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Melbourne's now globally dispersed musical chameleons Architecture in Helsinki release the exhilarating album, "Places Like This". It could not be more removed from their previous album, "In Case We Die". Fizzing with electrical currents, channelling calypso rhythms and tropicalia flavours with lashings of percussion a-go-go, the new songs pack a kaleidoscopic punch that is little short of breathtaking. Pop effervescence hasn't sounded this fresh in ages. Laced with steel drums, single "Heart It Races" builds through infectious pitter-pat crashing beats, layered 'na na na na na' vocals to hands-in-the-air dancefloor breakdowns and swooshy, glittering rushes. The rest of the album follows in the same mad yet wonderful vein throughout. Recorded by Brooklyn based engineer Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, !!!, TV On The Radio) "Places Like This" was written by Architecture In Helsinki's songwriter Cameron Bird after he'd relocated to a Puerto Rican neighbourhood in Williamsburg last summer. It's the sound of a New York melting down, with South American poly-rhythms and street beats clamouring for attention.