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Miike Snow, Happy To You (Columbia)

Given that two-thirds of Miike Snow (Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnber, aka producers Bloodshy & Avant) were behind Britney Spears's Toxic, you'd expect these Swedish-American electro-popsters to be a bigger chart presence in their own right.

Caught in a meeting place between indie rock and synth pop, they're perhaps too unconventionally interesting to make it easy for downloaders to love them unconditionally. That said, I reckon this second album is a better self- contained collection of songs than anything released to date by MGMT or Empire Of The Sun, who might make for fair comparisons.

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