Northcote ne'er-do-wells Architecture in Helsinki are about to take a zigzag lap around the globe, playing shows in more than just a couple countries. Their passports will be stamped many times over this May and June as the band travel from country to country, show to show, and festival to festival. And while AIH have yet to announce a release date or title for their follow-up to 2005's In Case We Die (Bar/None), they have made known their plans for one song thought to be included on that future LP. "Heart It Races" will be released as a single, and not one of those one-version singles, but a single in many forms. Remixes to be exact, discombobulated and reconfigured by YACHT, A-Trak, Hey Willpower!, and more.
The press release for this story mentions that the many incarnations of the track will appear "magically." My mind boggles, thinking of the various varieties of magic that may be involved. Black? White? Street? Ervin Johnson? It might be that magi(k) stuff that Arthur seemed so fond of. I guess I jumped the gun a bit, as it seems that they just meant the single is coming out in different formats for different countries. Well, the first official appearance of the song, a remix concocted by DJ/Rupture, is now available on the band's MySpace. A lot of things (teenage inanity, News Corp, free giftcards, stalker stalking) come to mind when MySpace is mentioned, but magic is not one of them. It seems that the amount of magic involved in this endeavor has nowhere to go but up.
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