"Home," the first single from Caribou's latest album Suddenly, has taken on an unexpected meaning. As millions of Americans sit under self-quarantine at home and may be reaching for music as a form of solace, you could hear the refrain — "I'm home" — as either a cry or a reassurance.
Caribou, the stage name for Canadian songwriter and producer Dan Snaith, is the first artist in our new series Play It Forward, in which musicians express appreciation for each other and introduce us to the music that they reach for when they're in need. I wanted to start the chain with Caribou because he's a musical wanderer, picking up shiny things he finds in his path and weaving them into the fabric he creates, and his music lowers my blood pressure.
Caribou's choice to begin the chain of gratitude was Glenn Copeland, a pioneering electronic artist, composer and transgender activist whose long overlooked recordings provided much of the inspiration for Suddenly.
"Listening to Glenn's music, I heard a way of taking things that are difficult and making something positive and affirming and reassuring and comforting out of them," he says. "And that's what I tried to find in the music that I made."
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