Down The Rabbit Hole

Still riding the wave of acclaim that accompanied their 2009 self-titled debut LP, Miike Snow’s lead singer Andrew Wyatt reveals the new year will see the three-piece launch a second assault on the international charts.

Singles 'Animal', 'Silvia', 'Black & Blue' and 'The Rabbit' have all enjoyed success outside Miike Snow's traditional indie-pop audience, but it's hardly surprising given the group's links with the commercial and electronic scenes.

Miike Snow's production team of Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg have previously worked with Madonna and Kelis, and even won a Grammy for Best Dance Music Recording for their work with Britney Spears on 'Toxic'.

Mark Ronson, Italy's Crookers, Tiga and Netsky, meanwhile, are just a few to have remixed Miike Snow's singles, making their music accessible to tech heads and drum & bass aficionados alike. It's this broad appeal which no doubt contributed to the success of their first visit to Australia earlier this year. â€œWe were quite pleased; never having been down there before we didn't know what to expect at all,” Wyatt recalls. “Our first show was at Splendour In The Grass and it was 2pm or something … and we didn't think there were going to be that many people there. 

“We didn't really expect anything and then we came out there and there were 12,000 people out there and they all knew most of the songs.”

Confirmed to play next year's Good Vibrations festival, Wyatt reveals that tour will mark the end of a manic 32 months of touring and will be the last time the first album is performed live before he, Winnberg and Karlsson bunker down in the studio to work on the follow up. As he explains, the mixture of a hit first record and being signed to renowned Downtown Records does create some pressure. â€œYou feel like you want to change it to suit yourself but you also don't want to lose your audience that likes what you do already,” he says. “You're never content to just keep doing the same thing again so there's always this temptation and that balance that you have to walk.

“It's a little daunting but also very exciting [and] we do have a bunch of songs and a bunch of ideas. We're always constantly putting ideas down in one form or another.”

Miike Snow play Good Vibrations, at the Gold Coast Parklands, Saturday February 19. gvf.com.au