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September 11, 2007
M.S. Pick - Caribou
Luscious arrangement of sounds include a rolling marching band percussion, flutes and flute-like synths along with the disjointed vocal harmonies that seem cherry-picked from a time traveling singing hitchhiker from the summer of love. The cool kids love Brian Wilson and it all seems to be working very well. Simply gorgeous.
Andorra's longest track clocks in just under nine minutes, an epic in length possibly attributed to the tragic mortal from Greek mythology who turned into stone after having all her children killed by furious sibling duo Apollo and Artemis. The twins did the deed to uphold their mother's, goddess Leto, pride after Niobe gloated publicly about her fertile loins ability to bear fourteen children over to just two by Leto. Legend states Niobe turned to stone while mourning her dead kids. Attempting to claim superiority over a god is a big no-no.
Here the music sounds like an anthropological sample of robots conversing, discussing, campaigning and arguing, bottled up for study by future scientists. The changes taunt an impending disaster before reseting, as if to imply a clearing of the slate, cleansing history and starting over. Those flute loops appear again and invite you to walk off track to what no doubt is sure doom, later replaced by stumbling bleeps of alien distortion that seem like left over remnants staying around in spite of the attempts for clearance - the proverbial cockroaches after nuclear war, anomalies that won't go away. It is not until the soft climax of the song that you realize everything stuck around forever, buried in the background like an eternal mourning; or, about nine minutes of slow burn.
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Caribou hit the road at the end of this month with Born Ruffians, all dates after the jump.
//Caribou - Andorra - buy
//Caribou - site
//Caribou - MySpace
Caribou migration
09.28.2007 - The Casbah, Hamilton, ON
09.29.2007 - Starlight Lounge, Waterloo, ON
10.02.2007 - Babylon. Ottawa, ON
10.03.2007 - La Tulipe, Montreal, QC
10.04.2007 - Iron Horse, Northampton, MA
10.05.2007 - Middle East Upstairs, Cambridge, MA
10.06.2007 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
10.07.2007 - SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
10.08.2007 - First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA
10.09.2007 - Rock N Roll Hotel, Washington DC
10.10.2007 - Satellite Ballroom, Charlottesville, VA
10.11.2007 - Local 506, Chapel Hill, NC
10.12.2007 - The Earl, Atlanta, GA
10.13.2007 - Common Grounds, Gainesville, FL
10.14.2007 - The Social, Orlando, FL
10.15.2007 - Crowbar, Tampa. FL
10.16.2007 - The Beta Bar, Tallahassee, FL
10.17.2007 - Spanish Moon, Baton Rouge, LA
10.18.2007 - Engine Room, Houston, TX
10.19.2007 - Club Deville, Austin, TX
10.20.2007 - Palladium Loft, Dallas, TX
10.21.2007 - Opolis, Norman, OK
10.22.2007 - Bottleneck, Lawrence KS
10.23.2007 - Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO
10.24.2007 - Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City, UT
10.25.2007 - Plush, Tucson, AZ
10.26.2007 - Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA
10.27.2007 - Slim's, San Francisco, CA
10.28.2007 - Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR
10.29.2007 - Neumos, Seattle. WA
10.30.2007 - Richards on Richards, Vancouver, BC
10.31.2007 - Sugar, Victoria, BC
11.02.2007 - The Starlite Room, Edmonton, AB
11.03.2007 - The Warehouse, Calgary, AB
11.04.2007 - Amigo's, Saskatoon, SK
11.05.2007 - Royal Albert Arms, Winnipeg, MB
11.06.2007 - The Aquarium, Fargo, ND
11.07.2007 - Triple Rock Club, Minneapolis, MN
All dates w/ Born Ruffians
Posted by Merry Swankster at September 11, 2007 02:45 PM
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Great album, and I like your description of an anthropological sample of robots.
Posted by: Jeff at September 11, 2007 04:27 PM
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