The Great White North's Caribou (formally Manitoba) released a curve ball of an album last summer in Andorra. In a departure from Canadian pseudo-moose enthusiast and electronic beatmaster Dan Snaith's usual 10 tracks of skillful yet yawnrendering laptop digisongs, Andorra's opening track "Melody Day" makes it very clear that things have heated up in the Canadian wilderness. Driving set-drum beats, Odelay-esque bassline, amazing reverberant vocals, and 60s guitar licks throughout, "Melody Day" takes Caribou one giant leap away from the ledge of boring downtempo electronica that he was beginning to teeter on. I predict longer/lusher grazing seasons ahead.

Applying these findings to the scientific method (without showing my work): Global warming is good for music.

Caribou: 'Melody Day' (2007)
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