Swim is the third studio album by Dan Snaith's project Caribou.
Blending psychedelic pop, electronic dance music, deep house and minimal techno, Swim is full of brightly textured, rapturous gems that gleam with astonishing production – and then wrenches at your heart with soulful, thoughtful reveries on the passing of time, family history and the breakdown of relationships.
“There are songs about growing old in a relationship, about divorce and loneliness in old age but the lyrics are generally pretty abstract sketches of what’s going on in the situation in my head.”
If there is a link to the previous album Andorra, it would be in the ravishing explosions of sound pulsing through album closer ‘Niobe’. From the opening effervescent gambol of ‘Odessa’ to the glorious odyssey of ‘Jamelia’, it’s crystal clear that Caribou has made a massive leap forwards, upwards and sideways.
Track list:
Odessa
Sun
Kaili
Found Out
Bowls
Leave House
Hannibal
Lalibela
Jamelia