Swim (LP)

Swim is full of brightly textured, rapturous gems that gleam with astonishing production - and then wrenches at your heart with soulful, thoughtful reveries on the passing of time, family history and the breakdown of relationships. "There are songs about growing old in a relationship, about divorce and loneliness in old age but the lyrics are generally pretty abstract sketches of what's going on in the situation in my head."

If there is a link to previous album Andorra, it would be in the ravishing explosions of sound pulsing through album closer 'Niobe'. From the opening effervescent gambol of 'Odessa' to the glorious odyssey of 'Jamelia', it's crystal clear that Caribou has made a massive leap forwards, upwards and sideways.