Swim
After drawing from IDM, krautrock, and sunshine pop, Dan Snaith's project sets its sights on dark and intricate dance music, with dazzling results.
Dan Snaith kicked off his career 10 years ago with soothingly downbeat electronica—the kind of stuff that got labeled as IDM when IDM still seemed like a useful label—but then voyaged far and wide, putting out albums of maximalist psychedelia (Up In Flames), brittle kraut (The Milk Of Human Kindness) and summer-y ’60s…
Throughout his decade-long career under the name Manitoba and now Caribou, his output has retained the same inner core of hooky melodicism and sonic experimentation, but he’s hopped from sound to sound on each release.
Keeping with this tradition, the fresh streamlined Caribou sound unveiled on ‘Swim’ turns out to be quite a shocker.
Swim’s songs are fully evocative of the stylistic struggles that the band has come to represent.
Swim is an itchy, gurgling, shapeshifter of an album, writes <strong>Maddy Costa</strong>