Architecture in Helsinki Dig Architecture in Brooklyn

There's not much behind the name Architecture in Helsinki, besides a relatively nice ring. "I've only been to Helsinki once, so I don't know much about the architecture there," frontman Cameron Bird admitted to Spinner. Bird came up with the name of the band as a "distant, abstract concept." He relocated to Brooklyn last year to record Architecture In Helsinki's latest album, 'Place Like This,' but now spends his time between both Brooklyn and Melbourne, Australia.

"Melbourne is only around 150 years old, so the buildings there are pretty colonial," he says. "There's a lot of sandstone and bluestone but other than that, Melbourne isn't a particularly beautiful architectural city. Brooklyn, on the other hand, has a lot of brownstones and I'm totally into that. It's beautiful."

We agree. It's just that Architecture In Brooklyn doesn't have the same ring to it.

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