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Within the first five seconds of opening track, “Odessa,” it is apparent that Caribou’s latest release, “Swim,” is very different from his last. 2007’s “Andorra,” the previous full-length release by the electronic artist and Ontario native David Snaith, was a record of textures, the kind of album that is best appreciated alone, eyes closed, with headphones on. 40-odd minutes of meandering, unpredictable soundscapes, “Andorra” waxed and waned but never...
...synth line straight out of a 1980s disco and a drumbeat more propulsive than any found on “Andorra” introduce “Odessa,” and give listeners a very good hint at what Caribou is trying to accomplish with “Swim.” After years of balancing dream pop, noise, and spaced-out electronica, this is Caribou’s dance record...
...combination of genres sounds promising. With the three opening tracks of “Swim,” Caribou shows he can do dance. And he’s proven with remarkable consistency over a decade of music-making that he can do ambient electronica. But somehow, when those two aspects merge in songs like “Bowls” and “Leave House,” they lose much of what makes them compelling in the process. Less than the sum of its parts, the record’s middle section decelerates and de-energizes...
...book itself goes to the very beginning, when women were becoming involved in aquatic activity. “If you go through the papers of the late 19th century, there were so many deaths by drowning, and the three major learn-to-swim campaigns that came of out of that encouraged mothers to learn to swim to save the lives of their children,” said Morgan...
...were made for athletes because it prevents drag, but I didn’t know that they were invented so long ago,” says Shyam S. Vichare ’12. At the time of their invention, women were such adept swimmers that the first woman to swim across the English Channel, Gertrude Ederle, shattered all previous records held by male swimmers. American women looked up to athletes like Ederle and wore bikinis to emulate these strong female role models...