Caribou - Suddenly (February 28, 2020) Album • Page 3

On my second listen and I love it

 

Yeah all the singles were great, dunno why I didn’t even consider making a thread or bumping this one haha. Excited to check it out

 

How do we feel about the AI vocals?


Caribou - Honey · Album Review ⟋ RA

 

Haven't listened yet but it sounds like it's still his vocals, just altered with AI, which I feel like is fine because it's an artistic choice similar to using a vocoder or something. Not that I'm super informed on that stuff though.

 

Yeah I’m not the most well educated on AI, I know enough to know it’s bad and that I hate it, but this just seems like a weird means of doing heavy vocal filtering/processing. It’s not like there’s any theft of artists or lack of intent so I personally am completely unbothered. I also don’t think tracks like Honey would work as well if it was his own vocals rather than what has been manipulated to feel more like a vocal sample.
He also does use his own voice twice (atleast?) on the record and Dan seems like a smart guy so I’m assuming it was a pretty conscious conceptual choice.

 

this is a lot dancier than I expected (not in a bad way)

 

Yeah agree - I only gave it one pass last night and it wasn’t really active listening, but it felt way more straight up dance and less variation than Suddenly. Never a bad thing to have while headed into these darker months though haha

 

Climbing is so good

 

Really liked this, back half was more what I was expecting but enjoy the flow of it all