“Perfectly imperfect pop” (The Guardian). “A sweet and heartfelt helping of indietronica” (The Needle Drop). It’s with praise such as this that reviewers are placing Suddenly, the latest masterpiece by Dan Snaith aka Caribou, released by City Slang Records, at the forefront of the contest for the title of Best Album of the Year. The musician and his band will pay us another visit in March, after the period of global hibernation, to again throw one of his unforgettable parties.
Canadian mathematics and music genius Dan Snaith has been known as Manitoba, Daphni and Caribou during his career, but all his monikers share a unique penchant for unusual, progressive, yet always warm electronic music. Moving according to vectors known just to him, his tracks go from pop to krautrock, from psychedelia to techno, but never stray from their primary mission – to entrance, charm, entertain, and get you to move. Snaith has said he has never aimed at commercial success, but after his track “Sun” from the 2010 album Swim conquered dancefloors even on Ibiza, his career swerved sharply upwards. With his Caribou ensemble, he’s performed at venues and festivals all over the world, including Kino Šiška, and during breaks from the Caribou project, he’s deejayed at the most legendary clubs all over, from London to Berlin, as Daphni. In fact it was as Daphni that he came to Šiška most recently, hosting one of our best events of 2018 alongside the local Sezam crew.
In November, Snaith will return to Šiška as Caribou, with his first album under this moniker since the extremely successfully 2014 release Our Love. His new, seventh full-length Suddenly, released via City Slang Records in February, is his most surprising and unpredictable yet. It’s personal and fragile, yearning and wonderful, full of twists and turns, yet still familiar and cozy. It’s dedicated to family and familial relationships, and those unexpected times of dramatic change that can happen anytime and in any family, that can change everything in a single moment. But don’t worry, this doesn’t mean we’re in for an album of laments – Caribou’s compositions are still suffused in colour, beauty, and joy. Taken together, it’s quite clear why this is undoubtedly one of the albums of 2020, an album we’ll play many times by the time March rolls around, and a concert where we’ll rejoice together.
Ahead of Caribou, we’ll warm up the dance floor with Berlin-based Peruvian Sofia Kourtesis. She first drew attention to herself with a couple of energetic house releases, then hit the bullseye when she wove more of herself into her already intimate production – her vocals, her parents, her experiences and her cultural background. Her third EP Fresia Magdalena, released in March 2021 by Ninja Tune, is considered one of the best electronic music releases of the year, and the promising producer regularly performs at events in the company of names such as Four Tet and Jon Hopkins. She started the year 2022 with a new single, on which she joined forces with Manu Chao for a track suffused in post-rave bliss, and will continue it, among other things, in Šiška.
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BON21
Tickets can also be purchased with the BON21 voucher at the Kino Šiška box office from Monday to Friday between 3 and 8 PM or on the day of the event. You can read more about the requirements for using the voucher on the Financial Administration of the Republic of Slovenia website.
Organisation: Kino Šiška.
