Caribou Going Swimming In April

This is going to be a tight year for those who want to make the Polaris Music Prize short list.

Owen Pallett's just put out a new album, and The New Pornographers and The Besnard Lakes are among the previous short listers who are putting out their own discs later this year. Let's not forget the possibility of a new Arcade Fire LP coming out before that May 31 Polaris release deadline, either.

Now you can add 2008 Polaris Music Prize winner Caribou to that list because Caribou's new album, Swim, is due out April 20 through Merge Records.

Dan Snaith's follow-up to 2007's Andorra features a guest appearance from Born Ruffians' Luke Lalonde and was mixed by David Wrench at Wales' Bryn Derwen Studio and Junior Boys' Jeremy Greenspan in Hamilton, Ont.

It's described as more dancier and similar to Andorra's "Niobe." It also features a Toronto free jazz quartet, who Snaith met following a gig at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in England last year with the likes of Sun Ra Arkestra's Marshall Allen, Four Tet and Greenspan, among others.

"I got excited by the idea of making dance music that's liquid in the way it flows back and forth, the sounds of slosh around in pitch, timbre, pan," Snaith says. "Dance music that sounds like it's made out of water rather than made out of metallic stuff like most dance music does."

Snaith first started making music under the Manitoba moniker in 2000, but was forced to change it in 2004 following legal threats from Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba. He subsequently rereleased all the albums he'd put out as Manitoba after renaming himself Caribou in 2005.

Here are the tracks on Swim:

"Odessa"
"Sun"
"Kaili"
"Found Out"
"Bowls"
"Leave House"
"Hannibal"
"Lalibela"
"Jamelia"