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Oct 2, 2014This is rich, strange, endlessly fascinating music: a subtle, beautiful triumph.
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Oct 6, 2014Our Love, then, is the moment it all came together for Caribou.
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Oct 3, 2014It's an emphatic 42 minutes of contentment, of genuine happiness that is so rare within music.
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Sep 30, 2014It’s a smart, attentive-demanding progression--within the song and throughout the album as a whole--that deftly captures various stages of love’s cycle. With added synths.
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UncutSep 25, 2014Snaith has perfected his recipe for bite-sized psychedelia. [Nov 2014, p.71]
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Oct 7, 2014Our Love is a very assured record, from its unconventional, austere arrangements to its unrelenting focus and thematic consistency.
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MagnetNov 5, 2014Snaith crafted Out Love with all the care of a handwritten mixtape. [No. 114, p.52]
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Oct 8, 2014Upon repeated listens, Our Love reveals itself as quite the complicated record; nothing ever stays still for very long, whether that’s Snaith’s serpentine compositions or his lyrics, so often cast in shadows as they are triumphantly lit up.
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Oct 7, 2014It’s rich in slow-burning ambiguity, and it may be vibrant and clean, but it doesn’t entice dialogue quite the same way his past albums have.
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MojoNov 5, 2014[An] irresistibly immersive fourth album. [Nov 2014, p.89]
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Oct 21, 2014He made this latest emotionally and intellectually supple album specifically for that dance community.
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Oct 10, 2014By tweaking the sound of his previous record, adding wisely chosen collaborators, and not trying to totally revolutionize what was already working quite well, Snaith has created one of the most enjoyable, crowd pleasing records of the year.
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Oct 9, 2014A natural progression from the delicately beautiful and strangely funky shoegazer dance pop of his last album, Swim.
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Oct 7, 2014Each track says something different, but with his honest subject matter and his unique arrangements constantly in focus, Snaith never loses his way.
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Oct 7, 2014With Our Love, Snaith largely succeeds in bridging the two worlds, crafting radio-friendly cuts that can't be mistaken for the work anyone but Caribou.
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Oct 6, 2014All told, Our Love stands as the most straightforwardly danceable Caribou album to date, but holds on to both the experimental bent and composition-minded musicality that helped build the project's one-of-a-kind sound world.
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Oct 6, 2014The fine line between euphoria and melancholy is negotiated brilliantly on tracks such as Can’t Do Without You.
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Q MagazineOct 3, 2014This beautiful, open-hearted album explores every one of its title's implications, wrapping both the blessed and the lost in its generous embrace. [Nov 2014, p.105]
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Oct 3, 2014Our Love is a record that feels distinctly his own, accessible yet containing minute touches that you’ll need to listen to many times to appreciate.
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Oct 3, 2014Our Love lacks the element of surprise that Swim had, but still holds in abundance all the hallmarks of a master: so rich, so textured and despite being predominantly electronic, so human--speaking with painful honesty to a condition that ranks just below death and taxes in uniting us all.
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Oct 3, 2014The result is one of the most eminently playable and rewarding electronic albums of 2014, and one that respectfully casts a glance backwards while sounding both indelibly contemporary and unmistakably Caribou.
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Oct 1, 2014It’s the sound of meeting someone for the first time, pulses racing, love rising up --that’s not best expressed in pure formula. Caribou has successfully managed to see past sense, instead opting with an instinct that tends to produce dazzling results.
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Sep 30, 2014Danceable, intelligent and always emotionally charged--and Dan Snaith’s most profound and accomplished piece of work to date.
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Sep 25, 2014Our Love isn't an explosion of delight so much as it is an affirmation of the moment, in many different forms.
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Sep 25, 2014Every track pulses with a live feel, but they’re all underpinned with the best elements of house, live jazz and even ambient music.
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Sep 25, 2014There's a strong sense that Our Love is an important step in the evolution of Caribou. Whatever the formula is, it's working.
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Oct 7, 2014Not everyone will be pleased, but those hooked on Swim will be thrilled.
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Oct 15, 2014Guest turns by singer Jessy Lanza and violinist Owen Pallett are telling high points--if Snaith's vocals sometimes lack character, his tracks never do.
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Oct 6, 2014It’s one of Snaith’s least cohesive and affecting full-lengths, even as it provides us with some of his strongest individual tracks to date.
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Under The RadarDec 19, 2014For all its intriguing flourishes, it's hard not to think of Our Love as a slightly limp but occasionally brilliant follow-up. [Dec 2014, p.62]
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Oct 28, 2014The well crafted moments within Our Love outshines the weaker numbers and makes the album a fun and danceable listen.
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Oct 7, 2014Like most Caribou albums, Our Love is a grower.
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Oct 3, 2014Snaith eventually does work his way out of the darkness, and while the consistent production value and a pair of vibrant, energetic closing tracks keep the album from feeling like a total wash, it's also an uncharacteristically uneven effort from a generally consistent artist.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 63 out of 75
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Mixed: 7 out of 75
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Negative: 5 out of 75
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Oct 9, 2014
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Nov 28, 2021pulses with a live feel, but they’re all underpinned with the best elements of house, live jazz and even ambient music
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Sep 7, 2015