Download: Caribou, ‘Odessa’

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Caribou by Michael Forester

“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