Caribou - Andorra

anyone else heard this yet?

"It's most certainly a formula, but then, so is E=MC2"

weird line to quote

i thought ""Sounds like the work of someone given one month to live" -- Urb" was pretty weird too.

A couple of years ago I paid 6 dollars to see Caribou and the Junior Boys. Still one of the best concert deals I've ever gotten.

This should be good.

pretty amazing album

grady, you need a piece of the action?

the brian wilson influence is very prominent here--very creative drumming, as in all his work

i have it, but thanx boo.

i've listened to it twice but i'm not sure what i think yet.

a lot more psych than i was expecting, but i guess i havent paid much attention to caribou's last few releases.

xp: yeah brian wilson otm.

I am really excited about hearing this. I listened to The Milk of Human Kindness everyday for who knows how long when it came out, and Up in Flames rules as well, of course.

Sorry if this sounds naive, but how does the label know -- months before the disc's release date -- that Pitchforkmedia will award Andorra a 9.0 rating?

I did not know that Andorra was a real place.

OK this record is fucking great.

yeah, it's my fave of the year so far.

I did not know that Andorra was a real place.

Uh...

I went to Andorra for a day when I was on exchange when I was about 16 got this crepey guy we were with drunk for the first time he started telling this girl we were with that he REALLY liked her a lot totally embarrassing for him and then he started spewing everywhere then we were held up at the border for about 5 hours because someone on the bus was trying to smuggle in like 10 cartons of cigarettes into france and no one would own up and they thought it was us because they thought we were English but it wasnt us then we went home.

I haven't heard this album, but i'm looking forward to it. Dude's a genius.

Uh yourself, Encyclopedia Brown.

xp

I went to Andorra for a day when I was on exchange when I was about 16 got this crepey guy we were with drunk for the first time he started telling this girl we were with that he REALLY liked her a lot totally embarrassing for him and then he started spewing everywhere then we were held up at the border for about 5 hours because someone on the bus was trying to smuggle in like 10 cartons of cigarettes into france and no one would own up and they thought it was us because they thought we were English but it wasnt us then we went home.

this record sounds like the complete opposite of that kind of experience.

Yeah, it was a fairly dismal day.

I'm enjoying this a lot.

I've been listening to this a lot for the last couple of months (esp in that brief early summer we had back in April) and I'm confident that it's going to be the album that I play most this summer - it's definitely one of those albums that immediately puts a smile on my face. I think "Sandy" (surely a future single?) and "Desiree" are probably my favourites.

[Disclaimer - he's a friend. But I really think this is his best albm yet by some distance.]

Daniel, the Pitchfork 9.0 rating was for Up in Flames, the album where they got those E=mc² and other quotes from:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/37333-start-breaking-my-heart-up-in-flames

Just got this last night and I listened to it three times and I have to say it is really good. Loving the Zombies psych pop vibe and some of the drum tones are insane, straight taken from the Silver Apples notebook. Can't wait to pick this up on vinyl when it comes out.

this is good, much lighter and sweeter than i imagined. upthread otm about the drum tones-damn he does that well.

once i mentally adjust to this being summery pop instead of the dance music i expected i bet i'll love it.

A nice surprise this, didn't know there was a new album out. Will listen to it when on the train tomorrow.

Though I must admit that even if I find this guy really talented and he likes the same music as one self, I seem to sometimes like the music more in theory, than when actually listening to it. It's a stupid comment I know, but still.

Album doesn't come out until mid- August unless you can find it on them internets.

Daniel, the Pitchfork 9.0 rating was for Up in Flames, the album where they got those E=mc² and other quotes from.

My bad. Thanks.

Internets are good. Anyone know what the cover will look like? Last one's pretty cute.

there isn't one song on this album that i dont like.

I listened to this a shitload over the weekend.

diggin every track too.

