Architecture in Helsinki
Architecture in Helsinki is an indie pop band which formed in Melbourne, Au… Read Full Bio ↴Architecture in Helsinki is an indie pop band which formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2000. The band has released four studio albums: "Fingers Crossed" (2003), "In Case We Die" (2005), "Places Like This" (2008) and "Moment Bends" (2011). The band consists of Cameron Bird (vocals, guitar), Gus Franklin (horns, drums, guitar), Kellie Sutherland (vocals, keyboards, melodica, other instruments), Jamie Mildren (multiple instruments) and Sam Perry (multiple instruments).
Architecture in Helsinki rose from the ashes of the High School band of Cameron Bird, Jamie Mildren and Sam Perry. Bird started writing songs at the turn of the century and convinced Perry and Mildren to help him flesh out his first set for live performance. Bird urgently needed a name for the band, so, he circled some words in a copy of The Age newspaper and did some magnetic poetry. In mid 2000, Bird met Kellie Sutherland at a party, she volunteered her musical services to the band at first playing clarinet. By the time Bird met James Cecil, Gus Franklin, Isobel Knowles and Tara Shackell whilst studying at RMIT University later that year, the band was well and truly taking shape.
"Fingers Crossed" (2002-2004):
After many discarded recording sessions and countless shows at North Fitzroy's Empress Hotel, the band locked down in their home studios for the best part of 2002 to make their debut album. The vast majority of the songs were written by Bird the week he returned from an extended holiday in the Pacific Northwest. Arrangements and production were labored over by the band in myriad of locations in and around their home town of Melbourne. Trifekta Records signed the band and released the record in February 2003. It wasn't released in the U.S. until March 2004 on Bar-None Records.
"In Case We Die" (2004-2006):
The band and associates leased a giant garage space in Melbourne's East Brunswick to record their Sophomore record. Work began on the record in June 2004 and Bird and Cecil worked day and night for 5 months on the production, enlisting dozens of guests to play on the record. Songs were primarily composed in the studio with Bird acting as some sort of mad professor with inter-band chemistry. In November, Tony Espie was hired In a bid to tame the record at the mixing desk. The band fell in love with his mixing style and studio demeanor when he worked on 'Do The Whirlwind', the record's lead single. The record was released in February 2005 in Australia on the band's own Tailem Bend imprint. Bar None Records released it in April 2005. It was the bands first release in Europe coming out in July 2005 on Moshi Moshi Records. In mid 2006, the band released a remix album entitled 'We Died, They Remixed' which featured a collection of their friends and contemporaries re-interpreting the songs of 'In Case We Die', This included Hot Chip, YACHT, New Buffalo, Mocky, Dat Politics, DJ Mehdi, Safety Scissors and Qua.
"Places Like This" (2006-2007):
At the end of touring In Case We Die in April 2006, Isobel Knowles and Tara Shackell left the band citing 'creative differences'. Bird decided to move to New York City to write for the third Architecture in Helsinki record. He demoed the songs in an apartment in South Williamsburg and worked on arrangements with the rest of the band via email and instant messaging conversations. In September 2006, the band convened in Los Angeles to play the songs for the first time. After a week of jamming they headed out on tour in support of Brooklyn band, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, to road test the new songs. To coincide with the end of the tour the band booked studio time at Stay Gold in Brooklyn with Engineer Chris Coady. The basic tracks were laid in the Stay Gold sessions in order to capture the energy of the band hot on the heels of the 25 show tour. The session was deemed a success, so Coady flew to Sydney's BJB Studios in December 2006 to finish the record. Bird and Coady put the finishing touches on the record back in New York in January 2007. The first single, Heart It Races, was released in May 2007. The album was released worldwide in July 2007.
