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The three-man band’s brand of tightly produced, thoughtfully smooth electronic pop has returned, but this time the album is even more cohesive and artistic. This is a work of refined talent.

Miike Snow is something of a supergroup in its own right, made up of front man Andrew Wyatt (a frequent collaborator with indie pop producer Mark Ronson) and Swedish pop producers Bloodshy and Avant, responsible for producing hits by the likes of Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue and Madonna.

With that sort of pop power running the show, listeners unfamiliar with Miike Snow’s sound may push play expecting to hear club bangers. But rather, on this album, "Happy To You," listeners are provided with subdued yet danceable electronic pop beautifully crafted with an overall orchestral quality from start to finish.

Wyatt’s voice glides over dreamlike sounds on ‘God Help This Divorce’ and provides his familiar breathy infection on others like ‘Enter The Jokers Lair,’ ‘Bavarian #1 (Say You Will)’ and the album’s first single ‘The Devil’s Work.’

The lovely Lykke Li is featured on ‘Black Tin Box,’ one of the slower tracks on the album and one that is hauntingly beautiful in tone and pace

Drums, piano and synthesized instrumentation carry each song into the next. How each blends and builds and rises and falls is truly a thing of exquisite production.

Unlike on the band’s first album, which contained songs that stood out from the others in superiority and seemed created with ‘hit’ in mind, (think ‘Animal’ and ‘Sylvia’), the ten songs on "Happy To You" are presented as one whole piece of work. The album flows with a springy ease from track to track, making it a surefire hit for the upcoming sunnier parts of the year.

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