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Miike Snow is - are - in a witty mood. The second, rather orchatronic, manuscript by a three-headed-band with a one-man-name and puzzling Jackalope pitch is called Happy To You. Why? "It's a pointer in a studio," shrugs tattooed Swedish writer Christian Karlsson. "An aged mis-spelt word postcard from Thailand. Nothing to do with any of a songs...but it arrange of stuck."
The rope that should never have worked have incited a new corner, and incited innumerable new tricks. Miike Snow's second manuscript is a delight of tunes, set to bake adult airwaves and dancefloors and festival-fields by 20 12 and beyond.
"Before this album, we were an idea," reflects Pontus Winnberg. "This time we were a band. And this time, we had paid a impost - we'd toured in 27 countries for 18 months. When we came in to make Happy To You, we came in as a unit, and emotionally for us that creates a outrageous difference. And hopefully we can hear it."
"Miike Snow is kinda like this playground," says long-haired American singer-songwriter Andrew Wyatt. "I don't consider Miike Snow functions inside of a genre. A few people wanted us to be some-more scrupulously in a dance world, though we don't consider this record is. Even a `dance' songs aren't unequivocally clubby..." So how do they conclude a follow-up to 2009's 200,000-selling self-titled debut? "Fun-da-mental," suggests Wyatt with an arched eyebrow. " `Cause it's da mental." (Not pictured: hip bound palm gesture.) Breaking from a tip event conceptualizing a new live show, rope member, writer and keys actor Pontus Winnberg commented... "It's like most of a things - we don't unequivocally wanna tell people what a titles are about, or a lyrics, or what a thoughts are about. We'd cite them to put them in their conduct and their lives and make their possess interpretation. It's good to keep a small bit of mystery." Happy To You and happy to be here: Miike Snow are behind with a big, bold, bright, charming manuscript bristling with tunes and (break)beats and ideas and some-more tunes - yes, that is an orchestra, and fo' sure, that is a marching rope - and it's not so prolonged given they were final here. They had started a rope as an ad hoc side-project between other jobs - Wyatt had been operative with Mark Ronson; as producer-writers Bloodshy & Avant, Winnberg and Karlsson had been cranking out a dancefloor hits such as Britney Spears' `Piece Of Me' and `Toxic.' They finished adult with an manuscript that was synced over 200 times in Hollywood and beyond. But a out-of-the-box success of a entire `Animal,' `Black & Blue' and `Silvia' - still personification on a radio or mechanism diversion or film soundtrack nearby we now - kinda took them by surprise. They toured a universe for 18 eye-watering months in support of a album, their tellurian opening report stretching forever before them, a yellow-brick-road of adventure, as a Jackalope galloped divided with them. Miike Snow did some 260 shows, primarily lugging their possess rigging into a shitty outpost though eventually gliding turn a universe with crates of cutting-edge rigging in a glossy hover-bus with wings (or something). The contingent went from a drunken foothills of Later... With Jools Holland. "The initial time on a uncover we played with Smokey Robinson," recalls Wyatt, "and we can't get aloft adult on a towering than Smokey. Then there was Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, The Dead Weather, Basement Jaxx. Now that was competition. They scaled a silly heights of 3000 ability clubs in Columbia and Chile, "hundreds of people singing along to each song," remembers Karlsson. "And that was before a record was even out!" And they crested a peaks of some of a world's biggest festivals, from Coachella to Glastonbury. But finally, Miike Snow came off a highway final spring, and went true into a studio in Stockholm. They suspicion it would take a year. They didn't care. "We were starving to be in a studio again," says Karlsson, "because before Miike Snow we were in a studio each day for 10 years. So being on a highway was unequivocally new to us." "The studio is kinda like a home," adds Winnberg. "Prior to furloughed with Miike Snow, from about 15 years aged we consider we was in a studio flattering most each day - some-more than we was during home. So it's a small bit of a reserve zone. And also, after furloughed with a band, it felt we had so many ideas about how to pierce on musically. So we had that combined titillate to start fucking around with that." The essay and recording of their entrance had taken place in fits and starts. Wyatt would fly behind and onward between Stockholm and New York for