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{{Infobox album
| name       = In Case We Die
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Architecture in Helsinki]]
| cover      = Incasewedie.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = {{Start date|2005|4|5|df=yes}}
| recorded   = 21 June 2004 – 26 January 2005
| studio     = Super Melody World
| genre      = [[Indie pop]]
| length     = 40:04
| label      = Tailem Bend/Inertia, [[Bar/None Records|Bar/None]], [[Moshi Moshi Records|Moshi Moshi]]
| producer   = The Carbohydrates (James Cecil, Cameron Bird)
| prev_title = [[Fingers Crossed (album)|Fingers Crossed]]
| prev_year  = 2003
| next_title = [[We Died, They Remixed]]
| next_year  = 2006
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = In Case We Die
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = Do the Whirlwind
 | single1date = 2005
 | single2     = Maybe You Can Owe Me
 | single2date = 2005
 | single3     = It'5!
 | single3date = 2005
}}
}}
'''''In Case We Die''''' is the second studio album by Australian [[indie pop]] band [[Architecture in Helsinki]] which was released on 5 April 2005. It was produced by band members James Cecil and Cameron Bird under their other moniker, The Carbohydrates. ''In Case We Die'' appeared on the [[ARIA Charts|ARIA Albums Chart]] Top&nbsp;100.

At the [[J Award of 2005]], the album was nominated for Australian Album of the Year.<ref name="2005winner">{{cite web|title = The J Award 2005|website = [[Triple J]]|url = https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/jawards/05/|publisher = [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|year = 2005|accessdate =15 August 2020}}</ref>

At the [[ARIA Music Awards of 2005]], the album received three nominations [[ARIA Award for Best Independent Release|Best Independent Release]], [[ARIA Award for Best Cover Art|Best Cover Art]] and [[ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album|Best Adult Contemporary Album]].

==Background==
In 2005, Australian band, [[Architecture in Helsinki (band)|Architecture in Helsinki]], issued their second album ''In Case We Die'' on their own [[Tailem Bend (record label)|Tailem Bend]] label (distributed by Inertia Records).<ref name="MAAiH"/><ref name="The ARIA Report – 11 April 2005"/> The ensemble consisted of eight members:<ref name="The ARIA Report – 11 April 2005"/> Cameron Bird on [[Lead vocalist|lead vocals]], [[guitar]]s, and [[Percussion instrument|percussion]];<ref name="Healey"/><ref name="AMGCam"/> James Cecil on [[drum kit|drums]], [[backing vocalist|backing vocals]], guitars, keyboards;<ref name="Healey"/><ref name="AMGJamC"/> Gus Franklin on [[trombone]], horns, guitar, backing vocals and drums;<ref name="AMGGus"/> Isobel Knowles on [[trumpet]], horns, vocals;<ref name="Healey"/><ref name="AMGIso"/> Jamie Mildren on instrumentation, guitar, [[bass guitar]], [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[flute]], [[glockenspiel]], and [[melodica]];<ref name="Healey"/><ref name="AMGJamM"/> Sam Perry on [[slide guitar]], vocals, bass guitar, drums, keyboards;<ref name="AMGSam"/> Tara Shackell on instrumentation, [[tuba]], trombone, keyboards;<ref name="Healey"/><ref name="AMGTar"/> and Kellie Sutherland on [[clarinet]], melodica, horns, vocals, keyboards.<ref name="Healey"/><ref name="AMGKel"/>

It featured guest appearances by local musicians and was produced by The Carbohydrates (Cecil and Bird's production duo) in Cecil's Super Melody World studio, which was set up in a large garage space in Melbourne's inner northern suburbs. It was mixed by Tony Espie (The Avalanches, New Buffalo, Robert Palmer), at 001 Studios in Melbourne. ''[[Cyclic Defrost]]'''s Vaughan Healey described a typical gig as "a bewildering ride through dynamic tempo changes, finger clicks and swapped instruments. You never really know who is going to sing or what will happen next, and somehow the eight-piece juggles this anarchic structure with a music class worth of instruments and staging rearrangements."<ref name="Healey"/>

