The Avalanches

saturday night inside out is my jam

If I Was a Folkstar is the one I keep going back to. It's giving me early Basement Jaxx feelings. The album has grown on me a lot over the last week. Frankie and The Noisy Eater are the only duds. It's a shame they've made the hip-hop influenced songs sound so goofy and clumsy.

There are some jarring transitions and I'd love a version without the full raps, but there is amazing magical music all over this thing.

Definitely. Some of it is ridiculously beautiful. Bit of a Saint Etienne vibe to some of the songs which is never a bad thing.

good grief this is woeful

listening to it is like going to an party with people you don't like and have no taste, and all of them are fighting over who gets control over Youtube to play music, so you try to escape in the kitchen but you can still hear the terrible sounds from the other side of the house

prefer their earlier stuff eh?

ha, isn't everything that's not this album now their "earlier stuff"?

I must have listened to "Colours" a dozen times now in 24 hours. Keeps on giving. Approximates a Ghost Box sort of vibe in places. Really curious what some of those borrowed elements are.

Pretty sure part of it is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QjfFWfdrvE

love this!

Stepkids sounds like broken social scene

http://vimeo.com/173438485

need to listen to w/e the 'we be driving drunk smokin blunts runnin red lights" is from

my weekend iirc

Saturday Night Inside Out is the standout track for me so far.

Reviews for this record are all over the place. People either embracing the summer party/chill themes or underwhelmed by the formula not evolving enough. This is especially true when you read opinions on "The Noisy Eater" - it's either a rollicking great time or a big shit in the punchbowl.

Saturday Night seconded

underwhelmed by the formula not evolving enough

what is even the point of reviewing records if it just becomes some lab report or something? if it's a stepping stone to a bigger point in some piece of critical analysis, fine i guess, but people don't buy music based on this stuff.

lab report not exactly the right analogy there. just write about the music and not what it all means.. it's just an electronica album.

"The Was" video is breathtaking

There are things here that sound like they're directly from an extended version of SILY - which is perfect.

I love "The Noisy Eater"!

The funniest reviews always concentrate on the "banal" nature of the lyrics...in an Avalanches record. As if "I Feel Love" and "Acidman" are somehow the Yeats in comparison. HEY INDIE ROCK CRITICS, STAY AWAY FROM DANCE MUSIC.

maybe just stay away form lyrics in general eh

good album
feel like 'hit vibes' by saint pepsi was better follow up to 'since i left u' tho

Mark Richardson's Pitchfork review is precisely how I feel about this record:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22065-wildflower/

(However, I would rate this a 10 since so much of it is actually perfect - despite the missteps)

I'm only as far as Going Home but this is way better than I would ever have anticipated. I don't even mind Frankie Sinatra in the context of the album, although that may be some residual Glastonbury in my system.

The first rap on "Frankie" is really the worst thing about the album. I love the Van Dyke Parks "Discover America"-ness of the sample (and I love all the calypso they've put in their mixes), but that rap really sounds like Eminem fronting Gorillaz.

I may just replace it with the original sample source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB159Ac7sh0

I've seen a number of reviews site "Subways" as lazy sampling against the original Chandra track. If you listen to the source material it's virtually unrecognizable from the final Avalanches composition. The only thing lazy here is the journalism.

Every non-sampled voice on this is so unwelcome.

no i just called to tell you I'm ok and shit

Second half of this album is such a sunshine daydream

Setlist for the first live show in fifteen years:

‘Flight Tonight’
‘Radio’
‘Close 2 U’
‘Different Feeling’
‘Noisy Eater’
‘Subways’
‘Because I’m Me’
‘Frankie Sinatra’
‘Frontier Psychiatrist’
‘Electricity’
‘Tonight’
‘Since I Left You’

Spank Rock on lead vocals, reading lyrics off his phone when not adding his own verses. Session drummer (who plays in Sydney bars alongside DJs) and session singer (from The Wolfgramm Sisters) for the hooks. De la Cruz didn't show up at all, Chater on guitar, DiBlasi on backing tracks. Frontier Psychiatrist mashed up with Gnarls Barkley's Crazy.

Hello. I like the new album, and I didn't like the first one.

I might give the first one another chance, will let you know what happens.

you really should!!

skip frontier psychiatrist tho

Yeah, that was the one. 'Its just a BBC crap radio ad for a probably decent Radio doc/phone-in about mental health issues' I said at the time. To no-one there..

i've played this album daily since it came out. i didn't expect to like it more than the first album but that's what's happening. kitchen person is otm about superfast jellyfish the noisy eater being a skippable dud, and really the middle section of the album is the weakest imo.

love the album. only listened to it 5 or 6 times so far, but I can tell it will be an all-time favorite. love that the avalanches sound is now validated instead of maybe being a one-off.

I keep listening to "Harmony" over and over. Nice that the flute recalls "Close to You" from SILY too (not sure if same sample source).

This album easily contains my favorite music of this year.

So, when's the next album?

I wouldn't mind hearing what they could do as producers for others. Not that I don't like their own stuff though!

One of my faovrite things they did, which not a lot of people have heard, was their remix of the Concretes' Chico from 2004:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQhqXxeDSk0

I wouldn't mind hearing what they could do as producers for others. Not that I don't like their own stuff though!

About Last Night came out fifteen years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPIMfOIuEe4

How's the essential mix?

The Essential Mix is really good, might be liking it more than the actual album.

This mix is GREAT!

that clara mondshine track is quite a find

Original SILY:

https://www.reddit.com/r/theavalanches/comments/41piii/since_i_left_you_original_version_containing_all/

yeah that is the only one i listen to these days. it's incredible.

same! thx to stevie d for mentioning it a while ago