Happy To You by Miike Snow
Miike Snow is an electronic indie pop band from the land of Switzerland with an American singer. Miike Snow is known for the songs Animal, Black and Blue, A Horse is Not a Home, Cult Logic (may favorite) and Silvia. After the mind blowing performance in Coachella featuring Lykke Li they quickly rose up in the music ladder. Though Happy to You wasn't as hyped as muck as the debut they released two singles so far and two extraordinary videos which makes you look and wonder what the message in the video are. In a way Miike snow are starting a really great trend with the music videos and more coming according to Andrew Wyatt. Well anyway that's just a small introduction of Miike Snow to the track review.
Track Review (click on the links too):
1. Enter the Jokers Lair: Its different from the stuff they made before its strange though some of the additions to the song sound out of place until other layers are added to the song. Miike snow went up the weirdness level in the weirdness scale. Of course that's not really a bad thing because Miike Snow are pulling it off and they aren't chasing people away with the odd synth and strange loopings. Miike Snow are driving their way into a new realm of music and they will continue to influence the next generation of musicians.
2. The Wave: The Wave is the second single to come out of this album. This is the song with the second music video in the Jean Noel series. The song is similar to the stuff from the debut which is probably why its more of a single than Enter the Jokers Lair even though that song sounds a bit more experimental and should be a single. The thing about this song is that it has really great battle ready snare drum. The piano helps make an anticipating feel and the vocals sound very taunting especially with the vocal processors. There's a lot of sparkling and twinkling in this song making a very magical sounding song. The chime bells are the most magical instrument. The addition of flutes gives it a old era feel.
3. Devils Work: This is probably going to be the next single if there's another single released. This song sounds very dramatic because of the hammered piano. The progressions in this song are as follows... piano enters, vocals enter, drums enter, twinkling synth enters, horn synth enters, other horn synth enters, vocal processes change, bouncing twinkling synth enters, bleeping synth enters. Throughout the song many of these instruments/processes change or exit and/or return later or leave completely from the song. Really the only constant in this song are the vocals (though the vocal processors change a bit), the piano, and the drum beat.
4. Vase: This song is pretty good its got a very catchy beat its very simple in the beginning with only the slapping snare and beeping. The vocals are very modest not to extravagant. The song is very thin at most there are about four things playing all at once. its a pretty modest song with a great beat ill just leave it at that.
5. God Help this Divorce: More twinkling. More chime bells. The song title is very ironic and you would think the song would be a tad less happy but its not its like Port of Morrow by The Shins when its trying to be sad its actually being pretty happy.
6. Bavarian #1 (say you will): March style drumming and twinkling. Its a reoccurring theme in the music of this album. Whistling yeah that's another great add in this song the singing in this song is really good better than all the songs before. The progression is pretty complex and it goes through a series of exits and entrances and this just enhances the sound of the singing. Its a great song and i remember his live performance with this song and it was great.
7. Pretender: This song has the smashing piano and well the vocals are pretty sad. Its a really realistic song though. The additional instruments added on after a while really give it a sad feeling. The song lyrics says something around the lines of "waking up to reality isn't great because you notice that your getting older that even in the children's faces you can see the wrinkles growing in.
8. Archipelago: For those geography savvy people Archipelago is a cluster of islands grouped together. this song captures that feeling the peaceful and wonderful feeling of the ocean, the beach, the waves, the atmosphere. The song is really pretty it has some really cute sounds that make you smile a little and close your eyes and imagine floating by the ocean right by the peaceful little islands.
9. Black Tin Box: This song has something that others don't have. A collaboration with Lykke Li, from INGRID records which Miike Snow helped to establish. This song is really good its one of the calmer and more ambient sounding tracks they have. Personally this song is one of my favorites in the album because its long and its progression is elongated out. The vocals from Lykke Li are pretty good. Its very good and super calm. The song is very chill it has the right amount of energy and stillness that it makes it seem relaxing, maybe its just because of the addition of Lykke Li but the song is really good and the Coachella performance was just mesmerising with the dark lighting and the strobe lights it was really good in setting up the mood for the track Animal and Cult Logic, and looking at Lykke Li dancing was very fun it looked like Andrew and Li had something going there and it was really fun.
10. Padding Out: The piano is very loud and the drumming is soft. Here's the first single in the album. Yes its worthy of being a single because it has so many progressions and the mood changes and the thickness/thinness. The music video is really strange and it goes through this storyline of a weird transformation and like it doesn't make sense until you watch the second video and even then there are still questions that need to be answered. This song is awesome though and through its very processed vocals there is a message.
11. Garden: This sounds a lot like Black Tin Box its very calm and twinkly. The drum gets louder and so does the synth it gets very loud. This song can be summarized in two word calm and reverb. it has a lot of echoes and his voice is very calming.
