Caribou is looking to collect his second Polaris Music Prize for his latest album Swim, his first since 2008′s Andorra, which picked up the Prize for that year. In an interview with AUX Weekly’s Barry Taylor, Daniel Snaith, aka Caribou chats about some of the inspiration behind his latest opus and reveals he only recently learned a normal childhood activity.

“I learned to Swim in the past year…I learned to swim properly anyway,” Snaith said. “I became obsessed with it like a lot of things I do I suppose.”

It seems that element has a lot to do with the album and not just relating to Snaith learning how to tread water. “The aesthetic idea of production of the album was making all the elements sounds fluid the way everything moves around your head when you’re listening to it in a way water would flow around,” he said. “My only distraction was going swimming everyday.”

The opening track on Swim is called “Odessa” and for the music video Snaith hired some video artists from British Columbia who had previously sent him a video for a song from one of his older albums unannounced. He liked it so much that he gave them “Odessa” and a proper budget to make a new video, which features a Mountain Goat.

“I forget exactly where it was filmed, but somewhere where you can just come across a Mountain Goat.” Check out the music video below.

AUX Weekly interview with 2010 Polaris Prize nominee Caribou. Catch AUX Weekly every Saturday at 8 pm.

Caribou’s “Odessa” music video from Swim.