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Miike Snow : 'Animal'

Miike Snow : 'Animal'

 

Released: 10th August 2009

Label: Columbia Records / Sony Music

 

 

Miike Snow is the Swedish electronica branch of Fires Of Rome Andrew Wyatt’s musical land. The new single, ‘Animal’, is a collection of Wyatt’s folk leanings and Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg’s synth production (aka Bloodshy and Avant).

Karlsson and Winnberg produced Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ while Wyatt worked in Jeff Buckley’s band. Miike Snow have hidden any trace of obvious pop (that may lead from Spears and Buckley), trading in for smoothed, tranquilized electro-pop. It helps that Andrew Wyatt sounds like Phil Collins, so can Miike Snow match supremely 80s emo vocals with layered processed beats.

Lyrics, ‘I change shapes just to hide in this place, but I’m still, I’m still an animal’ use the clever ploy of the folk behind Animal Collective – child lyrics and layered samples. But enough of references to the Collective, as they excel far beyond Miike Snow’s pedestrian pop.

‘Animal’ should be remixed very soon, to add a little experimentalism to a soft slice of 2009 mainstream. The Guardian like it for god’s sake.

 

Words: Alice White

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