Everyone's favourite electronic reindeer is no stranger to the pages of this blog. Suddenly appeared in my list of best albums of 2020. I pronounced Swim as the 8th best album of 2010. And indeed, that album's highlight Sun provided a drunken soundtrack to a significant moment of my life 14-ish years ago.
Honey is Caribou's sixth album, or the 11th under Dan Snaith's various names. When asked about the production on this new album, Snaith said that, despite having more gear at his disposal, it was "essentially it’s the same as ever".
And he's right. This is the same reliable Caribou as ever. Broke My Heart does chipmunk-voiced wub garage. Do Without You does glistening metallic house. Come Find Me does echoing, insistent loops to soundtrack boozy nights out. Title track Honey does heavily-filtered rave chords. This Caribou is soooo Caribou.
I'm okay with that. I don't want some things to change. Caribou needs to sound sunny and snappy and a little bit cheeky: I couldn't handle it if he suddenly went emo or country. If Pot Noodle changed the flavour of their Bombay Bad Boy, I would be punching holes through concrete walls. Same with this.
While writing the "emo or country" line in that last paragraph, I almost added "or brass". But then I realised a brass band version of a Caribou album would be the best thing ever to happen to recorded sound. Make it happen, Dan.
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