Dan Snaith aka Caribou released his first new song in nearly three years at the beginning of April.
Honey is a four-minute banger, closer to the club-friendly style of his other nom de plume Daphni than the unadulterated psychedelic Sixties stylings of Caribou. Yet, Dan has had no hesitation in giving the latter's music over to other artists for a radical makeover, including friend and sounding board Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet.
No surprise then to read that Kieran has had a hand in arranging this song with Dan. Honey is mixed by long time collaborator David Wrench, whose current project audiobooks with Evangeline Ling is no stranger to lure of the dancefloor either.
No sign of any remixes as yet, but Honey is accompanied by a mind-melting video. Avoid staring at blank walls after watching this, otherwise you'll be seeing flamingos for hours afterwards.
On the Bandcamp Friday just gone (and the last one until September), Dan was also offering his digital back catalogue as a name your price option so I took the opportunity to pick up the remix companions for the albums Swim (2010) and Suddenly (2020). I'd had a few tracks of each so it was a good chance to purchase the full collections.
Two of the previously owned remixes included the above mentioned artists, so here's Never Come Back from Suddenly, reworked by Four Tet, and Odessa from Swim stripped down to a 'drumapella' by David Wrench. I'm looking forward to listening to the rest over the coming week.
These are great tracks. Thanks for calling my attention to them, I'd not paid a whole lot of attention since he changed his name from Manitoba. Really liking these remixes and like you will grab the rest of those remix albums.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mooz. Yes, Manitoba was my introduction to Dan Snaith too, Hendrix With Ko featuring on a freebie CD with Jockey Slut magazine and then finding it on the Jacknuggeted EP in a record shop a while later. I've not kept up with all of his releases since - he's prolific! - but Melody Day is a particular Caribou favourite.
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