The Avalanches

Next question. What's a "journey" album?

There was a royalties/artists permissions issue I think

no, the label rejected it. the band said it was more of a "musical journey" and they were sent back to come up with a "party record" instead.

ah anyway I've bored about this before:

The Avalanches

Man, that's pretty infuriating

http://www.thebrag.com/2011/04/05/interview-vivid-live-2011/

"Before I hang up, I have one more question: where the hell is that Avalanches album at, please? Pav laughs again – he’s used to this one. “Well, they’re going to be having a finished-in-the-studio party with us in May, so I’d say it’s going to be some time this year. I’ve heard it from one end to the other.” …And? “You’re asking the wrong person. I think they’re the most creative people this country has ever seen.”"

album is gonna suck giraffe balls

Internet jadedness doesn't make you cool. I still have hope.

They'd make an amazing Balearic/cosmic disco album...

Fred:

Robin:

Dave:

Fred:

Why thank you, Robin.

<3 ILM 2001

Internet jadedness doesn't make you cool.

hahah uh wut??

think you might wanna make another assessment there buddy

it's the definition of sadness and futility that I have this thread bookmarked. Everytime it bumps, disappointment.

ten years ago! are these guys just massive stoners?

clearly, they are assholes

They should've just gotten 9-5 jobs years ago and released the sample-packed album for free like Girl Talk does. I'm sure the whole delay hasn't been because of sample clearances, but it was part of it. (The rest of it is that they're obsessive perfectionists.)

also: jerks

I think they’re the most creative people this country has ever seen.
"creative", right.

They should've just gotten 9-5 jobs years ago

didn't they?

no way you can do what girl talk does and have a 9-5

yeah presumably they all couldn't live off the sales of a not-quite-mainstream-popular album for 11 years

xphttp://blog.thenewstribune.com/tacomarockcity/files/2010/02/girltalk11.jpg

girl talk had a 9-5 until sometime after night ripper

yeah presumably they all couldn't live off the sales of a not-quite-mainstream-popular album for 11 years

especially considering five members of the post-SILY band have been gone for most of those 11 years

Tony was the only non-Bobbydazzler still with them last time I saw them DJ, but that was ...over five years ago (!) and I think it might have been official that even he wasn't actually involved anymore by then

Wait how many ppl were in the band circa SILY??? I thought it was 2...?

- Five when they first formed, including the Japanese MC
- Four when the first records were coming out and they started playing interstate
- Dexter joined ...I was going to say '99, but I first saw him play with them upstairs at the Globe, which might have been closed by then, bcz IIRC the booking and door staff moved around the corner to Goldmans. He'd played on El Producto, but not as a full member, and was with them on Recovery, but that was shot in Melbourne...
- de la Cruz joined* in 2000 bringing full members to 6
- then in 2001 on the SILY tour they added that old bloke in the safari suit on percussion. Peter something.

So seven by the wind-down, down to two a while back, and rumour has it just one now.

*on keyboards, though he's absolutely the best DJ I've seen out of him vs Dexter vs "the Avalanches" in later years

seeing them next month though (with Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, under the Opera House, after Spiritualized do Ladies & Gentlemen with a 30-piece orchestra upstairs), so should be able to get an idea of who's still in and whether they can DJ a party these days (instead of playing Bon Jovi mashups to a sunburnt festival crowd)

rock stars who went back work.

Albums supposedly done, and to be realeased next year:

http://pitchfork.com/news/42650-new-avalanches-album-finished/

I HATE NEXT YEAR

Pav's been saying that all year, what makes it news now?

pitchfork noticed, so it's 'official'

They went on Radio Soulwax ahead of their terrible show last Friday and said

"It's taken a long time, yeah. I mean it's not really mixed or anything yet. We'll probably take another ten years to get it mixed."

"It's like a bedroom record just on a cheap computer which Robbie still uses. The same Mac, a beige OS 7 with software they stopped using in 1997. I have all these half written songs so if I throw the computer away I can't finish them. Every time we take the computer somewhere we have to be really careful with it and put in all these little blankets and all this stuff so it doesn't get broken. We're just waiting for it to die but it's hanging in there."

"Nothing's mixed but it's all kind of there. We're still waiting for some vocals and things like that; I think the majority of the music is done. It probably just needs to be arranged a bit and mixed."

fuck 'em.

raggggghhhhhhh

This is the opposite of the Kevin Shields/MBV situation, where you get the impression that if anything ever does surface it will be because he's finally gotten inspired and has two decades of ideas to hash about and turn into songs. The Avalanches just come across as lazy bastards.

How is this even possible

Here's the link to their interview: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/triplej/livemusic/radiosoulwax/04_friday_110603.mp3

Skip to 46:45.

They played live last Friday?? And they sucked?? Was that their first live appearance in like five years?

The Avalanches just come across as lazy bastards.

yeah but at the same time SILY is so UNlazy. Interview sounds like a wind-up. otm re "fuck 'em" tho.

They played live last Friday??

No, they DJed.

In the meantime, fill the wait for the second album with a deluxe 10th-anniversary re-release of the first album, with a bonus disc featuring "new reworks from the likes of El Guincho, MF Doom, Canyons, Black Dice, Jackson and his Computer Band." Information regarding super-deluxe package versions and the release date will be released on Facebook, sometime.

They've lost the master for this Stereolab remix of Since I Left You, so someone in the office has ripped it from vinyl for Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/modularpeople/the-avalanches-since-i-left-you-stereolab-remix

ha

i mean i know the underlying issues are not funny but still, ha

^ if ever there was a time for scare quotes

I hate this thread

BTW, note that with no release date yet set, the "deluxe 10th-anniversary re-release" is likely to come out more than 11 years after the initial release - at time of announcement, it's already 8 months late.

Hey, Jackson and his Computer Band. There's another guy who dropped off the face of the earth

i believe he made some kind of Jamie Liddell-ish album a year or 2 back. maybe last year, even.

Really? I can't find any evidence of this online