Swim by Caribou

Swim, the fifth studio album from Canadian Dan Snaith and his third under the Caribou name, came out on April 20, 2010, through City Slang and Merge, and it trades the psychedelic pop of Andorra for the dance floor. Not the sweaty, hands-in-the-air kind, either: these tracks hover between headphone brain-food and genuine body music, deep house and minimal techno pulses wrapped in woozy, watery textures that make the title feel less like a name than an instruction. "Odessa" is the way in, a nervy, looping groove that burrowed into rock radio's countdowns.

Critics were all in. Swim turned up on year-end lists, made the shortlist for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize, was Resident Advisor's album of the year, and in August 2014 Pitchfork put it on its list of the decade's finest records up to that point. A remix set followed in 2010, with Junior Boys, Fuck Buttons and Nite Jewel taking it apart.

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