Melody Day is a damn fine opener and yuh, teh obvious first single.

yes--i love how immediate the album starts off

I haven't heard it yet 'cuz I don't like pirating things... would you guys say it's more like Flames (which I unequivocally love) or Milk (which I've never been able to get into)?

those first two notes, yes!

at first i thought i had a fucked up copy.

the way the drums drop out of "Sandy" for 16 bars at a time and its just the bells is great too; it calls that much more attention to the drums when they come back in.

xp

Sweet. I'm going to look that "Sandy" bit when I blaze that shit in the car on the way home today.
Will report back..

*look for that

I haven't heard it yet 'cuz I don't like pirating things... would you guys say it's more like Flames (which I unequivocally love) or Milk (which I've never been able to get into)?

It's neither; aesthetically it's clearly still the same dude, but it's more vocal, more 60s psychedelic rock (still obv. arranged on a computer though), more organic, more pastoral. A lot less busy than UIF. I never really got MHK when it came out but listening to this and then going back has made MHK make much more sense, to the extent that I might be tempted now to say I like it more than UIF.

I think this is way better than Milk. I can see why Snaith would be excited about this.

i like this a lot but there are a few moments when it reminds me of uh the shins

the drums on sundialing are making me nigh giddy at the moment. i already like this much more than milk of human kindness. melody day is a seriously wonderful opener. i was hooked immediately. the sleighbells!

I got this over the weekend and have had it on repeat for the past few days both at home, at a party and on my walk in to work i.e. 3 v different moods: chilled, having fun and hating humanity.

I was a huge fan of Start Breaking my Heart and have grown to really like UIF and MHK (I wasn't totally sold on the psychedelic at first, it was something that I had to get used to seeing as I never listened to that kind of thing before).

I have had the good fortune of seeing Caribou on laptop and with band, it's great to see all the exciting sounds that he was making with the band reach the album. For me the stand out tracks would be Sandy for the echoey and jangly chorus and Irene for the odd fade in and out effect on the keyboards. I wasn't as surprised as Jergins above, I wouldn't be surprised if the next album was quite dance-y. Part of me feels that he has taken the psychedelic approach to a natural conclusion.

Basically when Grady said that there wasn't a bad track on this album was totally OTM.

Dude's a genius.

-- Drooone, Friday, 1 June 2007 05:43 (Friday, 1 June 2007 05:43)

Drooone also OTM!

Which album is the drummiest?

Difficult to pick. UIF has the most jazzy fills, but MHK drops in some very nice kraut on occasion, and new one is about same. Fiurst one has good if standard IDM / laptop beats with a touch of jazz swing/fill at times.

official release next week.

such a summery album though.

I love this. I think it's his best yet.

HELLO, IS NO ONE ELSE MAD FOR THIS?

Louis?

will shot this as and when i find a cheap copy/get my bro to download it

Does anyone know what year his PhD was awarded? I can't find it on http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=104299.

i saw this in the shops last week. it was with great regret that i picked it up, walked halfway to the counter, then returned and gingerly put it back in its place (i had severely over-budgeted that week)

will pick it up on maybe friday and give it good long spin

is there a vinyl version yet?

Yes: http://mergerecords.com/catalog.php?method=band&query_band_id=115

Niobe sounds like a cross between something off Silent Shout and the Beta Bound.

I like this

Does anyone know what year his PhD was awarded?

Why do you want to know?! It was probably late 2005, I think, or maybe early 2006.

OK I just checked and it was the summer of 2005.

Thanks. I am also doing a PhD and music stuff, and I wanted to compare the timeline of his academic and musical careers to see just how impressive managing to do both was.

I think this album is wonderful.

This album is wonderful. If certain parties could be a bit restrained when they do finally hear it I would be most appreciative. I'm wondering still whether to follow him down to Galway the night after I see him in Dublin next month. Will see how good the set is I suppose!

Given my luv of <i>Up In Flames</i> (and its accompanying, bear-suit-clad live shows), I'll soon make a return trip to Newbury Comics and pick me up some <i>Andorra</i>. Sounds like I have little to lose.

