“Paddling Out” by Miike Snow

Miike Snow led off their second album, Happy to You, with "Paddling Out", the first single, released on 23 January 2012. The Swedish band's Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg and Andrew Wyatt wrote it, the band produced, arranged and recorded it with Thomas Hedlund on drums, and Niklas Flyckt mixed. They cut it in a studio ABBA once called home, and the room left its mark on the result, a piano-led electropop and house number laced with disco, Italo house and acid jazz, riding a four-on-the-floor thump that Winnberg called their tribute to the disco dance floor.

Andreas Nilsson's video, dreamed up after talks with the band about genetic engineering and surveillance, has childlike aliens in Victorian dress abduct a man and remake him as a "Perfect Human", a story that runs on through the clips for "The Wave" and "Pretender".

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