Pitchfork

Dan Snaith calls in old friend Kieran Hebden to remix the first single off Snaith's second album as Caribou, potential Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego? answer Andorra. As Four Tet, Hebden usually sounds as if he and Snaith are participating in a shared conversation. Both are laptop musicians who don't limit themselves by genre, reaching beyond IDM into Krautrock, shoegaze, and pop-rock while listening to everything from free jazz to grime. Caribou's new single "Melody Day" is a trip (the Zombies would say Odessey) into kaleidoscopic '60s psych-pop, but here Hebden strips out the candy-colored electronic swirls, buzzing guitars, and clattering drums. Four Tet's "Melody Day" remix outs Snaith as a fine tunesmith, adding vocals from Adem, Luke LaLonde of Born Ruffians, and One Little Plane to Snaith's own graceful falsetto. Digital beats thump beneath a somber acoustic-guitar arpeggio, but this is not the computer-whiz throwdown you might expect. It's a delicate pop song.

[from the "Melody Day" single; due 07/10/07 on Merge; originally from Andorra; due 08/21/07 on Merge]