LISTEN: Caribou Shares “Home,” His First Song in Five Years

The single marks Dan Snaith’s first new music since 2014’s “Our Love” LP.
LISTEN: Caribou Shares “Home,” His First Song in Five Years

The single marks Dan Snaith’s first new music since 2014’s “Our Love” LP.

Words: Dean Brandt

photo by Thomas Neukum

October 08, 2019

In the decade spanning 2005 to 2014, we could rely on Dan Snaith’s Caribou for a steady output of quality house music, spanning the entire gamut from the microhouse twitches of 2009’s Swim to the deep house grooves of 2014’s Our Love—even briefly venturing into tribal territory with his Daphni project. 

Today, we’re happy to accept Caribou back to the party with his impressively smooth new stand-alone single “Home,” which accompanies an expansive list of 2020 tour dates, his first since his last press cycle five years ago. Prominently featuring a loop of Gloria Barnes’ “Home,” the two-minute song is a plunderphonic ride as descendent of The Avalanches as it is anything in Snaith’s arsenal.

“Sometimes making music feels like a process I’m in charge of…but there are other times when things just present themselves and my job is to follow their lead,” Snaith says of discovering the potential songwriting influence of Barnes’ song. “It wasn’t until the circumstances of someone close to me mirrored the refrain of the original song that the track all came together.”

Listen below, and check out Caribou’s upcoming 2020 dates.

Caribou Tour Dates:

 

3-16 CA HAMILTON The Studio
3-17 CA TORONTO Danforth
3-20 US CHICAGO Riviera
3-21 US DETROIT Saint Andrews Hall
3-22 CA OTTAWA Bronson Centre
3-23 CA MONTREAL M Telus
3-24 US BOSTON House of Blues
3-25 US PHILADELPHIA Union Transfer
3-26 US WASHINGTON 9:30 Club
3-27 US BROOKLYN Brooklyn Steel
3-30 UK Brighton The Dome
04-01 UK Liverpool Invisible Wind Factory
04-02 UK Leeds Stylus Academy
04-03 UK Manchester Victoria Warehouse
04-04 UK Glasgow Barrowland
04-05 UK Birmingham 02 Academy
04-06 UK Bristol 02 Academy
04-07 UK London Brixton 02 Academy
04-21 DE Hamburg Grosse Freiheit
04-22 DE Leipzig Werk 2
04-23 CZ Prague Forum Karlin
04-24 AT Vienna Gasometer
04-25 DE Munich Muffathalle
04-26 CH Zurich Kaufleuten
04-27 FR Paris Olympia
04-28 DE Köln Ewerk
04-29 NL Utrecht Tivoli Ronda
04-30 BE Brussels Nuits Botanique / Chapiteau – Botanique
07-11 IRL Dublin Iveagh Gardens
08-15 DE Berlin Zitadelle / Caribou and Friends