Architecture In Helsinki

[Levis]

If you're not the experimental open-minded type... you might be wasting your time here.

I only came to know of this band via the folks I'm living with here who have a CD by them. Architecture in Helsinki is a Melbourne band that hails from MY suburb (woo!) and their sound can only be described as experimental (Wiki prefers to call it avant-garde, and that's perfectly fine too). Reason being that they're... not... exactly... conventional. They make use of instruments like the xylophone, glockenspiel, clarinet... perhaps a guitar or drums if they feel like it... and hand claps.

I'm still in the learning stages meself, but give 'em a listen. They've toured with Death Cab For Cutie and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs among others.

AND they have a really cool homepage

And of course a MySpace and Last.fm page:

http://www.myspace.com/aihmusic

http://www.last.fm/user/Helsinkids/

Tracks To Try:

Heart It Races

One Heavy February (one-minute song with very, very nice (unofficial) videeo)

[TheLizard]

Tim approved.

[Red Fish]

i dont really see whats so experimental about them but i liked

[Kevin]

They stunk , Levis . The first song had a bit of potential , but went south soon .

[Levis]

I like the second one lots... especially with that video

[Farin]

Martin approves too

it's like a mixture of 'of Montreal' and Low

Edited June 14, 2008 by Guest

[Earth-Angel]

I have <3'd the architects for a while

[Alayna]

I've only heard 'Do The Whirlwind' by Architecture In Helsinki, but I really like it.

[Farin]

I've only heard 'Do The Whirlwind' by Architecture In Helsinki, but I really like it.

that one has a very cool video... I hadn't seen that before

[Levis]

Oh yeahhh

[Batman]

I saw them live without having heard any of their songs (because I really wanted to see the opening band), and they were awesome.