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Andorra

EMAILPRINTby Caribou

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8.6 User Score:

Album Info

Label: Merge

Release Date: 21 August 2007

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Rock, Indie

Summary

Previously known as Manitoba, Daniel Snaith returns with his latest album.

What The Critics Said

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91

Entertainment Weekly

The only problem with this symphonic daydream is that at just nine songs and 43 minutes, it's over far too soon. [24 Aug 2007, p.130]

91

Stylus Magazine

Snaith’s newest album, Andorra, merges "Milk’s" heady sense of immediacy with a clear and consumable swiftness.

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91

The Onion (A.V. Club)

In its journey from form to formlessness, the record feels like Caribou reaching back toward a primordial pool of sound.

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90

Tiny Mix Tapes

Andorra is a psychedelic and polyrhythmic trip to a place even less known than the actual country and a momentous addition to Caribou’s enviable discography.

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90

Lost At Sea

The Dr. of Mathematics has one-upped it with Andorra, keeping all of the earlier album's core sonic qualities while adding layers of heartfelt atmospherics to craft what is not only one of the most mesmerizing and unique albums of the year, but also one of the best.

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90

All Music Guide

Andorra may be a bedroom record, but it certainly doesn't sound like a bedroom record; it has the energy and intensity of group participation, and that makes it Snaith's best yet.

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84

Filter

We still have a band trying to blow your mind with pure musicianship and experimentation, while having the balls to show restraint and even unabashed posie-sniffing beauty.

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83

Pitchfork

Andorra will undoubtedly win Caribou a lot of new fans and rightfully so; it's a big, bold, tuneful collection that impresses with its ambition and meticulous arrangement.

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80

Under The Radar

Andorra is an undeniably more coherent record than its predecessor. [Summer 2007, p.72]

80

Dot Music

Andorra feels free and fresh, comfortable exploring its own sonic identity.

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80

New Musical Express

The fourth album from Caribou is the sound of the summer we're only just getting round to enjoying.

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80

Sputnikmusic

Andorra strikes out further, reaching deeper into Snaith’s box of musical curiosities which are, at once, tasteful and fruitfully tawdry. Phantasmagoric and stunningly organic, another crowd pleaser for fans of Daniel Snaith’s aural hallucinogens.

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80

Mojo

Andorra arrives in reverberant, sun-drenched spumes of falsetto vocals, crunching guitars, pulsating drums, jingling sleigh bells and fluttering flutes. [Sep 2007, p.109]

80

Billboard

Consumed in a busy lounge or with a pair of headphones, this set is a safe bet for any listener.

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80

Dusted Magazine

Despite its music-geek-pleasing period references and psychedelic density, this is ultimately a frothy pop record full of hopeful love songs.

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80

Prefix Magazine

Although such swaths of varied, nebulous beauty obscure Snaith's musical core--if there is one--the music is so joyful in its rag and bone cherry-picking of the best of Britpop's history that such concerns are rendered pointless.

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80

Magnet

Andorra is, to use a phrase not heard much anymore, all killer, no filler.

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80

Observer Music Monthly

This is the sort of album which is destined to be talked about in hushed tones by people who can remember exactly which improbably funky Manfred Mann tune it was that Kieran Hebden once put on a compilation. But it deserves a much wider audience than that.

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70

PopMatters

Pop formatting can be a tightrope, but Snaith walks it gracefully. The only component missing are notable lyrics, the words here just another sound in the mix--but that's hardly unusual for Snaith's writing, or even for a lot of music from the era he is referencing.

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70

Boston Globe

For every track that fails to coalesce, Andorra rolls out two more that hum with a peculiar sort of heart.

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70

Almost Cool

It's pleasing, and sometimes outstanding, but it ultimately feels a bit too safe and soft.

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60

Spin

Snaith now claims he's taking time to composae songs, rather than winging it out in the studio, and these sticky-pop confections are the result, full of lithe vocals, swooping keyboards, distant drums, and assorted benign flashbacks. [Sep 2007, p.124]

60

cokemachineglow

As a Caribou album, this is mediocre. Not bad, but it's not much of a Caribou album anyway.

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60

Drowned In Sound

So slick is the production and so smooth is the transition from one moment to the next that Andorra suffers from an apparent reluctance to take us by the scruff of the neck and rattle us out of our mental Laconia.

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60

Paste Magazine

Andorra belongs on a hip continuum but something about it still feels slightly cold--it's a druggy album that's too precise to be made with drugs, a lush album that’s too filigreed to be emotional.

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40

NOW Magazine

Andorra feels downhearted, often recalling Elliott Smith; even on 'She's The One,' a collabo with Junior Boys's Jeremy Greenspan, it sounds like she's a real drag.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 31 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Wes M. gave it a10:
Elliott Smith's '60s sensibility/melancholia meets Four Tet experimental/electronica that somehow results in a synthesis both listenable and re-listenable.

Paul H. gave it a10:
Extremely original sound by Dan Snaith...sophisticated harmonies, electronics and blend of vibrant sounds. Caribou gets stronger with every album.

Ben M. gave it a7:
"Melody Day" is definitely one of my favorite songs of the year, but after track one, I just kind of lose interest. There's a few more good songs on here, but I thought this was finally going to be the album where I fully came around on Caribou. I still respect the guy and his production skills very much, and his albums all sound really great...but I'll have to try again next time.

François H gave it an8:
So peaceful. One of my best pop album of the year.

Sam H gave it a10:
This is an amazing, lush recording full of majestic psychedelia. Seeing them play live for this tour also changed my life. Can't stop listening to "After Hours."

steve c. gave it a7:
unusual combination of dreamy 60s vocals and some electronica... must say i probably the more elctro modern styles of the 2nd half - worth getting.

Sophie M. gave it a9:
Beautiful album! Can't get it out of my head.

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