The Avalanches' appeal to me isn't the "wow lookit all the samples" approach as it is the general "every genre can be pop" feel to it. It's just a great-flowing album where so many disparate pieces just seem to fit perfectly. And "serious" is the last word I would ever, ever consider when thinking about "Frontier Psychiatrist" or "Two Hearts in 3/4 Time".
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:55 (twenty years ago) link
Dan, "Frontier Psychiatrist" is like the everything-goes-haywire moment where every convention of the album gets ratcheted up to obsessively bombastic levels -- Since I Left You's "House of Blue Leaves" sequence. The rest of it's a lot subtler.
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:57 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:00 (twenty years ago) link
I totally adore "Two Hearts in 3/4 Time."
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:06 (twenty years ago) link
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