Tastes Like Caribou
May 22nd, 2010 • Auditory
The new album Swim, from Caribou, was released this week and although it’s a good album and reminds me a little of the Knife’s earlier work, it’s not a dance album. Dan Snaith (Caribou), talks about making the new dance album in a Pithchfork article.
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.
I like the concept, but there isn’t one track that is going to get a dance floor moving, unless it’s the end of the night and you want the floor to be moving it’s way to the door.
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Hot Chip remix from and older song from the previous Caribou album Andorra.
Caribou – She’s The One (Hot Chip Remix)
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The Odessa video is a bit too “art student meandering through the woods a with a video camera, who then loves to use cross fades in the editing room” for me. It’s such a good song, and with the right video, it could have gone viral and given the band some exposure.
