Caribou / Swim
Artist Caribou
Album Title: Swim
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Primary Genre Electronic
Format Vinyl (2) 45 RPM
Released 04/20/2010
Label Merge Records
Catalog No MRG348
Bar Code No 6 73855 03481 20
Packaging Gatefold LP Sleeve
Tracks
Swim (Disc 1)
A1. Odessa (5:16)
A2. Sun (5:45)
B1. Kaili (4:42)
B2. Found Out (3:19)
Swim (Disc 2)
A1. Bowls (6:21)
A2. Leave House (5:12)
B1. Hannibal (6:16)
B2. Lalibela (2:26)
B3. Jamelia (4:00)
Date Acquired 09/21/2017
Personal Rating
Acquired from Electric Fetus - Minneapolis
Purchase Price 18.99

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Notes

Design – Matthew Cooper
Lacquer Cut By [Vinyl Cut] – Honesty
Mastered By – George Graves
Photography By, Art Direction, Design – Jason Evans
Written-By, Producer – Dan Snaith
Issued in gatefold sleeve with CD-sized insert and download code.
Inner sleeves are heavy pink-tinted polyethylene.
Mastered at Lacquer Channel Mastering.
Vinyl cut at Calyx Mastering Berlin.

DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR13      -1.13 dB   -15.49 dB      5:11 01-Odessa
DR11      -2.68 dB   -16.52 dB      5:40 02-Sun
DR10      -2.57 dB   -14.93 dB      4:38 03-Kaili
DR12      -0.70 dB   -14.99 dB      3:18 04-Found Out
DR11      -1.31 dB   -13.29 dB      6:18 05-Bowls
DR12      -0.11 dB   -13.61 dB      5:08 06-Leave House
DR13      -0.08 dB   -15.39 dB      6:13 07-Hannibal
DR10      -4.13 dB   -17.77 dB      2:16 08-Lalibela
DR11      -1.55 dB   -17.34 dB      3:53 09-Jamelia
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Reviews
AllMusic Review by Tim Sendra:

Dan Snaith is not the kind of artist who likes to take an idea and stick with it until he runs out of gas. Throughout his decade-long career under the name Manitoba and now Caribou, his output has retained the same inner core of hooky melodicism and sonic experimentation, but he’s hopped from sound to sound on each release. The album previous to 2010’s Swim, Andorra, won him the most praise he had seen to date with a richly layered sound that added elements of 1960s British psych and folk to some tightly structured and memorable songs. Swim takes the seemingly illogical step of stripping away most of the layers, stretching the songs out, and leaving the stuffy '60s sitting room for a glittering, pulsating dancefloor. Not that he’s completely left behind the Andorra sound; there are moments, like on the chorus of "Kaili," where it is obvious you are listening to a record by someone who has a deep knowledge of Wimple Winch B-sides. What becomes clear after the first listen or two though is that Swim combines all the elements of Caribou’s past (the left-field IDM of Start Breaking My Heart, the shimmering neo-shoegaze of Up in Flames, the spare Krautrock on Milk of Human Kindness, and the songcraft of Andorra) into a compelling batch of songs that sound good over headphones and might even work better in a club full of discerning dancers. The arrangements are predictably inventive and suitably thoughtful, with plenty of odd sounds and an interesting juxtaposition of instruments, but there’s a slinky groove underpinning the bulk of the record that will get feet moving. The funky, late-night groover "Odessa" could be a hit too in some magical land where dance music fans reward sincerely weird songs with chart success. So could "Leave House," a super-catchy dance-pop track that sounds like a classic Hot Chip jam, all rubbery bass and surprisingly forceful pop-soul vocals. The rest of the album is filled with quietly stunning songs that are dazzling on the surface, but also reward close listening. So even though you could call this move toward the dancefloor a surprise, Swim retains all the qualities that make Snaith and Caribou so impressive. It just dresses them up for a night out at the club; no, make that a great night out at the club.
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