Our Love ran far deeper than most dance records, exploring the complexities of adult relationships: new fatherhood, friends’ divorces and even death
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Trust a balding guy in brown Birkenstocks to be behind this year’s most heartfelt album. Dan Snaith may look like he’s about to fill out your income tax form, but don’t write him off as someone who doesn’t radiate emotion. As Caribou, the Canadian producer has gradually become one of dance music’s best-loved eccentrics, revered for the way his breakthrough 2010 album Swim makes weird, psychedelic sadness sound like a sweaty E-hug, and uniting indie and electronic fans.
Snaith’s fourth album, Our Love, once again showed that this teetotaller with a maths PhD knew all about how to get people high on feelings alone. A case in point is album opener Can’t Do Without You – essentially a song-long crescendo, the titular mantra repeated while hyper-chromatic synths bloom. It’s not exactly four-to-the-floor but it was created with Balearic sunsets in mind, as well as his wife. “I don’t have a particularly exceptional life but at least I can sing about the things that are happening in my life and it feels meaningful,” he told the Guardian earlier this year.
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