★★★★★
The Ontario-born Dan Snaith originally recorded two albums under the pseudonym Manitoba, before the threat of legal action prompted a change to the more pastoral, peaceful sounding Caribou. Whilst his earlier albums were associated with the burgeoning folktronica genre, which was flavour of the month in the early years of the century, the psychedelic-influenced 'Andorra' (2007) proved a watershed moment for Snaith. It could almost have been a lost record from the late 1960s...
- www.thecmuwebsite.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Buy / Listen: 7Digital | Amazon | eMusic | We7 | Spotify One man electronic outfit, Caribou, AKA: Daniel Victor Snaith, has an array of musical projects already behind him, this latest venture, Swim, his fifth album to date, is a pleasant mix of electronic ambience and acid house, combined with honey sweet vocals, all fluidly driven through the backdrop of a numerous amount of samples, resulting in a tripped out record that will have you partying well into mid morning...
- www.state.ie
2011-01-25
★★★★★
Caribou, or Dan Snaith, has essentially built his career off innovating relatively modern genres--house, electronic, and disco to be more categorical and precise--and transforming them into lush electronic soundscapes. His newest release, Swim, follows this same path, incorporating all three aforementioned genres in order to capture his latest take on experimental and relaxing music...
- www.reviewrinserepeat.com
2010-12-14
★★★★★
When you wake up with the remnants of last night's way-too-many pints tearing away at your body and soul, there is a very strict selection of appropriate music which can and should be assembled onto that morning hangover playlist. It should all be pretty chill, disjointed but not jarring (too smooth and you'll feel more like a wreck in comparison), fairly upbeat and slyly energising, and with some nice melodies rolling around...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
In spite of what we do when we peel apart the making of music, there is always something that escapes us - an impression in the air that is carried off before it can be pinned, moth-like, to the museum wall. Only so much can be explained by the year a track was made or how it was put together. Sociological and technical interpretations are blank signposts: they'll show you where, but not explain what, or why, the destination matters...
- thequietus.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Caribou's Dan Snaith is a great remix candidate. The relentless studio tinkerer leaves a lot of process in his music, and his songs have an appealingly imperfect quality. It's not that Caribou tracks feel unfinished; they're more like breathing compositions than polished, flawless objects. This gives remixers a lot of room to maneuver-- they can pick apart individual pieces of songs, expand on one especially interesting element, or even deconstruct the whole thing and start from scratch...
- pitchfork.com
2010-11-08
★★★★★
Hope you like my new direction. Few words in the musical sphere are as capable of evoking an acute sense of dread. Keeping with this tradition, the fresh streamlined Caribou sound unveiled on 'Swim' turns out to be quite a shocker. Thankfully, as opposed to the usual disappointments associated with sudden musical U-turns, it's a bombshell for the best possible reasons...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Until a few months ago, if you happened to visit your local record store in search of experimental, psychedelic, electronica, you would have been happy to find Dan Snaith's intriguing Up In Flames filed neatly under 'M' for Manitoba. However, a potential law suit and one North American mammal with large antlers later the name has changed, but everything else is pretty much as expected...
- www.music-news.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
This is pop music. The kind that grabs hold and plants a flag on the first listen. The potential has been there - check out Dan Snaith's Manitoba and Caribou back catalogues - but the results here are pretty stunning. We're talking pop with a capital P: sunny harmonics, bouncing bass lines, hopping rhythms, tambourines and flutes...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
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