The first Caribou (née Manitoba) album Start Breaking My Heart was released twenty years ago today. To mark the occasion, we’re repressing the first three albums, Start Breaking My Heart, Up In Flames and The Milk Of Human Kindness on black vinyl, limited to just 1000 copies each for the world. These three records helped put Leaf on the map, and certainly signposted the eclectic nature of our output.

“I’d been making music since I was an early teenager,” Dan Snaith explains. “But the music on this album was the first time I felt like something had clicked. All of a sudden, I had a sense of what I wanted the tracks I was making to be. Luckily that had happened right around the time I met Kieran Hebden, accosting him out of the blue at a festival while visiting the UK, and we had kept in touch. He passed the music along to Tony at The Leaf Label. Making this album in my crappy student bedroom in Toronto and mailing it over to Tony on burned CDs, it was thrilling that there was a real record label in London that was excited about releasing it all over the world. It may be 20 years ago, but I can still remember the excitement from around the time of this album release and of me starting to become a ‘real music producer’ vividly.”

Start Breaking My Heart, Up In Flames and The Milk Of Human Kindness LPs are available to pre-order now on Bandcamp. They will be in shops in the UK and Europe on 30th July and the rest of the world on 10th September.

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