Our Love by Caribou

Our Love, Dan Snaith's seventh studio album and his fourth as Caribou, came out on October 6, 2014 through City Slang, with Merge releasing it a day later. Snaith produced it himself, and it finds him taking stock of Swim, his breakthrough from four years earlier, while the birth of his daughter pulls his lyrics somewhere more personal than before. Jessy Lanza and Owen Pallett both drop in.

It's electronic music with R&B and hip hop running through its veins, all warm, woozy synths and patient builds, closer to a slow embrace than a rave-up. After Jiaolong, his Daphni record, got a cooler response, Our Love won the critics back: it turned up on a pile of year-end lists, picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album, and made the Polaris Music Prize shortlist in 2015.

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