March 11, 2005 | Posted by Blair at 6:55 PM

Caribou: a lot easier to heard than cats

not Elk, but:
"Barnowl" by Caribou

Caribou is the wonderous almost-new guise of Dan Snaith, formerly known as Manitoba - he got sued by Handsome Dick Manitoba, the frontman for the punk band The Dictators, for trademark infringement - yeah, its pretty crazy and doesn't make much sense (what's in a name? especially a made-up one like that?), buuuut, at least now you can google "caribou (manitoba)" and find his website a lot easier instead of just getting a load of links to everyone's second-favorite Canadian province...

Anyway, Caribou makes music that is really pretty bonkers-crazy. It is something along the lines of indie-rock with electronics: with layer after layer of instruments and sounds, guitar, bass, drums, videogames, bells, swirls of keyboards, horns, and samples from god-knows-where, all this plus his own vocals on many of the tracks.

This song is available as a pre-album 12" that comes off of The Milk of Human Kindness, which will be released in mid-April (on my Birthday!) by Domino in North America (and The Leaf Label in the rest of the world). The new album is pretty amazing, with a real range of sound throughout - he even works in a couple of awesome instrumental hip-hop sounding tracks that are solid and just waiting to be mashed up with something (Game? new Common? someone get on that).

Dan is going to be doing a massive North American tour this spring with Junior Boys (one of my favorites) and the Russian Futurists, so check the details here (there's more details here with some news about shows in the UK and France!).

Rock and roll dudes - ps: I'll be back in NYC tomorrow night for the amazing Modular show and the amazing Hot Chip party on Sunday... who's coming along?

Comments

Manitoba is a Canadian province. Winnipeg is it's capital.

Posted by: wallace winfrey at March 12, 2005 12:06 AM

Great!

Posted by: Gunnar at March 12, 2005 10:20 AM

you have got to be the most excellent person ive ever sent a comment to

keep up the good work trooper

Posted by: melody at March 12, 2005 4:44 PM

excellent blend of digital and analog!! There is a lot of tallent in this band!

Posted by: adam at March 13, 2005 3:14 AM

fantastic song!

Posted by: E at March 13, 2005 4:39 AM

You guys have done a rad job. Good luck on everything!

Posted by: Er1caRhee@yahoo.com at March 13, 2005 11:20 AM

the hysterics are great they sound like the beetles i love them

Posted by: Taylor at March 13, 2005 11:21 AM

Heyy, is there anyway that I can get the hysterics song directly from your sight to my i tunes?

Posted by: Christen at March 13, 2005 7:49 PM

awesome band. good luck!?!

Posted by: Mallory at March 14, 2005 2:50 AM

How were Hot Chip? Or did they turn up rather? I was hoping to see them last week but they were apparently ill so didn't show up.

Posted by: jw at March 14, 2005 5:28 AM

soooo good. sounds a lot like CAN with vocals from the Free Design or Stereolab.

Posted by: schlarb at March 14, 2005 4:21 PM

of the sevenhundredtrillion music blogs i read daily, yours is thee most fun and...just...the wicked ripping best - as our tastes are nearly identical. oh robots...you never let me down. thanks.

Posted by: jw. at March 14, 2005 5:02 PM

sheeeeiiiit, i bought the 12" of 'barnowl' and had been playing it at 33, but after downloading this i realise i was wrong.

thing is, i think i prefer it slower.......

Posted by: glen at March 17, 2005 9:16 PM

dig that massive Medicine sample : )

Posted by: francine at March 26, 2005 10:26 PM
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