Tune In Saturdays: Caribou
Caribou is an odd little dreamy-pop band from the mind of Canadian Dan Naith. They (or he really) just released Andorra, a home recording masterpiece that would hold up against any Shins record considering all the falsetto, tips, tats and harmonies to match. The mesh of disparate noises could work you into a frenzy in lesser hands, but with Naith, it's a perfectly pleasant ride.
From Stylus:
" Perhaps not surprisingly then, Snaith’s newest album, Andorra, merges Milk’s heady sense of immediacy with a clear and consumable swiftness. He further embraces California’s late-‘60s psych-pop and perhaps for the first time really lives up to the Brian Wilson tags of his early career. Unlike Milk—with its King Crimson samples left nude—Andorra is made completely of Snaith’s own material, patches of his own playing. His recent Ph.D. in mathematics may well have come in handy here actually. But though it’s tempting to consider its algorithms—was this passage of noise designed for this song or pulled from a thick series of such random snippets bound for anything—the end result is an album of deft manipulation of sound and place that gives new echoes to a pretty well-worn voice in time."
Caribou - She's the One (mp3)
Caribou - BBC Mini-Doc
Caribou - Melody Day (video)