Caribou – The Milk of Human Kindness album review

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Whether you realise it or not, you probably know Caribou’s work already. Previously known as Manitoba, Canadian leftpop exponent Dan Snaith was (somewhat bizarrely) forced to change his moniker last year, after an obscure old US punker by the name of Handsome Dick Manitoba issued a trademark infringement subpoena against him. So far, so pointless. But it hasn’t deterred Snaith, who has created another irresistibly kooky confection of crunchy hip-hop – ‘Lord Leopard’ – freestyle electro-shoegaze experimentalism (‘Yeti’) and spooky looped 60s beat pop like ‘Bees’ and ‘Hello Hammerheads’. For current contemporaries, look to The Earlies and maybe Four Tet; for a complete demonstration of why more is often, well, more, look no further than this gorgeous, enveloping journey of an album.

Charlie Ivens