Dan Snaith has announced his sixth Caribou album, Honey, which will be out October 4 via Merge. Where 2014’s Our Love and 2020’s Suddenly were deeply personal albums, Dan says this one is decidedly more welcoming. “There is a lot of joy in this album,” Dan says, “it made me really happy making it and the whole time i was thinking of you and hoping it would bring you joy too.”
Honey also adds a little of Snaith’s club-centric Daphni alter ego to the Caribou mix, as well as vocals that have been digitally altered to sound like another person, even though it is Dan doing all the singing.
“I think the word ‘alchemy’ kind of captures something about this, actually,” Dan says of the experimentation with altered vocals. “Obviously, one of the big things that changed while making this album was the ability to manipulate my voice using AI. I found it impossible to resist trying it, and once I’d tried it, it was impossible to look away. I have such a limited vocal range and style, but over the years, I’ve managed to find ways of making it work, of making it feel at home in the music I make. But what about being able to change it completely? What could that do? What possibilities are opened up by that? Well, actually not changing it completely… I think the central thing that drew me to using this technology on this album was that if I listened closely, I could still hear myself in there when I tried on different voices using AI. It still captures all the phrasing, the pitch imperfections, the delivery, the breath…even when turning it into someone else’s voice. It sounds both very much not like me but also like me. I tried these tracks out on my closest friends and asked, ‘Who do you think is singing?’ and they always guessed someone close to me (my daughter, for example) or me with some kind of effect. Why? Because it is some kind of alchemy—changing my voice into something that is both mine and not mine.”
Honey includes all of Caribou’s 2024 singles to date (“Honey,” “Broke My Heart,” the M/A/R/R/S-sampling “Volume“) and he’s just shared a fourth song, “Come Find Me,” which owes a little to late-’90s French Touch house. “I love this kind of chord sequence and the sort of French touch type of vibe, but it took a lot of time to find the right vocal hook and breakdown and make it more pop and concise,” Dan says. “When I play that one in DJ sets, when it drops down to just the singing and then suddenly it’s a song that surges back in—I know for a fact no one in the crowd has heard it before, and yet people always respond in this really emotionally charged, euphoric way…That’s always the best litmus test that a track has come together in the right way.”
You can watch the funny and slightly disquieting “Come Find Me” video, directed by Shynola’s Richard Kenworthy, below.
Caribou will be on tour this fall and play Brooklyn’s Avant Gardner’s Great Hall on November 21 with Yunè Pinku. He’s also announced UK and EU shows in early 2025 and all dates are listed below.
Honey
1. Broke My Heart
2. Honey
3. Volume
4. Do Without You
5. Come Find Me
6. August 20/24
7. Dear Life
8. Over Now
9. Campfire
10. Climbing
11. Only You
12. Got To Change
Caribou 2024/2025 Live Dates
September 14, Belfast, IR @ Boiler Room
October 14, Tokyo, JP @ O-East
October 17, Amsterdam, NL @ Amsterdam Dance Event
November 8, Vancouver, BC @ PNE Forum*
November 9, Portland, OR @ Roseland*
November 10, Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo*
November 12, Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater*
November 13, Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Expo Hall*
November 15, Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom*^
November 17, 2024 Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed*
November 18, Atlanta, GA @ Eastern*
November 19, Washington, D.C. @ Anthem*
November 20, 2024 Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall*
November 21, 2024 Queens, NY @ Great Hall at Avant Gardner*
November 23, Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall*
November 24, Toronto, ON @ History*
November 25, Montreal, QC @ L’Olympia*
December 31, Glenworth Valley, AU @ Lost Paradise Festival
February 3, Paris, FR @ Zénith Paris – La Villette”
February 4, Esch/Alzette, LX @ Rockhal”
February 6, London, UK @ Roundhouse SOLD OUT
February 7, London, UK @ Roundhouse SOLD OUT
February 8, London, UK @ Roundhouse SOLD OUT
February 9, Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy”
February 10, Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon”
February 11, Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique”
February 12, Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique”
February 14, Berlin, DE @ UFO (Velodrom)”
* = support from Yunè Pinku
^ = with Joy Orbison
” = support from Ela Minus