You know how once upon a time Architecture In Helsinki were brilliant live, full of light-hearted eccentricity and ADHD-riddled charm? And then they shed two members, and suddenly started taking themselves a lot more seriously and became a lot less fun as a result? Well, imagine if the remaining six-piece was whittled down to a duo, scale down the glee factor accordingly and you’d get something akin to dreadfully disappointing Antipodeans The Ruby Suns. I was expecting so much from this gig on the strength of recent release “Sea Lion” but heavily reliant on backing tracks and lacking the harmonic splendour of the albums it all came across like a sixth-rate Casiotone For The Painfully Alone with a Tropicana tint. (Photo: oliver.peel (Flickr))
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