Article Response: Tim's Avalanches Review

Ohmigod! I have to have it. Now! Is it out in the UK yet?

I logged on this morning and thought, oh, that's good, I did for once remember to do an article response thread. Deluded me. Thanks Otis, and thanks Tim for writing it - and yes, I now also have to hear it. (You can get it off Amazon, Richard, as an import, not too expensive either.)

I can't remember the last time I was so excited by a review on FT. The quality in Tim's review - of capturing excitement and euphoria while retaining rationality and descriptiveness - reminds me of Simon Reynolds in 1986; it has that same combination of wide-eyed wonder and childlike losing-of-self, with a formidable intelligence and range of reference points.

I have to hear this record.

UK Release date information

The Avalanches will release a single on March 26th, followed by the Album in April, according to this weeks 7 magazine.

Take a look at their UK label, XL recordings for further info

http://www.xl-recordings.com/

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Man, I just have to hear this one. It's as if someone made a record just to please me...Talk Talk, Screamadelica, The Orb, etc. etc. Back to the old only-samples-please ethic of '87-'88. Although there's a suspicion that if this record doesn't quite match up to the review it will just be mediocre Coldcut/DJ Food (then again if it's something like Food's "Bay City Roller" than I'll be very, very happy). Maybe I'll just go to my local record-shops, start harrasssing them with questions about the new Avanlanches cd, "it'stheshityouknow". The...whoooo?!?