''Andorra'' is the fourth studio album by Canadian musician
Dan Snaith
Daniel Victor Snaith (born March 29, 1978) is a Canadian composer, musician, and recording artist who has performed under the stage names Caribou, Manitoba, and Daphni.
Career
Snaith originally recorded under the stage name Manitoba, but afte ...
, released under the stage name
Caribou
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. It is Snaith's fourth album and his second as Caribou, following ''
The Milk of Human Kindness
''The Milk of Human Kindness'' is the third studio album by Canadian musician Dan Snaith, released under the moniker Caribou on April 18, 2005, by The Leaf Label and Domino Recording Company. It is Snaith's first album credited under Caribou, wit ...
''. It was released in Germany on August 17, 2007 and in the United Kingdom on August 20 by
City Slang
City Slang is an independent record label based in Berlin, Germany.
History
The label was founded in 1990 by former tour agent Christof Ellinghaus, exclusively to release The Flaming Lips' '' In A Priest Driven Ambulance (With Silver Sunshine S ...
, and in the United States on August 21 by
Merge
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Concepts
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* Merge (linguistics), a basic syntactic operation in generative syntax in the Minimalist Program
* Merger (politics), the comb ...
.
''Andorra'' received critical acclaim and won the
2008 Polaris Music Prize
The 2008 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 30, 2008, at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto. The prize was won by Caribou for his album ''Andorra''.
Unlike in prior years, the Polaris Prize committee did ...
.
Polaris Music Prize
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Track listing
Charts
References
External links
''Andorra''
at official Caribou website
*
2007 albums
Dan Snaith albums
City Slang albums
Merge Records albums
Polaris Music Prize-winning albums
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