Keith Shackleton on March 25th, 2010

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“Swim” (out April 20 on Merge) is the next step on Dan Snaith’s musical journey as Caribou, checking previously explored dream pop and minimal styles, but pushing on into dance-oriented territory. Ambient samples mix with techno and house beats, fleshed out with swirling electronics, dub drop-outs and underwater grooves. The album’s lead track “Odessa” is a rippling dance-floor shuffle topped off with a tremulous Damo Suzuki wail. File under “impressive.”

||| Download: “Odessa” (e-mail required)

||| Live: Caribou performs May 19 at the El Rey Theatre.

– By Keith Shackleton

Photo by Michael Forester