"In March of 2001, electronic musician Dan Snaith released his debut album under the name Manitoba, writing and producing all of its songs, and calling his ten-song collection Start Breaking My Heart. Re-released in 2006 under the artist name Caribou, the album stands as a masterpiece of mostly restrained, faintly melancholy, often playful electronic dance music—a densely layered landmark in the IDM (or Intelligent Dance Music) subgenre. More than any other, this album has served as a soundtrack to my life, as a symbol of my ongoing friendship with my younger brother, and as something that embodies a time of our lives that was never all-that-great but that now is gone forever—a time when all we had to do was drive a dirt road late at night, listening to this still-new CD again and again, marveling together at the way it fit the world so well. Track by track, song by song, moment by moment, it was a thing of wonder to us both, a thing of hidden joys and comforts, and it is still. Around the time of the tenth anniversary of the album’s initial release on the Leaf Label, I began to write the following, as liner notes."

Written by Mike Smith, a wonderful writer (check out @New_Mexico_News, oh boy). This is apparently a chapter of the memoir he's currently writing, which I'm really excited for.