The Avalanches

too late

OK Ray of Zdarlight is one of the best songs i've heard this year

― deej, Sunday, March 4, 2007 10:16 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's a party record as well as a sonic treasure chest, and its strict sampling aesthetic is leavened by the overwhelming presence of great toonz. There's something quite heartening about a record that can cross so many boundaries like that. Maybe it's the Dubya of pop?

so weird i was just looking at their website today for an update but yeah, deej otm. not sure if tim f is otm here cuz i'm not quite sure what he's saying.

He tends to be otm.

God I miss The Avalanches.

Air France has been a nice hold me over.

I do wish people wouldn't revive Avalanches threads without cast-iron proof of a new album.

Oops.

Soz.

Can't someone get in touch with them?

Ha ha, even though I was referencing his rhetoric (at the time) rather than his performance, my jokey Dubya comparison still looks bizarre now.

So has anyone else heard that the album's supposedly coming out in July, as was announced on JJJ recently?

I'd like to believe it but July's not that far away and surely we'd have heard something official by now if it was coming out. Unless it's going to be one of those super fast releases (oh, the irony) a la Radiohead and The Raconteurs

Maybe the next album is just a special edition of Since I Left You.

surely we'd have heard something official by now if it was coming out

the label announced in December it was finished and turned in, is that not official enough?

http://livingincinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/x-files-001-450.jpg

My Sp@c3 page says that they're putting the finishing touches on to album 2...

I think that's been there for two years

I think that's been there for two years

It has, but in November it was changed to "putting the finishing finishing touches on album 2"

Every time this thred is revived I get a pang of hope :\

new Avalanches will probably be like a dissapoint like Shadow's Private Press. (which, after the Outsider, turned out to be pretty decent after all)

i'd like it to sound like 'My Girls' (but with singing more like Linda Lewis/Debbie Newman), Mike Westbrook's 'Song Of Spring' and Aeroplane remixed by cats and the ghost of Dilla

lol

xpost, have you heard of Bullion??

Also, came to post that their myspace status now says "The Avalanches ...are clearing samples."

Hmm. Good sign, I suppose. But that could take ages tho, right?

yeah + what if they can't get clearance for 10% of the samples (which is like 1000 samples in their case) they will need 5 years to find similar clearables ones. :/ ;)

wtf at them just clearing samples now

http://planetparadigm.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/patterson_bigfoot_lg1.jpg

^^^just out clearin samples

clearing samples is for suckas

new mix album meant to prime the pump?

i'm sb'ing anyone who revives this thread w/o solid knowledge of a def release date.

xpost, infos?

http://extramusicnew.blogspot.com/2009/06/avalanches-after-goldrush.html

This set looks OLD.

See here:
http://www.geocities.com/CaptainBullant/mixes.html

"At Home 7-11-01"

GREAT mix though.

they've got a couple newer mixes on their site, don't they?

sorry everybody :(

It's a good fyi anyway. Anyone who hasn't heard that mix should enjoy it right away!

no, telling people an eight-year-old set that you could probably still download on BiS until last week came out on a bootleg CD a year ago is not very good ify. SB him Granny Dainger!

i'm sb'ing anyone who revives this thread w/o solid knowledge of a def release date.

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ this should go in the FAQ

But it's all C Weingarten's fault!

http://twitter.com/1000TimesYes/status/2296027782

lol @ the 1st album being a decade old soon

yeah these guys are all, like, 23 years old by now.

jezus, makes me all "what have you been doing with your life, son"

i'm sb'ing anyone who revives this thread w/o solid knowledge of a def release date.

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ this should go in the FAQ

― Batsman (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 00:19 (10 months ago)

I thought we'd agreed this guys........

bump

Wow wait - since I left you was 10 years ago? Omg I'm old.

Listened to the album all the way through twice on a 600 mile roadtrip to Devon this weekend, after not touching it in probably three years. Still completely awesome, although likely helped by the glorious sun and rolling hills/lanes/cliffs as scenery. I'd also forgotten just how effortless it sounds and how well it flows from start to finish.

There's a rumor that Ariel Pink recently recorded vocals for the new album.

what new album?

the new ariel pink album

oh! sorry.

distracted by six-week old cat swiping at my 9-year old daughter.