Thread for the new Avalanches album ONLY (WHICH IS NOT OUT YET) so all you shits can stop having tantrums when we bump the other thread

fake

I hope it is, at least.

Ha! The guy who made the song wrote a funny tweet about it.

jesse @yaperwave
you don't now disappointment until you think you're about to hear a new avalanches track and you hit play and hear one of your shitty songs
10:55 AM - 14 Jan 2015

this is good. been wondering who's making fun sample-based music recently.

(would be very happy if someone made fun of me for ignoring artists X, Y and Z here)

I kinda wish they never release the follow-up and it becomes a meme for upcoming releases every year for the next 100 years.

When I was listening to the track on soundcloud this morning, my heart was sinking. Partly because it's probably what any new Avalanches material will resemble and partly because I don't think I want to hear Since I Left You pt. II

good news!

you never will

Wildflower. July 8.

This album is fucking GREAT! Can't stop playing it. Album of the year.

it's too cold for it now, I have put it in hibernation

I can't hang with the vocals on this record at all... otherwise it's quite nice

Using rappers was a bad move – destroys the entire spell of timelessness.

And Frankie Sinatra should be buried halfway through the record, not track three.

Other than that I love it.

On course for 2032 release

LP#3 - Day 1 pic.twitter.com/qGxX5gX5AW

— The Avalanches (@TheAvalanches) August 15, 2017

LP#3 .. pic.twitter.com/djkEAJT2cD

— The Avalanches (@TheAvalanches) February 8, 2018

can't wait to hear it 20 years from now!

"There’s people we’re writing with as we speak, one person mainly. Songs are being developed with the artists attached as we go from the ground up, which is really cool—I can’t talk too much about that though. I’m excited and I’m pretty sure a record will come pretty quickly, but I’ve been wrong about that before."

Kind of interesting how different "Wild Flower" looked (and judging from the tracklisting, sounded) 18 months or so before it finally got released:

Early wildflower track list and cover pic.twitter.com/u8MK1FyXIP

— The Avalanches (@TheAvalanches) February 12, 2018

Ugh Frankie Sinatra was such a terrible lead single.

honestly i don't get why frankie sinatra is so... polarizing

i mean i can get it's got elements in it that might be on the grating side for some people and i can see how it'd leave some undersatisfied impressions in the "this is meant to be the flag-bearer for the follow-up to SILY?"

but it grew on me, especially the whole " 1 bar pause - couple bars from DOOM - another one bar pause - rest of his verse", which imo is the kinda thing that would've fit snugly into SILY II (which let's be real, we shouldn't have expected from a shrunken lineup 16 years later that might not be able to get away with that degree of sampling this time round

on that kind of note, any thoughts on the deluxe reissue they've been talking about since 2011?

pic.twitter.com/LTX0H0eVqB

— The Avalanches (@TheAvalanches) July 16, 2020

ugh okay I'm stoked

And if each letter there represents a specific track then extra chefs kisses for them.

22.07 pic.twitter.com/zMmxkjqTf2

— The Avalanches (@TheAvalanches) July 17, 2020

Hyped

Tomorrow, July 22nd, two new songs will be released, to you, for you, by us. We made them with some very special friends.

‘Wherever You Go’ & ‘Reflecting Light’ will be released
together, with artwork and visuals by the amazing @JonathanZawada

— The Avalanches (@TheAvalanches) July 21, 2020

new songs not really doing it for me tbh

(ft. Sananda Maitreya & Vashti Bunyan)

what?!

agree w/ Simon. something's missing?

also 'running red lights' was fine the first time but I have no need to ever hear it again.

yep

the whole vibe of the current incarnation just sounds crowded-but-empty to me

when your medium is "sample collage", diminishing returns are almost inevitable.

the gee-whiz vibe is more of a dealbreaker for me than the reliance on samples tbh

ymmv obviously but I think we could use some gee-whiz right now

more like gee, whiz

*rimshot*

these two new songs are pretty boring but not actively dreadful like "running red lights"

Will this album have another “Saturday night inside out?” Is my only question cause that song is GREAT

xp they're sorta what I would expect from SPECIAL ALL STAR GUEST TRACKS

Wherever You Go recorded live in lockdown in collabo with the International Space Orchestra:

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

strong nostalgic burst seeing Tony play theremin again tbh

does any footage or even audio of the since i left you tour even exist? i've never been able to find any

I remember them playing in New York at SOBs in 2001 or 2002 with six turntables – I think I had a poster for the show, though who knows what happened to it!