You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
If you'd have proposed that to me before I started this process, that, oh yeah, Dan,
I think you should make a kind of hip-hop-influenced track that's like a duet with a 70s soul singer,
I would have been like, that's never going to work.
Dan Snaith has been making caribou records since 2001.
He won Canada's Polaris Music Prize in 2007,
and this month he's releasing the seventh Caribou album, Suddenly.
In this episode, Dan breaks down the song Home.
He talks about how he managed to get past several moments of creative uncertainty to figure out the final track.
She's going home.
Baby, I'm home, I'm home, I'm home.
Yeah, she's going home.
Baby, I'm home, I'm home, I'm home.
This is Dan Snaith from Caribou.
Every day I come down into my studio and make something.
I kind of turn off the critical part of my brain that thinks,
is this something that's going to be a Caribou track?
Is this going to be something that goes on an album?