Architecture in Helsinki were an Australian indie pop band which consisted of Cameron Bird, Gus Franklin, Jamie Mildren, Sam Perry, and Kellie Sutherland. Before its hiatus, the band released five studio albums: Fingers Crossed (2003), In Case We Die (2005), Places Like This (2007), Moment Bends (2011), and Now + 4eva (2014). The band has been inactive since 2018. History 2000–2003: Formation and Fingers Crossed Architecture in Helsinki developed from a short-lived high school music experiment in Albury, New South Wales, by childhood friends Cameron Bird (lead singer), Jamie Mildren and Sam Perry. By 1999, the trio had moved to the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, where they used the name Architecture in Helsinki for Bird's first collection of self-penned songs. Bird got the new band's name after cutting up a newspaper and re-arranging words. They played a small number of gigs before going into recess. In 2000, while studying photography at art school, Bird met James Cecil, and the two developed a musical connection. Within months, Cecil joined the band on drums. Around that time, Bird took up guitar. He also met Kellie Sutherland at a party and invited her to play clarinet for the band. The five-member group began to work on their debut album, Fingers Crossed, at Super Melody World, the recording studio Cecil had built in a church hall in a south-eastern Melbourne suburb. Recording was halted when Bird left for an extended holiday in the US, leaving the album unfinished. Upon his return from Portland, Oregon, Bird was inspired to write short, catchy pop songs, which marked a new direction for the band. At art school, Bird met members of The Rhinestone Horns, a brass ensemble, and recruited Isobel Knowles, Tara Shackell and Gus Franklin – all three originally from Victoria's Western District – to complete Architecture in Helsinki's eight-member line-up. In 2002, the group signed with independent record label, Trifekta, which released their debut single, "Like a Call", in December. Nearly two years after starting work, Fingers Crossed was issued on 9 February 2003. Most of the group's members played a number of instruments and their music made use of a wide range, from analog synthesizers, samplers, the glockenspiel and handclaps to concert band instruments such as the trumpet, tuba, trombone, saxophone, clarinet and recorder, as well as the more standard guitars, bass guitar and drums. 2003–2005: In Case We Die In 2003, Architecture in