With the new album coming out later this year, Caribou releases his second single off Our Love, and it’s the song that gives the album its name.
After the huge success of the first single, “Can’t Do Without You,” which already has more than 3 million plays on Soundcloud, Dan Snaith, the man behind Caribou, has offered up a second taste of the new album.
“Our Love” starts off heavy and slow, with a deep bass sound and ephemeral vocals that drift in and out, echo, and blend with the instrumentals. The song is “slow-burn kaleidoscopic,” and Snaith, describes it as beginning as a “sort of mellow coda…but then I made the big bassline and I liked the way it unexpectedly turned 90 degrees in the middle.” The song never loses the soulful depth that it starts off with, but as it goes on, the sounds come more clearly from house music. “Our Love” quickly builds up the kind of vivid energy associated with dance music, and the end of the song really feels words away from the beginning. But, with repeated listens, it’s easy to pick out the strands that weave throughout the piece in its entirety: the airy vocals, the pulsing backbeat. It’s a cohesive, creative song that’s fitting to be the album’s namesake.
The album itself is set to be “a mixture of digital pop production, hip hop inspired beats, muted house basslines and…shuffling garage.” There’s to be “warm analogue” “heartfelt lyrics,” and “organic sounds.” Snaith promises us a soulful album, one with real depth of feeling that he conveys through the intricate use of varied sounds. All in all, the album, just like this new song, is set to be truly “kaleidoscopic.”
It’s a good consolation prize for fans, after the sudden cancellation of London’s inaugural Jabberwocky Festival, which was scheduled to take place last weekend. The full album comes out in October, and Caribou will be on worldwide tour that begins this fall.
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