Analog Africa track for some heavier techno business, is easily one of my favorites for the year.
― beta blog, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
This Daphni remix of an old Malian disco track is all percussivey and great:http://soundcloud.com/sofrito/niama-makalou-et-african-soul
― Doch! (seandalai), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
Need to check that out. I see that they are doing some dates as Radiohead's opening act, and previously remixed Radiohead.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't really know this guy until Swim, but have since been checking out the back catalog which I like even more.
― the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
Up In Flames is still one my favourite things ever
― Number None, Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
^^ cosign! love this one forever.
― ilxor, Sunday, 8 April 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
I gather Dan was recording Caribou material early his year. I love this dude.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 8 April 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not on this thread making Chapterhouse jokes? How? Or was that another thread?
Heard "Sun (sunsunsunsunsunsunsunsun)" in the pub the other night, which was a bit of a headphuck. Someone in my local boozer is determined to make sure I spend more time in there.
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 8 April 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
daphni album yeah awright damn
http://www.factmag.com/2012/07/24/caribou-side-project-daphni-announces-full-album/
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 08:17 (eleven years ago) link
that daphni emeralds remix is still one of my favourite things this year. WCC you def need to hear that!
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 08:19 (eleven years ago) link
Yes? What? Hello? Did someone call my name? I've only heard one Daphni track but this is relevant to my interests.
Also, Dan Snaith needs to stop raiding my cupboard because he is wearing my shirt in that photo.
― I want to smother him in electronic butter. (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 08:26 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0umj3YAoJkk
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here? (Daphni Mix)
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 09:07 (eleven years ago) link
All of these have been added to spotify and I'm still checking for more:
Just Ask the Lonely – Omar S Fondé – Pape N'Diaye Guewel Thought Seeds – Paris Smith Quintet, Carol Sawall KHLHI – Percussions Vibes from the Tribe – Phil Ranelin Proud Sorrow – Pride The Truth – Pride Love Me for Real - DJ Red Greg Edit – Rim & Kasa, DJ Red Greg I'm Strong - House Mix – Robert Owens Matthew and Toby - Four Tet Remix – Rocketnumbernine, Four Tet The Highest Pleasure – Rudolph Johnson Changin' – Ms. (Sharon) Ridley Ain't No Need - DJ Nick The Record Part 1 & 2 Re-United Re-Edit – Skye, Nick The Record Live Goes On – Soundstream Disco Illusion – Stephen Encinas Lypso Illusion – Stephen Encinas The Meaning of Love – Steve Kuhn Short Circuit – Steve Poindexter Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector – Terry Riley, Ragazze Quartet To Claudia on Thursday – The Millennium Prelude – The Millennium I Get Wrecked - Radio Edit – Tim Dog, KRS-One Psyche I & Share Your Water – These Trails Make the Beat Pound – Todd Terry, Sound Design Searchin' - Remastered – Sound Design, Todd Terry Hangin' Out In Space – Tony Wilson Dig My Girl – Wolfgang Dauner Quintet How Can I Be Down – The Yellow Balloon Firecracker – YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA Voodoo Tronics – James Harpham Bang the Box - Slam Remix – Jack Master, Richie Hawtin Telilite – Group Inerane Nadan al Kazawnin – Group Inerane Kar Labyad Doueh – Group Doueh Wazan Samat – Group Doueh Tinariwen – Group Anmataff Love Is a Hurtin' Thing - 12" Version – Gloria Ann Taylor Nen Lambo – Bill Loko Relevee - Carl Craig Remix/Slam Rework – Delia Gonzalez, Gavin Russom Wings of Fire – Dennis Coffey You Don't Know – Drexciya Let's Get It Together – Shadow No Way Back – The Dells Mama Soukous – Volta Jazz Gwindingew Rine Shumba – Thomas Mapfumo Lanquidity – Sun Ra & His Arkestra Leh Jani – Omar Souleyman Dem Young Sconies – Moodymann Daa Nyinaa – Ata Kak Excuse Me Baby – Dizzy K. Tomorrow Never Knows - Remastered 2009 – The Beatles Tell Her She's Lovely – El Chicano Can't Turn Back (TP's Original Mix) – Younger Than Park Computer Madness – Steve Poindexter The Ship Was Sailing - Original Mix – Vito Ricci
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 28 September 2018 01:17 (five years ago) link
Formatting got fucked but I'll update the list with the proper missing songs when I finish.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 28 September 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
just kind of responding to my own post here, but those first Ulrich Schnauss records fit on a Caribou playlist nicely.
― campreverb, Thursday, 27 December 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
Seems promising. More breakbeaty than I would have expected from him at this stagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX30jRKcmbw
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 14 December 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
This one too. On first listen I felt a bit "I see what you did there" about the way it transitions from a very generic-sounding pop song to the wilder sections, but it's growing on mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uazlt4CCr7o
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 14 December 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
I really like both. The transitions on the second one also felt jarring for me at first but I liked it better on second listen.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 15 December 2019 00:14 (four years ago) link
Didn’t realize singles were out, and just listened through—really really stoked on this release. Already got my ticket for the live show.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3hDvOL7E7Y
really hoping he does a surprise show in SF during coachella
― Papa Triste (Thee Macallan 18 Year), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
This one leaked a couple of days ago at 320kbps and I couldn't resist listening to it. Loved it on first listen. Highlight for me besides the singles is "like I loved you".