==Reception==
{{Album ratings
| MC = 72/100<ref name="Meta"/>
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Phares"/>
| rev2 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev2Score = B+<ref name="Raftery"/>
| rev3 = ''[[The Independent]]''
| rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Sauma"/>
| rev4 = ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]''
| rev4Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Mojo"/>
| rev5 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev5Score = 8/10<ref name="NME"/>
| rev6 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev6Score = 8.8/10<ref name="Mitchum"/>
| rev7 = ''[[PopMatters]]''
| rev7Score = 9/10<ref name="Heaton"/>
| rev8 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev8Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Hoard"/>
| rev9 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev9Score = D<ref name="Spin"/>
| rev10 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev10Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Uncut"/>
}}

''In Case We Die'' appeared on the [[ARIA Charts|ARIA Albums Chart]] Top&nbsp;100.<ref name="The ARIA Report – 11 April 2005"/><ref name="The ARIA Report – 25 April 2005"/> At the [[ARIA Music Awards of 2005]], the album received three nominations: 'Best Independent Release', 'Best Cover Art' (by Bird) and 'Best Adult Contemporary Release'.<ref name="ARIA2005"/> The song "It'5!" (pronounced "it's five") received airplay on the national radio network [[Triple J]] and was listed No.&nbsp;56 in their [[Triple J Hottest 100, 2005|Hottest 100 for 2005]].<ref name="MAAiH"/>

The album received generally favourable reviews according to [[Metacritic]] website's rating of 72 out of 100 based on reviews by 26 professional critics.<ref name="Meta"/> [[AllMusic]]'s Heather Phares found the music was "much more assured" than their debut album, ''[[Fingers Crossed (album)|Fingers Crossed]]'' (2003), with "lots of parts and changes to them" but it "never feels ponderous" containing "vibrant, irresistible, Technicolor music".<ref name="Phares"/> ''[[Tiny Mix Tapes]]'' writer S. Kobak was unsure "whether Architecture in Helsinki is for real or an ironic parody of the post-Arcade Fire indie rock scene" as "[the album] sounds like a cross between ''Off the Wall''-era Michael Jackson without the soul, the Banana Splits, the ''Grease'' soundtrack and shitty disco records".<ref name="Kobak"/> Laurence Station at ShakingThrough.net noted the group "progresses dramatically in ambition and proficiency" and likened their style to a "Jackson Pollock drip painting, chaotic and bustling" with "swirling, colorful melodic kaleidoscope works. Rhythmic continuity is so over".<ref name="Station"/>

==Track listing==
#"Neverevereverdid" – 4:49 
#"It'5!" – 2:07
<!-- NOTE: Please stop changing this to "It's 5!". The CD track listing clearly has it as "It'5!" -->
#"Tiny Paintings" – 3:03
#"Wishbone" – 2:26
#"Maybe You Can Owe Me" – 4:03
#"Do the Whirlwind" – 4:39
#"In Case We Die (Parts 1–4)" – 3:33
#"The Cemetery" – 2:02
#"Frenchy, I'm Faking" – 2:52
#"Need to Shout" – 4:10
#"Rendezvous: [[Potrero Hill, San Francisco, California|Potrero Hill]]" – 1:52
#"What's in Store?" – 4:29
#"Bats and Rats and Murderers" – 1:25 (UK edition bonus track)

==Release history==
The track "Maybe You Can Owe Me" was used in the 2007 film ''[[I Know Who Killed Me]]'', starring [[Lindsay Lohan]].

"Do the Whirlwind" has an animated music video in a bizarre video game format.

