Architecture in Helsinki Announces U.S. Tour Dates, Releases New Music Video

This morning the Australian indie-pop collective Architecture in Helsinki announced the dates of their upcoming U.S. tour, which kicks off Nov. 2 in Los Angeles and will cross the nation (with one date in Mexico City) over the next 20 days.

The five-piece is touring in support of the streamlined, focused album Moment Bends, which was released in April of this year. According to a press release, this U.S. tour, along with a few early 2012 festival dates in Australia and New Zealand, will be “the last opportunity to see them for quite a while.”

In conjunction with the tour announcement, Architecture in Helsinki have also released a music video to “W.O.W,” a song from Moment Bends. To shoot the video, the band took some time off to return to Australia. There, they teamed up with a well-known pyrotechnician who allowed them to film a music video with his special animatronic dolphins — the same ones used in the 1990s movie Flipper.

Portions of the “W.O.W” video feature singer/guitarist Cameron Bird swimming gracefully with the mechanized dolphins, which can be viewed below along with Architecture in Helsinki’s upcoming shows.

Tour Dates:

November
2 — Los Angeles, Calif. @ El Rey Theatre
3 — San Francisco, Calif. @ The Fillmore
4 — Cruz, Calif. @ Rio Theatre
5 — Mexico City, Mexico @ El Plaza Condesa
6 — Austin, Texas @ Fun Fun Fun Fest
7 — Houston, Texas @ Fitzgerald’s
9 — Tallahassee, Fla. @ Club Downunder
10 — Tampa, Fla. @ Crowbar
11 — Miami, Fla. @ Grand Central
12 — Atlanta, Ga. @ The Masquerade
14 — Carrboro, N.C. @ Cat’s Cradle
15 — Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
16 — Philadelphia, Pa. @ Union Transfer
17 — Boston, Mass. @ Royale
18 — New York, N.Y. @ Irving Plaza
19 — Alfred, N.Y. @ Alfred University
20 — Oberlin, Ohio @ Oberlin College
21 — Chicago, Ill. @ The Metro
22 — St. Paul, Minn. @ Macalester College