"Moment Bends" (2008-2011):
After a few years of relentless touring. The band, now a 5 piece after the departure of Cecil, reconvened in Melbourne and set about the process of making a new record at a pace that was conducive to quality not insanity. They rented a space in East Brunswick which they set about renovating to better resemble a functional recording space. A giant photo mural of Lindsey Buckingham was erected on the studio wall to oversee proceedings and act as an inspiration for the record. The studio was named Buckingham Palace and the project was given the working title 'Vision Revision'. Longtime collaborator Francois Tetaz was brought in as producer, a move that instantly allowed the group to focus more on songwriting and ideas. The first fruits of this new endeavor came in November 2008 in the form of 'That Beep', the band's most accessible and commercially successful release to date. Meanwhile, back at Buckingham Palace, Moment Bends was beginning to take shape. The band had Engineer and Auxiliary member, Haima Marriott, working around the clock for the best part of 18 months between touring and various trips into Inspiration Hiatus. The songs were much more detailed and focused, the band was said to have searched for it's essence. On January 31 2011, It was announced that 'Moment Bends' would finally see the light of day in April 2011, almost 4 years after the release of 'Places Like This'.
2014
AIH released the album "Now + 4EVA" on April 1, 2014. the most popular tracks from the album are "Dream a Little Crazy" (written by the band) and "When You Walk in the Room" (the Jackie DeShannon classic).
Tours:
The band have toured heavily throughout Australia, U.S.A., U.K. and Europe playing festivals such as Coachella, Sasquatch, Sound Relief, Big Day Out, SxSW, Primavera, GTM, Pukkelpop and Haldern.
Architecture in Helsinki have toured/played with - David Byrne, Dr Dog, Death Cab For Cutie, YACHT, The Go-Betweens, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Santigold, Glass Candy, The Presets, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Au Revoir Simone, Field Music, Lo Fi Fnk, Yo La Tengo, Polyphonic Spree and múm.
The band have be known to DJ regularly, supporting acts such as YACHT and Hot Chip, also throwing their own party called 'Eye Do' on New Year's Eve 2009 in Melbourne. They also curated a DJ stage at Laneway Festival in Australia in 2011.
Architecture in Helsinki rose from the ashes of the High School band of Cameron Bird, Jamie Mildren and Sam Perry. Bird started writing songs at the turn of the century and convinced Perry and Mildren to help him flesh out his first set for live performance. Bird urgently needed a name for the band, so, he circled some words in a copy of The Age newspaper and did some magnetic poetry. In mid 2000, Bird met Kellie Sutherland at a party, she volunteered her musical services to the band at first playing clarinet. By the time Bird met James Cecil, Gus Franklin, Isobel Knowles and Tara Shackell whilst studying at RMIT University later that year, the band was well and truly taking shape.
"Fingers Crossed" (2002-2004):
After many discarded recording sessions and countless shows at North Fitzroy's Empress Hotel, the band locked down in their home studios for the best part of 2002 to make their debut album. The vast majority of the songs were written by Bird the week he returned from an extended holiday in the Pacific Northwest. Arrangements and production were labored over by the band in myriad of locations in and around their home town of Melbourne. Trifekta Records signed the band and released the record in February 2003. It wasn't released in the U.S. until March 2004 on Bar-None Records.
"In Case We Die" (2004-2006):
The band and associates leased a giant garage space in Melbourne's East Brunswick to record their Sophomore record. Work began on the record in June 2004 and Bird and Cecil worked day and night for 5 months on the production, enlisting dozens of guests to play on the record. Songs were primarily composed in the studio with Bird acting as some sort of mad professor with inter-band chemistry. In November, Tony Espie was hired In a bid to tame the record at the mixing desk. The band fell in love with his mixing style and studio demeanor when he worked on 'Do The Whirlwind', the record's lead single. The record was released in February 2005 in Australia on the band's own Tailem Bend imprint. Bar None Records released it in April 2005. It was the bands first release in Europe coming out in July 2005 on Moshi Moshi Records. In mid 2006, the band released a remix album entitled 'We Died, They Remixed' which featured a collection of their friends and contemporaries re-interpreting the songs of 'In Case We Die', This included Hot Chip, YACHT, New Buffalo, Mocky, Dat Politics, DJ Mehdi, Safety Scissors and Qua.
