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

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

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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