Caribou - Swim

Snaith recorded the album in Wales and in Junior Boy Jeremy Greenspan's Hamilton, Ontario studio. Guest stars include a quartet of Toronto free-jazz horn players and Born Ruffians' Luke Lalonde, who sings closer "Jamelia". At this site, anyone who gives an email address can download opener "Odessa".

In a statement, Snaith described the album's sound thusly: "I got excited by the idea of making dance 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."

Swim:

01 Odessa

02 Sun

03 Kaili

04 Found Out

05 Bowls

06 Leave House

07 Hannibal

08 Lalibela

09 Jamelia

Andorra is one of my favorite albums. I have high expectation for this one.

Very exciting! Andorra has been in my regular rotation since its release and I'm still not tired of it. Also smitten with the Pink Room performance clips.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV4Qs_ZFnA8

But aaaahhhh why must he announce it so early? I hate waiting so long. Maybe I should stay away from this section of the forum.

Edit:

Listening to Odessa - interesting new structural direction he's taking. I'm a little worried I'm not going to like it as much! I like the rythmical layering and sound choices but straightforward dance coming from Caribou might take some getting used to! Cool sound intro around 4:10... I wonder if each track will blend with the next (judging by Snaith's statement and intro of new sounds late into the track).

Cool, definitely checking this out. Like Four Tet, I'm glad that he tries different things sometimes.

Caribou is massive, Andorra was one of the best records of the decade. Great pop music

I did like that Manitoba record, but every time I listened to it, I couldn't shake the feeling that it really sounded JUST LIKE the second Chapterhouse record. (Funnily the only person that ever agreed with this assessment was Nat from Sonic Cathedral because everyone else was horrified that I'd owned that record.)

I don't think I like Odessa but I might have to listen a few more times. I'll be disappointed if I don't like this album, but honestly nothing on earth can be worse than the new Goldfrapp single in terms of disappointment in someone you expected much from.

I need to replace my copy of In Flames my buddy lost. :(

Dance music made from water sounds great. May end up blind-buying this.

It leaked.

It's very original, very fresh, very optimistic as usual with Caribou. Most tracks are a 4/4 beat with odd instrumentation. There is one that is pure soul music, I mean even souler than Lidell.

Recommended.

Edit: LOL, the soul track is not part of the album actually, it was just part of my iTunes.

gonna check this out, have listened to some stuff on his myspace and it def sounds to my taste

the leaked quality is pretty terrible though. Two of the track are 192 kbps and the rest is 128 kbps.

On the first listen, I really liked it but I am going to wait for a better quality so I can play the shit out of it.

This has leaked in 320

Gotta wait- I know it will be good anyway. I've been listening to all of his other discs lately.

this album is fantastic

cow bell!!!!!!

i like this, gonna checks his other stuff

  On 3/11/2010 at 12:44 AM, viscosity said:

i like this, gonna checks his other stuff

I would start with Up in Flames, they're all good though!

I've got an OG "Manitoba" copy

niceee andorra is a great album

go canadian talent!

I am really loving this. This is what the Four Tet album should have been.

  On 3/12/2010 at 10:06 PM, beatfanatic said:

I am really loving this. This is what the Four Tet album should have been.

just hearing this now and i agree! fantastic so far... kaili was lacking a bit but its been really great. like a mix of old caribou and bibio..

I'm gonna try to hold out until this is released... also seeing him in Boston in May which should be the hotness.

For y'all who checked out the leak, how does is measure up in comparison to his previous albums? From what I've read from reviews and other fans I gather that everyone creams their pants over Up In Flames and Andorra, and while I do like those albums I actually prefer Start Breaking My Heart and The Milk of Human Kindness more, they just strike me as being more adventurous and creative.

So basically I'm wondering if this is another album of glo-pop or has he nicely tinkered with the formula.

great!

spring time music

Full album now available for streaming on Soundcloud.

http://soundcloud.com/caribouband/sets/swim

Love it!

This is freakin excellent, just got through it on Soundcloud. I will purchase it vigourously when it comes out

Wasn't really a fan of his but I heard he was playing Sonar so got hold of this and it is fucking amazing. Pretty excited now.

Only listened to this through soundcloud so far but really digging it so far (especially sun, wicked track). A lot of parallels between this and four tet's latest, they almost feel like sister albums. Seeing him next week and am really curious as to what the live show will be like...

Got this a few days ago and its all I have been listening to. Its not very often I can automatically get into an album like I did with this one!

I might have to go to the Warehouse Project, just to see this guy perform! Brilliant album!