New release | Caribou
In October 2019 Dan Snaith aka Caribou shared his first track in five years; a warm and addictive work 'Home' which was widely praised as a welcome comeback. Following up the return single was 'You & I' along with the announcement of forthcoming album 'Suddenly'- and today is the day we welcome the release on City Slang/ Inertia Music.
Suddenly is the most surprising and unpredictable Caribou album to date. Though it retains the trademark Caribou warmth and technicolour, this album is littered with swerves and left turns. Songs drop out and morph into something else entirely just as they’re hitting their stride, samples chopped up beyond all recognition burst out of nowhere. ‘You and I’ for example starts as a dreamy, undeniably Caribou-like love song before breaking down into a huge chorus littered with sampled yelps and finally goes rogue completely with a screaming guitar solo, swaggering into being from nowhere.
Speaking of the track Snaith says: "'[You and I] was one of the first tracks on the album that I started and one of the last tracks I finished - it existed in some form or other throughout the whole arc of making the record. It also captures a lot of what the record, and the title of the album, are about - the track changes suddenly and unpredictably and it is about a change in my life that happened out of the blue."
Suddenly refers to the moments of dramatic and unexpected change that occur at points in any life and within any family. Universal themes that can catch you off guard and change your life in a heartbeat. So for all the strings Snaith has to his bow these days, this is the drive to continue to make Caribou albums. Full bodies of work where Snaith is able to evaluate things, look at those around him and celebrate them. As his passion and joy in music making remains as fresh as ever, Suddenly is the purest example of this yet.
