Caribou

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* Audio CD (April 8, 2003)
* Number of Discs: 1
* Label: Domino
* ASIN: B00008OM39
* Average Customer Review: based on 30 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #60,427 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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Track Listings
1. I've Lived On A Dirt Road All My Life
2. Skunks
3. Hendrix With Ko (featuring Koushik)
4. Jacknuggeted
5. Why the Long Face
6. Bijoux
7. Twins
8. Kid You'll Move Mountains
9. Crayon (featuring Koushik)
10. Every Time She Turns show more Round It's Her Birthday
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Second album from Dan 'Manitoba' Snaith. For fans of Boards Of Canada, Eno & Aphex Twin. Domnio. 2003.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
Superb, August 4, 2004
Reviewer: Michael Pemulis (Santa Fe, NM) - See all my reviews
I didn't know it at the time, but this was just what I was looking for. Electronica for rock fans? Yup. Seems like a fair description. Manitoba occupies the weird little neighborhood that's home to the Beta Band, Mum, Four Tet, Death in Vegas, maybe even Air, on a good day. It's a place where the bands make what sounds like rock music, but do it using an electronica toolbox.

Meaning, instead of your standard rock instrumentation of drums, bass, guitar, etc, you've got samplers and keyboards and any weird sound that can be thrown in. Meaning that verse chorus verse goes out the window. Meaning that thanks to the wonders of non-linear editing, the very way a song is written is completely different.

Not that any of this is anything new - it's been going on for a while now (My Bloody Valentine comes to mind). But Manitoba does it all so effortlessly, so seamlessly. It's beautifully layered, thick music. Lovely melodies dripping with effects and burbles. Head bobbing beats. It's pretty clear to me that I'll be spending quite a while discovering the ins and outs of this album.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Electronica for rock fans, December 30, 2003
Reviewer: G. Rao "grao!!!" (san francisco) - See all my reviews
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This seems to be part of a wave of recent electronica that doesn't sound like the "oomph-chicka-oomph-chicka" danceclub stuff I've come to associate with the word electronica. I guess artists like Moby or Air have been around for a while, but this is something entirely different. Basically, "Up in Flames" is electronic music for rock fans. The songs are composed in a verse/chorus/verse manner, and the sonic texture is organic sounding. The opener "I've lived on a dirt road..." is a scorcher, luring you in with an elctro-folky little vocal and guitar melody, and then trampling you underneath an insanely syncopated jungle beat. The song after that, "Skunks" just might be the best one on the album. "Jacknuggeted" is also a great song, although it starts off sounding pretty boring... at first. It sneaks up on you though, and before you know it, you're tapping your feet and swinging your head around gleefully. Comparisons to the Flaming Lips and My Bloody Valentine are apt, but this album explores a space thats not entirely identifiable as rock music, but is flush with entrancing, ethereal tuneage and rump shaking beats nonetheless.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Manitoba/Caribou will never stale., September 28, 2005
Reviewer: Mike Smith (Cedar Crest, NM) - See all my reviews
This is Manitoba/Caribou's second album, and it is not disappointing. For anyone familiar with Manitoba's first album, it might at first shock the listener with just how different this album is, but then again, anyone familiar with the first album should be aware that Dan Snaith (the genius behind it all) is all about defying expectations. (And his third album is nothing like "Up in Flames" or "Start Breaking my Heart.")
This album is not as immediately accessible as the first one, but it has a soul that is very worth getting to know. The songs often rock in an almost Neutral Milk Hotel kind of way, and yet the the use of handclaps and kicky beats is unprecedented, and the organic use of xylophone is astonishingly happy, especially in the song "Crayon," which starts as a bright, instrumental xylophone piece and becomes a New Order/Joy Division celebration.
This album is perfect for listening to as you drive dirt roads late at night. All Manitoba/Caribou is. Every album of theirs is so different from the others, yet there's always that certain something that you can recognize in the core of it. ...Like seeing an old friend who's really grown into someone new and amazing, yet is still the same old pal you ditched school with.
Accept "Up in Flames" as something new and different, love it for the wonderful thing that it is, and keep an eye out for whatever Dan Snaith does next. It's bound to be good. show less