Miike Snow Miike Snow(Downtown)***If you listen to the opening seconds of “Animal” from Sweden’s Miike Snow, you’d never guess it’s the work of the same production team behind some major players in the top-40 game. Well, the beatmakers behind Britney Spears’ “Toxic” have teamed up with an indie singer and they’ve made something (mildly) memorable on this self-titled disc. I was captivated by nearly every track on this disc right from the opening seconds and couldn’t wait to find out where they were headed. Unfortunately, they often headed pretty far afield — imagine a cross between Sigur Rós, an uninspired Coldplay, and a melancholy (and easily distracted) MGMT spinning the knobs. It’s all frustratingly elusive, but perhaps that elusiveness is what makes the album notable — if this same material were sung by your standard indie band, it’d hardly be would be worth the plastic the CD was made from. Miike Snow won’t stick in your head like a Britney Spears hit, but I guess the imagination that went into this album stands for something.
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