Our Love
Following the liquid beats of his 2010 breakout, *Swim*, Caribou’s Dan Snaith has fallen further in love with the dance floor. In his entrancing follow-up, *Our Love*, Snaith blends house, hip-hop, garage, and vintage soul. On “Can’t Do Without You,” Snaith flips a slowed-down soul sample into a vocal mantra that eventually bursts amidst rave-ready synths, while on late highlight “Mars,” he mixes intricate drum patterns, hip-hop samples, and one very nimble flute melody.
Dan Snaith's sixth album as Caribou is his most overtly personal record to date, one that’s remarkable for its intimacy, openheartedness, and joy derived from basic human connection. Owen Pallett and Jessy Lanza contribute.
The Canadian producer/multi-instrumentalist returns after four years away with one of the year's finest dance records.
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Love’s a complicated beast, and that’s reflected in an album that wraps itself up in the finer details.
Electronic artist Dan Snaith, working as Caribou, produced brilliantly abstract albums for more than a decade, moving from the glitchy weirdness of his 2001 debut, Start Breaking My Heart, into more delicate mergers of organic sounds and electronic production, with his 2007 standout album Andorra and its more psychedelic follow-up Swim in 2010.
Previous Caribou albums have borne out the view that Dan Snaith’s output tends to be on the ‘grower’ end of the spectrum. Our Love, Snaith’s fourth official album under the moniker doesn’t buck this trend, though it never quite reaches the peaks of its predecessors.
It's been four years since Caribou's Swim album and the band defining track 'Odessa': now Dan Snaith is back with Our Love.
What was most surprising about Dan Snaith's 2010 album Swim was that it was brilliant and predictable. Really, the sun-setting grooves and hypnotic rhythms of his finest moment as Caribou to date were always going to happen.
Dan Snaith hits the groove between euphoria and melancholy on his fine fourth album, writes <strong>Killian Fox</strong>
Caribou’s Our Love is an uncharacteristically uneven effort from a generally consistent artist.
Caribou's new album 'Our Love' reviewed by Northern Transmissions, 'Our Love' comes out on October 7th on Merge Records, the lead single is "Our Love"
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Electronic DJ and producer Dan Snaith builds uncomplicatedly towards euphoria on his latest effort, says Helen Brown
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