Architecture in Helsinki
Encyclopedia
Architecture in Helsinki is an Australian indie pop
band which consists of Cameron Bird, Gus Franklin, Jamie Mildren, Sam Perry, and Kellie Sutherland. Most of the group's members play multiple instruments as their music makes use of a wide range of instruments, from analog synthesizer
s, samplers
, the glockenspiel
and handclaps
; to concert band instruments such as the trumpet
, tuba
, trombone
, saxophone
, clarinet
, and recorder
; and the more standard guitars, bass guitar and drums.
Their 2007 single, "Heart It Races" peaked into the top 50 on the ARIA Singles Chart
with the related album, Places Like This
reaching the top 30 on the ARIA Albums Chart. In the United States, the album reached the top 10 on two of Billboard
magazine's component charts: Top Electronic Albums and Heatseekers Albums
. Their 2011 release Moment Bends
peaked at No. 12 on the ARIA Albums Chart. The group has undertaken multiple national and international tours. They toured the United States with Death Cab for Cutie
and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
, and opened for David Byrne
, The Polyphonic Spree
, Yo La Tengo
and Belle & Sebastian
. In May 2009, they opened for The Presets
in Sydney, Brisbane
and Melbourne.
-grunge
outfit, The Pixel Mittens. That band had formed in Albury
, New South Wales, by locals Cameron Bird (lead singer), Jamie Mildren and Sam Perry. By 1999, the trio had moved to the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy
, where they used the name Architecture in Helsinki for Bird's first collection of self-penned songs. Bird got the new band's name after cutting up a newspaper and re-arranging words. They played a small number of gigs before going into hiatus. In 2000, while studying photography at art school
, Bird met James Cecil, the two developed a musical connection and within months Cecil joined the band on drums. Around that time Bird took up guitar, he also met Kellie Sutherland at a party and invited her to play clarinet for the band.
The five-member group began to work on their debut album, Fingers Crossed
, at Super Melody World, Cecil's recording studio built in a church hall in a south-eastern suburb. Recording was halted when Bird left for an extended holiday in the US, leaving the album unfinished. Upon return from Portland, Oregon
, Bird was inspired to write short, catchy pop songs, which marked a new direction for the band. At art school, Bird met members of The Rhinestone Horns, a brass ensemble
, and he recruited Isobel Knowles, Tara Shackell and Gus Franklin – all three originally from Victoria's Western District – to complete Architecture in Helsinki's eight-member line-up. In 2002, the group signed with independent record label, Trifekta
, which released their debut single, "Like a Call" in December. Nearly two years after starting work, Fingers Crossed was issued on 9 February 2003. Most of the group's members play multiple instruments and their music makes use of a wide range of instruments, from analog synthesizer
s, samplers
, the glockenspiel
and handclaps
; to concert band instruments like the trumpet
, tuba
, trombone
, saxophone
, clarinet
and recorder
; and the more standard guitars, bass guitar and drums.
, then undertook their own east coast tour followed with a support tour for international acts, Yo La Tengo
, Múm
and Arab Strap
. The group issued the Kindling EP in October, which included collaborations with Qua (an electronica
artist), B(if)tek
(electronic duo) and Bogdan Raczynski
(braindance artist). As a bonus on the disc, Knowles provided an animated video for "Like a Call". In December they appeared at the Meredith Music Festival
. From February 2004, the group toured Japan, Europe and US. In April, Fingers Crossed was released in North America by Bar/None Records
.
In 2005, the group issued their second album In Case We Die
on their own Tailem Bend label. It featured guest appearances by local musicians and was produced by The Carbohydrates (James Cecil and Cameron Bird's production duo) in Cecil's Super Melody World studio, now set up in a large garage space in Melbourne's inner northern suburbs. It was mixed by Tony Espie (The Avalanches, New Buffalo, Robert Palmer), at 001 Studios in Melbourne. Cyclic Defrost
s Vaughan Healey described a typical gig as "a bewildering ride through dynamic tempo changes, finger clicks and swapped instruments. You never really know who is going to sing or what will happen next, and somehow the eight-piece juggles this anarchic structure with a music class worth of instruments and staging rearrangements."
For the ARIA Music Awards of 2005
, the album received three nominations: 'Best Independent Release', 'Best Cover Art' (by Bird) and 'Best Adult Contemporary Release'. The song "It'5!" received wide airplay on the national radio network Triple J
and reached No. 56 in their annual Hottest 100 for 2005
.
page that Knowles and Shackell were no longer members and cited "creative conflicts" with Bird as the reason for their departure. Knowles continued with her work in animation and music. In September 2007, Franklin, Knowles, Shackell and Sutherland provided the brass section on the Kevin Ayers
album The Unfairground
. Shackell returned to tertiary studies and is a ceramicist
.
