Quick, Before It Melts.

After listening to Andorra, you wouldn't be surprised to hear that Dan Snaith chose Caribou as the moniker under which to record while tripping on LSD in the Canadian wilderness. That the whole need to choose a new, a new name actually, was because he was being sued for the use to the name Manitoba by Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba. What else is there to do if you're a struggling (yet highly imaginative) musician facing a lawsuit that will bankrupt you other than to get high and go hiking?

Andorra is the ultimate head trip, mainly because it all came from inside Snaith's head. It's hard to believe that he's responsible for everything you hear on it (save some vocal contributions from Junior Boys' Jeremy Greenspan) because there's so much there to hear. It's so densely packed that sounds and melodies jump around and bounce off each other with such velocity that they end up ricocheting around your skull long after the songs are over. The album is only matched in its wide screen scope by the vivid and mesmerizing live show that Caribou has become known for.

Andorra is one of 10 albums shortlisted for this year's Polaris Music Prize. Early talk is that Snaith's phantasmagoria of psychedelic electropop is the album to beat this year, but since the final decision rests with an 11 person jury who'll pick the album on the same night as the winner is announced, it's anybody's guess. That being said, there's nothing else quite like Andorra on the shortlist; almost a year after it was released it still resonates and sounds brilliant.