“Swim is an album by Caribou, released in April 2010. It was his first album featuring new material since the 2008 Polaris Music Prize-winning Andorra. It featured great changes in comparison to its predecessor, deviating from the sychedelic pop sound and taking more influences from various kinds of electronic dance music´, especially deep house and minimal techno. Dan Snaith, the creative force behind Caribou, said that playing more DJ gigs, such as those at London’s Plastic People, influenced him to embrace dance music and a greater range of frequencies in his music. It was songs written for these DJ sets which ultimately came to comprise Swim, though Snaith never originally intended for them to find their way into a Caribou album. Snaith says his work ethic on this album lead to about 700 leftover songs, some unfinished, which did not make the album; Swim was “pretty much me getting up every day and wanting to work on music. Working constantly on it. Making loads and loads and loads of music and then just sifting through to find the bits that I like,” according to Snaith.” – Wikipedia.
