2012, Merge Records

Jiaolong (pronounced JOW-long), an album of shape-shifting work, marks the first full length by Dan Snaith-as-Daphni. Throughout his six-month global Radiohead support tour, Dan Snaith has fallen deeper in love with the dance floor. Snaith says, "DJs have the potential to blindside you. During the time I was making the Caribou album Swim, I'd fallen back in love with moments in small, dark clubs when a DJ puts on a piece of music that not only can you not identify, but that until you heard it you could not have conceived of existing"