On 28 October 2006, as a six-member group, Architecture in Helsinki released We Died, They Remixed
, a remix album
consisting of all tracks from In Case We Die, and the song "Like a Call" from Fingers Crossed. Artists who provided remixes included Hot Chip
, New Buffalo, Safety Scissors
, DAT politics
, Mocky
and Isan
.
on 28 July 2007 on Polyvinyl Record Co.
. In September 2006, Pitchfork Media
reported that they were working on tracks with Bird in Brooklyn and other members in Melbourne. It was recorded at Dave Sitek's (from TV on the Radio) studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
and in Sydney's Big Jesus Burger Studios between October 2006 and January 2007. It was engineered and mixed by Chris Coady, who has previously worked with TV on the Radio
, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
and Grizzly Bear
. The first single from the album, "Heart It Races", was released ahead of the album in May and peaked into the top 50 on the ARIA Singles Chart
. Places Like This reached the top 30 on the related albums chart. In the US, the album reached the top 10 on two of Billboard
magazine's component charts: Top Electronic Albums and Heatseekers Albums
in September.
Even though the group's name includes Finland's capital Helsinki
, they first played there at the Flow Festival in August 2007: "When we were in Norway at the end of last year there were a few Finnish interviewers who came to interview us mainly about the name. I think they were quite perplexed. To us, the name means having to answer many questions and inquiries about the name, which I guess, is entirely understandable." Sam Perry said.
The band also issued other singles, "Debbie", "Hold Music", and "Lazy". At the ARIA Music Awards of 2007
, "Heart It Races" was nominated as 'Single of the Year'. "Heart It Races" and "Hold Music" were listed in the 2007 Triple J Hottest 100
at No. 19 and No. 36, respectively. In 2007 they did a Take-Away Show acoustic video session shot by Vincent Moon
.
During the ensemble's New Year's Eve performance on 1 January 2008, they came on at midnight, they announced that it was James Cecil's last show with Architecture in Helsinki. After leaving the band, Cecil provided backing vocals, engineering and mixing for Kes Band's 2008 album Kes Band and drums for Qua's 2011 release Q&A.
, which peaked into the top 100 on the Australian singles chart. Work on the follow-up album, Moment Bends
, was initially given the project name, Vision Revision. In October 2010, the band announced via Twitter
that the record was finished. In January 2011, they signed with Modular Recordings
. The first single issued from the album was "Contact High" which reached the top 100 in March.
Moment Bends was released on 8 April 2011 in Australia, and 3 May in the US. It peaked at No. 12 on the ARIA Albums Chart. The album received mixed to positive critical reception, with Metacritic
assigning it an aggregate score of 59, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'.
The song "Escapee" from Moment Bends is featured in football video-game, FIFA 12
.
Former members
Indie pop
Indie pop is a genre of alternative rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid 1980s, with its roots in the Scottish post-punk bands on the Postcard Records label in the early '80s, such as Orange Juice, Josef K and Aztec Camera, and the dominant UK independent band of the mid...
band which consists of Cameron Bird, Gus Franklin, Jamie Mildren, Sam Perry, and Kellie Sutherland. Most of the group's members play multiple instruments as their music makes use of a wide range of instruments, from analog synthesizer
Analog synthesizer
An analog or analogue synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog computer techniques to generate sound electronically. The earliest analog synthesizers in the 1920s and 1930s such as the Trautonium were built with a variety of vacuum-tube and electro-mechanical technologies...
s, samplers
Sampler (musical instrument)
A sampler is an electronic musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer but, instead of generating sounds, it uses recordings of sounds that are loaded or recorded into it by the user and then played back by means of a keyboard, sequencer or other triggering device to perform or...
, the glockenspiel
Glockenspiel
A glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, and making it a metallophone...
and handclaps
Clapping
A clap is the sound made by striking together two flat surfaces, as in the body parts of humans or animals. Humans clap with the palms of their hands, often in a constant drone to express appreciation or approval , but also in rhythm to match sounds in music and dance...
; to concert band instruments such as the trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
, tuba
Tuba
The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
, trombone
Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
, saxophone
Saxophone
The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
, clarinet
Clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
, and recorder
Recorder
The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes—whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle. The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a block or fipple...
; and the more standard guitars, bass guitar and drums.
Their 2007 single, "Heart It Races" peaked into the top 50 on the ARIA Singles Chart
ARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
with the related album, Places Like This
Places Like This
Places Like This is the third studio album by Architecture in Helsinki released in Australia on 27 July 2007 at the launch of their Australian tour. It was also released in Japan on 18 July, Europe on 8 August, and the US on 21 August...
reaching the top 30 on the ARIA Albums Chart. In the United States, the album reached the top 10 on two of Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
magazine's component charts: Top Electronic Albums and Heatseekers Albums
Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...