I think the only thing I'm not crazy about is the album cover.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
Holy shit this is fucking lush.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 28 February 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
Why are more people not getting excited about this?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 29 February 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
So far I'm admiring it but not feeling it (unlike his last few under the Caribou moniker, which were all immediate stunners). The vocal sampling/looping feels a little heavy-handed.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 29 February 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
Absolutely blown away by this one - I don't know if anything can ever top Swim for me, but when the dust settles this is a likely my #2 Snaith joint.
― Davey D, Saturday, 29 February 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
Our Love was the first one I felt less than in love with, and this has jumped him straight back in there.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 29 February 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
Thought it was great on first listen in the house. Was a little cooler on it when I listened again in the car, earlier.
― michaellambert, Saturday, 29 February 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link
I loved Our Love... that grabbed me immediately though there were some arrangement decisions in some of the songs that I felt held them back.
This one I need to give another proper listen to, but first pass it was gorgeous, if not less "catchy" than Our Love and Swim.
― octobeard, Saturday, 29 February 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
I've only heard New Jade so far but I would pay for a version with all the vocals removed.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 March 2020 09:59 (four years ago) link
Getting strong DJ Koze vibes from 'Home'.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 March 2020 15:12 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7mZXWO9Bu4
best leap day essential mix ever?
― Papa Triste (Thee Macallan 18 Year), Sunday, 1 March 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
https://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2020/03/01/caribou-suddenly/
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 1 March 2020 22:38 (four years ago) link
Liking this a lot more than expected on first listen
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
Oh man, I love this. Like the latest James Blake, I feel like I like it a lot more than I should, it doesn't really break new ground, but the mood is incredible.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 12:41 (four years ago) link
He's never been a better producer than he is on this every album, every single element sounds so good... except his voice which I don't think I'm ever going to get past, it just anchors everything in the emotionally lukewarm zone for me.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 12:48 (four years ago) link
Is there a general consensus that Swim is his best one? It's clearly Andorra and then The Milk... and then a big gap imo
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 12:53 (four years ago) link
up in flames is still my fav
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link
i haven't been able to get into the new one, it's too song-y. seeing him live in a couple of weeks and maybe that'll get me into it
― na (NA), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
Scik Mouthy: so sad you’re going through that heartbreaking experience with your kid. Sincerely send you some love.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
I love how this album sounds, makes up for the disappointment of the Grimes one.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
more into this than the last one
i always thought the consensus was that andorra and swim were the best in whichever order
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
"magpie" is lovely, one of his best sounding tracks
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
Yeah, really into the minimalism and sound palette of this album. The two singles are probably my least favorite tracks tbh.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
yeah "never come back" feels like an Obligatory Single here and not a standout
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 March 2020 04:45 (four years ago) link
Thanks Moka - we're generally all pretty good at the moment but we've been through the mill for sure.
I have reservations about his voice, although it's normally not obstrusive enough to have any detrimental effect, and I wasn't expecting to be so into this from radio play of the singles (Never Come Back sounded exactly like a continuation of Our Love, and Home seemed too reliant on the sample, but they both work much better in context of the album for me) and early reports of how much he's singing on it, but it's actually working for me way more than his singing has before.
There are a few points where I kind of want it to go wild and tip into that collapse/chaos he's done before - the end of Magpie, for instance, teases me that it's going to explode and then it pulls back and finishes - and initially I was a bit gutted that he hadn't pushed it right out there, but I'm also impressed by the restraint.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 5 March 2020 09:52 (four years ago) link
Great seeing you write about music again, Scik Mouthy. I remember following your blog years ago and getting some amazing recommendations. And I'm glad the family's doing better!
“Our Love” didn't grab me much either, maybe apart from the singles, and Daphni was never really my thing, but I'm looking forward to picking up a copy of the new one today after work. I actually like his singing on his older tracks so the focus on vocals shouldn't be a problem.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Friday, 6 March 2020 11:57 (four years ago) link
this album is beautiful
― treeship., Saturday, 9 May 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
i enjoy it a lot, as i do with all manitoba/caribou lps
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Saturday, 9 May 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
our love lost me, used to love his mid aughts stuff. worth a revisit?
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 9 May 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
40000%
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Sunday, 10 May 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
like i skip a couple of tracks on our love, but there are some stunners on it
this new one is more dance-oriented. "home" feels like something he coulda done mid-aughts, tho.
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Sunday, 10 May 2020 02:22 (three years ago) link
I think this one is good but nothing on it sizzles for me
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 11 May 2020 05:03 (three years ago) link