Caribou
Sunday October 17 9pm | $10/12 | 18&Up @ Crowbar 1812 N 17th Street Ybor City 813.241.8600
avclub.com review of Caribou's Swim
"Swim finds Snaith diving back into pure sequencing, but the result is his strangest and gutsiest work yet. At first it sounds cold, filled with hissing breakbeats, inky negative space, hard turns, and false endings. But Swim quickly reveals itself as finely textured and melodically generous. The zombie-eyed funk of the opener “Odessa” and the itchy Michael Jackson strut of “Leave House” deliver bona fide pop hooks. “Hannibal,” with its toy-box loops and sinister classical horns, resembles Aphex Twin—before it melts after its midpoint for two minutes of Snaith’s sighed lyrics. Weirdest of all is “Sun,” an unfiltered dose of jungle-house about three steps removed from “Sandstorm.” It’s fitting that Snaith occasionally drops arty pretense in favor of kinetic payoff: His music is generous, so it was only a matter of time before he returned to electronica, the most luxurious genre of all."