{"id":673,"date":"2010-03-18T10:42:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T10:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/?p=672"},"modified":"2017-08-07T16:46:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T15:46:30","slug":"caribou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/caribou\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribou"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve discovered this great band, Caribou<\/a>, nine years late. Well, I’ve been busy<\/a> so I have plenty of excuses – although the Residents once famously said, “Ignorance of your culture is not cool”, and it does make me wonder what happened to my once unbridled enthusiasm to seek all things new and excellent.<\/p>\n

It didn’t help me that Caribou, aka Dan Snaith, had a fight with a mean-spirited rocker over their original choice of name, Manitoba, which they lost. It doesn’t seem to have had any detrimental effect on the music, which is full of variety, abounding with modern sonics, surprising arrangements, time-honoured musical narrative and sweet, original melody. I was so taken with the music, I called several friends and insisted they open their emails NOW and follow the links I had sent them. I haven’t done that “I-insist-you-listen” routine for twenty years.<\/p>\n

Kids: that is what happens as you get old. Everything reminds you of something else. The freshness doesn’t last. So, when something shows up that’s as fresh as a Canadian spring daisy, go crazy, in a rock-electro-psychedelic-shaman kind of way.<\/p>\n

I’ve bought everything I can get hold of, and I’m definitely checking them out live when they come to the UK in April.<\/p>\n

Here are two of my favourite tracks, Barnowl from The Pink Room live sessions, and Skunks which has a rather lovely animated video. It was the latter track which pricked my ears up, and caused me to recognise Mr Snaith’s truly unique talent.<\/p>\n

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