“Sun” is the second video from Caribou’s Swim, following “Odessa.” This one is a little more fun. The clip’s middle-aged stars do an ecstatic dance while other, younger dancers do synchronized moves between them. Directed by Simon Owens, the same guy who did LCD Soundsystem’s “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down” Kermit video.
As an album, Spirituals careens down a sample-savvy, percussion-padded electronic musical course well plotted by Four Tet. As an artist, Spirituals is Tyler Tadlock, a drummer and jazz enthusiast from Jackon, Mississippi, and while that doesn’t do too much do distinguish him from Kieran Hebden, the way those descriptors course through his debut album’s ten tracks — fancifully adept drumfill flourishes and skronk sax nuzzled up to hypnotic loops, chopped and pasted interstitial tracks pouring into spurts of glitchy IDM — do lead to some worthy, distinct headphone candy. He’s filed a great remix for Caribou, and the album’s worth hearing as well; after the jump you can get a jump on both those fronts, along with MP3 of the non-album track “You Would’ve Faked It,” which didn’t make Spirituals for sample clearance purposes, and would have been my favorite cut on the record if it had.
A week or so ago Kieran Hebden remixed the Acorn’s “Restoration.” Here, Four Tet’s There Is Love In You’s glistening opener “Angel Echoes” goes under the knife. In the April/May of 2003 I remember Daniel Snaith/Caribou making a splash via Manitoba’s Up In Flames, Hebden following suit with Rounds. They seem to do that a lot of that kind of overlapping — see, for instance, the still-fresh Swim and aforementioned There Is. In fact, it sorta feels like this remix has happened a dozen times. Or it should have. Snaith picks up the original’s pace, extends its length, and eventually exorcises its ghosts.
NPR is going to be broadcasting live from the Caribou and Toro Y Moi concert tonight at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.
Caribou’s latest album, Swim, is a richly layered mix of psychedelic soundscapes, polyrhythmic dance beats and hooky melodies sung in Snaith’s dreamy falsetto. You can hear Caribou’s swirling world of sound in a […]
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If “Odessa” has you impatient for Caribou’s Swim, which is a perfectly rational position to assume, then jump in on Dan Snaith’s similarly liquid, techno-stroked reworking of “Eleanor Speaks” by Danish indie-psych outfit Oh No Ono. For fans of Caribou’s new Whitest Boy Alive dance moves: Oh No Ono – “Eleanor Speaks (Caribou Remix)”
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PROGRESS REPORT: Mixing his still-untitled followup to 2007’sAndorra. Recorded at home in London.
“I’m not able to make music based on what people like. It’s a very selfish pursuit, in a way,” Caribou’s Dan Snaith says. And for Snaith, it’s also a very obsessive one. Unlike other easily distracted Progress Report subjects, Snaith says it’s hard for him to get pulled away from work — he usually has to be persuaded to leave the house. And he works very slowly. So even though he started working on the album over a year ago, he’s put in full days every day since. Right now his Andorra followup is 80% completed, and will probably be out by the spring.
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BV Mike was hoping for Plants & Animals, though he agrees
that Caribou equally deserves it. To quote him:
The former Manitoba a.k.a Daniel Snaith makes the shortlist with his beautiful album Andorra. So much can be said about this album. An amalgam of dream pop, shoegazer, experimental electronica, and even late 60s mod leanings, it never ceases to be surprising and engrossing. I strongly think I am going to regret placing this record third in my predictions but I feel that his strong track record actually hurts his chances somewhat. I just have this feeling that this record is going to be overlooked by the judges.
Not overlooked after all. Who would you have voted for?
