NAME: Caribou
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.

