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April 2012

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[Part 1] Green Couch Session - Architecture in Helsinki (2011) Contact High “Our adventure with Architecture in Helsinki began, like a few of our other sessions, in the alley way behind the Venue. We waited patiently outside their GIANT tour bus as they freshened up after a few long days on tour. The 6 piece band gathered we led them down the lane to our location. They shuffled through the...

[Part 2] Green Couch Session - Architecture in Helsinki Part 2 (2011) Escapee “Our adventure with Architecture in Helsinki began, like a few of our other sessions, in the alley way behind the Venue. We waited patiently outside their GIANT tour bus as they freshened up after a few long days on tour. The 6 piece band gathered we led them down the lane to our location. They shuffled through the...

Behind The Scenes of the Green Couch Session - Architecture in Helsinki (2011) Architecture in Helsinki In True Value Vintage

[Interview] Cameron Bird (11/08/2004) →

This interview is brilliant. Straight up. I recently had the chance to interview-quiz Cameron Bird, the brains behind Melbourne-based pop conglomerate Architecture in Helsinki. Cameron was especially nice to do this seeing as how I called him an “off-key faerie castrato” in my review of the band’s debut Fingers Crossed.CMG interrupted the pop conductor’s Masta Killa listening party in order to...

[Download] Heart It Races (Music Video, Alternate... →

(Right click link, Save Target/Link As) Dimensions: 480 × 270 Bit Rate: 763 This version has a different voiceover than the one posted on AiH’s official pages. I think I like the official release better, but I also like having a nice, shiny file of the video for myself. Thought I’d share. “The band are dressed as Noids, a mystical race of people (a la Mayans/Martians) with...

[Video] Sydney Opera House, Cameron Bird & Kellie... →

Watch this interview with Cameron Bird and Kellie Sutherland of Architecture in Helsinki ahead of their performance at Vivid LIVE 2011. Plus, watch a bit of AiH performing Everything’s Blue and Heart It Races.

[Audio] Side C by Brain of Bird →

Also, available for download on linked webpage.

[Audio] RBM Academy Fireside Chat with Cameron... →

(Direct link to audio player. Show info page linked below.) Here is an interesting lecture of sorts with Cameron, giving an overview of AiH’s history with discussions on each album and the influences behind them. This interview is almost as music nerdy as the group lecture AiH did in 2007 for RBM. Both are worth the time. Having first strung chords together as teens in a small Australian...

[Video] Like A Version on Triple J - Interview,... →

[Download] links included below. For anyone not familiar, Like a Version is a segment on the Australian radio station Triple J where bands play live, acoustic versions of a cover song of their choice. venue: Studio, Sydney recorded: 23/09/2011 first broadcast: 23/09/2011 Today Cameron, Kellie, Gus, Jamie and Sam of Architecture In Helsinki fame were in to play their original pop gem...

[Article] Pitchfork - Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC:... →

The best eight-piece art-hippie collective Australia has ever produced, Architecture in Helsinki, is all about some cultural mishmash. With a membership including a white dread, an unshod singer, a guy with Conor Oberst hair simpering like Fivel going west, and a chick in knee-highs and marching band ruffles, they appear to have been assembled by committee, and their music, clocking in at...

Moment Bends - Tangents Key changes rule!

W.O.W (Directors Cut) Has everyone seen the director’s cut version of Architecture in Helsinki’s “W.O.W” video? It’s not hugely different, just silent film type subtitles, but it still makes the whole thing a bit more cerebral…

[Audio] Domus Mixtape #4: The Sound of Melbourne... →

This ephemeral yet tangible mix assembled by Cameron Bird & Gus Franklin of Architecture in Helsinki floats us through powerful, intimate instrumental sounds. A mixtape from Melbourne by Cameron Bird, Gus Franklin.

[Audio] Architecture in Helsinki Take 5 with their... →

The first time I heard Contact High it floored me. That pop perfection, those harmonies, that key change. It was love at first listen and I still ain’t sick of it, so I thought it’d be fun to ask AiH to play you five songs that give them a musical high. From formative years, to band bonding moments, to discovering new music high above New York City, Cameron and Kellie walked you...