12. No Starry World: I'm not gonna lie this is one of my least favorite tracks. Its not because of any good reason its just i get bored easily. The clicking and Other such effects are good but it doesn't move me. It just isn't "there" and for all those who have the same feel the same way about songs that you feel but don't really dig then you know what i mean.
Verdict: Mainly the thing with Miike Snow is the drumming that gets you moving. The synth is really extraordinary and the vocals are amazing. The most notable thing about this album is the amount of twinkling and the amount of strange synth it has. It's the difference between the debut and this one. The debut is a lot catchier and has more upbeat songs but there aren't as much changes in the beat like this album has. The progression is really good in this album i have to give Miike Snow some sort of acknowledgement for that.
3. Devils Work: This is probably going to be the next single if there's another single released. This song sounds very dramatic because of the hammered piano. The progressions in this song are as follows... piano enters, vocals enter, drums enter, twinkling synth enters, horn synth enters, other horn synth enters, vocal processes change, bouncing twinkling synth enters, bleeping synth enters. Throughout the song many of these instruments/processes change or exit and/or return later or leave completely from the song. Really the only constant in this song are the vocals (though the vocal processors change a bit), the piano, and the drum beat.
4. Vase: This song is pretty good its got a very catchy beat its very simple in the beginning with only the slapping snare and beeping. The vocals are very modest not to extravagant. The song is very thin at most there are about four things playing all at once. its a pretty modest song with a great beat ill just leave it at that.
5. God Help this Divorce: More twinkling. More chime bells. The song title is very ironic and you would think the song would be a tad less happy but its not its like Port of Morrow by The Shins when its trying to be sad its actually being pretty happy.
6. Bavarian #1 (say you will): March style drumming and twinkling. Its a reoccurring theme in the music of this album. Whistling yeah that's another great add in this song the singing in this song is really good better than all the songs before. The progression is pretty complex and it goes through a series of exits and entrances and this just enhances the sound of the singing. Its a great song and i remember his live performance with this song and it was great.
7. Pretender: This song has the smashing piano and well the vocals are pretty sad. Its a really realistic song though. The additional instruments added on after a while really give it a sad feeling. The song lyrics says something around the lines of "waking up to reality isn't great because you notice that your getting older that even in the children's faces you can see the wrinkles growing in.
8. Archipelago: For those geography savvy people Archipelago is a cluster of islands grouped together. this song captures that feeling the peaceful and wonderful feeling of the ocean, the beach, the waves, the atmosphere. The song is really pretty it has some really cute sounds that make you smile a little and close your eyes and imagine floating by the ocean right by the peaceful little islands.
9. Black Tin Box: This song has something that others don't have. A collaboration with Lykke Li, from INGRID records which Miike Snow helped to establish. This song is really good its one of the calmer and more ambient sounding tracks they have. Personally this song is one of my favorites in the album because its long and its progression is elongated out. The vocals from Lykke Li are pretty good. Its very good and super calm. The song is very chill it has the right amount of energy and stillness that it makes it seem relaxing, maybe its just because of the addition of Lykke Li but the song is really good and the Coachella performance was just mesmerising with the dark lighting and the strobe lights it was really good in setting up the mood for the track Animal and Cult Logic, and looking at Lykke Li dancing was very fun it looked like Andrew and Li had something going there and it was really fun.
10. Padding Out: The piano is very loud and the drumming is soft. Here's the first single in the album. Yes its worthy of being a single because it has so many progressions and the mood changes and the thickness/thinness. The music video is really strange and it goes through this storyline of a weird transformation and like it doesn't make sense until you watch the second video and even then there are still questions that need to be answered. This song is awesome though and through its very processed vocals there is a message.
11. Garden: This sounds a lot like Black Tin Box its very calm and twinkly. The drum gets louder and so does the synth it gets very loud. This song can be summarized in two word calm and reverb. it has a lot of echoes and his voice is very calming.
12. No Starry World: I'm not gonna lie this is one of my least favorite tracks. Its not because of any good reason its just i get bored easily. The clicking and Other such effects are good but it doesn't move me. It just isn't "there" and for all those who have the same feel the same way about songs that you feel but don't really dig then you know what i mean.
Verdict: Mainly the thing with Miike Snow is the drumming that gets you moving. The synth is really extraordinary and the vocals are amazing. The most notable thing about this album is the amount of twinkling and the amount of strange synth it has. It's the difference between the debut and this one. The debut is a lot catchier and has more upbeat songs but there aren't as much changes in the beat like this album has. The progression is really good in this album i have to give Miike Snow some sort of acknowledgement for that.
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