Happy to You by Miike Snow

Happy to You, Miike Snow's second studio album, came out in March 2012: on the 13th in the US through Downtown Records and Universal Republic, and six days later in the UK on Columbia. The trio had come together in Stockholm in 2007, pairing the Swedish production and songwriting team Bloodshy & Avant, otherwise known as Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, with American singer Andrew Wyatt.

This follow-up to their self-titled 2009 debut keeps that marriage of studio-rat precision and pop yearning intact. The beats are crisp and busy, the synths bright as a Nordic summer night, and Wyatt's voice floats over it all with a slightly lost, melancholy lilt, as if he's singing from the far end of the party. "Paddling Out" is the one that caught on with the countdowns.

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