. Their 2011 release Moment Bends
Moment Bends
Moment Bends is the fourth album by Melbourne indie pop band Architecture in Helsinki. It was released on April 8, 2011 in Australia, and May 3, 2011 in the US. The project had previously been given the working title Vision Revision...
peaked at No. 12 on the ARIA Albums Chart. The group has undertaken multiple national and international tours. They toured the United States with Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie is an American alternative rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. The band consists of Ben Gibbard , Chris Walla , Nick Harmer and Jason McGerr ....
and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is an American indie rock group based in Brooklyn, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their debut album, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, was self-released in 2005.-History:...
, and opened for David Byrne
David Byrne (musician)
David Byrne is a musician and artist, best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography,...
, The Polyphonic Spree
The Polyphonic Spree
The Polyphonic Spree is a choral symphonic pop rock band from Dallas, Texas that was formed in 2000 by Tim DeLaughter. The band's sound relies on a variety of vocal and instrumental color by featuring a choir, flute, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello, percussion, piano, guitars, bass, drums,...
, Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo, sometimes abbreviated as YLT, is an American alternative rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the lineup has consisted of Ira Kaplan , Georgia Hubley , and James McNew .Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called "the quintessential...
and Belle & Sebastian
Belle & Sebastian
Belle and Sebastian are an indie pop band formed in Glasgow in January 1996. Belle and Sebastian are often compared with influential indie bands such as The Smiths, as well as classic acts such as Love, Bob Dylan and Nick Drake. The name Belle & Sebastian comes from Belle et Sébastien, a 1965...
. In May 2009, they opened for The Presets
The Presets
The Presets are an Australian electronic duo formed in 2003, consisting of Julian Hamilton on vocals and keyboards, and Kim Moyes on drums and keyboards. They released their debut album Beams in 2005 to positive critical response. Their 2008 release Apocalypso debuted at number-one on the ARIA...
in Sydney, Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
and Melbourne.
Formation and Fingers Crossed (2000–2003)
Architecture in Helsinki developed from a late 1990s group, the short-lived teenage funkFunk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
-grunge
Grunge
Grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in the Seattle area. Inspired by hardcore punk, heavy metal, and indie rock, grunge is generally characterized by heavily distorted electric guitars, contrasting song...
outfit, The Pixel Mittens. That band had formed in Albury
Albury, New South Wales
Albury is a major regional city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the northern side of the Murray River. It is located wholly within the boundaries of the City of Albury Local Government Area...
, New South Wales, by locals Cameron Bird (lead singer), Jamie Mildren and Sam Perry. By 1999, the trio had moved to the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy
Fitzroy, Victoria
Fitzroy is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Yarra. Its borders are Alexandra Parade , Victoria Parade , Smith Street and Nicholson Street. Fitzroy is Melbourne's...
, where they used the name Architecture in Helsinki for Bird's first collection of self-penned songs. Bird got the new band's name after cutting up a newspaper and re-arranging words. They played a small number of gigs before going into hiatus. In 2000, while studying photography at art school
Art school
Art school is a general term for any educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. The term applies to institutions with elementary, secondary, post-secondary or undergraduate, or graduate or...
, Bird met James Cecil, the two developed a musical connection and within months Cecil joined the band on drums. Around that time Bird took up guitar, he also met Kellie Sutherland at a party and invited her to play clarinet for the band.
The five-member group began to work on their debut album, Fingers Crossed
Fingers Crossed
-Track listing:...
, at Super Melody World, Cecil's recording studio built in a church hall in a south-eastern suburb. Recording was halted when Bird left for an extended holiday in the US, leaving the album unfinished. Upon return from Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
, Bird was inspired to write short, catchy pop songs, which marked a new direction for the band. At art school, Bird met members of The Rhinestone Horns, a brass ensemble
Brass instrument
A brass instrument is a musical instrument whose sound is produced by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips...
, and he recruited Isobel Knowles, Tara Shackell and Gus Franklin – all three originally from Victoria's Western District – to complete Architecture in Helsinki's eight-member line-up. In 2002, the group signed with independent record label, Trifekta
Trifekta
Trifekta is the name of an Australia based independent record label, based in Fitzroy, Victoria. It was started in 1997 by Tom Larnach-Jones , Tim Everest and Paul 'Presser' Towner ....
