Caribou - Our Love (2014) [FLAC] [VINYL] [24bit-96KHz]

Artist: Caribou
Release: Our Love
Discogs: 6152397
Released: 2014 / 2014-10-07
Label: Merge Records / City Slang
Catalog#: MRG488 / SLANG50070LP
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Europe
Style: Electronic, Experimental, Techno

Tracklisting:

A1. Can't Do Without You (3:56)
A2. Silver (5:16)
A3. All I Ever Need (3:52)
A4. Our Love (5:34)
A5. Dive (2:06)
B1. Second Chance (4:00)
B2. Julia Brightly (2:03)
B3. Mars (5:45)
B4. Back Home (3:33)
B5. Your Love Will Set You Free (5:47)

Album Review
Dan Snaith is on something of a roll. In the seven years since second Caribou album Andorra scooped the Polaris Music Prize, he’s garnered gushing critical acclaim on two separate occasions. His Swim LP, released in 2010, seemed to define an entire summer and set the standard in electro-psychedelia; 2012’s Jiaolong – a homebrewed album attributed to his alternative moniker Daphni – was similarly well received, its palette of joyous, rootsy house sounds at odds with that year’s “EDM barfsplosion”. We now catch up with Snaith as he attempts to join the dots between blissful shoegaze and thudding electronica; a feat he has managed so handily in the past. A rehash would not suffice, though, for the acclaimed Ontarian musician-producer – he simply set the bar far too high for that.

Happily, Our Love feels like it delivers; feel being the operative word in an effort tinged with soul from beginning to end. Can’t Do Without You – released for free in June – clasps listeners’ hands as they pass through the starting gate. A scratchy sample repeats the track’s refrain as a perfectly measured crescendo takes shape. Understated-yet-muscular percussion and bass kick in after a minute-and-a-half, and layered vocals – reverberating falsetto and modulated baritone – point the way to a closing cacophony that can only be described as exhilarating.

Thank you to the original encoder

Ripping Details:

24/96
Technics SL-10 - Pangea AC-14SE Power Cable
Ortofon X1-MCP
TEAC AI-2000 Integrated Amp - Pangea AC-9 Power Cable
Jolida JD9-MKII Preamp - Pangea AC-14 Power Cable
Arcam irDAC
Blue Jeans Cable LC-1 Low Capacitance Audio Cable used with all interconnections
Vinyl Studio

Audio
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : approx 2 622 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 96.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Writing library : libFLAC 1.2.0 (UTC 2007-09-17)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI2Et19vDCM