Dan Snaith’s project returns after five years away to confront grief and family, beautifully warping songs that are drenched in melody.
From so many distinct elements, to create something so coherent and so individual is quite some achievement. Dan Snaith's unique craft has been well honed.
What makes the album so spectacular, though, is Snaith’s voice.
Suddenly is a fresh perspective shift that encourages listeners to examine the bigger forces at play that act as a catalyst for change.
Suddenly finds Snaith in his element, writing beautifully endearing tunes and setting them to multi-layered production in a way only he can, and the results are spectacular.
He remains one of the best in the game, and his seventh record puts his diverse range on display, inviting both quiet contemplation and life-affirming celebration.
With Our Love, Caribou set a high bar for his next album. Thankfully Suddenly is a release that gleefully jumps over that bar, managing to deliver more of what fans have come to expect while also allowing Snaith to move in new directions.
While Suddenly’s highlight tracks buzz with upbeat glamour, Snaith is smart enough to tone a portion of the LP with their contrasts.
Coupled with some of the loosest, most pop-minded production of Snaith’s career, Suddenly becomes a glimmer of optimism, immaculate music for communal grief and celebration. In that, it’s the most vital album of his career.
Dan Snaith’s latest is as sly and layered as ever, but he finds ways to be more direct with his songwriting. There are no bum notes, no wasted motions, no corners of the audio spectrum left untouched.
The excellent seventh studio album from Canadian Dan Snaith proves once more that he is operating at a level unlike most. Caribou's latest is perhaps his finest, and most danceable, in many years.
An album that’s as complex and compelling as anything he’s ever made and while it doesn’t provide the instant gratification of its predecessors, Suddenly still has that intangible quality that’s characterised every Caribou album to date.
On Caribou's seventh album, Dan Snaith finds his voice and brings his experimental side to the fore without sacrificing his perfectly lush melodies.
A record where Snaith has laid himself bare. The result is his richest, strangest album yet.
Delightfully nuanced with an innovative sonic make-up and very real human heart; ‘Suddenly’ offers itself up as the safe place we all crave when things get a little too much to bear.
‘Suddenly’ is a treat and continues Caribou's knack of releasing albums that are both accessible and explorative.
The more experimental and unsettling elements will reward longtime stans, while recent converts will be just as thrilled with its party-starting exuberance.
As beautiful as it is exciting, Suddenly is an uplifting album that embraces the change and shifting perspectives that life throws our way.
Across Suddenly, Snaith surrenders to the current. If you do, too, you’ll find a rich and rewarding listening experience.
Suddenly is Caribou's most willfully experimental album to date, his soft, distinctive vocals flow through every track, binding the whole thing together.
The album continues developing the language that Caribou has been working on for years, branching out from the clubby spirit and melancholic reflection of recent albums for more lighthearted sonic atmospheres.
Suddenly is a great album, full of great songs and excellent musicianship.
If anyone is still clinging stubbornly to their belief that electronic dance-pop lacks soul, these 12 luminous and inventive songs of a universally connective bent will surely haul them over the line.
Suddenly isn't his strongest work—and at times it indirectly anthologies his entire oeuvre—but it does solidify his place as a thinking person's electronic artist who injects meaning and empathy into his music above all else.
Suddenly is a dense, complex piece of work that’s already shifted shape in the few days I’ve spent with it.
Suddenly is at its best when blending head, heart and feet to make another smart party album – among Caribou’s best yet.
Suddenly shuttles between grown-up pop and sample-driven dancefloor tunes full of his trademark unpredictable turns.
Dazzling in both scope and detail, Suddenly unscrolls like a mysterious tapestry.
Dan Snaith packs a triple-LP worth of twisted disco, sample-drunk collage, and psychedelic warmth into a 45-minute thrill ride.
Suddenly is a project laced, in almost every aspect, with these themes of change, upheaval, and humanity's insatiable appetite for progression.
Snaith synthesizes numerous elements and styles into a cohesive whole without losing the individual flavors of the reference points that inform him.
While Suddenly is all a bit faint in typical Caribou fashion, it's nevertheless a sweet and heartfelt helping of indietronica.
It can feel a little lacking in direction – honed down from more than 900 home experiments, it’s eclectic almost to a fault, though there’s enough to treasure among its dreamy meanderings.
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