, which released their debut single, "Like a Call" in December. Nearly two years after starting work, Fingers Crossed was issued on 9 February 2003. Most of the group's members play multiple instruments and their music makes use of a wide range of instruments, from analog synthesizer
Analog synthesizer
An analog or analogue synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog computer techniques to generate sound electronically. The earliest analog synthesizers in the 1920s and 1930s such as the Trautonium were built with a variety of vacuum-tube and electro-mechanical technologies...
s, samplers
Sampler (musical instrument)
A sampler is an electronic musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer but, instead of generating sounds, it uses recordings of sounds that are loaded or recorded into it by the user and then played back by means of a keyboard, sequencer or other triggering device to perform or...
, the glockenspiel
Glockenspiel
A glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, and making it a metallophone...
and handclaps
Clapping
A clap is the sound made by striking together two flat surfaces, as in the body parts of humans or animals. Humans clap with the palms of their hands, often in a constant drone to express appreciation or approval , but also in rhythm to match sounds in music and dance...
; to concert band instruments like the trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
, tuba
Tuba
The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
, trombone
Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
, saxophone
Saxophone
The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
, clarinet
Clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
and recorder
Recorder
The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes—whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle. The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a block or fipple...
; and the more standard guitars, bass guitar and drums.
In Case We Die (2003–2005)
In 2003, Architecture in Helsinki toured Australia supporting The Go-BetweensThe Go-Betweens
The Go-Betweens were an indie rock band formed in Brisbane, Australia in 1977 by singer-songwriters and guitarists, Robert Forster and Grant McLennan. They were later joined by Lindy Morrison on drums, Robert Vickers on bass guitar and Amanda Brown on violin, oboe, guitar, and backing vocals,...
, then undertook their own east coast tour followed with a support tour for international acts, Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo, sometimes abbreviated as YLT, is an American alternative rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the lineup has consisted of Ira Kaplan , Georgia Hubley , and James McNew .Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called "the quintessential...
, Múm
Múm
múm are an experimental Icelandic musical group whose music is characterized by soft vocals, electronic glitch beats and effects, and a variety of traditional and unconventional instruments.- History :...
and Arab Strap
Arab Strap (band)
Arab Strap were an indie rock band from Scotland that consisted of core members Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton. The band were signed to independent record label Chemikal Underground, and split in 2006...
. The group issued the Kindling EP in October, which included collaborations with Qua (an electronica
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...
artist), B(if)tek
B(if)tek
Btek was an Australian electronic music duo comprising Kate Crawford and Nicole Skeltys, originally from Canberra, who released three albums between 1998 and 2003. In 1999, Btek was nominated for an ARIA as "Best Dance Release" for the track "Bedrock" which appeared on their second album 2020...
(electronic duo) and Bogdan Raczynski
Bogdan Raczynski
Bogdan Raczynski is a Polish braindance artist. His work includes a song with Icelandic artist Björk.-Biography:Bogdan Raczynski was born around 1977 in Poland, but later moved to the United States with his family...
(braindance artist). As a bonus on the disc, Knowles provided an animated video for "Like a Call". In December they appeared at the Meredith Music Festival
Meredith Music Festival
The Meredith Music Festival is a three-day outdoor music festival held every December at the Supernatural Amphitheatre, a natural amphitheatre located on private farmland near the town of Meredith in Victoria, Australia...
. From February 2004, the group toured Japan, Europe and US. In April, Fingers Crossed was released in North America by Bar/None Records
Bar/None Records
Bar/None Records is an independent record label based in Hoboken, New Jersey.-Early history:Tom Prendergast started Bar/None in early 1986. Having previously worked in pirate radio and booked and promoted bands in his native Ireland, Prendergast moved to Hoboken in 1982 and started Pier Platters...
.
In 2005, the group issued their second album In Case We Die
In Case We Die
-Track listing:#"Neverevereverdid" – 4:49#"It'5!" – 2:07#"Tiny Paintings" – 3:03#"Wishbone" – 2:26#"Maybe You Can Owe Me" – 4:03#"Do the Whirlwind" – 4:39#"In Case We Die " – 3:33#"The Cemetery" – 2:02#"Frenchy, I'm Faking" – 2:52...
on their own Tailem Bend label. It featured guest appearances by local musicians and was produced by The Carbohydrates (James Cecil and Cameron Bird's production duo) in Cecil's Super Melody World studio, now set up in a large garage space in Melbourne's inner northern suburbs. It was mixed by Tony Espie (The Avalanches, New Buffalo, Robert Palmer), at 001 Studios in Melbourne. Cyclic Defrost
Cyclic Defrost
Cyclic Defrost is Australia's only specialist electronic music magazine. It is edited by Sebastian Chan, Shaun Prescott and Alexandra Savvides, and covers independent electronic music, avant-rock, experimental sound art and left field hip hop....
s Vaughan Healey described a typical gig as "a bewildering ride through dynamic tempo changes, finger clicks and swapped instruments. You never really know who is going to sing or what will happen next, and somehow the eight-piece juggles this anarchic structure with a music class worth of instruments and staging rearrangements."
