''Miike Snow'' is the debut album by Swedish

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Miike Snow Miike Snow (pronounced "Mike Snow") is a Swedish indie pop band formed in 2007. The band consists of producing team Bloodshy & Avant and American singer Andrew Wyatt. The band is often represented by a silhouette image of a jackalope. In their ca ...

. It was released in the United States on 22 September 2009 by

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and in the United Kingdom on 26 October 2009 by

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, reaching number ninety-five on the

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. A deluxe edition was released on the

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in the US and Australia on 13 April 2010 and in Japan on 26 May 2010, including remixes of past tracks and "The Rabbit".

Singles

The first single to be taken from the album was "

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", released on 17 February 2009, which reached as far as number ninety-eight on the

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. " Black & Blue", the album's second single, was released on 15 October 2009 and became the band's most successful single to date when it peaked at number sixty-four on the UK Singles Chart. Third single "

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" was released on 22 January 2010 in the UK, but failed to break the top 100 and instead peaked at number 154.

Track listing

Personnel

* Miike Snow – vocals, production, mixing * Niklas Flyckt – mixing (tracks 7, 10) * Anders Hvenare – mixing (tracks 1–6, 8, 9, 11) * Ted Jensen – mastering * Sebastian Mlynarski – innersleeve, band portraits * Dirk Vandenberk – cover image photography

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Miike Snow (Album) 2009 debut albums Columbia Records albums Downtown Records albums Miike Snow albums European Border Breakers Award-winning albums