“Burial”
from the album Miike Snow
2009
iTunes
Some artists fight against obscurity. Miike Snow flaunted it. For months, the name “Miike Snow” was shrouded in mystery, even after separate remixes of the Miike Snow song “Animal” by the Crookers and Treasure Fingers were unleashed online with a roar heard ’round the blogosphere. Well, the buzz remains, but the anonymity jig is up — Miike Snow is no mystery man, but rather three of them: it’s a band made up of American producer Andrew Wyatt and Swedish producers/songwriters Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg. Wyatt was a member of Black Beetle, the A.M., and most recently Fires of Rome. As for Karlsson and Winnberg, well… they may not be household names outside of the DJ scene, but they’ve had a hand in writing and producing tracks for both Madonna and Britney Spears, including the latter’s Grammy-winning “Toxic.” Clearly, these guys know how to craft irresistible, club-ready pop tunes, and the release of Miike Snow’s self-titled debut this June on Downtown Records should put them on the radar for good.