Caribou
Honey
City Slang/Merge
For a song like “Volume,” Dan Snaith takes the equivalent of loose parts and creates art with it. Throughout the song, he incorporates samples from M/A/R/R/S’s “Pump up the Volume” and incites the critical elements from that song. Here, it not only breathes new life into a dance jam through a re-imagining, but it forms an essential philosophy that things, simply, need to change. And that’s what is at the forefront of Honey.
Where does one go after crafting an album that surpasses expectations? You either rinse and repeat or you adapt and grow. For Honey, the attempt is to grow but may be skewed by the way Snaith approached growth and making something relatable to everybody.
And in doing that, he turned to AI to see how technology could push change. Snaith has admitted his limited vocal range. Instead of it being more about him, the album obscures identity by masking his voice into a universal approach through AI. Snaith has morphed his voice into something else. It’s Snaith, it’s not Snaith. The music is pushing dance boundaries while also keeping tradition and dating by reaching into dance classics and learning from them.
In “Broke My Heart,” we get those big dance tracks immediately that makes the process the charm of the album. If you didn’t know AI was driving this track, it may appear unnoticed. Same with “Come Find Me,” only to feel more push and pull with his work here.
Honey is not groundbreaking through the embrace of technology, but the album poses some interesting perspectives based on the utilization of AI to serve with the best intentions possible.
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