--- 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 ---
Do the Whirlwind 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.
...which it therefore does twice, obviously. If you download one song this week, make it Whirlwind. Stay tuned.