The Avalanches

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

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

― Number None, jueves 2 de junio de 2016 7:39 (7 hours ago)

It depends on what part of their sound you like. For the sample based music I think The Books and Panda Bear's Person Pitch are more interesting than their debut and made something better out of the style. For music that sounds similar I think Jens Lekman, Air France and Go Team sound like there is a membee of the Avalanches involved... Maybe early Caribou or Four Tet are comparable too. Instrumental hip hop there's too many to mention. This new song sounds lile something El-P or Guts or Gorillaz would have done and then release as a b-side.

Not taking into consideration artists like Dj Shadow, Mr Scruff, RJD2, Lemon Jelly and almost everyone on the ninjatune label since they existed years before the debut.

For the sample based music I think The Books and Panda Bear's Person Pitch are more interesting than their debut and made something better out of the style.

My face right now: o_O

Johnny Fever posted: 24 November 2010 10:25:25

Pass along the word that we, the listening public, will be very forgiving! We just want to hear it.

Nice to know that Johnny Fever's idea of being forgiving is calling something fucking garbage.

you guys made me buy their album once. my revenge is frankie sinatra. it's your new summer jam!

YOU did this?

if nothing else, this is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB159Ac7sh0

Johnny Fever posted: 24 November 2010 10:25:25

Pass along the word that we, the listening public, will be very forgiving! We just want to hear it.

― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, June 2, 2016 10:55 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nice to know that Johnny Fever's idea of being forgiving is calling something fucking garbage.

― MarkoP, Thursday, June 2, 2016 11:00 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol @ me

i listened to since i left you awhile back for the first time in forever and did not like it v much.

Right, when's the next All Seeing I album coming?

For the sample based music I think The Books and Panda Bear's Person Pitch are more interesting than their debut and made something better out of the style.

My face right now: o_O

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), jueves 2 de junio de 2016 15:36 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What you don't like the Books!?Madvillain or Monster Rally, then? Iirc most of their music is sample based too.

you seem to have confused "uses samples in their music" with "sounds like The Avalanches"

the books are boring and have back guitar tones

panda bear opens his mouth and his records are just a needlessly massive layered cake of sound

avalanches is endtroducing on e, in other words, best music ever.

bad guitar tones

all sample based music is the same

show me books/panda bear songs that sound like "electricity" please

The Books weren't just boring. They were actively tedious.

what is even the point of comparing "sample based" albums if they have nothing else in common?

You can hear a snippet of the beautiful "Subways" here at 1:01:30
http://theonlymusicpodcast.com/ep-29-badbadnotgood-ariana-die-antwoord/

here it is at Primavera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csBPQ9E5z-8

Just realized what Frankie Sinatra reminds me of:
https://youtu.be/CwCWvn60L3w

Wow, I hadn't thought about that song in years.

https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B01GIBSU6A/

there's track previews here and they sound much more like what you'd expect from a new Avalanches album than Frankie Sinatra

those previews sound incredibly promising.. stoked.

Yeah, I'm less grouchy now.

Feels more overtly Psychedelic than Since I Left You did. I'm reminded of Mid 00s Caribou on some of those snippets.

Frankie Sinatra will be the Good Times off this album then.

that link is down :(

Yeah, I couldn't access it either. I'm relieved to see those samples are getting a positive reaction. Subways is the kind of Avalanches I was hoping for.

Literally all of the 19-20 other non-"Frankie Sinatra" tracks sounded extremely dreamy - not just the alleged saviour song "Subways" - so the single seems (thankfully) to have been a red herring.

The "Good Times" comparison doesn't really work for me as it's the only thing I did enjoy on the Jamie xx record whereas this looks like it will be the reverse.