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ALBUM REVIEW FROM OUR FRIENDS AT Kalporz 
AUTHORED BY GABRIELE PROSPERO TRANSLATED BY DOMINIC VALVONA

Continuing our successful collaboration and synergy with the leading Italian music publication Kalporz , the Monolith Cocktail shares and translates reviews, interviews and other bits from our respective sites each month. This month Gabriele Prospero reviews the latest album by the Canadian musician Dan Snaith’s alter ego vehicle Caribou. 

CARIBOU “Honey”
ALBUM (City Slang, 2024)

Caribou‘s characteristic ability to blend electronics, pop, psychedelia and dance is fully felt in this latest release. “Honey”, released on October 4th, is the artist’s sixth album; 12 tracks that explore various experimental sounds, introspective lyrics and almost futuristic atmospheres, characterised by warm synths, enveloping beats and very well manipulated vocals.

Listening to it seems like a return to the dance floor in the 90s but dressed in 2020s clothes, the touch of current events, with a disparate use of modern sounds and instruments fused with that attitude of the past makes Caribou’s project truly peculiar. 

Songs like “August 20/24” and “Climbing” fully highlight a tendency to play with sounds and create truly particular atmospheres, moreover Caribou on this album wants to demonstrate the ability to connect the emotional side of electronic music with elements of everyday life, creating a deep and personal listening experience. “Honey” seems to be a further step in this direction, with themes that explore love, human connections and intimacy.

On his artistic evolution he said: ‘One thing that has never changed for me since the beginning is a maniacal curiosity to see what can be created with sound’. And with these 12 tracks we can see, or rather hear, how what he thinks has been fully put into practice in the creation of the album. Gabriele Prospero

RATING: 77/100