In Case We Die
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| Studio album by Architecture in Helsinki | ||||
| Released | 5 April 2005 | |||
| Recorded |
21 June 2004 – 26 January 2005 Super Melody World |
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| Genre | Indie pop | |||
| Length | 40:04 | |||
| Label | Tailem Bend/Inertia, Bar/None, Moshi Moshi | |||
| Producer | The Carbohydrates (James Cecil, Cameron Bird) | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 72 |
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| Allmusic |   |
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| NME | |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.8/10 |
| PopMatters |   |
| ShakingThrough.net | |
| Stylus Magazine | (A-) |
| Tiny Mix Tapes | |
21 June 2004 – 26 January 2005
In Case We Die is an indie pop studio album by Australian band Architecture in Helsinki which was released on 5 April 2005. It was produced by band members, James Cecil and Cameron Bird, under their the moniker, The Carbohydrates. In Case We Die appeared on the ARIA Albums Chart Top 100. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2005, the album received three nominations: 'Best Independent Release', 'Best Cover Art' (by Bird) and 'Best Adult Contemporary Release'.
In 2005, Australian band, Architecture in Helsinki, issued their second album In Case We Die on their own Tailem Bend label (distributed by Inertia Records). The ensemble consisted of eight members: Cameron Bird on lead vocals, guitars, and percussion; James Cecil on drums, backing vocals, guitars, keyboards; Gus Franklin on trombone, horns, guitar, backing vocals and drums; Isobel Knowles on trumpet, horns, vocals; Jamie Mildren on instrumentation, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, flute, glockenspiel, and melodica; Sam Perry on slide guitar, vocals, bass guitar, drums, keyboards; Tara Shackell on instrumentation, tuba, trombone, keyboards; and Kellie Sutherland on clarinet, melodica, horns, vocals, keyboards.
It featured guest appearances by local musicians and was produced by The Carbohydrates (Cecil and Bird's production duo) in Cecil's Super Melody World studio, which was set up in a large garage space in Melbourne's inner northern suburbs. It was mixed by Tony Espie (The Avalanches, New Buffalo, Robert Palmer), at 001 Studios in Melbourne. Cyclic Defrost's Vaughan Healey described a typical gig as "a bewildering ride through dynamic tempo changes, finger clicks and swapped instruments. You never really know who is going to sing or what will happen next, and somehow the eight-piece juggles this anarchic structure with a music class worth of instruments and staging rearrangements."
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