I've been in Morocco!

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The great North American reindeer, Caribou, Dan Snaith, is back after 3 years with another plate-ful, from a different genre, but just as tasty as the last.

Snaith formerly recorded under the moniker Manitoba but was threatened with a lawsuit by The Dictators frontman Richard Blum whose stagename was Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba...a mouthful, and proof that nominal determinism holds true...dictator!

Having grown up in the middle of nowhere in Canada, he took to music like a mouse to cheese and when he came over to the UK to study mathematics at Imperial (his family is saturated with mathematicians) he released Up In Flames to huge critical success. His previous album, Andorra, was Polaris Prize winning and considered an instant classic.

Snaith's new album, Swim, released last month, was inspired by his newest hobby of swimming, the music's tinged with art-disco and verges on Four Tet's turf.

This summer he's playing at Field Day in London - it looks a corker, I'd go if I were you.

Luke Lalonde of Born Ruffians sings on this track:

Caribou - Jamelia

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