In October, Dan Snaith shared the warm and addictive “Home”—the first new Caribou song in five years—and announced a run of North American tour dates, with Toronto and Brooklyn selling out quickly and more shows subsequently added in those cities. “Home” received acclaim from the Fader, NPR, and Brooklyn Vegan, all of whom widely praised the song as a welcome comeback, leaving fans yearning for more.

Today, Snaith has followed up with the news that a new Caribou album, Suddenly, will be released on February 28, 2020 (via Merge in the Americas, City Slang rest of world). Along with the announcement comes a new single, “You and I,” which starts as a dreamy, undeniably Caribou-like love song before breaking down into a huge chorus littered with sampled yelps and finally going rogue completely with a screaming guitar solo, swaggering into being from nowhere.

Snaith says of the song:

“You and I” was one of the first tracks on the album that I started, and one of the last tracks I finished; it existed in some form or other throughout the whole arc of making the record. It also captures a lot of what the record, and the title of the album, are about—the track changes suddenly and unpredictably, and it is about a change in my life that happened out of the blue.

Suddenly is the most surprising and unpredictable Caribou album to date. Though it retains the trademark Caribou warmth and technicolor, the album is littered with swerves and left turns. Songs drop out and morph into something else entirely just as they’re hitting their stride, samples chopped up beyond all recognition burst out of nowhere.

In 2014, Caribou released Our Love to overwhelming critical acclaim, a Polaris Prize nomination, and year-end recognition from Rolling Stone, Consequence of Sound, and Pitchfork, who recently declared the album one of the best of the 2010s. Now, Caribou returns with his new studio full-length Suddenly, an album about family and the changes we go through as those relationships evolve. Our Love was an open-armed exploration of the concept of love in its grandest form, both as an expression of gratitude to his fans and as an examination of the one thing that matters most in life. Suddenly, however, takes that concept and winnows it down, directly applying it to real life and the people to whom that love means the most. Suddenly refers to the moments of dramatic and unexpected change that occur at points in any life and within any family—universal themes that can catch you off guard and change your life in a heartbeat.

Caribou on tour:
Mar 16 Hamilton, ON – The Studio (SOLD OUT)
Mar 17 Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall (SOLD OUT)
Mar 18 Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall (SOLD OUT)
Mar 19 Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall (SOLD OUT)
Mar 20 Chicago, IL – Riviera
Mar 21 Detroit, MI – Saint Andrews Hall
Mar 22 Ottawa, ON – Bronson Centre
Mar 23 Montreal, QC – M Telus
Mar 24 Boston, MA – House of Blues
Mar 25 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
Mar 26 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
Mar 27 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel (SOLD OUT)
Mar 28 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
Mar 30 Brighton, UK – The Dome
Apr 01 Liverpool, UK – Invisible Wind Factory
Apr 02 Leeds, UK – O2 Academy Leeds
Apr 03 Manchester, UK – Victoria Warehouse
Apr 04 Glasgow, UK – The Barrowlands (SOLD OUT)
Apr 05 Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy Birmingham
Apr 06 Bristol, UK – O2 Academy Bristol
Apr 07 London, UK – O2 Academy Brixton (SOLD OUT)
Apr 21 Hamburg, DE – Grosse Freiheit 36
Apr 22 Leipzig, DE – Werk 2
Apr 23 Prague, CZ – Forum Karlin
Apr 24 Vienna, AT – Gasometer
Apr 25 Munich, DE – Muffathalle
Apr 26 Zurich, CH – Kaufleuten
Apr 27 Paris, FR – L'Olympia
Apr 28 Cologne, DE – E-werk
Apr 29 Utrecht, NL – Tivoli Vredenburg / Ronda
Apr 30 Brussels, BE – Les Nuits Botanique – Chapiteau
Jun 25 Rome, IT – Roma Summer Fest
Jul 09 Bilbao ES – Bilbao BBK Live
Jul 10 Lisbon, PT – NOS Alive
Jul 11 Dublin, IE – Iveagh Gardens
Aug 12 Vilnius, LT – Botanic Park
Aug 15 Berlin, DE – Zitadelle (Caribou and Friends)
Aug 16 Kiev, UA – Art-Zavod Platforma