Interesting (to me) trivia(l) point: When Pitchfork first reviewed then-Mantioba's <i>Up In Flames</i> in '03, it received an 8.6. When, however, Pitchfork re-reviewed now-Caribou's <i>Up In Flames</i> in '06 its stock jumped to a 9.0 rating. Maybe the change is attributable to the requisite 10 seconds waited in evaluating staying power?

I dislike ILM's HMTL.

Picked up Andorra last night, listened twice through. I think it's a really good record, very authentic-sounding '60s vibe to the whole thing, and much more cohesive than Human Kindness, which I thought was a mixed bag at the time. This new record's no Up in Flames, granted, but the two records are so different that it's fruitless to compare them, and both are great regardless. Betting this will make my year-end top ten.

really amazing.

honestly i think i like it way better than up in flames, which i never thought i'd be saying.

i like the more song-oriented direction. i listened to up in flames again after this and it sort of seems gimmicky in comparison, though it's a great album too.

easily one of my favorite albums this year. absolutely gorgeous.

*i DID listen to this the first time after the bar last nite so this might be a little hyped cuz of drunk first impressions but still it's fucking great.

ok, have shot this, and so far, so good.

Niobe sounds like a cross between something off Silent Shout and the Beta Band.

never cared much for Caribou before but this line makes me pretty keen to check this one out!

Whole album is fairly joyful, but Niobe, which I'm currently on, is shaping up to be something fairly mighty indeed.

yeah this is good; i didn't get the hubub over up in flames, it was alright, but this is much better.

OK I'm beginning to kinda fall for this album. There's only one weak-spot, probably no coincidence it's the one (She's The One) not entirely written by Snaith. Second half is absolutely superb.

she's the one is great.

whole album is great.

I've had the benefit of several extra listens since I wrote that, and STO is pretty great, yeah, although not quite as great as its Beta Band namesake (possibly an unfair reason for my initial reluctance).

Fucking awesome record though.

yeah, just came back to this record after a month away. still love it.

louis - have you listened to this yet?

iknowiknowiknow, that and the new strategy record are, like, LITERALLY next on my list.

"She's The One" is gorgeous!

This album gets better with each spin. I'm not liking "She's the One" as much as the rest of the songs, though -- I think it's a fairly weak melody for Jeremy Greenspan as he's done *much* better with his Junior Boys stuff over the last 3-4 years. The rest is fantastic.

...and fuck me if 'Sandy' isn't the best 60's psychedelia tribute song since The Dukes Of Stratosphear's 'What In The World??...'; both elicit an uncommonly similar feeling in my bones, namely "WOOHOO LET'S ALL GO OUT AND PLAY IN THE SUN".

Best track is either 'Irene' or 'Niobe' though. Can't think of a better closing 1-2 punch in AGES. Actually, when played loud, 'Irene' is absolutely sensational. Like, amazing. Wow.

It also ends, brilliantly, amidst television static, wavering from channel to channel. An idea, I may add, borrowed from Mansun's 'Television'. ;-)

Edited for clarity:

This album is wonderful. If certain parties could be a bit restrained when they do finally hear it I would be most appreciative.

Stop making me dislike this album!

Ah feck it, that was a bit harsh.

Not really.

why is it I always see you two together? :p

I'm sure it's in the Scrabulous programming that you can't force a win if it's your go; I'm certainly not in the grudge-harbouring business!

Neither am I, I am in the bookmarked thread business and when I see that it's another little red star with you blathering to yourself about an album I like it makes me dislike the album a bit because I have to open the thread 3 or 4 times unnecessarily to read your guff!

What makes it guff? I've made solid, concrete points about factually correct information derived from the record. If I was blathering on about 'the hyper-real coagulations of man and machine exalting Snaith's pop sensibility to unseen heights', you'd probably have a right to complain, but I haven't (yet)!

See what you did there?

?

If I did anything self-incriminating, then it was done with a wink. I can't see how you've derived unintentional irony from that last post of mine.

I didn't. I derived that you are a bit of a muppet is all.

