Track Listings (5) - Disc #1| All Artists: Architecture in Helsinki Title: Heart It Races Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 1 Label: Polyvinyl Records Original Release Date: 1/1/2007 Re-Release Date: 6/5/2007 Album Type: Single Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop, Rock Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Australia & New Zealand Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 5033197478500, 644110013521 |
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 | Architecture in Helsinki Heart It Races Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop, Rock
AIH's first release since 2005's much loved "In Case We Die", paves the way for a much bigger and brighter picture on their new album, "Places Like This", forthcoming in August. This new EP features the single "Heart It... more »     |
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Album Description AIH's first release since 2005's much loved "In Case We Die", paves the way for a much bigger and brighter picture on their new album, "Places Like This", forthcoming in August. This new EP features the single "Heart It Races" plus cover versions by Hey Willpower and Dr. Dog, mixes by YACHT and DJ Rupture, and a collaboration with Trinidadian vocalist Mr. Lee G. Similar CDsSimilarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsMy heart, it races E. A Solinas | MD USA | 06/12/2007 (4 out of 5 stars) "Apparently Architecture in Helsinki are shooting for a new sound in their forthcoming album, "Places like This" -- less twee, more colourful indiepop. "Heart It Races" shows off this new sound along with a bunch of remixes, which succeed in sounding like the Flaming Lips being locked in with a calypso band.
It opens with some hollow, zippy drums and male voices intoning, "Boom... boom.... boombadumpadump... boom..." Then it blooms out into a jumbled little pop tune, flavoured with calypso rhythms and some bouncy indiepop shimmies. It's not too impressive lyrically ("And we slow to acknowledge the knots in the laces/heart it races!"), but fortunately it's too fun and colourful for you to notice that the lyrics are nonsensical. And then it gets remixed four times, usually making it even more interesting. There's Dr. Dog's languid, beach-party remix that basically just mellows it all out, while DJ Rupture doubles the accented Jamaican flavour. Yacht reworks it into a peppy, sprightly little electrocalypso tune that's more for dancing. But Hey Willpower turns out the only dud on the EP -- a sort of slick MTVish version with lots of moaning and canned beats. "Heart it Races" sounds pretty different from Architecture in Helsinki's past work -- it's more grown-up and less kooky, as much as I adore their kookiness. It takes a little while for their new sound to sink in, and their warmth and sparkling energy really kick in. The original song is a lovely cacophony of hand drums, kettle drums, little electronic shimmies, clattering sticks and some shimmering keyboard. The remixes do some lovely stuff with it too -- guitars, handclaps, sampling, and delicious swaths of blippy synth woven in like bright threads, especially in the Yacht remix. The only disappointment musically is the Hey Willpower one, which is full of simple beats and the repetitive little electric guitar riffs. "Heart It Races" is a promising preview of Architecture in Helsinki's forthcoming third album, just so long as they keep Hey Willpower far away from it. A solid song and a solid EP, with one dud." |
