

Butterfly’s bright, joyful, highly addictive pop-house is both the simplest music Dan Snaith, the Canadian producer who also records as Caribou, has ever made and, in a way, the most meditative. No intros, no outros, barely any development, just pure molten center at (mostly) high BPMs with hooky loops arranged minimally on top. Easier said than done, of course, which is why so few (early Daft Punk, for one) manage to do it with any grace. Standouts include the Blaxploitation horns of “Hang” and the wobbly syncopations of “Shifty” (shout-out Night Slugs circa 2010), both of which capture the album’s playful, almost anthropomorphic charm. Realistically, though, anyone who gets a dopamine hit from the album opener, accurately titled “Sad Piano House,” will be hopelessly locked in for the hour.