Caribou – Our Love (Merge)

Caribou – Our Love (Merge)

Caribou’s albums have always been electronic to various extents, but they seemed less like club music than what came to be known for better or worse as IDM — brainy experimental sounds better suited for reflective personal listening than dancefloor excursions. Our Love is not like that. The album sounds great on headphones, sure, and tracks like “Silver” and “Back Home” bloom into brilliant compositions on par with Dan Snaith’s most florid psych-pop and krautrock turns. But first and foremost, you can move to this music. Rhythm and repetition are the drivers, and Snaith being Snaith, they’re as breathtaking as his melodies and textures. He lets his sleek, futuristic loops gather momentum until heart, mind, and body are all aflutter. The few words he does deploy — sentences as simple as “I can’t do without you,” fragments as basic as “our love” — speak volumes. –Chris [LISTEN]