After winning Canada’s coveted Polaris Music Prize for his 2008 album “Andorra,” musician Dan Snaith (who performs with a backing band under the stage name Caribou) had some pressure going into… By ...

DAN Snaith likes to swim freestyle. It's just that in Ontario, Canada, where he's from, they call it something else. "I only really know how to do the front crawl. I got obsessed with it because it's ...

The majestic Western Arctic Caribou Herd in Alaska travels a distance equivalent to New York City to Seattle each year. But can it continue in the face of human-caused threats?

Caribou's nine-song Swim follows his nine-song 2007 Polaris Winning-Andorra. The last one was 42:59. This one's 43:10. Just a quick, statistical way of pointing that that since Dan Snaith founded his ...

Unless you're a Grinch, you will, of course, have visions of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer—along with the whole team of reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh. However, caribou aren't specifically referred ...

Almost every time it plays, no matter where, we are reminded of how great Caribou's "Odessa" actually is, because for some reason we always seem to forget. Maybe it's because it sounds like an Arto ...

Adak Island is home to something you won’t find much of elsewhere in the Aleutians: a herd of caribou, introduced in the 1950s as a hunting option for the naval base. The base has since closed, but ...

It’s called “Swim” for a reason. The third album from Caribou — aka Ontario-born, London-dwelling Dan Snaith — is a beautiful, bleary-eyed after-party carried out to sea on subtle undercurrents, ...

Dan Snaith’s adventurous music, first as Manitoba and now as Caribou, has ranged from serene, defiantly melodic IDM to backward-looking psychedelia and krautrock. Though Swim is less referential, the ...

DAN Snaith likes to swim freestyle. It's just that in Ontario, Canada, where he's from, they call it something else. "I only really know how to do the front crawl. I got obsessed with it because it's ...

The first Caribou record since the Polaris Prize-winning 'Andorra' is a fine blend of indie, electronica and creeping psychedelia. Think a more experimental Royksopp meets a less-commercial Hot Chip.