The Avalanches

I've had "Reflecting Light" echoing around head overnight. Which I'm taking as a positive.

One thing I wish they'd worked on is the segues from track to track. I suspect I'd be digging it more with the relatively seamless transitions of a SILY. Some of the more inconsequential-on-their-own interludes risk interrupting the flow rather than building cohesion when they fade to (near-) silence each time. (Admittedly I say this about a LOT of LPs. LOL. And some of this might even be an artifact of Spotify listening, but certainly not all of it.)

this is a wonderful background record for playing cards

the segues are a lot better than on wildflower. it's not entirely a seamless sily-style mix but it doesn't seem like they're ever going to do something like that again

I'm not ready to say I hate this record, but there are too many generic electronica moments. I like Wildflower much more, for sure.

Title track just seems like an awkward childish pastiche of sounds. Distasteful

It makes me just want to listen to The Roches.

I was watching a fantano video a few weeks ago in which his followers sent him their favorite albums of all time and found it surprising that Wildflower was in several lists. I knew it was well regarded, but saying it’s a “best of all time” album seems excessive. It’s not even the best album of 2016.

To each their own.

I still agree that Dj Koze’s Amygdala and Knock Knock are comparable and possibly better albums.

Most of it is ok for background music, and has a dreamlike flow which I like, but I agree that it has many distasteful decisions thrown in there.

listening now, finally. this is basically a gorillaz album.

a tasteful one, though, with a more interesting array of collaborators.

I'm not feeling it... yet.

makes me wish they did a proper disco album and an ambient album

man this record is awesome

listening now, finally. this is basically a gorillaz album.

― la table sur la table (voodoo chili),

Yeah, I came here to post that this is basically my favourite Gorillaz album.

i remain suspicious of jamie xx but "wherever you go" -> "music makes me high" is my favorite part of this record, total euphoria

i also really enjoyed wildflower though, the avalanches are good

Wildflower had some really amazing songs. I don’t hate this one but nothing in it shines for me in the same way that Colours, If I was a folkstar, subways, because I’m me, stepkids... all did.

Maybe I need to listen to it in a different frame of mind. This year I’m not feeling this one.

this one feels more like a DJ mix of original music than an album of songs

i was hoping to hear something on the album that would top the tracks released pre-album, the experience i had with both SILO and wildflower.
not the case with WWALY, "red lights" and "music makes me high" remain the highlights, the latter grew on me a lot.
such pure joy. i want a full album of that.

There had better be an extended 12” mix of “Music Gets Me High,” criminal if not.

Interview mainly on the technical details of making the new album: https://www.musictech.net/features/interviews/the-avalanches-we-will-always-love-you/

They've finally moved to working in Pro Tools, and Andy from Midnight Juggies made the band (back) into a trio for this entire LP.

Just been listening to this the last few days, it's real nice. The back half especially is a nice continual flow, with some good hooks. Like, from "We Go On" onward. The front is good too, but more song-by-song variability.

For folks who preferred Gimix to Since I Left You, here's a radio promo mix for We Will Always Love You, featuring about 1/3 of the album's songs mixed with inspirations, collaborators and sample sources.

yknow I think the only thing I don’t approve of on gimmix is when they play more of the kid creole song. that sample rocks, tho

used to think “turning the drum upside down” was slang for like a really awesome dance party

From 1997, an interview and live footage from just after Dexter joined the band.

(Skip to 16.40 if timed link doesn't work.)

This album is wayyyyyy better than I was expecting. Since I Left You 2020. They really capitalized on the guest spots relative to the last one, which had some great songs but never gelled for me as an album.

A 1999 mini-documentary, from a series produced for high school art students, about the making of Since I Left You. Some baby faces and good laughs in here, like Pav urging them to turn down a film soundtrack commission that Darren argues "would only take us a week."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V0Rby9jL0A

World tour on sale now!

Interview with Tony:

During the making of Wildflower we kind of got bogged down in an over-processed way of making music. We had so many samples that’d we’d catalogue into different folders and it became almost like some type of administrative way of making music. We’d have to cross reference numbers with the samples we’d catalogued, it was so time consuming and really just took away from the pure creativity of making music.

