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title: "“Knocking the Aeroplanes Down with Stones” (the 2006-11-17 Friday Fetch-it)" date: 2006-11-18 01:56 series: the Friday Fetch-it

tags: Architecture in Helsinki, Do the Whirlwind

<p><a title="Architecture in Helsinki – Do the Whirlwind" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Architecture+in+Helsinki/_/Do+the+Whirlwind">Do the Whirlwind</a> is a combination of twinkling chimes; garbled chatter; an improbably catchy bassline; an outro; a wood block counter-rhythm; some bongos; multiple Australian singers; the word "quivers"; a cymbal; twee-æsthetic melodies; some increasingly sluggish trombones; a 16-bit video depicting the band as a motley accumulation of cool kids dance/march/strutting along through a succession of weird and wonderful, side-scrolling locales; some increasingly sluggish saxophones; miscellaneous grooveability; probably a sitar; a chorus of harmonising vocals; tapes rewinding; mostly-nonsensical lyrics; some dings; some pops; some whistles; the word "abandon"; plenty of handclaps; and a single extra beat when the phrase "the beat" crops up.</p>
<p>...which it therefore does twice, obviously. <strong>If you download one song this week, make it <a href="http://gkn.me.uk/thefridayfetchit/20061117.mp3">Whirlwind</a>.</strong> Stay tuned.</p>