Back then he was going by Manitoba. I have lots of love and respect for the music Dan Snaith has released as Caribou, and I can refer to the likes of Swim and Suddenly as Caribou records without cognitive dissonance. But I refuse to recognize Up In Flames, the project’s breakthrough sophomore LP, as a Caribou release. Every glorious sound on the album — and every gorgeous pixel of its perfectly matched cover art — screams “Manitoba!” to me. The impact was too profound to retrofit this music with a separate moniker, disgruntled punk pioneers be damned.