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- Date Released: April 8, 2003
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Label: The Leaf Label / state51
Canadian solo artist conjures a sense of wonder with his delicate touch.
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We Say...
Ontario’s Dan Snaith, the man who used to record as Manitoba until some jerk from New York forced him to change his moniker to Caribou, makes headphone records, pure and simple. That’s not all they are, of course: Snaith’s structures are so sturdy they carry across a room at medium volume. But his details are so fine they lose something in that traveling distance — and they’re worth the ear time of anyone who enjoys that kind of fine-tuning. “Hendrix with Ko,” the “hit” off Snaith’s third album, now in a special edition with a half-dozen tracks added to the original ten, is as good an example of the producer’s delicate hand as you can ask for. Murmured ba-bas with slight mike hiss, a breakbeat that rattles like paper on a fan, foreshortened harp swirls used for percussive purposes as well as textural ones, near-subliminal whirring clicks: all this before a light, gurgling bass comes in, finishing the foundation for a song as feathery as its surroundings. Even when the thing revs up about a minute and a half from the end, there’s something appealingly hesitant about it — it pulls you in further rather than pushing itself out.
That’s what Up in Flames does as a whole, actually. Snaith is often aligned with the likes of Boards of Canada, and for good reason: like the Scottish duo, the solo Canadian creates aural versions of old, overexposed photographs from childhood, stray toys dotting iffy carpeting off to the side of the images’ subjects, the scenario accruing a sense of wonder with the passage of time. “I’ve Lived on a Dirt Road All My Life” sounds like the theme from an early-’70s New Hollywood film under heavy dub pressure; “Skunks” unfurls a simple guitar pattern over shifting percussion and snaking free-jazz sax. The basic music-box melody of “Crayons” conveys genuine playfulness, over which Snaith murmurs, “Don’t know what I feel like/I just want to get away.” With music this effectively dreamy, who couldn’t relate? -
They Say...
A one-man pop band, Dan Snaith's Manitoba project distills everything that's breathtaking and slightly absurd about several extremist alternative-pop movements of the '90s: the jangly white-noise of classic Too Pure/Beggars Banquet records (Pram, Stereolab); freewheeling pastoralia from Mercury Rev and Flaming Lips; and the warm '60s bubblegum of prime Elephant 6 pop music. But despite the parade of influences (many of them quite clear), Snaith's productions definitely aren't simply recycling these; his tracks are vibrant and imaginative, calling on fuzzed-out guitar solos and summer-day vocals that recall a raft of solid shoegazers. And unlike a lot of top-heavy albums, Snaith saves one of the best for last: "Every Time She Turns 'Round It's Her Birthday," a rewrite of Mercury Rev's "Chasing a Bee" that does the masters proud.
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I've Lived On A Dirt Road All My Life |
5:35 |
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| 02. | |
Skunks |
3:45 |
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| 03. | |
Hendrix With Ko |
3:57 |
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| 04. | |
Jacknuggeted |
3:29 |
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| 05. |
Why The Long Face |
0:44 |
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| 06. | |
Bijoux |
4:17 |
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| 07. | |
Twins |
1:45 |
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| 08. | |
Kid You'll Move Mountains |
5:01 |
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| 09. | |
Crayon |
2:40 |
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| 10. | |
Every Time She Turns Round It's Her Birthday |
7:47 |
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10 Total Tracks, 39:00 Total Length
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Credits
- Jason Evans - Art Direction // Jason Evans - Photography // Manitoba - Main Performer // Dan Snaith - Producer // Koushik Ghosh - Vocals // Alix Dryden - Design
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