In October, Dan Snaith shared his first track as Caribou in five years – the warm and addictive “Home” – and announced a 13-date North American tour, with shows in Brooklyn and Toronto already sold out and more dates added.
Today, Snaith follows up that single with the announcement of a new Caribou album, Suddenly, to be released via Merge Records on February 28, 2020. Along with the announcement comes a new single, “You and I” which can be heard below..
Speaking of the track, Snaith says: ‘You and I’ was one of the first tracks on the album that I started, and one of the last tracks I finished; it existed in some form or other throughout the whole arc of making the record. It also captures a lot of what the record, and the title of the album, are about – the track changes suddenly and unpredictably, and it is about a change in my life that happened out of the blue.
As with previous Caribou albums, Suddenly was mined from hundreds of draft ideas (this time over 900). “I record music every day, and I love it – as much or more than I have always done. I feel very lucky – the thrill has never, ever left me,” Snaith says.
There is a moment where the daunting piling up of rough ideas morphs into an album quickly taking shape. “For the last few albums at least, there’s been a point about three-quarters of the way through where I work late into the night (as usual), but when I try and go to bed, ideas keep forcing me to get up and go back to the studio again,” Snaith recalls. “It happens over and over in one night. I can feel the gears whirring as I lie there trying to sleep, and I can’t ignore the ideas for fear that it will be gone when I wake up the next morning.”
So for all the strings Snaith has to his bow these days, this is the drive to continue to make Caribou albums. Full bodies of work where Snaith is able to evaluate things, look at those around him, and celebrate them. As his passion and joy in music-making remains as fresh as ever, Suddenly is the purest example of this yet.
Photo by Thomas Neukum
North American tour dates:
16 Mar – Hamilton, ON @The Studio SOLD OUT
17 Mar – Toronto, ON @ Danforth SOLD OUT
18 Mar – Toronto, ON @ Danforth SOLD OUT
19 Mar – Toronto, ON @ Danforth
20 Mar – Chicago, IL @ Riviera
21 Mar – Detroit, MI @ Saint Andrews Hall
22 Mar – Ottawa, ON @ Bronson Centre
23 Mar – Montreal, QC @ M Telus
24 Mar – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
25 Mar – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
26 Mar – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club (Early show)
27 Mar – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel SOLD OUT
28 Mar – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
UK tour dates:
30 Mar – Brighton @ The Dome
01 Apr – Liverpool @ Invisible Wind Factory
02 Apr – Leeds @ O2 Academy Leeds
03 Apr – Manchester @ O2 Victoria Warehouse
04 Apr – Glasgow @ The Barrowlands SOLD OUT
05 Apr – Birmingham @ O2 Academy Birmingham
06 Apr – Bristol @ O2 Academy Bristol
07 Apr – London @ O2 Academy Brixton SOLD OUT
23 May – London @ All Points East
European tour dates:
21 Apr – Hamburg, DE @ Grosse Freiheit 36
23 Apr – Prague, CZ @ Forum Karlin
24 Apr – Vienna, AT @ Gasometer
25 Apr – Munich, DE @ Muffathalle
26 Apr – Zurich, CH @ Kaufleuten
27 Apr – Paris, FR @ L’Olympia
28 Apr – Cologne, DE @ E-werk
29 Apr – Utrecht, NL @ Tivoli Vredenburg / Ronda
30 Apr – Brussels, BE @ Les Nuits Botanique / Chapiteau – Botanique
25 Jun – Rome, IT @ Roma Summer Fest
09 Jul – Bilbao, ES @ Bilbao BBK Live
10 Jul – Lisbon, PT @ NOS Alive
11 Jul – Dublin, IE @ Iveagh Gardens
12 Aug – Vilnius, LT @ Botanical Garden
15 Aug – Berlin, DE @ Zitadelle / Caribou and Friends
16 Aug – Kiev, UA @ Art-Zavod Platforma
