Caribou – Honey review

Often we talk about artists undergoing a process of reinvention, but what about when that entails the tools of invention as well? Dan Snaith has been releasing music under a number of guises for nearly twenty five years, but just as importantly that work has swum through a host of constructs as well as identities. What he did next however was prompted by a good old fashion rediscovery of going back to basics.

Snaith has spent that last decade DJ-ing and latterly making music under the Daphni moniker, but for his first album since 2020’s Suddenly he returned to his basement studio, shut out all the professional noise and let only one thing in – his alter ego.

This meant that Honey is more experimental than some of his back catalogue, particularly as he commits the heresy of using AI to shift and bend his vocals, but also banger heavier (Break My Heart, the title track) than you might expect. Like all good just-putting-it-out-theres a couple of the ideas are either truncated (August 20:24) or just don’t work (Campfire), but there’s still more than enough on Come Find Me and Dear Life to keep dance floors happy. Getting new via the machines is more of a party than it seems.

You can read a full review here.