After a North American run earlier this year left fans and critics clamoring for more, Swedish indie-pop trio Miike Snow has announced a return trip in the spring.
The three-week club and theatre trek kicks off March 22 at Masquerade in Atlanta and winds across the U.S. and Canada before wrapping April 15 at San Francisco’s The Independent.
Although Miike Snow was born in Stockholm in 2007, the group is actually made up of New York City-based songwriter Andrew Wyatt and Swedes Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg. The duo are probably best known to fans of the pop world as Bloodshy & Avant, the production wizards behind hits for Madonna, Kelis, Jennifer Lopez, Kylie Minogue and others, as well as Britney Spears’ smash “Toxic.”
The band’s eponymous debut has generated significant buzz since it’s release last May, with Filter praising the group’s “deliriously intuitive talent,” NPR calling the album “instantly accessible” and SF Weekly predicting, “This is going to get huge … This is a band that is already too big for its venues, and will likely only get bigger.”
See for yourself what all the fuss is about. Listen to tracks on Miike Snow's Myspace page or check out the video for “Animal,” the lead single from the album, which found its way onto the CW’s smash teen drama “Gossip Girl” this season.