Dan Snaith has carved a niche in electronic music as the thinking person's purveyor of twinkling beats.

Magic Moment: Caribou, Vicar Street. Caribou’s headliner at Vicar Street in November was sublime and spooky, with delicate beats and waves of old-fashioned human emotion coming together gorgeously.

After 15 years of toil, Dan Snaith’s fifth album has made him a star, writes Ed Power