It's perhaps not news to anyone who attended Caribou's pop-up Toronto performance earlier this month, but the project led by Dan Snaith has some unreleased music floating in the ether right now. The polymath has now announced plans to formally release what he's been working on behind the scenes in the form of a new album called Honey, arriving October 4 via Merge Records.
According to press materials, the album is poised to bridge the gap between Caribou and Snaith's dancier alter ego, Daphni. It's said to find Snaith "[pulling] himself away a little in search of music that isn't about any one person and is available to everybody."
He shared:
One thing that hasn't changed for me from the very beginning is a manic curiosity of seeing what I can make out of sound. Not so much what someone can make out of sound — a "professional" with a host of collaborators and resources at their disposal — but me in my little basement studio. There's more equipment in here than there used to be, but essentially it's the same as ever: still chasing that thrill of when something hits really hard, and I find myself jumping up and down or the hairs standing up on my arms in excitement. How lucky am I that that's never gone away? That the chance of making something new and exciting is still as exhilarating as ever, and as much fun as ever? Starting the day with nothing (and finishing most days with nothing good) but occasionally having something that didn't exist before stuck in my head by the end of the day. It still seems like a kind of alchemy.
Featuring previous singles "Broke My Heart" (and its remixes), "Volume" and the title track, the album continues to shed beats with the release of "Come Find Me," which arrives today alongside a Richard Kenworthy-directed video. Take a gander at that below.
"I love this kind of chord sequence and the sort of French touch type of vibe, but it took a lot of time to find the right vocal hook and breakdown and make it more pop and concise," Snaith said of the track. "When I play that one in DJ sets, when it drops down to just the singing and then suddenly it's a song that surges back in — I know for a fact no one in the crowd has heard it before, and yet people always respond in this really emotionally charged, euphoric way… That's always the best litmus test that a track has come together in the right way."
Anyone who missed out on Snaith's August performance can instead catch him on tour this fall, when he'll perform shows in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.
Honey:
1. Broke My Heart
2. Honey
3. Volume
4. Do Without You
5. Come Find Me
6. August 20/24
7. Dear Life
8. Over Now
9. Campfire
10. Climbing
11. Only You
12. Got to Change