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PEF 001LP
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$33.00
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RELEASE DATE: 12/4/2026
25th anniversary black vinyl repress. Before he was Caribou, Dan Snaith was a 20-something student in a "crappy" Toronto bedroom, recording music on a beat-up computer that used to strain under the weight of digital recording. Start Breaking My Heart was Snaith's 2001 debut, originally released under the name Manitoba. Twenty-five years on, it still sounds like an artist finding his voice in real time -- rainbow melody, hopscotch percussion, and playground laughter stitched into warm, tactile electronic pop. Reflecting on the record, Snaith said it was the first time something clicked -- he'd been making music since his early teens, but this was when he first felt he understood what he wanted his tracks to be. That moment coincided with the chance encounter that changed everything: he met Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) at a UK festival, who helped Dan get this album released -- the start of a career that has spanned a quarter century and many albums since.
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PEF 003LP
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$33.00
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RELEASE DATE: 12/4/2026
Limited edition black vinyl repress. The Milk of Human Kindness is Dan Snaith's third studio album, originally released in 2005. It marked the first record credited to the Caribou name, after Snaith dropped his previous Manitoba moniker following a threatened lawsuit from Handsome Dick Manitoba of The Dictators. Rather than start from scratch, Snaith folded the two sides of himself together -- the icy precision of Start Breaking My Heart and the sun-drenched sprawl of Up in Flames -- into something both hypnotic -- influenced by French progressive rock and German krautrock of the 1970s -- and pastoral. The record was met with strong critical acclaim, and its singles, "Yeti" and "Barnowl," remain fan favorites to this day. Against the backdrop of the legal name change it is simultaneously the end of a chapter while also quietly setting the stage for the run of albums that would follow.
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PEF 002LP
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$33.00
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RELEASE DATE: 12/4/2026
Limited edition black vinyl repress. Up in Flames is Dan Snaith's second album, originally released under the Manitoba moniker on March 31, 2003. Made with the same modest home setup as its predecessor, it nonetheless sounds like a different artist entirely -- a kaleidoscopic rush of sun-bright melodies, tumbling percussion, and psychedelic pop that traded the hushed intimacy of Start Breaking My Heart for something warmer, bigger, and more joyfully overstuffed, encompassing 1960s psychedelia, Madchaster swagger and shoegaze swoon. Snaith was later forced to change his artist name after a well-documented lawsuit, and Up in Flames stands as the final album released under the Manitoba name -- a high point to go out on. The record was met with widespread critical acclaim, and has since been recognized by Pitchfork as one of the standout albums of the 2000s. It remains, by most accounts, one of Snaith's finest and most beloved records.
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