And how on earth did you manage that? :p

small, pointless like andorra the place itself. Like last one: first song a winner then a long snooze.

God knows. (xpost)

xpost: Erm, it's a damn sight better than the new SFA, whichever way you look at it. Try running it through a couple of times.

when I see that it's another little red star with you blathering to yourself about an album I like it makes me dislike the album a bit because I have to open the thread 3 or 4 times unnecessarily to read your guff

This makes me think that YOU, kv_nol, are a bit of a muppet! :D

Seriously, though, how on earth can you dislike an album you DO like because of someone else's positive reaction to it? Is my endorsement enough to discourage you? Have I such limited grasp of music that my liking is a sign of the record's inadequacy? Or, as you seem to be saying, is being reminded of a bookmarked thread enough of an irritant to put you off the music? I have absolutely no idea why this would happen. Why did you say that? I'm flummoxed.

dudes let's keep a PMI here. I & I.

this album is great.

i just got a new stereo and speaker stands and shit. anyway the vinyl sounds great and there's some really awesome left to right stereo efx going on, kinda trippy.

Read the second half of the sentence. In essence, I dislike your exuberant style of writing (not you, you seem a bit clueless but not a dickhead. A bit of an arse but sure aren't we all in the end), I dislike the fact that to now read about an album I like I have to engage with you like this knowing that this is fast becoming a trainwreck of thread. Basically, as I have said to you before, calm down and remember that not all attention is good attention. If there was only one thing I could convince you of it would be that! (xpost)

It is a fantastic album though, I look forwards to finally actually having the album rather than the weak MP3s to really get the full benefit.

Not clueless about music mind, just how you might get people's backs up. Or maybe you do... If so, please see my point above about attention.

you two should just kiss already.

We can't. Dom would be heartbroken.

gusy guys guys we must focus our attack upon the real enemy

?!

alright seriously i can't get bogged down today in harshing on stupid website and shit, but i take it this guy hasn't actually *heard* much music from the 60s.

it's a lady

but srsly that's one of the worst reviews i've ever seen. she's clearly only heard the first two songs, has no ear for sound, and has some awful preconceptions about 70's music. how you can write that, especially having heard the futuristic dance-music experimentation of 'irene' or 'niobe', is utterly beyond belief.

Um, wow. That's... not a very good review at all. (hers I mean)

glad the JGO storm blew over quickly on this thread

After the first 1 & 1/2 listens to Andorra, I don't like this album at all. Too flowery for me and I like belle and sebastian.
This reminds me of what happened to the latest jens lekman album.

I think Sandy is my favourite track. I love the fade-in, the drum sound, and the opening lyric is probably my favourite of the year, in terms of effect and delivery and imagery.

Sandy is positively gorgeous.

I LOVE THE FLOWERY SOUNDS OF THE NEW CARIBOU ALBUM SO DEAL WITH THAT, CAPTAINLORAX

There's a difference between psychedelic and poncey.

Is this to do with the paisley shirts and cravates or something?

whoops. That should be cravats.

glad the JGO storm blew over quickly on this thread

Why are you glad? Hey dude, what's your problem, huh? WHY MUST EVERYONE BE LIKE THIS TO ME? All I get for my incisive contributions is abuse. It's pathetic.

Srsly tho I cannot get over how bad that review is. Furthermore, Captain Lorax' criticisms ("too flowery") are suspiciously similar to Ms. Ross'. It seems like the ad hominem of choice for this album, to accuse Snaith of being a hippy. Hippies don't create tracks like 'Desiree' or 'Niobe', precise visionaries do.

'incisive'?

baby momus

Why can I not make a self-referential joke without somebody taking it as literal? WHY? It's because you're all jealous of my musical comprehension, isn't it? ARGH I HATE THIS PLACE and it's all YOUR fault. FUCK Caribou, your bullying is the real issue here.

SRSLY now, can anybody suggest any modern parallels to this record? I'm a bit sick of the 60's/70's comparisons; they're superficial and in no way reflect how this record was put together. I want modern equivalents, tangents, or anything else that you think might relate.

