The Avalanches

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

hmm googling myself now, and it seems i just made that up, i must have gotten him mixed up with some other idm cat who started singing. :)

That boy needs therapy lol

hah I used to eagerly wait for a new Jackson album to drop but I think i've made my peace with the fact that it won't come out. I think he's done a ocuple of remixes in the last few years?

http://www.factmag.com/2012/03/19/danny-brown-to-appear-on-new-avalanches-album/

Is that an Onion article.

It does exist! Kind of an odd choice of rapper but i'm cool with it

i heard that they accidentally deleted all the album files

Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (11 years ago)

Since I Left You double LP re-release on blue vinyl out now, 10th-anniversary deluxe reissue now running two years late, new mix up here

Thanks for the link

It's only a snippet but

http://www.factmag.com/2012/07/18/avalanches-tease-brand-new-track-online-listen-here/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Vt65NzOQg

listened to Cool Gays, the bit at the end sounds like a remix of a bit of SILY, zomg new track zzz

there's some new song (demo) out there featuring David Berman reading a poem, but it's pretty half ass. the music underneath is barely audible.

:/
i am becoming despondent.

new david berman poem (ie 'like plastic Easter basket grass, falling from an overpass') >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fully audible avalanches music

Well! *tap tap tap* You've lost your cover now.

Them and Dre, in a race to do...something.

*sigh*

don't tell me Them have re-united as well??

Cautious optimism stirring...

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/new-avalanches-album-due-next-february-128449

Some time in the next 126,436 years then.

I'm not rereading all of this but have we talked about the Zomba pre-release promo that has even more extra bonus samples that had to be removed bcz of clearance issues (like Rogers & Hammerstein ones and stuff)? Bcz it is SO GOOD

Also apparently the OG Modular AUS release has more samples than any other re-release either in Aus or any other country (incl US)

It has a song that wound up on the b-side of Frontier Psychiatrist re-sequenced into the album towards the beginning. It's on what.cd and it's fucking awesome n shit

see Notes sections of:
http://www.discogs.com/Avalanches-The-Album/release/2068568
http://www.discogs.com/Avalanches-Since-I-Left-You/release/132062

xxp you mean gimix, the one with girls just wanna have fun on it?

No, it's def not that