[citation needed] Karlsson and Winnberg collaborated under the moniker Bloodshy & Avant[3] and enjoyed a significant amount of success as producers and songwriters.

They have worked with artists such as Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Kelis, Sky Ferreira,[4] and won a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for Britney Spears' track "Toxic.

"[5] In 2004, while working on writing a pop album for Britney Spears, Karlsson and Winnberg met the third band member, American songwriter Andrew Wyatt.

The 'Punks Jump Up' remix of "Animal" is used as the theme music for the British Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner.

The Guardian spoke highly of the band, saying Miike Snow's "coolly emotional pop suggests A-ha meets Animal Collective.

"[11] Miike Snow have remixed tracks for Depeche Mode, Passion Pit, Peter Bjorn and John, Kings of Leon, I Blame Coco and Vampire Weekend.

Their music has been remixed by Mark Ronson, Crookers, Peter Bjorn and John, Treasure Fingers, Tiga, Caspa, Style of Eye, Emalkay, Fake Blood, Benny Blanco, Savage Skulls, Netsky, Hood Internet and DJ Mehdi, amongst others.

On 29 November 2011, the band announced via Facebook that the album is complete, the videos are being shot, the artwork is being finished, and the tour dates are being planned.

[19] On 24 January 2012, another song from the album, called "Black Tin Box," a collaboration with Swedish singer Lykke Li, was presented at Pitchfork.

[20] On 9 March, Miike Snow visited Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show and debuted a new Happy to You song "Bavarian No.

Premiered by Zane Lowe on his Beats1 program, "Heart Is Full" served as the first single released in support of the third studio album from the group.

[24] Miike Snow co-headlined at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino in Reno, Nevada and the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California with Phantogram in the summer of 2017.

In 2019, they played an unreleased track titled "I Was a Sailor" live at Just Like Heaven fest at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California.

[26] On 30 July 2011, the band announced via Twitter that their new record label, Ingrid, founded by Miike Snow, Peter Bjorn and John, Lykke Li, Coco Morier, and Dungen, was open for business.

[28] Thus, in 2011,[28] in anticipation for the Happy to You tour, Miike Snow collaborated with the Swedish electronics lab Teenage Engineering and one of the engineers from Elektronmusikstudion (EMS)[29] to create "The Blob,"[30] a 9 ft × 9 ft hexagonal[31] synthesiser[30][32] The Blob has been introduced by vocalist Wyatt as "Part synthesizer, part testosterone, all headache, ladies and gentlemen, we happily bring you a costly device with planned obsolescence written all over it,"[30][33] consisting of digital samplers and old synthesizer parts, some of which were bought from Giorgio Moroder.