The Avalanches

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.

basically sounded like since I left you part two, imo. Really looking forward to this.

A few listens into the clip and "Subways" already sounds like it's the most beautiful song ever made.

I'm as leery of getting excited about clips as I was dismissing new Avalanches off of one song, tbh. Everyone chill

no

haha those clips did sound good tho... apart from the biz markie track

haha I kinda liked that Biz Markie was just rapping about, like, eating cereal

haha I kinda liked that Biz Markie was just rapping about, like, eating cereal

not for the first time he has done this !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su7B6syeMxw

http://soundcloud.com/theavalanches/primavera-desk-tape

lol at "visa issues" derailing their live show plans "an hour before showtime" in another hemisphere

should have had MasterCard in case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=799I89T4OjE

Lovely.

Also, if you're familiar with the Avalanches Breezeblock and other DJ sets, then "Frankie Sinatra" isn't all that surprising (-ly bad or good)