For the ARIA Music Awards of 2005
ARIA Music Awards of 2005
The 19th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards were held on 23 October 2005 at the Sydney Superdome at the Sydney Olympic Park complex, thus continuing the previous year's innovation of televising the awards on Sunday evening...
, the album received three nominations: 'Best Independent Release', 'Best Cover Art' (by Bird) and 'Best Adult Contemporary Release'. The song "It'5!" received wide airplay on the national radio network Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
and reached No. 56 in their annual Hottest 100 for 2005
Triple J Hottest 100, 2005
The 2005 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on 26 January 2006. It was the thirteenth such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J....
.
Line-up changes and We Died, They Remixed (2006)
In mid-2006, Architecture in Helsinki announced via their MySpaceMySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
page that Knowles and Shackell were no longer members and cited "creative conflicts" with Bird as the reason for their departure. Knowles continued with her work in animation and music. In September 2007, Franklin, Knowles, Shackell and Sutherland provided the brass section on the Kevin Ayers
Kevin Ayers
Kevin Ayers is an English singer-songwriter and was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement...
album The Unfairground
The Unfairground
The Unfairground is an acclaimed 2007 album by Kevin Ayers, recorded with members of Ladybug Transistor, Teenage Fanclub, Neutral Milk Hotel, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and Roxy Music. It is his sixteenth studio LP and his first new set of recordings in fifteen years. It was recorded in New York,...
. Shackell returned to tertiary studies and is a ceramicist
Ceramic art
In art history, ceramics and ceramic art mean art objects such as figures, tiles, and tableware made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery. Some ceramic products are regarded as fine art, while others are regarded as decorative, industrial or applied art objects, or as...
.
On 28 October 2006, as a six-member group, Architecture in Helsinki released We Died, They Remixed
We Died, They Remixed
We Died, They Remixed is a 2006 remix album of Australian band Architecture in Helsinki's 2005 release, In Case We Die. Each track from In Case We Die was remixed, with "Do the Whirlwind" featured twice...
, a remix album
Remix album
A remix album is an album consisting mostly of remixes or re-recorded versions of a music artists' earlier released material.One of the earliest remix albums was 1971's Aerial Pandemonium Ballet by Harry Nilsson, which was released by Nilsson after the successes of Everybody's Talkin and The Point!...
consisting of all tracks from In Case We Die, and the song "Like a Call" from Fingers Crossed. Artists who provided remixes included Hot Chip
Hot Chip
Hot Chip are an English electronic indie band. They have released four studio albums—Coming on Strong, The Warning, Made in the Dark and One Life Stand.-Formation:...
, New Buffalo, Safety Scissors
Safety Scissors
Safety Scissors is Matthew Patterson Curry, a minimal techno artist born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area for a short while in order to attend San Francisco Art Institute. Curry then decided to focus more on music and eventually joined Belief Systems/Context Records...
, DAT politics
DAT politics
DAT politics is a French electronic band created in 1999. Their energetic live shows explain the cult like enthusiasm that surrounds the French electronic combo as they’ve been touring the world extensively over the years...
, Mocky
Mocky
Mocky is a Somali-Canadian singer, music producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and composer.-Biography:Mocky was born Dominic Salole in Saskatchewan, Canada. He later moved to Ottawa and Toronto, and then to London, Amsterdam and Berlin. His father is of Somali descent, but was born in...
and Isan
Isan (band)
Isan are an English electronic music duo. The name was initially explained as Integrated Services Analogue Network - a play on ISDN, reflecting their preference for analogue synthesisers....
.
Places Like This (2006–2008)
Architecture in Helsinki issued their next album, Places Like ThisPlaces Like This
Places Like This is the third studio album by Architecture in Helsinki released in Australia on 27 July 2007 at the launch of their Australian tour. It was also released in Japan on 18 July, Europe on 8 August, and the US on 21 August...
on 28 July 2007 on Polyvinyl Record Co.
Polyvinyl Record Co.
Polyvinyl Record Co. is an American independent record label based in Champaign, Illinois. It has released notable records by of Montreal, Japandroids, Braid, Mates of State and many others.-History:...
. In September 2006, Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...
reported that they were working on tracks with Bird in Brooklyn and other members in Melbourne. It was recorded at Dave Sitek's (from TV on the Radio) studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordering Greenpoint to the north, Bedford-Stuyvesant to the south, Bushwick to the east and the East River to the west. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 1. The neighborhood is served by the NYPD's 90th ...
and in Sydney's Big Jesus Burger Studios between October 2006 and January 2007. It was engineered and mixed by Chris Coady, who has previously worked with TV on the Radio
TV on the Radio
TV on the Radio is an American art rock band formed in 2001 in Brooklyn, New York, whose music spans numerous diverse genres, from post-punk to electro and free jazz to soul music....
, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs are an American indie rock band formed in New York City in 2000. The group is composed of vocalist and pianist Karen O, guitarist and keyboardist Nick Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. They are complemented in live performances by second guitarist David Pajo, who joined as a touring...
and Grizzly Bear
Grizzly Bear (band)
Grizzly Bear is a Brooklyn-based indie rock band, composed of Edward Droste , Daniel Rossen , Chris Taylor and Christopher Bear . The band employs traditional and electronic instruments...
. The first single from the album, "Heart It Races", was released ahead of the album in May and peaked into the top 50 on the ARIA Singles Chart
ARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
. Places Like This reached the top 30 on the related albums chart. In the US, the album reached the top 10 on two of Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
magazine's component charts: Top Electronic Albums and Heatseekers Albums
Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...
in September.
Even though the group's name includes Finland's capital Helsinki
Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
, they first played there at the Flow Festival in August 2007: "When we were in Norway at the end of last year there were a few Finnish interviewers who came to interview us mainly about the name. I think they were quite perplexed. To us, the name means having to answer many questions and inquiries about the name, which I guess, is entirely understandable." Sam Perry said.
The band also issued other singles, "Debbie", "Hold Music", and "Lazy". At the ARIA Music Awards of 2007
ARIA Music Awards of 2007
The 21st Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards were held on 28 October 2007 at the Acer Arena at the Sydney Olympic Park complex. Rove McManus was the host of the event...
, "Heart It Races" was nominated as 'Single of the Year'. "Heart It Races" and "Hold Music" were listed in the 2007 Triple J Hottest 100
Triple J Hottest 100, 2007
The 2007 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on Australia Day, 26 January 2008. It was the fifteenth countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station Triple J....
at No. 19 and No. 36, respectively. In 2007 they did a Take-Away Show acoustic video session shot by Vincent Moon
Vincent Moon
Vincent Moon is an independent filmmaker from Paris mainly known for his field work music videos of indie rock related musicians as well as some notable mainstream artists like Tom Jones, R.E.M. or Arcade Fire. Besides making music videos he also makes experimental films and documentaries...
.
During the ensemble's New Year's Eve performance on 1 January 2008, they came on at midnight, they announced that it was James Cecil's last show with Architecture in Helsinki. After leaving the band, Cecil provided backing vocals, engineering and mixing for Kes Band's 2008 album Kes Band and drums for Qua's 2011 release Q&A.
That Beep and Moment Bends (2008–present)
In November 2008, Architecture in Helsinki, now a five-member band, released an EP, That BeepThat Beep
"That Beep" is a single by Architecture in Helsinki that debuted at number 82 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. The single will be included on the 2011 album Moment Bends....
, which peaked into the top 100 on the Australian singles chart. Work on the follow-up album, Moment Bends
Moment Bends
Moment Bends is the fourth album by Melbourne indie pop band Architecture in Helsinki. It was released on April 8, 2011 in Australia, and May 3, 2011 in the US. The project had previously been given the working title Vision Revision...
, was initially given the project name, Vision Revision. In October 2010, the band announced via Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
that the record was finished. In January 2011, they signed with Modular Recordings
Modular Recordings
Modular Records is an Australian record label. It was established by Sydney-based music promoter Steve Pavlovic as a joint-venture with EMI, but is now distributed by Universal Music in Australia...
. The first single issued from the album was "Contact High" which reached the top 100 in March.
Moment Bends was released on 8 April 2011 in Australia, and 3 May in the US. It peaked at No. 12 on the ARIA Albums Chart. The album received mixed to positive critical reception, with Metacritic
Metacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
assigning it an aggregate score of 59, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'.
The song "Escapee" from Moment Bends is featured in football video-game, FIFA 12
FIFA 12
FIFA 12 is the nineteenth game in Electronic Arts' FIFA series of association football video games. It was developed by EA Canada, and published by Electronic Arts worldwide under the EA Sports label. David Rutter, the line producer for FIFA 12, promised "a revolutionary year for FIFA .....
.
Band members
Current members- Cameron Bird – lead vocalsLead vocalistThe lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the...
, guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
(since 2000) - Gus Franklin – tromboneTromboneThe trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
, horns, guitar, vocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
, drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
(since 2000) - Jamie Mildren – instrumentation, guitar, bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, fluteFluteThe flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
, glockenspielGlockenspielA glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, and making it a metallophone...
