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Artist: Architecture in Helsinki
Website: www.architectureinhelsinki.com/
Track Name: Heart It Races
Playback: mp3
Download?: Yes

It’s odd how the connections music creates works, I have had Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s “Music For A Found Harmonium” banging around in my head which immediately brought to mind Architecture in Helsinki.

Which is weird because there is no obvious musical connection between the bands apart from melbourne trams. Architecture in Helsinki, started up in Melbourne and age ago but they have all taken the only sensible course and left.

Here is some hype from the Polyvinyl Record Co. website…

Architecture in Helsinki is: Cameron Bird, James Cecil, Gus Franklin, Jamie Mildren, Sam Perry & Kellie Sutherland. Who randomly play – Bass, Drums, Congas, Percussion, Synthesizers, Trombone, Guitars and Samples.

As the now-New York based songwriter/vocalist Cameron Bird explains, “We’ve always strived to go somewhere we haven’t gone before, not to be complacent with where we’ve been. This time, the energy, the sounds, and the way it was conceived – it’s taking what we had before and turning it up louder. The colours are brighter, everything is more flamboyant. In Case We Die was all self-engineered, and James Cecil and I produced it over five months, we spent every single day on it in this room with no windows, a glorified garage. So the experience was very insular and intense, a cabin fever affair,” Bird notes. ‘So, this time around we really wanted to make the whole experience super Intense AND fun.’

“Heart It Races” is a killer track, lots and lots of layers, more ideas than there is room for, steel drums, tight vocals, seriously it’s a lot of fun.
And it stopped me humming “Music For A Found Harmonium”. Highly recommended.

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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