a few snatched weeks during a time. "Nobody unequivocally had any expectations with a initial album," admits Wyatt. "We knew we wanted to make a record though we didn't know anything over that. We didn't know if we would find anyone who would wish to conduct us as a rope or put a record out." But this time, buoyed by a success of that random album, things would be different. Wyatt relocated to Stockholm. The pierce finished clarity musically, and also personally. The suspicion for new strain `Archipelago,' a pulsation piano anthem, was seeded as a thespian flew over a Stockholm archipelago. "I had only damaged adult with my now ex-girlfriend," says Wyatt, who writes all of a lyrics. "She's Swedish though we met her in New York and she lives in New York and she unequivocally is a New Yorker. But as we flew in we did indeed see where she grew up. Then we also began saying where we unsuccessful in a relationship. So we was meditative about that kinda things on a plane..." Bunkered in their possess studio - named Robot Mountain, and housed in a stables of a hundred-year-old former glow hire - Miike Snow were dismissed by a suggestion of inventiveness. The songs came thick and fast. They worked together, and alone, and in rotation. "We upheld a flame in a opposite approach this time," says Karlsson. "We were operative on some-more than one strain during a time, and operative together on everything. we favourite that - afterwards you're means to examination when no one else is around. I'd get there in a morning and Andrew had been there all night, and we could continue. Then when we leave he comes back... It really altered a energetic of a songs and a songwriting."
Says Winnberg: "For all 3 of us, it's a unequivocally deceptive disproportion between songwriting to prolongation to blending to recording - all is only function in a large blur. So there was really movement going on all around a clock." Another cause adding to a fair whisk of inventiveness: Miike Snow indeed had 3 recording studios on that to work, including an aged place used by ABBA in a Seventies. Winnberg: "It was full of aged recording equipment, and we available a drums and acoustic instruments in there. It combined a kind of exemplary sourroundings to a whole album. And it was vibey; we hung out there a lot." The wee-hours after-party vibe of all those months on debate fed into a rippling Italo-house piano of dual hulk tracks. The punchy, thespian `Devil's Work' was aired by Zane Lowe on Radio 1 in early December, and now shot to Number One on a Hype Machine chart. The infectious, shouty `Paddling Out,' set to be a initial single, from Happy To You, is, according to Winnberg, an loyalty to a kind of dancefloor disco-inferno he's not listened in too long. Similarly, a early Nineties breakbeat of `Pretender' was a curtsy to a strain Karlsson grew adult with.
But rather than crash out their ideas on a Mac, and in gripping with Wyatt's some-more nuanced lyric-writing, Miike Snow opted to, like, keep it genuine (man). They called in strings and coronet and woodwind, and they called in a marching rope - a strong `Devil's Work' competence also be called "orchtronica", `Bavarian#1' has an overwhelming percussive pound, and `God Help This Divorce' possesses a abounding exemplary brush to compare a harmful lyric. "It talks about what indeed happens when a integrate split," says Wyatt of a strain that outlines a closest Miike Snow have ever come to a ballad. "It's a slowest strain we've ever done." A nick adult a bpm scale is `Vase,' a sensitively epic techno-soul singalong. There's some-more expertise in `Black Tin Box,' a detonate of songwriting luminosity so strong it facilely marshals dark, stroke beats, steel drums, ghost-in-the-machine singing from Wyatt and a "witchy" guest outspoken from Swedish pop-sorceress Lykke Li. "We know how to do a lot of opposite things, so because do a things that you've already done?" says Wyatt, explaining a constant clarity of journey on Happy To You - organic meets electronic, whistling meets raving, and no guitars allowed. "I consider infrequently we can benefit from holding divided options... And it's good to try do some uncanny things - juxtapose things that shouldn't work on paper." Maybe not. But Miike Snow's "song" songs are epically, tunefully wonderful. The jackalope is back, with additional horns (and strings and trumpets and glockenspiels and a rest).
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #1629 in Music
- Released on: 2012-03-26
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .21 pounds
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First tagged "indie rock" by Nick M.
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