Miike Snow (Andrew Wyatt is on the far right)
When The Buried Life boys were rushing to the hospital to help deliver a baby in a recent episode, the stark and melodic synth beats of Miike Snow were playing in the background. Now, if you think there was a typo in Miike, rest assured; there are two i's in the name and, actually, three people in the band—American singer-songwriter Andrew Wyatt and two Swedes, Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, who are also known as the production team of Bloodshy & Avant. While Miike Snow's music often favor the epic minimalism of well-placed, sustained piano chords and smooth harmonies, Bloodshy & Avant have a resume of lavish production credits, including collaborations with Madonna and Kelis and Britney Spears' Grammy-winning "Toxic."
Miike Snow formed while Karlsson and Winnberg were working on a job for another artist and met Wyatt. The three weren't envisioning a big pop career—let alone getting a track of theirs, "Animal," played on TV. (The tune appeared on Gossip Girl last year). As Wyatt sees it, they there just three people who wanted to make music together.
"In all of the songs, basically, whatever we did in the first half hour to hour [of playing], ended up being the song," explains Wyatt. "Sometimes it's one line—or a whole verse."
Now Miike Snow has made the leap from the Upper East Side to The Buried Life and Wyatt, for one, is happy to be a part of the show. "I think anything that helps people do what they really want to do, without hurting anyone else, is good."
So what's on Wyatt's bucket list? "Have kids, have grandkids, maybe [go] wing-suit jumping." But before that happens, Miike Snow has quite a few gigs to play. Check to see if the band will be playing your neck of the woods by hoofing over to the band's website for a complete tour rundown.