"Places Like This" (2006-2007):
At the end of touring In Case We Die in April 2006, Isobel Knowles and Tara Shackell left the band citing 'creative differences'. Bird decided to move to New York City to write for the third Architecture in Helsinki record. He demoed the songs in an apartment in South Williamsburg and worked on arrangements with the rest of the band via email and instant messaging conversations. In September 2006, the band convened in Los Angeles to play the songs for the first time. After a week of jamming they headed out on tour in support of Brooklyn band, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, to road test the new songs. To coincide with the end of the tour the band booked studio time at Stay Gold in Brooklyn with Engineer Chris Coady. The basic tracks were laid in the Stay Gold sessions in order to capture the energy of the band hot on the heels of the 25 show tour. The session was deemed a success, so Coady flew to Sydney's BJB Studios in December 2006 to finish the record. Bird and Coady put the finishing touches on the record back in New York in January 2007. The first single, Heart It Races, was released in May 2007. The album was released worldwide in July 2007.
"Moment Bends" (2008-2011):
After a few years of relentless touring. The band, now a 5 piece after the departure of Cecil, reconvened in Melbourne and set about the process of making a new record at a pace that was conducive to quality not insanity. They rented a space in East Brunswick which they set about renovating to better resemble a functional recording space. A giant photo mural of Lindsey Buckingham was erected on the studio wall to oversee proceedings and act as an inspiration for the record. The studio was named Buckingham Palace and the project was given the working title 'Vision Revision'. Longtime collaborator Francois Tetaz was brought in as producer, a move that instantly allowed the group to focus more on songwriting and ideas. The first fruits of this new endeavor came in November 2008 in the form of 'That Beep', the band's most accessible and commercially successful release to date. Meanwhile, back at Buckingham Palace, Moment Bends was beginning to take shape. The band had Engineer and Auxiliary member, Haima Marriott, working around the clock for the best part of 18 months between touring and various trips into Inspiration Hiatus. The songs were much more detailed and focused, the band was said to have searched for it's essence. On January 31 2011, It was announced that 'Moment Bends' would finally see the light of day in April 2011, almost 4 years after the release of 'Places Like This'.
2014
AIH released the album "Now + 4EVA" on April 1, 2014. the most popular tracks from the album are "Dream a Little Crazy" (written by the band) and "When You Walk in the Room" (the Jackie DeShannon classic).
Tours:
The band have toured heavily throughout Australia, U.S.A., U.K. and Europe playing festivals such as Coachella, Sasquatch, Sound Relief, Big Day Out, SxSW, Primavera, GTM, Pukkelpop and Haldern.
Architecture in Helsinki have toured/played with - David Byrne, Dr Dog, Death Cab For Cutie, YACHT, The Go-Betweens, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Santigold, Glass Candy, The Presets, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Au Revoir Simone, Field Music, Lo Fi Fnk, Yo La Tengo, Polyphonic Spree and múm.
The band have be known to DJ regularly, supporting acts such as YACHT and Hot Chip, also throwing their own party called 'Eye Do' on New Year's Eve 2009 in Melbourne. They also curated a DJ stage at Laneway Festival in Australia in 2011.
