Caribou Announces New Album Honey, Shares Video for New Song: Watch

Dan Snaith will return, on October 4, with Honey, his first Caribou report since 2020’s Suddenly. The album, launched by Merge, consists of latest singles “Volume,” “Honey,” and “Broke My Heart,” in addition to a brand new one, “Come Discover Me,” which you’ll hear beneath. It comes with a video through which a dancer in a comically massive Dan Snaith masks dances round London, to the bemusement of passers-by (together with Snaith himself).

In a press launch, Snaith stated of the brand new track, “I like this sort of chord sequence and the type of French contact kind of vibe, however it took plenty of time to seek out the fitting vocal hook and breakdown and make it extra pop and concise. After I play that one in DJ units, when it drops down to simply the singing after which out of the blue it’s a track that surges again in—I do know for a reality nobody within the crowd has heard it earlier than, and but folks at all times reply on this actually emotionally charged, euphoric means.… Thats at all times the perfect litmus take a look at {that a} monitor has come collectively in the fitting means.”

He added of the album:

One factor that hasn’t modified for me from the very starting is a manic curiosity of seeing what I could make out of sound. Not a lot what somebody could make out of sound—a “skilled” with a number of collaborators and assets at their disposal—however me in my little basement studio. There’s extra tools in right here than there was once, however basically it’s the identical as ever: nonetheless chasing that thrill of when one thing hits actually onerous, and I discover myself leaping up and down or the hairs standing up on my arms in pleasure. How fortunate am I that that’s by no means gone away? That the possibility of creating one thing new and thrilling remains to be as exhilarating as ever, and as a lot enjoyable as ever? Beginning the day with nothing (and ending most days with nothing good) however often having one thing that didn’t exist earlier than caught in my head by the top of the day. It nonetheless looks like a form of alchemy.