Architecture in Helsinki - Maybe You Can Owe MeAlbum: In Case We Die [2005]
on their debut album, "fingers crossed", architecture in helsinki felt like they were just getting their bearings. this gave the album, and the australian indie pop collective's mix of symphonic and electronic pop, a tentative, first-steps kind of charm. however, after a spending a year on the road tightening up their live act, and a little while longer in their wonderfully named super melody world studio recording their second album, "in case we die", the group sounds much more assured. everything, from the intensely sweet melodies and vocals to the widescreen production, delivers the kind of playful pop majesty that "fingers crossed"'s best moments hinted were within their grasp. this is a second album that really does expand on the sounds and ideas of the debut instead of just rehashing them. the first album's standout pocket symphony, "the owls go," feels like a template for this album's lush, playful, multifaceted sound. most of the songs have lots of parts and changes to them, such as the opener, "neverevereverdid," which begins with a spooky, operatic fanfare, then becomes delicately rambling folk-pop, and finally morphs into something speedy and shouted. an album with this much vibrant, irresistible, technicolor music to its name could have only come from a place called super melody world.
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