, melodicaMelodicaThe melodica, also known as the "blow-organ" or "key-flute", is a free-reed instrument similar to the melodeon and harmonica. It has a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. Pressing a key opens a hole,...
(since 2000) - Sam Perry – slide guitarSlide guitarSlide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...
, vocals, bass guitar, drums, keyboards (since 2000) - Kellie Sutherland – clarinetClarinetThe clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
, melodica, horns, vocals, keyboards (since 2000)
Former members
- James Cecil – drums, backing vocals, guitars, keyboards (2000–2008)
- Tara Shackell – instrumentation, tubaTubaThe tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
, trombone, keyboards (2000–2006) - Isobel Knowles – trumpetTrumpetThe trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
, horns, vocals (2000–2006)
Albums
| Year | Album details | Chart peak positions | Certifications Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales thresholds) |
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| ARIA ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
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| 2003 | Fingers Crossed Fingers Crossed -Track listing:...
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| 2005 | In Case We Die In Case We Die -Track listing:#"Neverevereverdid" – 4:49#"It'5!" – 2:07#"Tiny Paintings" – 3:03#"Wishbone" – 2:26#"Maybe You Can Owe Me" – 4:03#"Do the Whirlwind" – 4:39#"In Case We Die " – 3:33#"The Cemetery" – 2:02#"Frenchy, I'm Faking" – 2:52... |
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| 2007 | Places Like This Places Like This Places Like This is the third studio album by Architecture in Helsinki released in Australia on 27 July 2007 at the launch of their Australian tour. It was also released in Japan on 18 July, Europe on 8 August, and the US on 21 August... |
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| 2011 | Moment Bends Moment Bends Moment Bends is the fourth album by Melbourne indie pop band Architecture in Helsinki. It was released on April 8, 2011 in Australia, and May 3, 2011 in the US. The project had previously been given the working title Vision Revision... Modular Recordings Modular Records is an Australian record label. It was established by Sydney-based music promoter Steve Pavlovic as a joint-venture with EMI, but is now distributed by Universal Music in Australia... |
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Compilations
| Year | Album details | Chart peak positions | Certifications Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales thresholds) |
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| ARIA ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
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| 2006 | We Died, They Remixed We Died, They Remixed We Died, They Remixed is a 2006 remix album of Australian band Architecture in Helsinki's 2005 release, In Case We Die. Each track from In Case We Die was remixed, with "Do the Whirlwind" featured twice...
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Extended plays
- Like a Call – (2 December 2002) TrifektaTrifektaTrifekta is the name of an Australia based independent record label, based in Fitzroy, Victoria. It was started in 1997 by Tom Larnach-Jones , Tim Everest and Paul 'Presser' Towner ....
(HORSE021-2) - Kindling – (27 October 2003) 10" Trifekta (HORSE035-2)
- Keepsake – (15 March 2004) Trifekta (HORSE038-2)
- Like It or Not – (8 July 2008) Polyvinyl Record Co (PRC-157), Scotland Yard, Tailem Bend
Singles
Remixes
| Year | Artist | Track | Version | Album name |
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| 2003 | B(if)tek B(if)tek Btek was an Australian electronic music duo comprising Kate Crawford and Nicole Skeltys, originally from Canberra, who released three albums between 1998 and 2003. In 1999, Btek was nominated for an ARIA as "Best Dance Release" for the track "Bedrock" which appeared on their second album 2020... |
"Hi Fi Kids" | Architecture in Helsinki Remix | Frequencies Will Move Together |
| 2006 | Shout Out Louds Shout Out Louds Shout Out Louds are an indie rock band from Stockholm, Sweden.The group has toured with bands such as The Strokes, Kings of Leon, The Magic Numbers, The Rosebuds, The Essex Green, and Johnossi... |
"Very Loud" | Architecture in Helsinki Remix | Combines EP Extended play An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact... |
| 2007 | Bonde do Rolê Bonde do Rolê Bonde do Rolê is a Funk Carioca-influenced electropop group from Curitiba, Brazil, consisting of MCs Pedro D'Eyrot, Laura Taylor, Ana Bernardino, and DJ/MC Rodrigo Gorky... |
"Office Boy" | Architecture in Helsinki Remix | Office Boy EP |
| The Bumblebeez | "Dr Love" | Architecture in Helsinki's Dr Hookah Mix | Dr Love EP | |
