Caribou - Melody Day (Four Tet Remix)

What this video is

Released in July 2007 alongside Caribou's fourth studio album Andorra — a record that would go on to win the 2008 Polaris Music Prize — the Four Tet Remix of Melody Day crystallised a fertile mid-2000s moment of cross-pollination between Canadian psychedelic indie and the UK's experimental electronic underground. Four Tet (Kieran Hebden), already acclaimed for albums like Rounds (2003) and Everything Ecstatic…

Why it matters

This track is a canonical artifact of mid-2000s folktronica and indie-electronic crossover culture. Four Tet's remix transforms Caribou's psychedelic pop source material into a sparse, hypnotic electronic piece, exemplifying the era's appetite for genre-bridging collaborations. Its enduring…