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- Date Released: May 9, 2006
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Domino Recording Co
Canadian producer Dan Snaith's first record demonstrates that his sound was all his from the get-go.
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We Say...
Dan Snaith, the Canadian producer who records as Caribou (and formerly as Manitoba, the name under which this album was originally issued), didn’t begin to receive full recognition for his work until his second album, 2003’s Up in Flames. But one listen to Start Breaking My Heart, his 2001 debut, demonstrates that his sound was all his from the get-go. It’s spongier and less deliberately hazy than his later work, but not by much: the keyboards are denser than on Flames or 2007’s Andorra, and Snaith’s touch at the mixing board is only slightly more tentative. Golden light seems to pour out of the grooves at times, like the sun poking out from beneath clouds, as with the high telephone tones breaking up intricate finger-picked acoustic guitar on “Children Play Well Together.” Snaith was also good early on at getting the feel as well as the instrumentation of jazz right: “Mammals Vs. Reptiles” cuts up standard small-combo playing (double bass, ride cymbals keeping time, horns in various states of wail) until it’s as abstracted as a standard taken a special degree “out,” yet still as legible as it is free, an effect carried through on tracks like “Anna and Nina,” one of a heaping 20 bonus cuts added to the original 10-song configuration. Simon Reynolds once called this kind of stuff “idylltronica,” and the best parts of Start Breaking My Heart are as idyllic as it gets.
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They Say...
Caribou's Start Breaking My Heart is closer to Elliott Smith than Coldcut, and about as stable as a bull in a china shop full of unheard copies of Kid A, but this is the sort of production that niftily stands for modern solo melancholiacs with more to offer than a co-option of Warp back catalogs and egregious MOR. Responsibility for Start goes to Toronto's Dan Snaith, a twenty-something musician whose work is both technical enough for scholastic jazz ears and organic enough for acoustic traditionalists. Beats spring about but don't go all clickety-spangly. Homespun tunes swoon and sway but never whine. The work here is so good that you no longer eternally have to connect the words "classically trained" with pompous incompetence. [Originally released in 2001, Start Breaking My Heart was subsequently re-released after legal action from Handsome Dick Manitoba forced Snaith to change his billing from Manitoba to Caribou.]
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| 01. |  |
Dundas, Ontario |
4:24 |
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| 02. | |
People Eating Fruit |
6:11 |
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| 03. | |
Mammals vs Reptiles |
4:47 |
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| 04. | |
Brandon |
5:23 |
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| 05. | |
Children Play Well Together |
3:06 |
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| 06. | |
Lemon Yoghourt |
2:24 |
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| 07. | |
James' Second Haircut |
4:15 |
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| 08. | |
Schedules & Fares |
5:13 |
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| 09. | |
Paul's Birthday |
6:56 |
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| 10. | |
Happy Ending |
3:02 |
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10 Total Tracks, 45:41 Total Length
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| 01. | |
Victor and Carolyn |
5:57 |
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| 02. | |
218 Beverly |
5:30 |
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| 03. | |
Evan Likes Driving |
10:07 |
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| 04. | |
Anna and Nina |
5:40 |
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| 05. | |
Dundas, Ontario [Remix] |
5:05 |
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| 06. | |
Tits & Ass: The Great Canadian Weekend |
4:49 |
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| 07. | |
Webers |
5:28 |
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| 08. | |
If Assholes Could Fly, This Place Would Be an Airport |
4:48 |
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| 09. | |
Air Doom |
2:28 |
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| 10. | |
Ach Who |
7:34 |
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10 Total Tracks, 57:26 Total Length
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Credits
- Jay Burnett - Mastering // Manitoba - Main Performer // Dan Snaith - Producer
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