Caribou: "Our Love"
“Our Love” is the name of Dan Snaith’s fifth album as Caribou and it is also the name of its second single. It’s clear he’s got a lot to say on the topic, so let him tell you all about our love: at the strangest times, it can leave voices lingering in your head before they slowly dissolve. It has its own rhythmic logic; sometimes it gets out of line, only to hit the groove again that much harder. It’s a shared train ride together amongst strangers at 3 a.m. It’s also a shared, intimate dance amongst strangers in a club at 2 a.m. You worry it might suddenly come to end, even while it feels like it could stretch out to infinity.
It derives its power from its intimacy, and yet you want to share it with as many people as possible. Thankfully, these are not Snaith’s words. The title of “Our Love” is its only lyric, but the unpredictable evolution of the instrumental can express those sentiments while leaving so much more to the imagination of the people trying to make it their own. Snaith never has to resort to the desperate demonstration of words—”Our Love” is best shared among people who already know it’s real.
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