Review: The excitement surrounding a new Caribou album is a certain kind of palpable that everyone feels, and it's tracks like "You & I" that will undoubtedly revive the sensation their album and number Swim set off in 2010. It only takes a matter of seconds for the band's mellow synth and rave sound to come through on the lead track with futuristic pop and vocal techniques giving suggestion to early Mounte Kimbe and James Blake influences. "Never Come Back" furthermore harks back to the pure melodic sound of '90s warehouse trance, however it's not all rave and euphoria though, with the dub, funk, soul and jazzy specialties of the band breaking new ground in the disco, western and broken beat laced "Home".
Review: Remix compilations can be a little hit-and-miss, but this one - gathering together five years of eccentric and often inspired reinterpretations from German veteran DJ Koze - is anything but. Koze often saves his best work for the remix domain, delivering imaginative reworks that take the original material into surprising new places. So, Herbert's "If Only" is turned into a sparse chunk of atmosphere-rich late night deep house, Caribou's "Found Out" is blessed with a new sense of wonky, left-of-centre purpose, and Zwanie Johnson's "Golden Song" is given a decidedly Balearic, beatless makeover. Highlights are plentiful, with Koze's dubby, low-slung afro-jazz reinterpretation of Soap & Skin's "Marche Funebre" standing out.
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