Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Caribou! I ♥ you!
Labels: andorra, caribou, delicious, fantasia, melody day
So I have a new musician crush and his name is Dan Smith. His stage name is Caribou and I think I've fallen in love. Not only with his dashing good looks and keen sense of color (the ensemble he's wearing above? fucking fabulous), but with the amazing music that he continues to make. When I listen to Caribou, I'm thinking Disney's Fantasia movie soundtracks on an acid trip. The result is really quite brilliant. In Melody Day, the first single from his upcoming Andorra, his soft falsetto creates a world of strange creatures, all hurrying and scurrying about to the flighty flutes and abrasive electronic orchestration that refuses to free its grip on your attention and imagination. I feel ridiculously cliche making a Brian Wilson reference, but its there! If the Zombies had access to modern electronic production and took a few more drugs I think they'd produce something like this. I just can't help but think of Brief Candles when listening to Melody Day. Delicious man. Fantastic Album. Plus anything that makes me think of Fantasia is by default brilliant.
SIDENOTE: WATCH FANTASIA . .. IT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU PERCEIVE MUSIC.