==Personnel==
;Architecture in Helsinki members
* Cameron Bird – [[Lead vocalist|lead vocals]], [[guitar]]s, [[Percussion instrument|percussion]]<ref name="Healey"/><ref name="AMGCam"/>
* James Cecil – drums, backing vocals, guitars, keyboards<ref name="Healey"/><ref name="AMGJamC"/>
* Gus Franklin – [[trombone]], horns, guitar, [[Backing vocalist|vocals]], [[Drum kit|drums]]<ref name="AMGGus"/>
* Isobel Knowles – [[trumpet]], horns, vocals<ref name="Healey"/><ref name="AMGIso"/>
* Jamie Mildren – instrumentation, guitar, [[bass guitar]], [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[flute]], [[glockenspiel]], [[melodica]]<ref name="Healey"/><ref name="AMGJamM"/>
* Sam Perry – [[slide guitar]], vocals, bass guitar, drums, keyboards<ref name="AMGSam"/>
* Tara Shackell – instrumentation, [[tuba]], trombone, keyboards<ref name="Healey"/><ref name="AMGTar"/>
* Kellie Sutherland – [[clarinet]], melodica, horns, vocals, keyboards<ref name="Healey"/><ref name="AMGKel"/>

==References==
{{Reflist|25em|refs=

<ref name="MAAiH">{{Cite web | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ma-destra+Media~D505D2B0-0327-4958-99A6-A9B38272E889 | title = Architecture in Helsinki | work = [[Music Australia (online resource)|Music Australia]] | publisher = [[National Library of Australia]] | date = 18 August 2007 | accessdate = 16 July 2013 }}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

<ref name="Healey">{{Cite news | url = http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/article.php?article=836 | title = Architecture in Helsinki | issue = 11 | date = May 2005 | last1 = Healey | first1 = Vaughan | newspaper = [[Cyclic Defrost]] | publisher = Sebastian Chan | accessdate = 16 July 2013 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110614163301/http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/article.php?article=836 | archivedate = 14 June 2011 | url-status = dead}}</ref>

<ref name="ARIA2005">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=2005 |work=ARIA Awards – History |title=Winners by Year 2005: 19th Annual ARIA Awards |publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA) |accessdate=16 July 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519014456/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=2005 |archivedate=19 May 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

<ref name="AMGCam">{{Cite web | url={{AllMusic |pure_url=yes |class=artist|id=p655761|tab=credits}} | title = Cameron Bird | work = Allmusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation | accessdate = 16 July 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="AMGGus">{{Cite web | url={{AllMusic |pure_url=yes |class=artist|id=p655763|tab=credits}} | title = Gus Franklin | work = Allmusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation | accessdate = 16 July 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="AMGIso">{{Cite web | url={{AllMusic |pure_url=yes |class=artist|id=p655765|tab=credits}} | title = Isobel Knowles | work = Allmusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation | accessdate = 16 July 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="AMGJamM">{{Cite web | url={{AllMusic |pure_url=yes |class=artist|id=p655766|tab=credits}} | title = Jamie Mildren | work = Allmusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation | accessdate = 16 July 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="AMGSam">{{Cite web | url={{AllMusic |pure_url=yes |class=artist|id=p655767|tab=credits}} | title = Sam Perry | work = Allmusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation | accessdate = 16 July 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="AMGTar">{{Cite web | url={{AllMusic |pure_url=yes |class=artist|id=p655768|tab=credits}} | title = Tara Shackell | work = Allmusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation | accessdate = 16 July 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="AMGKel">{{Cite web | url={{AllMusic |pure_url=yes |class=artist|id=p655769|tab=credits}} | title = Kellie Sutherland | work = Allmusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation | accessdate = 16 July 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="AMGJamC">{{Cite web | url={{AllMusic |pure_url=yes |class=artist|id=p655762|tab=credits}} | title = James Cecil | work = Allmusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation | accessdate = 16 July 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="The ARIA Report – 11 April 2005">{{cite journal | archiveurl = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20020220130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20020221-0000/www.aria.com.au/issue572.pdf | url = http://www.ariacharts.com.au/about/faq#q6 | title = ARIA Top 100 Albums – Week Commencing 11th April 2005 | journal = The ARIA Report | publisher = [[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA) | issue = 789 | pages = 2, 5, 9 18 | date = 11 April 2005 | archivedate = 20 February 2002 | accessdate = 16 July 2013 | url-status = dead}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

