Wyatt relocated to Stockholm. The move made sense musically, and also personally. Bunkered in their own studio — named Robot Mountain, and housed in the stables of a hundred-year-old former fire station — Miike Snow were fired by the spirit of inventiveness.
The songs came thick and fast. They worked together, and alone, and in rotation. Then when I leave he comes back… It definitely changed the dynamic of the songs and the songwriting. So there was definitely action going on all around the clock. Another factor adding to the carnival whirl of inventiveness: Miike Snow actually had three recording studios on which to work, including an old place used by ABBA in the Seventies.
It added a kind of classic environment to the whole album. And it was vibey; we hung out there a lot. The wee-hours after-party vibe of all those months on tour fed into the rippling Italo-house piano of two giant tracks. Maybe not.
Before that, he bounced back and forth between Sweden and LA, where the year-old also keeps his own studio, while he and Wyatt collaborated on their respective parts of the album.
Since forming Galantis in , the progressive house 2. If you've been referring to Miike Snow as a "he" for the past four years, that's the point; from its inception, the project has been driven by its members' desire to be known as a collective, a singular entity that transcends the sounds they hock behind the boards as individual producers. Now in their 40s, Miike Snow's concerns lay less in the band's trajectory and the visions of grandeur and stardom that may preoccupy their younger ilk, and more in appreciating presence of disappearing into a standalone project greater than the sum of its parts.
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It was kinda chaotic. Karlsson: Yeah, it was good. I mean, some shows went better than others, but I think we got to experience why [SXSW] gets that rumor of being different from other festivals.
Q: What do you think makes it different? Karlsson: Because, you know, everyone goes to play a lot of shows everywhere, and you play small stages, and everything is pretty chaotic. They give you everything for free. Karlsson: Yeah, they give you stuff everywhere. Wyatt: And lemonade comes out of the water faucets. Q: So you said in past interviews that this band started out as an experiment.
Has the experiment turned out as you expected, or has it mutated differently? Q: Who would you guys say are some of your biggest influences?
Q: Are there any current bands out right now that you guys really admire? Winnberg: Yeah, there are a lot of bands out now that we admire. Beach House to Grizzly Bear, which we mentioned before. Karlsson: A lot of really good music. Q: Backtracking a little: you guys have four music videos out now. Do you have plans to make any others, and if so, what can people expect? Winnberg: All the treatments are actually amazing.
Q: So are you guys really involved in the process for that kind of stuff? Wyatt: Now we are. The whole thing kind of took us by surprise when we first started. Q: So you guys have been touring a lot, but not at many college campuses. What are you expecting out of this crowd tonight? Wyatt: Good people, good rhythm. Winnberg: A lot of dancing! Karlsson: I hear there are a lot of good dancers here.
Q: What kind of goes into a show? Do you really plan out all the lights and those aspects? Wyatt: We have help from a very skilled lighting artist. There was not enough power, actually. Winnberg: That will eventually be solved. So that will be something pretty unique.
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