- Dan Snaith makes a play for the fourth Pangbourne House Mafia member with some stylish womps and an EDM finish.
- The newest Caribou single sounds a bit like a Daphni track. It's more direct than the sun-dappled material that Dan Snaith releases under his best-known alias, the basslines grippy like rugged off-road tires. But more than that, "Honey" actually sounds like a Skrillex track—particularly how the LFO wobbles dive-bomb over a rollicking garage beat. Or the way the second drop builds up to a ludicrous climax that would have been dismissed as EDM ten years ago.
As with so much of the material that Snaith's friends in the Pangbourne House Mafia (AKA Skrillex, Fred again.. and Four Tet) play with these days, "Honey" is a revisionist banger that blurs the lines of dance music taste. It sounds like something made with the express purpose of fans recording Instagram videos, or for DJs to dance to behind the decks of some major festival stage—like Coachella, where Snaith is playing later this month. It's everything it needs to be, wild and noisy without rumpling the proverbial Oxford shirt.