The blogosphere hype to advance single Odessa has so truly promised not too much, the rest to swim is the bubbly structure of rhythm and percussive to none. Snaith, with swim he manifests it, is an exceptional arranger electronic pop music, a composing a hobbyist who this time much more puts the emphasis on driving irresistibly danceable than the previous hobbyhorse of indie esque faint-hearted feeling arithmetic.
These will certainly not neglected, as evidenced by the lyrical hints about loneliness and love search for meaning just as Snaiths continually sensitive and vocal intonation. Only no one could this quantum leap of catchy rhythm of the divine is accomplished here: Swim is a colorful, intoxicating dance. Not in the disco, but in the heart, which is reason enough for an increased added value. Idly unravel the vertrakten compositions from laptop sounds, guitar work, an army of percussive instruments and many fans and a journalist to disenchant. Caribou new album Swim is a fascination, the detection of any kind is not required: Odessa or the sprawling Sun, Found Out with his well-chosen guitar picks, the shuddering beautiful Perkussivitäts- and tinkling Monster Bowls, the anthemic Leave House just like the flighty Jamelia: every song on swim could draw pages and pages of descriptions by itself, to intertwined, too complex to behave Beat structure and instrument use. Compacted but enough to know that they are helping to give rise to a delicate beauty of vast scale.
Daniel Snaiths artistic market price previously knew nothing but increase. Now seems to Swim reaches a climax that leaves a renewed outdoing seem highly doubtful. But instead of over-ambitious about future worry, may be remains with a swim in a unique presence. And the apparent for an eternity.
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