''Happy to You'' is the second studio album by Swedish

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. It was released in the United States on 13 March 2012 by Downtown Records and Universal Republic Records, and in the United Kingdom on 19 March 2012 by

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Background and recording

Miike Snow announced on social media on 31 May 2011 that they were working on a new album. On 6 October 2011, the band began mixing the album. After recording for the album concluded on 29 November 2011, the band started filming the accompanying music videos and finished working on the artwork. The album was named after an "old mis-spelt phrase" on a Thailand postcard that the band put up in the studio. Band member Christian Karlsson said it has "nothing to do with any of the songs... but it sort of stuck".

Release and promotion

The promotional single "Devil's Work" debuted on

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on 6 December 2011, and was subsequently offered as a free download. The band announced on 20 December 2011 that their second studio album would be titled ''Happy to You'', with a release date set for the week of 26 March 2012. The album's lead single "

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" premiered on ''

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'' magazine's website on 19 January 2012, before its digital release on 23 January. Another song from the album, "Black Tin Box" (a collaboration with Swedish singer Lykke Li), premiered on '' Pitchfork'' on 24 January 2012. ''Happy to You'' was released on

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on 13 March 2012, 13 days ahead of the original 26 March release date. " The Wave" was released as the album's second single on 14 May 2012. The accompanying video premiered on 15 March and was once again directed by Swedish director Andreas Nilsson, who also worked on the video for "Paddling Out". Both videos form together a unified story about a group of unfortunate humans who were abducted to space in an experiment to create a perfect human named Jean Noel. After some pretty brutal chainsaw surgery that is performed on the latest abductee, the spaceship seemingly manned by Rococo-era twins crashes to Earth and that is where the story of the second video starts.

Commercial reception

In the United States, ''Happy to You'' debuted at number 43 on the ''Billboard'' 200, selling 10,000 copies its first week. It also debuted at number 13 on the ''

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chart and at number nine on the

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chart. As of January 2016, the album had sold 42,000 copies in the US.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of ''Happy to You''. *

– all instruments, arrangements, production, programming, recording, vocals * Johan Ahlin – French horn * Gustav Ejstes –

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* Staffan Findin – bass trombone, trombone * Niklas Flyckt – mixing * Svante Halldin –

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, trumpet * Thomas Hedlund – drums *

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– mastering * Lykke Li – additional vocals * David Lindberg –

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s * Pär Lindqvist – strings * Jonathan Lundberg – field drums * Samuel Lundin – mastering assistance * Claes Malmberg – field drums * Natalie Migdal – strings * Sabina Sandri Olsson – strings * Nille Perned – additional recording * Axel Sjöstedt – trumpet * Fredrik Syberg – strings * Nils Törnqvist – drums

Charts

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Happy To You 2012 albums Columbia Records albums Downtown Records albums Miike Snow albums Universal Republic Records albums