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Miike Snow - Black Tin Box

‘Take me down to the hillside, show me where they used to play.’ The playful nature of Miike Snow’s past sound is taken down some dark paths on the penultimate track of their upcoming second album ‘Happy To You’. ‘Black Tin Box’ is a masterful example of a band pushing their sound into exciting new territories. Gone are the happy-go-lucky melodies of the joyous ‘Animal’ - instead, the group channel the spirit of The Knife and sister project Fever Ray as they experiment with a sinister mix of vocodered vocals, insistent drums and spectral synths. The production is wonderfully spooky, playing out like a twisted nursery rhyme as lead vocalist Andrew Wyatt chants the chorus-lines: ‘Black sheep, black sheep, give me aftershocks’ to truly hypnotic effect. The dizzy chills continue as Lykke Li lends her husky Scandinavian tones to the mix before a wonderfully dreamy set of strings bring the track to a climatic close. The bleak and claustrophobic atmosphere of ‘Black Tin Box’ is a stunning listen which finds Miike Snow in a state of much-needed artistic abandon.