I was at the Metro Theatre and whoa behold, Cut Off Your Hands was opening for Architecture In Helsinki. Awesome.

After an enormous tour all over the globe, gallivanting through Europe, the States and back again, Architecture In Helsinki finally do some shows in Sydney.

First off though, Cut Off Your Hands sounded fantastic as is expected of them, not even an iota of a misstep in any of the tracks that they played. But as is the case with supports, the fans were not digging it. But forget that, they played "Oh Girl" and I was glad. They played "Turn Cold" and "Still Fond" and whilst it's a couple of years ago now, I still haven't heard many artists with the same amount of melody running so easily through their veins. Nick was his usual self, teetering around the mic stand, at one point he told the audience to check out their merchandise. "Buy something, do something other people don't" he said. Sounding quite bitter. And rightly so, they deserve it all and more.

After that they hit the lights to prepare for Architecture In Helsinki. They walked out to rapturous applause from the mostly young crowd, who were jumping up and down at the sight of the band. First track in and they were off, the energy of the crowd seemed to catch the band off guard, scrambling to pick up and respond appropriately.

After re-capturing their presence, the nature of the electronic induced funk allowed for the crowd to get into it. They just make you feel great, and in these recent times that's a very good thing. The crowd was cheery, in great spirits, drinking plenty of spirits and at the same time enraptured by what was going on onstage.

At one point the band even got in a line and did a choreographed piece of dancing, the bass player looking hilariously out of place in his dreads. But everyone lapped up the energy, even though at some points it felt as if it was very packaged and neatly placed into a pill for us to swallow.

I find it overly simplistic at times, but I mean with good pop, that's what you want. I guess that's why they have such widespread appeal. A mix up between folk/electronica/keys and that's what you get.

"Hold Music" went down a treat as did "Contact High". what they know how to do, they know to do well. And for that they will always get people who dislike them, it just comes with the territory. I just hope that they can move away from having so many similar sounding tracks and look to create something more than that. To finally reach the levels that many of our bands are capable of reaching, but often fail to remain at.