Our LA correspondents, Dominik & Grant attended last night’s gig and have shared the following review. Nestled in a strip mall with a Spanish supermarket and a travel agent, Costa Mesa’s Detroit Bar is not the typical venue to see a show. Inside it’s even worse. 2000 degrees and smelling like the set of The Biggest Loser, this was the most cramped show I’ve ever attended. Also adding to the annoyance, Miike Snow still hasn’t gone on by 11:30. What a miserable night. But no. The minute Miike Snow appears on stage, in a cloud of smoke, wearing white face masks, all is forgiven. The opening bars of “Burial” unite the audience which sings nearly every word to every song played. Not that there were many. In their 60 minute plus set, Miike Snow played only 8 tunes from their self titled debut LP. Each track was mixed, dubbed, looped and extended. This is not what we expected a Miike Snow to feel like. This was a rave. The extended break in album highlight “Sylvia” informed the audience what to expect. Lasers shot into the audience, blinding and hypnotic. Songs segued into each other seamlessly.

Read the rest of this review & download a MS tune AFTER THE JUMP…

Some other things to note. The singer looks like Jesus. More fake smoke was used tonight than anywhere I’ve ever seen before. Sometimes the cloud of smoke would appear and when it dissipated band members would be gone! It was a cute trick. Minor gripe, the three best songs on the album: “Faker”, “A Horse Is Not A Home” & “Song For No One” were the only three not to get played. They closed with “In Search Of” which was accompanied by an impressive laser/projection combo. The song was heavily reworked and intensely dancey. We were both covered in other people’s beer by the end of the night. Again, not what I expected from Miike Snow.

These guys are ANIMALS.

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MP3: Miike Snow – Animal (Mark Ronson Mix)