Caribou - Home

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Dan Snaith has been making Caribou records since 2001. He won Canada’s Polaris music prize in 2007, and this month, he’s releasing the seventh Caribou album, Suddenly.

In this episode, Dan breaks down the song “Home.” He talks about how he managed to get past several moments of creative uncertainty to figure out the final track.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece,
0:05.0	tell the story of how they were made.
0:06.7	I'm Rishikesh Herway.
0:11.7	If you'd have proposed that to me before I started this process that,
0:15.4	oh yeah, Dan, I think you should make a kind of hip-hop influence track that's like a duet
0:19.1	with a 70s soul singer, I would have been like, that's never gonna work.
0:25.7	Dan's Nath has been making caribou records since 2001.
0:29.2	He won Canada's Polaris Music Prize in 2007, and this month he's releasing the 7th caribou album,
0:34.7	suddenly.
0:35.7	In this episode, Dan breaks down the song, Home.
0:38.7	He talks about how he managed to get past several moments of creative uncertainty
0:42.7	to figure out the final track.
0:44.7	She's going home.
0:46.2	Baby, I'm home, I'm home, I'm home.
0:49.2	Yeah, she's going home.
0:51.2	Baby, I'm home, I'm home, I'm home.
0:58.2	This is Dan's Nath from Caribou.
1:00.2	Every day, I come down into my studio and make something.
1:05.2	I kind of turn off the critical part of my brain that thinks,
1:08.7	is this something that's gonna be a caribou track?
1:10.7	Is this gonna be something that goes on an album?
1:13.2	I'm just having fun that every day, that's the process, is to just enjoy that.
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