Now I get it. Well done. (xpost)

Daedelus or Minotaur Shock are the first that come to mind. They might not be the best by any measure.

Four Tet's an obvious analogue in the past but less so here. Perhaps the first Earlies album, the Yo La Tengo record from about 2004. I think the electronic side of Andorra is being downplayed. People who are saying it could have come straight rom 69 or 72 are missing a big part of the aesthetic. It feels very similar to UIF to me, just less frenetic, which will probably help it i the long run.

It kind of sounds like how I wished Animal Collective sounded. The Panda Bear record has similar influences and directions. The Miracle Fortress record is VERY similar, but more... organic, less studio.

Scik re. UIF is spot on. I was listening to it last night and was surprised just how electronic it was compared to memory.

I reckon Panda Bear album is better.

louis hippies are cool. they've created everything under the sun. let love rule.

but louis and nick's points are right on, it's clearly a modern record to me, as much a digital collagey thing as girl talk or the avalanches...just because you are sampling 60s feeling stuff doesn't make it any less so...

i feel you on animal collective i've always wanted to like them more than i do. leaf house is the only joint by them i can really dig on.

THIS IS AMAZING!!!

the niobe ascent keeps runnin through my head. kind of sickening

OK I'm going to download this and give it a listen (hurrah emusic).

OK this is pretty damn wonderful actually. Though I can't draw direct comparisons, I love the business/floweryness that also permeates some of Blonde Redhead and Mahogany's stuff.

shit now that i know this album is 9 minutes long i might get around to listening to it.

9 minutes? err.

Niobe took me by suprise after some of the other tracks. I hate bringing him up, but I was feeling a bit of Schnauss in it.

it is longer thatn nine minutes.

"Desiree" sounds like Mercury Rev a bit. I really really like this album!

the niobe ascent keeps runnin through my head. kind of sickening

kinda AWESOME, you mean. i've been humming it for a week now and it isn't getting boring. astounding track, and the direction i'd like to see snaith go in.

So...the new Caribou tour CD.

It's nearly identical in format to the 2005 version: one 30+ minute mix of other songs, followed by several new, original Caribou songs.

I really, really liked the 2005 version, but I have to say, this tops it. The mix is wonderful, on par with the 2005 mix. The difference comes with the original songs that follow, which are uniformly awesome. I warmed up to Andorra after a while, particularly the last half of it, but "Yo-Yo", included on this new tour CD, is like an assimilation of the best parts of The Milk of Human Kindness and Up in Flames. "Shim Shimmer" is great as well.

By the way, can anyone help me out with the tracklistings of the long mixes, both on the 2005 version and on the 2007? I looked all over on these internets, to no avail.

The closing "Hummingbird" sounds sort of like the backing tracked to something off of OMD's Dazzle Ships. I keep waiting for McCluskey's voice to slide into place.

The problem with Niobe is that it never quite goes into the full on hard-trance anthem it threatens to become.

He wasn't selling tour CD last night! BASTARD :)

The new songs are incredible live. Such a great gig. Have some pics and videos, will try to upload at some point.

"It seems like the ad hominem of choice for this album, to accuse Snaith of being a hippy. Hippies don't create tracks like 'Desiree' or 'Niobe', precise visionaries do."

Correct.

Slightly rubbish review at RogueMag

The problem with Niobe is that it never quite goes into the full on hard-trance anthem it threatens to become.

That would be too obvious. What Snaith does instead is much subtler, much more interesting, and much more memorable (in my opinion). Besides, it DOES break into an anthem, just not quite the sort you might have expected. The whole midsection, with the jungle noises, the syncopated bleeps, and alternating layers of sound, is the complex trance anthem you crave, just not the straightforward rave-up you think you want.

And the bit with the backward-sounding vocals kicks ASS.