However, without the ability to use guests live:

This time we’re thinking it’ll be just a two man show just with Robbie and myself, and take it back to the art of sampling and how the music is made. We want to deconstruct the songs and build them back up, revealing the layers that make the song. Of course, our main objective is to always try and bring and party. After such a hard year for humanity as a whole, it’ll be so exciting just to go out there and try and make the fans — and ourselves — have the best time ever!

Some sort of 20th Anniversary release?

Making Since I Left You: Our debut album was a labour of love and we remain very proud of its legacy. It was a pure expression of heartache and joy.

Tune in tomorrow for some Since I Left You news .. 🌊 🚣‍♀️

Photograph by Gen Kay pic.twitter.com/Mi0GvCbpjq

— The Avalanches (@TheAvalanches) April 7, 2021

lol is the deluxe remaster finally going to come out after all this time

announced 10 years ago for its 10th anniversary and maybe finally here for the 20th...?

lol that's what it is!

the LP version has the same tracklist as the 2017 pressing of it that leaked out last year but the CD version has more tracks on its second disc. wonder what the hold-up was all this time?

1. Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life (MF DOOM Remix)
2. Summer Crane (Black Dice Remix)
3. Frontier Psychiatrist (Mario Caldato Jr's 85% Remix)
4. Electricity (Dr. Rockit's Dirty Kiss Remix)
5. Electricity (Original Avalanches Demo Tape)
6. Thank You Caroline (Original Avalanches Demo Tape)
7. Thank You Caroline (Andy Votel Remix)
8. So Why So Sad (The Avalanches Sean Penn Mix)
9. The Shining (The Avalanches Good Word For The Weekend Mix)
10. Pablo's Cruise (Original Avalanches Demo Tape)
11. I'm A Cuckoo (The Avalanches Remix)
12. Chico (The Avalanches Wernham Hogg Mix)
13. Fade Together (The Avalanches Remix)
14. Since I Left You (Stereolab Remix)
15. Flight Tonight (Canyons Travel Agent Dub)
16. Radio (Sinkane Remix)
17. A Different Feeling (Ernest Saint Laurent Remix)
18. A Different Feeling (Carl Craig's Paperclip People Remix)
19. Two Hearts In 3/4 Time (Jackson & His Computer Band Remix)
20. Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life (Dragged By Leon Vynehall)
21. Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life (Edan Remix)

the 2nd CD tracklist is different because it's a dj mix, from the email:

For fans of the CD format, it comes with a bonus mix CD that we made especially for you, a journey through the flotsam and jetsam that has been floating around in the vaults for years.

and in the description:

A 21 TRACK EXCLUSIVE MIX, INCLUDING 8 UNRELEASED TRACKS + AVALANCHES REMIXES OF THE MANIC STREET PREACHERS, BADLY DRAWN BOY, BELLE & SEBASTIAN AND FRANZ FERDINAND

weird that the digital version says "US customers" only, it didn't say anything when i paid, even though i'm in canada.
regardless, holy shit!! i think i only heard 3 of the remixes. can't wait.

[announced 10 years ago for its 10th anniversary and maybe finally here for the 20th...?

ahem :)

As of today we're exactly four weeks from the 20th anniversary of Since I Left You, and they still haven't finalised the release date for the 10th anniversary deluxe reissue, or announced details of the super-deluxe package versions.

― edited for dog profanity (sic), Friday, October 30, 2020 6:40 PM (five months ago)

here's that post about the 2017 pressing: The Avalanches

re-annotating the tracklist - bold/italic new for the LP, just bold new & exclusive to the CD, asterisked old but not on the LP

1. Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life (MF DOOM Remix)
2. Summer Crane (Black Dice Remix)
3. Frontier Psychiatrist (Mario Caldato Jr's 85% Remix)
4. Electricity (Dr. Rockit's Dirty Kiss Remix) **
5. Electricity (Original Avalanches Demo Tape)
6. Thank You Caroline (Original Avalanches Demo Tape)
7. Thank You Caroline (Andy Votel Remix)
8. Manic Street Preachers - So Why So Sad (The Avalanches Sean Penn Mix)**
9. Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining (The Avalanches Good Word For The Weekend Mix)**
10. Pablo's Cruise (Original Avalanches Demo Tape)
11. Bell & Sebastian - I'm A Cuckoo (The Avalanches Remix)**
12. The Concretes - Chico (The Avalanches Wernham Hogg Mix)**
13. Franz Ferdinand - Fade Together (The Avalanches Remix)**
14. Since I Left You (Stereolab Remix)
15. Flight Tonight (Canyons Travel Agent Dub)
16. Radio (Sinkane Remix)
17. A Different Feeling (Ernest Saint Laurent Remix)**
18. A Different Feeling (Carl Craig's Paperclip People Remix)
19. Two Hearts In 3/4 Time (Jackson & His Computer Band Remix)
20. Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life (Dragged By Leon Vynehall)
21. Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life (Edan Remix)

on the 4xLP but not on the CD:

LP3-1. Since I Left You (Cornelius Remix)
LP3-4. Close To You (Sun Araw Remix)
LP4-1. Since I Left You (Prince Paul Remix)
LP4-2. Electricity (Harvey's Nightclub Re-edit)
LP4-4. Extra Kings (Deakin Remix)

the Jackson remix was announced for the 11th-anniversary reissue but not included in 2017. the El Guincho remix is still missing in action, but maybe we have everything else done in 2011 now planned (again)? good to see the release and the sequencing are still a complete shambles though.

had to search Fade Together, I don't remember that one at all.

the 2nd CD tracklist is different because it's a dj mix, from the email:

haaaa, of course they still can't release everything from the tenth anniversary edition, 21 years on.

Vinyl is already gone, with scalpers listing it for $250 on ebay. Fuckin sucks man

More world tour dates: performing Since I Left You live with a symphony orchestra at an arts festival in Adelaide in July.

Following this, Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi will appear in conversation with revered artist Jonathan Zawada at UniSA's City West campus.

They will then team up with artists Michaela Gleave and Fausto Brusamolino for "Messages of Hope, Messages of Love" a visual poem that will light up Adelaide CBD skies across four nights.

They will also be part of another visual experience, "Ghost Stories", which will see the band present work from Zawada and The Experience Machine that influenced their brilliant 2020 album We Will Always Love You.

Finally, the duo will close out the festival, headlining a massive block party with a DJ set on its final night.

looks like vinyl is back in stock.

“Because I’m me” is my jam

Bought the vinyl although i’m not sure if I need the remixes.

Oh nice! Ordered for...way too much. But this is an album I've wanted to own on vinyl for AGES

.. and now CD is shown as sold out

But this is an album I've wanted to own on vinyl for AGES

You could have bought the 2004 reissue or the 2012 reissue or the 2016 reissue or the 2017 reissue for less :)

You're assuming I remember this desire consistently or at even remotely convenient times

Review of the first night of the two-man format WWALY live show.

Next world tour date is available anywhere in the world, and your ticket also gets you CHVRCHES, Phoebe Bridgers, Pond, King Gizzard &/Or The Lizard Wizard, Charli XCX, Kaytranada, The Chats and more

the remaster sounds a little different in places to me, not quite as cluttered and cloudy at times maybe? The vinyl packaging is beautiful. Simon Reynolds’ liner notes sum up a lot of what makes this album special to me.

New American tour dates on sale Friday:

February 17 9:30 Club Washington, D.C.
February 18 Terminal 5 New York, NY
February 19 Theatre Of Living Arts Philadelphia, PA
February 20 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA
February 22 Phoenix Concert Theatre Toronto, CA
February 23 Majestic Theatre Detroit, MI
February 24 Metro Chicago IL
February 25 Varsity Theatre Minneapolis, MN
February 27 Gothic Theatre Englewood, CO
March 01 Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, CA
March 02 Neptune Theatre Seattle, WA
March 03 Roseland Theatre Portland, OR
March 06 The Warfield San Francisco, CA

I might have to do that Warfield show, I never have seen them.

Live in 1999, uploaded to youtube from a fuzzy off-air VHS a year ago (three-song excerpt of a full set opens with Electricity, iirc before the 12" was out)

Live in 2021, a 50-min condensed set mixed and edited from three shows (at the same theatre) in between lockdowns. Unlisted link apparently made for the virtual festival above, might not last!