Pitchfork

Architecture in Helsinki's music is already pretty overstuffed, so imagine how it sounds in the hands of Max Tundra. Actually, not as different as you might expect. Tundra, aka English musician Ben Jacobs, was behind a pair of the most disorientingly maximalist (and awesome) albums of the decade, 2002's Mastered by the Guy at the Exchange and 2000's Some Friend You Turned Out to Be. Here, he replaces the horns, synths, cowbells, and spastic guitars of the Australian collective's shouty "Hold Music", from this year's Places Like This, with his own glitchy accoutrements. The B-52s-goofing vocals remain, but they bounce around within a pinball machine of electronics, leading up to some cheesy-era Stevie Wonder ascending keyboard chords halfway through. It's lucky corporate America probably won't start using this as actual hold music, 'cause then nobody would remember who they were calling.