If I have one criticism of the CD, it's that the last two tracks are SO good, they put some of the rest in the shade. Although one thing I've noticed as being especially magnificent is the bass in 'Desiree'. Without the rest of the song, I could listen to that bassline and give it five stars.

I sort of snooze through "Niobe."

You need to listen to it real loud.

That review gets the root of why I dislike The Knife, in a backwards way - it's meant to be minimal, but it isn't.

Anyway, this album's great, and if you don't like it, you're missing out. Such is life.

If someone can someone identify the song that comes in around 14:20 into tour mix 2007, either now or years in the future, I'd appreciate it.

YSI?

Guess who is coming back to Ireland? I know, right? he's only playing in Dublin, Cork and Belfast. Sadly not Galway. It's around the 20th of November.

Funny, I thought I know, right? and I had been discussing Caribou live on this thread. Memory must be playing tricks on me.

saw in glasgow a wee while ago as an act of friendship kind of went on and on

i like "start breaking my heart" and the early eps.

lost me with the second album tho.

RJG, when he played here last he didn't come on stage until half one in the morning. Left after an hour. I thought he was brilliant though.

Sorry, Whelans Dublin, United Kingdom? Tut tut Caribou. Damn Americans!

Might just make it to one or the other as an act of contrition for missing the last one. Its always when things are handy to go to that I end up missing them but I've made the trek to Dublin for concerts like a million times in the last year. It could happen....

Damn Americans!

He's Canadian...

Well if you're up revive a Dublin thread for a FAP if you fancy it.

Damn Americans!

He's Canadian...

Um, that was the joke. And yeah that would be cool.

Ah, sorry. I didn't pick up on the joke obviously.

am i the only one who got tired of this record as fast as the speed of light is?
when i first heard it, it was exciting, after only few listens, it is really hard to swallow.(not because it's bad or anything). not sure exactly why.

will have to give this a listen this month - the first time i listened to milk of human kindness i thought, wow this is pretty cool but then never listened again

think he wanted to sound like the beatles

yeah cause those last three tracks SURE sound like the beatles

haven't heard a record

to me it sounded like parts were missing from some of the songs.

what, like in desiree where the bassline is the only thing you can hear at points? that actually improves the record IMO. he shows a great knowledge of layering, and a superb sense of restraint. 'niobe' never once shoots its titanic load, for a start.

RJG, when he played here last he didn't come on stage until half one in the morning. Left after an hour. I thought he was brilliant though.

Do Irish gigs generally go on that late? I am thinking of heading over to Dublin to see a gig (not Caribou, though I might try and extend my stay for that) at Whelans next month. Shouldn't really make any difference but it'd be good to know. Thanks.

Yours from the island where things were only recently allowed to go on later than 11pm (except public transport, because it would be terrible if people could actually get home from stuff),

The mix on the tour CD is quite good. Pretty obvious grab bag of Andorra's influences: 60s pop (Zombies, Teddy Bears), jazzy folk and folk pop and some techno. B+ would listen again.

Yeah! I was trying to drum up interest a while ago in the tour CD but failed miserably, perhaps because it wasn't available yet except to devious downloaders.

But again, I'll mention that it's definitely worth picking up, if only for the new songs included after the mix, which are great.

Short BBC documentary on the making of Andorra. he uses the word "whatever" alot. seems like a nice dude.

http://sonicprocess.blogspot.com/2007/08/caribou-andorra.html

guy's playing in Austin tonight, seen him twice before and probably will go see him again. any ILMers seen him on the 07 tour thus far? does he still have the same live set-up as 05, with the two drum kits esp. for the Up in Flames-era songs? how's the new stuff live?

new album is still great, btw.

the bbc doc oscar links to has a live clip at the end

that documentary is cool, although i wish he talked about how he does his drums (all samples?)

I guess I should buy this.

saw these dudes last night and i think it was the best show i've ever been to

im planning on seeing them on sat in sf. what was the set up like ? more details plz.

also talks about "honing in on" in the documentary thing like a dumbass

their live show on saturday was amazing. my first time going to slim's and the sound was spot on. sounds like they have been putting extra time into rehearsing because they were very tight. played alot from their older records as well.people went nuts at the encore.

