Miike Snow closes NYC Stint at Bowery Ballroom

Richie Adomako / March 29, 2010

Last weekend, Miike Snow played three consecutive sold-out shows in New York City. Not bad, considering the Swedish trio formed in 2007 and didn’t appear on the U.S. music radar till the release of their eponymous album in May 2009. The trio – frontman Andrew Wyatt and production duo Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg – may have been wearing white masks as they took the stage at Bowery Ballroom for their final performance, but there was nothing anonymous about who they were or to what they were delivering. This audience knew their music.

Extra sentiments of electro and syth added surprises to their familiar songs, while smoke and syncopated explosions of light flooded the stage. As Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg took to electronic instruments that relied on their DJ and production skills, Andrew Wyatt went back and forth on the piano and guitar. On the microphone, Wyatt was an excursion of emotional bursts, using his voice as a juxtaposition to their long synth-based interludes between songs and switching his  range and tone with ease. While the group may have been familiar to the audience, they added a certain element that created a feeling of nostalgia, yielding an astonishing live set in both performance and production.

Check out photos from Miike Snow’s performance at the Bowery Ballroom by Kenroy George, and click through for their video for “Silvia”