Architecture in Helsinki: Places Like This : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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What happens when indie-prog miniaturists decide to go for the long bomb? "Heart It Races," if they're lucky -- the Australian twee-dweeb aesthetes devise a real pop song even trippier than the fake ones they keep snapping into fragments, a spaced-out bit of calypso crossed with dance hall that keeps getting bigger until it finally floats away. With its sexed-up beats, cowbell, nonsense chants and wigged-out Casio-keyboard psychedelia, Places Like This turns its sound-effect juxtapositions into sheepishly functional tunes.

ROB SHEFFIELD

(Posted: Aug 23, 2007)

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5of 5 Stars

If the B-52s and Modest Mouse had a love child this is what it
would sound like. The eclectic vocals and keyboards make this
album an experience to listen to. This was the first Architecture
album I listened to and I am now hooked for life. They sound
like nothing else out right now and it's refreshing to hear that
music is still unique and that someone has broken the "play four
chords, repeat" method to creating music.

Sep 13, 2007 07:00:12

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