28 April 2010

Swim


I chatted about Caribou before, but the release of Dan Snaith's latest album, Swim, warrants further attention. I won't bother going into too great a depth, but rest assured it's worth checking out, providing an ideal companion piece to Four Tet's There Is Love in You, with its similar blendng of musical genres, from techno to krautrock, but differing from Kieran Hebden's project in its greater emphasis upon vocals and lyrics, developing themes revolving in particular around love; both lost and found. The result is a heady concoction of evocative electronica that marks a new direction from previous Caribou output, whilst retaining the hallmarks and qualities that made Dan Snaith such a distinctive musician to begin with.

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