Daphni has announced his first album in four years, Butterfly, and shared a pair of new songs. Listen to “Waiting So Long”—which “features” Dan Snaith’s Caribou alter-ego—and the dubbier “Lucky” below. The Cherry follow-up arrives February 6, 2026, via Snaith’s Jiaolong imprint.
Snaith explains the Daphni-Caribou collaboration in press materials thus:
People understandably always ask about the difference between Caribou and Daphni music—how I decide which is which. I think there have been times where the music I’ve made under the two aliases has been farther apart and times—e.g. right now—where they’re closer together. One big thing that has always differentiated them is my voice. I’ve never sung on a Daphni track. When I started ‘Waiting So Long’ initially it was an instrumental. The lyric and the melody came to me as I was working on it and I just recorded it without thinking too much about it, but when I listened back to it a few days later it was the first time that i’ve had the sense that a track belonged to both aliases—like Daphni had sampled a Caribou vocal or something like that. I’m not in the midst of some existential crisis; I haven't, hopefully, slipped too deep into the welcoming waters of the pool of Narcissus; I don’t agonise about what track ends up under what alias—in fact the opposite. I worry about it less than ever and just go with my gut instinct. On a practical level I just felt like this was a track that both Daphni and Caribou fans might want to hear.”
Of the album’s ethos, Snaith adds, “Daphni music is still music that I’m making primarily for the purpose of playing in my DJ sets. The majority of the tracks on this record I do play regularly in my sets. But then there are a bunch—slower, weirder—that I don’t usually play… or wait… maybe the point is that I’d only play them in the right club.” One particular club, Open Ground in Wuppertal, Germany, bears a particular influence on the album, he notes.
A handful of songs from the new record have been released in the years since Cherry, among them “Sad Piano House,” “Clap Your Hands,” “Eleven,” and “Josephine.”
Butterfly:
01 Sad Piano House
02 Clap Your Hands
03 Hang
04 Lucky
05 Waiting So Long
06 Napoleon’s Rock
07 Good Night Baby
08 Talk to Me
09 Two Maps
10 Josephine
11 Miles Smiles
12 Goldie
13 Caterpillar
14 Shifty
15 Invention
16 Eleven
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