| YACHT YACHT (band) YACHT is an American band from Portland, Oregon, Marfa, Texas, and Los Angeles, CA. The core group consists of Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans, but expands to include musicians Rob "Bobby Birdman" Kieswetter, Jeffrey Brodsky and Katy Davidson as touring members.YACHT has released albums on... |
"See a Penny (Pick It Up)" | Architecture in Helsinki Remix | I Believe in You. Your Magic Is Real I Believe in You. Your Magic Is Real I Believe in You. Your Magic Is Real. is an album released by Yacht on Marriage Records in 2007. The final track is a cover of an Ivor Cutler song.-Track listing:#"So Post All 'Em" – 3:42#"See a Penny " – 3:41#"We're Always Waiting" – 3:02... |
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| 33 Hz | "Paris, Texas" | Architecture in Helsinki's Supermelody Remix | Paris, Texas (Remixes) | |
| 2008 | Midnight Juggernauts Midnight Juggernauts Midnight Juggernauts are a band from Melbourne, Australia composed of Andrew Szekeres, Vincent Vendetta, and Daniel Stricker. The band has been described as anything from 'prog dance meets cosmic film scores', to 'slasher-flick disco' to 'deadpan landscape',... |
"Into the Galaxy" | Architecture in Helsinki's Choose Your Own Adventure Mix | Dystopia Dystopia (Midnight Juggernauts album) Dystopia is the debut album from Australian electronic band Midnight Juggernauts. It debuted and peaked at #21 on the ARIA Albums Chart.-Track listing:#"Intro" - 0:57#"Ending of an Era" - 4:51#"Into the Galaxy" - 4:54#"Shadows" - 4:17... |
| 2009 | Metronomy Metronomy Metronomy are an electronic music group formed by Joseph Mount in Totnes, Devon, England in 1999. The current band consists of Joseph Mount , Anna Prior , Oscar Cash and Gbenga Adelekan... |
"A Thing for Me" | Architecture in Helsinki Remix | Nights Out Nights Out - Nights In :* A 6-track bonus CD was released alongside the album and was available if the album was purchased in Rough Trade stores or in the Rough Trade Album Club... |
| The Very Best Esau Mwamwaya Esau Mwamwaya is a singer from Lilongwe, Malawi. He is best known for his collaboration, The Very Best with London based DJ/production duo Radioclit. His music has been described as an Afro-Western mix of dance, hiphop, pop and the traditional music of Malawi.Esau Mwamwaya was born in Mzuzu,... |
"Warm Heart of Africa" | Architecture in Helsinki Remix | Warm Heart of Africa Warm Heart of Africa Warm Heart of Africa is the official debut for The Very Best. The album was released digitally on August 25, 2009 and physically on October 6, 2009.Rhapsody deemed it the 18th best album of 2009... |
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| El Guincho El Guincho El Guincho is the recording alias of Spanish musician Pablo Díaz-Reixa. Also a member of Coconot, Díaz-Reixa rose to prominence with his 2008 album, Alegranza!. His musical style relies heavily on the use of sampling and incorporates elements of Afrobeat, dub, Tropicália and rock and roll... |
"Antillas" | Architecture in Helsinki Remix | Alegranza! Alegranza (album) Alegranza! is the second album from Spanish musician El Guincho.- Track listing :#Palmitos Park – 2:28#Antillas – 5:29#Fata Morgana – 3:34#Kalise – 5:08#Cuando Maravilla Fui – 3:34#Buenos Matrimonios Ahí Fuera – 6:46... |
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| 2011 | Cut Copy Cut Copy Cut Copy are an Australian electronic band formed in 2001 by Dan Whitford on vocals, keyboard and guitar. Other members are Tim Hoey on guitar and sampler, Ben Browning on bass guitar and Mitchell Scott on drums. Their second album, In Ghost Colours peaked at number-one on the ARIA Albums Chart in... |
"Need You Now" | Architecture in Helsinki Remix | Zonoscope Zonoscope -Charts:... |
Music videos
| Year | Title | Director(s) |
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| 2003 | "Like a Call" | Isobel Knowles |
| "Kindling" | Kellie Sutherland | |
| 2005 | "It'5!" | Isobel Knowles, Ali Dullard |
| "Do the Whirlwind" (Australian version) | Paul Robertson | |
| 2006 | "Do the Whirlwind" (UK version) | Nima Nourizadeh |
| "Wishbone" | Isobel Knowles | |
| 2007 | "Heart It Races" | Kris Moyes |
| "Hold Music" | Kim Gehrig | |
| "Debbie" | Josh Logue | |
| 2008 | "Like It or Not" | Josh Logue |
| "That Beep" | Krozm | |
| 2011 | "Contact High" | Krozm |
External links
- Architecture in Helsinki article at Exclaim!Exclaim!Exclaim! is a monthly Canadian music magazine that features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists...
, September 2007 - Interview with Cameron Bird at Erasing Clouds, 2006
- Interview with Cameron Bird at Soundsxp.com, September 2006
- live performance review at Pitchfork MediaPitchfork MediaPitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...
, June 2005