Daphni aka Caribou has announced their new album Cherry, his first album since 2017. Cherry will be released on October 7, 2022 via Snaith’s own Jiaolong label, along with the news, Daphni has shared the lead single “Cloudy”’.

Speaking of the track Dan Snaith says: “The essence of this one is keeping it aloft – like occasionally nudging a balloon that’s only just heavier than air to keep it afloat. For something so buoyant, I’m surprised how much it bangs in a club.”

Whether in the studio or the club, Daphni has always been a pursuit where Dan Snaith lets the music find its own path. With Cherry this is more evident than ever — this sense of the tracks as objects with life and desires outside of Snaith’s control — has now become a driving force in their creation. “There isn’t anything obvious that unifies it or makes it hang together,” Snaith says, “I think it was good that it was made without worrying about any of that. I just made it.” Recorded over a prolonged period, Snaith let the music go where it wanted to go. It wasn’t until he put everything he’d been tinkering with together that he realized what he had. “It’s weird that when the tracks were put in what felt like the right order it took on a new coherence,” he says, “where it pings quickly from one idea to the next and, at least for me, hangs together in a way that feels unified. Maybe because it’s hard to avoid the musical fingerprints I leave on the music I make, whether I want to or not.

As is often the case when you’re working quickly and intuitively, new pieces of equipment played a part” he says. New gear and ways of working meant Snaith was able to sit at the centre of the music but let things get away from him a bit more as equipment began to make its own decisions before reeling it back in to suit his purposes, or as he puts it “getting the snake to eat its own tail”.

Daphni
Cherry
tracklist

1. Arrow
2. Cherry
3. Always There
4. Crimson
5. Arp Blocks
6. Falling
7. Mania
8. Take Two
9. Mona
10. Clavicle
11. Cloudy
12. Karplus
13. Amber
14. Fly Away

Pre-order Cherry by Daphni HERE