• catchy melodies with dark cryptic lyrics
  • dense production but clear mixes
  • simple 3 chord progressions but cycling through many layers of melodies, instrumentation etc

01 ‘Animal’ – Miike Snow (2009) – Miike Snow

  1. layering at the start
  2. reggae offbeat

02 ‘Burial’ – Miike Snow (2009) – Miike Snow

  1. different vox production for each melody 1. radio 2. reverbed 3. doubled
  2. tumbling, rolling snare

03 ‘Silvia’ – Miike Snow (2009) – Miike Snow

  1. vocal sample as lead solo line “tell me … ah ah ah ah”
  2. EQ sweeps as progression and build, instead of chord changes

04 ‘Song For No One’ – Miike Snow (2009) – Miike Snow

  1. lead gtr call and response melody with vox lines
  2. distant chords stabs (organ) slapback delayed, up close dinky lead gtr melody line

05 ‘Black & Blue’ – Miike Snow (2009) – Miike Snow

  1. timings of chords changes against solid backbeat
  2. chorus; burbling synth, peaks in between vox lines, call and response

06 ‘Sans Soleil’ – Miike Snow (2009) – Miike Snow

  1. 3 major chords
  2. false ending in the middle, then into refrain

07 ‘A Horse Is Not A Home’ – Miike Snow (2009) – Miike Snow

  1. late chord change timing
  2. matched with delays providing a steady pulse

08 ‘Cult Logic’ – Miike Snow (2009) – Miike Snow

  1. strange animal cries in the background, tonally sliding
  2. 1 & – & 3 jittering one note rhythm

09 ‘Plastic Jungle’ – Miike Snow (2009) – Miike Snow

  1. electrical hum, used tonally
  2. giant hand clap, offbeat (4&) – like a big exclamation mark

10 ‘In Search Of’ – Miike Snow (2009) – Miike Snow

  1. reverse sucking chords, ducked on the kik – like nosaj thing does
  2. fuzzed out slabs cutting in and out 4 1 / / / / /  – 4 1 / / / / / – 4
11 ‘Faker’ – Miike Snow (2009) – Miike Snow

  1. piano chords 1 2 3 4 while bass line skips along
  2. added chords on the 2 and 4 + horn section on the 1s