Report on Architecture in Helsinki at In the Venue

The Decemberists and Architecture in Helsinki are both quirky indie groups who use about five times as many instruments as they have band members, including the elusive glockenspiel. However, while the Decemberists may be as left-brained as a band can be, Architecture in Helsinki is so right-brained that I can see the music rising and shimmering before me: changing colors with pitch, changing pattern with rhythm. It looks kind of like the macrophotography effects in The Fountain:

Or maybe that was all because of the vast amounts of marijuana smoke permeating the overheated air.