SGP - Caribou

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Being the headliner at a festival is tough, but headlining a festival and performing after a six year firework spectacular tradition seems impossible. Yet, stood dressed all in white and silhouetted by strobe lights on The Great Stage, Caribou seemed to handle the job with the slickness of liquid velvet.

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Source: Andrew Whitton

Having been around for the past 11 years, Caribou knows exactly what it takes to make a crowd weak at the knees and their bodies flail. Known almost as the cult classic of psychedelic electropop, Caribou creates house music like no other. And with their clump of limbs and instruments set up, front man Dan Snaith and co make for an performance of multiple climaxes with a sweaty finish. 

Having had the entirety of the festival on the stage side of the fields, Caribou had no option but to perform to the masses. Although they only had an hour long set, it seemed like the band could have gone on for days and I have no doubt their audience would have let them. As they trickled through the setlist, Caribou made the individual songs into a seamless sea of sounds, with every beat and strobe rolling over the crowd like waves. Performing such tunes as Can't Do Without You, Odessa, and Silver, there wasn't a dry face in the crowd. 

Caribou @ SGP
Source: Andrew Whitton

Whilst electronica can be a musical umbrella that is often mass produced or overrated, Caribou, however, manages to create such an emotional as well as psychedelic experience that it's borderline extraterrestrial (slotting nicely into Secret Garden Party's space theme). On the night Caribou performed the songs so authentically it was as if they were improvised, even though some of the tunes were as old as most of the crowd. It was a multidimensional experience that suited the every gardener's vibe: whether you wanted to have spiritually uplifting voyage or whether you just wanted to boogie till the late hours, Caribou were there for you that Saturday night.

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