The Avalanches

New song premiering in ~5 mins on Australian radio

features Danny Brown and MF Doom

Very much in the "Frontier Psychiatrist" vein. It's very good on that level, but I'm eagerly awaiting the more ethereal stuff which the snippet of "Subways" portends.

So fucking garbage.

Yeah I...don't like this song at all but the telephone song sounds good

new album: 'Wildflower'

The whole time it was playing I was thinking "This is a throwaway Gorillaz song that Albarn wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole."

'throwaway Gorillaz song' is otm, this has basically nothing to do with anything I liked about Since I Left You

a lot like the live/breezeblock van dyke parks parts; want to hear the whole thing. afraid for the 'guest stars'

21 songs on the album

listening to the Beats 1 interview now.

'guest stars' mentioned:

Camp Lo
Jonathan Donohue (Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips)

Camp Lo = "...got the bubbly, pumpin' through me - sparkly"

http://image.prntscr.com/image/180c1eda74754f438bd3e173529c9121.png

(P.S. "Just kidding, here's our shitty song.")

Father John Misty does not contribute any lyrics.

Toro y Moi

I honestly don't think I've been this viscerally angry about hearing something I've been wanting to hear since the Aeroplane album leaked in 2010.

just relistened to the Talking To A Stranger remix, had forgotten the huge Relight My Fire section early on

no fucking release date gtfo

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cj6w1GyUgAAibTa.jpg

ah, expected july 8 per itunes

the more ethereal stuff which the snippet of "Subways" portends.

Yes, that was nice(r), but after Frankie Sinatra and the list of guest contributors revealed, my lack of enthusiasm feels fully justified.

from that interview a track with august darnell didnt make it >:[

I honestly don't think I've been this viscerally angry about hearing something I've been wanting to hear since the Aeroplane album leaked in 2010.

Johnny, what out of all the bits and pieces "they"'ve (before and after Dazzler left) released in the last five-ten years, made you get your expectations high?

it's not like Darnell's last collaboration with an Australian dance group from the late '90s was anything worth writing home about

Tracklisting:
1. The Leaves Were Falling
2. Because I’m Me
3. Frankie Sinatra
4. Subways
5. Going Home
6. If I Was A Folkstar
7. Colours
8. Zap!
9. The Noisy Eater
10. Wildflower
11. Harmony
12. Live A Lifetime Love
13. Park Music
14. Livin' Underwater (Is Somethin' Wild)
15. The Wozard of Iz
16. Over The Turnstiles
17. Sunshine
18. Light Up
19. Kaleidoscopic Lovers
20. Stepkids
21. Saturday Night Inside Out

Johnny, what out of all the bits and pieces "they"'ve (before and after Dazzler left) released in the last five-ten years, made you get your expectations high?

I never listened to any of it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjfspM5sDIA&lf=9fa1a40090d6beabd2e6713b09045327

this new song is so bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah not feeling this sorry, I would've preferred for them to become a meme and keep posting 'new album coming this year' for another 20 years and then announce they are disbanding.

Hopefully at least there's a song in the album that was worth the wait.

First time through (and on second and third repeats, admittedly), I'm thinking "what is this shit?!" Not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. But because the Avalanches have build up 16 years of doubt benefits, I'll wait to panic until I've heard the album and this particular track in context.

looks like the album version is a bit shorter thankfully

They waited too long and their schtick has been perfected and forgotten by now. If this whole album sounds like bad Gorillaz outtakes then best you can hope is that it doesn't tarnish the nostalgic value of the debut.

Debut is not good in single song doses either so I'll give them the benefit of doubt.

It's at least still not as bad as when DJ Shadow decided to do Hyphy.

i'm pretty sure this song is going to sound bad in whatever context it's placed

Yeah not feeling this sorry, I would've preferred for them to become a meme and keep posting 'new album coming this year' for another 20 years and then announce they are disbanding.

They waited too long and their schtick has been perfected and forgotten by now.

Not to harp on it, but they have effectively disbanded a couple of times over. At least two albums by the two-man collaboration that made Since I Left You* have been scrapped, Chater continued on his own, and then from the wording in reports of the Beats interview, drew Di Blasi back a few years ago to at least have someone around to bounce ideas off.

AFAIK, Tony Pepperoni's only public contribution to Avalanches output in the last 13 years was writing a blog about taking too many "pingas" at a Modular party or Brainz night, circa 2006? Anyone else remember anything else?

De La Cruz appears to have been hastily re-recruited now that Chater needs to put live and DJ shows together. Remember he only joined the group as a keyboard player after SILY, when they needed more members onstage to try and fake a recreation of the album, and rose to prominence when they had to shift to touring as DJs instead. As the best regular playing-records-for-people-to-dance-to type DJ in the group, he continued working more consistently as they drifted away from regular activity.

*and Since I Left You only being done by Bobbydazzler was already sidelining the actual band who'd made all the previous records and live shows.

"drew Di Blasi back and started from scratch," I should have said.

their schtick has been perfected and forgotten by now.

by who, exactly?

honest question. I would like to hear more albums that sound like 2001 Avalanches

it's good to see someone continuing the work started by the first gorillaz album

RIP Dan the Automator

did these people live off royalties for 15 years - is that possible? or did they go back to real jobs?

Seeing as the whole album was basically made up of samples, would they even get any royalties?

these people

this person

Blimey. This belongs on the shitpile of 'rolling worst songs of 2016'.

the rapping on this is fun & good the rest of it is like.... almost aggressively bad

I like The Avalanches and Danny Brown and MF Doom, so how did this happen?

Doom and Danny verses are awesome

"Take some vodka/Sip slow rocker, ock/Rip rhymes since the days of Frankie Crocker rock"

Are people really surprised this is shit? I loved Since I Left You as well but it was also very much of its time (perhaps even a bit behind it) and there have been multiple breakups, changes of direction and scrapped projects in the sixteen years (!!!) since, none of which boded well.

xp yeah, you could probably do something w/ the acapellas