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Architecture in Helsinki Lyrics
2 Time Two time Hush now baby Have you heard? I'll come second…
6 Do The Whirlwind She says you've given up Your folks told me you should…
Almost a Trap Steal all the chandeliers down your street and call it…
April (ooh, yeah) Don't remembering You're in a different plac…
B4 3D When I found out that each and every one of…
Bats And Rats And Murderers By yourself By the road there's a message in a bottle fro…
Before Tomorrow (Before tomorrow, Before tomorrow Before tomorrow, Before t…
Born to Convince You Dream we're never alone Dreamt of moving on Dream the Nort…
City Calm Down Drinking stolen gin from the rich people's bar next door…
Contact High Touch If one of these two walls could speak I'd turn the…
Debbie So I shook hands with you freely Made a promise not…
Denial Style Oh, oh And as I rose from the rubble The way you…
Desert Island Life on the outside of a fantasy The more I bleed,…
Do The Whirlwind She says you've given up Your folks told me you should…
Dream A Little Crazy Why won't everybody Just dream a little crazy? It's about …
Echo Finally, let's go To fault without your echo Bouncing off …
Escapee This escapee was never gonna stay On an unfamiliar building …
Everything's Blue Ok... You've been singing, negatively miss Down in the bedr…
Feather in a Baseball Cap I've never seen you frown this much It's time that we…
Frenchy I Frenchy, I'm faking, been looking to stir you up Changing l…
Frenchy I'm Faking Frenchy, I'm faking, been looking to stir you up Changing lo…
Frenchy, I'm Faking Frenchy, I'm faking, Been longing to stir you up, Changing l…
Fumble Found a flaw in the ending of a book that…
Heart It Races And we're slow to acknowledge the knots in the laces Heart…
Heart It Races (Spruce Lee remix) And we're slow to acknowledge The knots in the laces, heart…
Hold Music Hey you know my friend Lisa She's down from LA We've been…
I Know Deep Down Night traffic in my van I drove solo baby Before you came…
I Might Survive Architecture In Helsinki, I Might Survive A minute of lonel…
Imaginary Ordinary We're in a restless way when the fireflies come and…
In Case We Die I've got problems, I'm gonna use them. I'm gonna keep them…
In Case We Die Parts 1-4 I've got problems, I'm gonna use them. I'm gonna keep them f…
In Case We Die Pts 1-4 I've got problems I'm gonna use them I'm gonna keep them f…
In The Future Are you ready? Are we in the future? Living in the future?…
It Steal all the chandeliers down your street and call it…
It '5! Stranger danger, danger stranger When you gonna follow thro…
It'5 Stranger danger, danger stranger When you gonna follow throu…
It's And we're slow to acknowledge the knots in the laces Heart…
It's 5 Stranger danger, danger stranger When you gonna follow throu…
It's Almost a Trap Steal all the chandeliers down your street and call it…
It's Five Stranger danger, danger stranger When you gonna follow throu…
Kindling You won't count to seven it's usually 'til ten. To…
Lazy And he's mean talking Bean stalking icy man My feet are walk…
Like A Call All the cars down the bottom, windmill chasing calling polic…
Like It or Not Wa wa wa I'll tell you anything but not the truth My…
Maybe You Can Owe Me Maybe you can owe me? Or should we wait and see? 'Cause…
Need To Shout There's a sword in your side that you'll ignore it Until…
Neverevereverdid Just yesterday I was walking on the moon with your stalker A…
Nothing's Wrong A wicked decision We can agree A wicked decision Nothing's w…
Owls Go Don't hide the treasures you've found in a hole in…
Red Turned White Well, my bride and groom Spent the lonely season figuring li…
Same Old Innocence You can catch me on the street We're shaking out my…
Scissor Paper Rock If you're seeking repair, For figure rights in the ice…
scissor_paper_rock If you're seeking repair, For figure rights in the ice…
Sleep Talkin' When I talk in my sleep I'll be begging for more That…
Souvenirs La, la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la…
That Beep Kid can you wake up Boy it ain't long till the…
The Cemetary You don't wanna be, I don't wanna see, Baby, get your feet…
The Cemetery You don't want to be I don't want to see Baby get…
The Owls Go Don't hide the treasures you've found in a hole in…
Tiny Paintings Tonight the neon answers flare. Occasionally we stop and st…
To and Fro To and fro from yours to Cecil St. You wore…
U Tell Me Down in the catacombs underneath the place that we call…
Underwater Underwater, underwater, underwater Underwater, underwater, u…
Vanishing Is this a fling? \ It's seven days and you're already…
W.O.W This escapee was never gonna stay On an unfamiliar building…
W.O.W. This escapee was never gonna stay On an unfamiliar building …
What Carve your name into my arm 'Cause I long to feel…
What's in Store Carve your name into my arm 'Cause I long to feel…
What's In Store? Carve your name into my arm 'Cause I long to feel…
What's in Store? (Up All Night remix by Mountains in the Sky) Carve your name into my arms, 'Cause I long to feel…
When You Walk in The Room I can feel a new expression on my face I can…
Where You've Been Hiding Stuck at your front gate with some pictures I just…
Wishbone Choke, choking on a wishbone In the firing line of lovers Wh…
YR Go To Could this be true, I feel the same vibration when, I'm your…