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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Show Review / Sasquatch Sasquatch Sunday: The Best Set of the Festival Yet

Posted by Eric Grandy on Sun, May 30, 2010 at 1:51 PM

Caribou, with his first song, "Leave House," easily blew away everything I saw yesterday. It was just an ecstatic set, all material from the outstanding new album Swim, early crowd dancing and into it. Dan Snaith played keys, drums, and sang as part of a four-piece, with a drummer, a bassist, and a guitarist/keyboardist. The band jammed out on a few songs, with Snaith taking a seat at a spare drum kit and locking into the dark, driving dance grooves. They also tended to bury the latter, jammy half of songs under big swells of white noise, the melodies just barely peeking out from under the washes of sound. They played "Kalli," "Found Out," "Bowls" (another total extended jam), "Hannibal," "Odessa" (that wobbly bassline just killing), "Jamelia," and "Sun." Someone threw a bra at the band. Snaith was playing barefoot. On "Sun," their closer, Snaith, while singing the song's only word over and over and over, seemed for a moment to be peering up into the cloudy sky looking for the damn thing, which was just a faint gray orb in the clouds. Above them, a disco ball swayed in the breeze, waiting for LCD Soundsystem to come light it up (as they always do on "New York I Love You"); best set so far, but I fully expect LCD to top it.

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I was totally blown away with Caribou. Pretty familiar with his last two records, but hadn't heard them live until Sunday. Snaith seemed much more affable and effusive than I was expecting and his band was lock-tight. His recorder solo on "Odessa" was really great. Such a good start to the day.

(Ironically, following Caribou's performance I said the same thing about LCD likely trumping it, even though the former's was so good; and trump it they did.)

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