No encore in Austin a week-ish ago, and also not much older (read: Manitoba) material :(
Show was otherwise excellent, though.

Holy shit the Four Tet remix of "Melody Day"! I'm not the biggest Four Tet fan, and he doesn't even do anything particularly drastic to the track, but it is rendered perfect.

Eli might be my favourite track now.

But yeah, this, Patrick Wolf, Electrelane, 65dos; I've enjoyed 2007 an awful lot.

Battles, Acoustic Ladyland, Stars Of The Lid, LCD Soundsystem, Beirut, Spoon, Studio, !!! etc etc etc...

It's the bit when the fuzzbass kicks in about 1:34 into Eli, with the backing vocals and the twinkling and the drums... fucking magic.

And then we spiral into a little jazzy solo in the distance somewhere for the coda... awesome.

i've always liked !!!'s music, is that dood singer still annoying?

He's a lot less annoying on the new album than he used to be.

Eli is really good (the atonal doodle about 1:50 in is a highlight), but it's still all about those last two tracks. They're on another level of flat-out dog's bollocks.

WTF the Kelley Polar remix

Saying any more would ruin the surprise.

Where is the Kelley Polar remix?!

Out on a Drag City single in Europe; according to Pitchfork Merge won't be releasing it in the US so it's available through Drag City via iTunes. It's fucking hilarious, is all I'm willing to say without spoiling it. It's not a DRM-free file yet, otherwise I could mail it to you, but you can probably get it on Slsk by now. Full title is "She's the One (Kelley Polar's Hughes Wilson Prom Night In)".

The Hot Chip mix is pretty good too I guess.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/sep/30/canada.polaris.awards.mercury

canada otm, why can't the british mercury prize celebrate this kind of art

Polaris has more nominees but maybe less diversity

Huzzah.

Well deserved.

"Irene" is so fucking awesome.

i think i like this record better than anything that came out this year

they were good at pitchfork fest - real jammy - but i could never get into the album

damn i was just jamming to this album today for the first time in a few months

niobe def the standout for me

love the sloppy drumming all of this its perfect

drums - computer or real?

I think they're real; Snaith plays himself.

That sounds like I'm talking about masturbation. Snaith plays drums, I mean.

2007 >>> 2008 by such a margin it isn't funny

Irene + Niobe = most perfect last two tracks on any album in what seems like forever

One of my few heavily-played favourites of last year that still sounds new and amazing whenever I listen.

Yeah, those last couple tracks are outstanding.

Incredible album. Great last tracks to close out on. Fantastic to see live the couple of times he's been over.

love this record and the live show has just got better and better over the years, when i saw them in january it was full-on psych blissout

So is this dude making a new record or what? I want a new record.

lol itt: idiotic overposting from moi

all my points stand though ;-)

yeah hes working on it. hopefully comes out this year

I want news.

I pulled this out thinking it would be a snoozefest but it grew on me. It's good.

http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/caribou-andorra-round-13-nicks-selection/

I still listen to this all the time, or at least when I do listen to it I enjoy it as much as the first time, irene is fuckin great

this and that koushik album of all the dude's eps are some all time shit

I still listen to this all the time, or at least when I do listen to it I enjoy it as much as the first time, irene is fuckin great

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, September 1, 2011 9:17 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark S

OTM.

still my favorite album of the 00's except for maybe West Coast

http://sickmouthy.com/2013/01/18/caribou-up-in-flames-2003-the-milk-of-human-kindness-2005-andorra-2007/

OTM

I rock Start Breaking My Heart pretty regularly, probably one of my favorite records. His whole body of work is good.

the Daphni album is cool too

Nick: squirming in my chair with delete? :)

Damnit.

the Daphni album is cool too

That NeNoya track is very nice and the original Cos-Ber-Zam recording it samples is fucking awesome.

I wonder what its like to live there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0VBowPy0ow

thank you