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A.V. Club
It’s fitting that Snaith occasionally drops arty pretense in favor of kinetic payoff: His music is generous, so it was only a matter of time before he returned to electronica, the most luxurious genre of all
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Rave Magazine
A superb collection of carefully-constructed, well-layered leftfield dance music – and one of 2010’s highlights
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Bowlegs
The flowing dance fused beats are the heartbeat to a host of sounds, samples and smooth telling vocals.
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Drowned In Sound
The vocal hooks and emotional vulnerability on these songs lift the album from ‘perfect record to soundtrack summer road trips’ to ‘perfect record to soundtrack your life.’ It really is that good
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musicOMH
An album that is infused with a rhythm, a groove and a watery loveliness all of its own
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The Fly
A world of damaged electronica, orchestral ostentation and kerb-swerving incantational vocals is simply stunning
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Independent on Sunday
This is blissed-out electronica, that puts human warmth on a par with electronic experimentalism to create something entirely new to listen to
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8.5
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Beats Per Minute
This is outright funky techno, bursting at the seams with those rich, organic sounds that many a Caribou fan have loved on previous albums
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The Quietus
Gone is that forced sunny demeanour in favour of bone-smashing hard white tiles of sound, while any light appears refracted from distant surfaces. Swim is an album that comes in from the sunfields and retreats into night
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The Line Of Best Fit
Filled to the point of bursting with hypnotizing beats and mesmerizing melodies, all while maintaining the subtle grandeur that has been at the heart of Caribou’s consistently inventive output.
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BBC
Tightly regimented, beautifully controlled beats designed to nourish the mind of both maker and listener
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Pitchfork
Dan Snaith retains his singular identity as an artist - and Swim is a reminder that even at his most challenging, the man's compositional capabilities can dazzle
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Clash
Five albums and numerous aliases in, Dan Snaith has found a guise that suits him perfectly
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The List
A singular, innovative and consistent – not to say loveable – creature indeed
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The Guardian
If Snaith's next album picks up where this leaves off, it will be extraordinary
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Daily Telegraph
A pulsatingly tender dancefloor journey
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Evening Standard
A complete departure from its predecessor's warm Sixties psychedelia... brings it closer to the recent work of Hot Chip and Snaith's fellow solo laptop fiddler, Four Tet
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The Times
Odessa ranks alongside the best of Hot Chip’s geek-disco, while Sun evokes a soundclash between Mr Scruff and Jeff Mills
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The Observer
With Alice Coltrane-like harp runs, meditation bowls, rave stabs and Doppler effect dub wobbles, he creates music full of surprises that is always melodic
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NME
A superlative record to stack alongside Four Tet's 'There Is Love In You' in the electronica-for-grown-ups stakes. Print edition only
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Eye Weekly
You can moan and wail about your cardigan-wearing dorm-neighbours’ love for it, but the craft speaks for itself
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The Skinny
There are more than enough moments of sun-kissed beauty and sonic originality to set Swim apart as an early summer soundtrack
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Uncut
Synthesises free jazz horns, Tibetan percussion, fluttering flutes and acid basslines. Print edition only
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Mojo
It's a triumph, and the best new record I've heard this year. Print edition only
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Q
As mesmerising as it is innovative, Swim is a record you want to dive in to. Print edition only
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Sputnik Music (staff)
There's a pervading sense of intimacy to the whole thing
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All Music
Even though you could call this move toward the dancefloor a surprise, Swim retains all the qualities that make Snaith and Caribou so impressive
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No Ripcord
Reaffirms the supreme artistic capability that is Caribou
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State
Each separate track on Swim is calculated like a difficult maths equation, worked out with excellent precision, bringing together something that gets more than just a groove on
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Tiny Mix Tapes
With Swim, Caribou has transcended the confines of indie pop and electronica
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The Irish Times
Deep, warm, lush and enticing, the tracks here exude a strident, defiant, almost cocky belief in its creator’s abilities ... a beautifully trippy affair
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Spin
Swim builds drama with fluttered flutes, processed strings, skronking saxophone, or a wheezing horn meandering over a defiant, ominous bass
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Blurt
For a clubbish album, it's got a lot of bright moments, mostly on the tracks where Snaith indulges his impulse to trick out the music with quick changes and unique layers which come to the fore in sequence
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Slant Magazine
Steeped in rewarding sonic conflict
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Consequence Of Sound
While there are a few big stand-out tracks, the rest lend themselves more as personal experiments that end up being hard to stick to
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The Digital Fix
Swim has to be listened to on good quality headphones or really good quality speakers. It is completely 3D. The sounds swish from left to right and fly at you from miles in front. But, rather than feeling underwater, it feels quite cinematic. Like a sound art installation you can take home
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PopMatters
Caribou proves on Swim that he can still make the kind of pop one dreams of
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