Review
Album Review
Caribou Swim
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In the three-year gap since Caribou’s/ Daniel Snaith’s last salvo of fuzzy, psych-laced popscapes, Andorra, the artist formally known as Manitoba has fallen for dance music, or “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." So, dance music for water. Or water music for dancers. Either way, judging by the bouncy synths of the !!!-esqe preview track, “Odessa,” it will be arresting, even if it is made of water.
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To be blunt, I'm disappointed with this record. Andorra really showed how unique Caribou was. That record gave me the sense that there wasn't anyone who could match the magical area that Dan Snaith occupied. However, almost all of Swim falls flat to me. It's almost like Dan was hanging out too much with Kieran Hebdan (Fourtet). In fact, Swim sounds like the tracks that didn’t make the cut for Kieran’s exceptional new Fourtet record. While there are a couple bright spots (I love the track "sun"), the rest of Swim sounds like someone just experimenting with mediocre house music and overlayering them with aimless samples that don't add anything. Maybe I hold Caribou to unattainable standards, and maybe Swim will grow on me, but so far no I'm not impressed.
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