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May 13th, 2020 10:28pm

You Can Start Feeling Glad


Caribou “New Jade”

Dan Snaith’s music is so much about sensation and hypnotic grooves that it’s easy to overlook his lyrics, but on his new record as Caribou he’s working with an interesting set of themes – the way life can seem to open up or close off with the end of relationships, and how this is more obvious to someone observing a situation than one living inside it. The two most stunning tracks, “Home” and “New Jade,” are both sung from Snaith’s perspective and addressed to women getting out of bad relationships but struggling with grief. The hooks in both songs come from sampled female voices, but the verses he sings in his gentle, unassuming voice are basically pep talks assuring them that they are moving on to better things. Snaith conveys a pure, unselfish empathy in this music, and manages to avoid laying it on thick either lyrically or musically.

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