<ref name="The ARIA Report – 25 April 2005">{{cite journal | archiveurl = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20020220130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20020221-0000/www.aria.com.au/issue572.pdf | url = http://www.ariacharts.com.au/about/faq#q6 | title = ARIA Top 100 Albums – Week Commencing 25th April 2005 | journal = The ARIA Report | publisher = Australian Recording Industry Association | issue = 791 | pages = 6, 18 | archivedate = 20 February 2002 | date = 25 April 2005 | accessdate = 16 July 2013 | url-status = dead}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

<ref name="Meta">{{cite web | url = http://www.metacritic.com/music/in-case-we-die/architecture-in-helsinki | title = Reviews for ''In Case We Die'' by Architecture in Helsinki | publisher = [[Metacritic]] | accessdate = 16 July 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="Phares">{{cite web | url = https://www.allmusic.com/album/in-case-we-die-mw0000260542 | title = ''In Case We Die'' – Architecture in Helsinki | last = Phares | first = Heather | publisher = [[AllMusic]] ([[Rovi Corporation]]) | accessdate = 16 July 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="Raftery">{{cite magazine | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20190805162336/https://ew.com/article/2005/04/18/case-we-die/ | url = https://ew.com/article/2005/04/18/case-we-die/ | title = ''In Case We Die'' | last = Raftery | first = Brian M. | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | archivedate = 5 August 2019 | date = 18 April 2005 | accessdate = 6 August 2019 | url-status = dead}}</ref>

<ref name="Sauma">{{cite journal | title = Architecture in Helsinki: ''In Case We Die'' (Moshi Moshi) | last = Sauma | first = Luiza | journal = [[The Independent]] | date = 11 September 2005 }}</ref>

<ref name="Mojo">{{cite journal | title = Architecture in Helsinki: ''In Case We Die'' | journal = [[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] | issue = 143 | date = October 2005 | page = 98 }}</ref>

<ref name="NME">{{cite journal | title = Architecture in Helsinki: ''In Case We Die'' | journal = [[NME]] | date = 13 August 2005 | page = 58 }}</ref>

<ref name="Mitchum">{{cite web | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20081218083724/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/15190/Architecture_in_Helsinki_In_Case_We_Die | url = https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/441-in-case-we-die/ | title = Architecture in Helsinki: ''In Case We Die'' | last = Mitchum | first = Rob | work = [[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] | archivedate = 18 December 2008 | date = 3 May 2005 | accessdate = 16 July 2013 | url-status = live }}</ref>

<ref name="Heaton">{{cite web | url = https://www.popmatters.com/architectureinhelsinki-incase-2495827264.html | title = Architecture in Helsinki: ''In Case We Die'' | last = Heaton | first = Dave | work = [[PopMatters]] | date = 19 May 2005 | accessdate = 16 July 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="Hoard">{{cite magazine | title = Architecture in Helsinki: ''In Case We Die'' | last = Hoard | first = Christian | magazine = [[Rolling Stone]] | date = 24 March 2005 | page = 79 }}</ref>

<ref name="Spin">{{cite journal | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=PDP4_76gznoC&pg=PA108 | title = Breakdown | journal = [[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] | volume = 21 | issue = 6 | date = June 2005 | accessdate = 6 August 2019 | page = 108 }}</ref>

<ref name="Uncut">{{cite journal | title = Architecture in Helsinki: ''In Case We Die'' | journal = [[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] | issue = 101 | date = October 2005 | page = 100 }}</ref>

<ref name="Kobak">{{cite web | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080409002639/http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/a/architecture_in_helsinki.htm | url = http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/a/architecture_in_helsinki.htm | title = Architecture in Helsinki – ''In Case We Die'' | last = Kobak | first = S. | work = [[Tiny Mix Tapes]] | archivedate = 9 April 2008 | accessdate = 16 July 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name="Station">{{cite web | url = http://www.shakingthrough.net/music/shakethrus/2005.htm#52 | title = Architecture in Helsinki: ''In Case We Die'' | last = Station | first = Laurence | publisher = ShakingThrough.net | date = 5 May 2005 | accessdate = 16 July 2013 }}</ref>
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==External links==
*{{Official website|http://www.architectureinhelsinki.com}}

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