- Audio CD (Nov 6 2001)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Enhanced, Import
- Label: Warner
- ASIN: B00005QC5J
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (65 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. Since I Left You |
| 2. Stay Another Season |
| 3. Radio |
| 4. Two Hearts In 3/4 Time |
| 5. Avalanche Rock |
| 6. Flight Tonight |
| 7. Close To You |
| 8. Diners Only |
| 9. A Different Feeling |
| 10. Electricity |
| 11. Tonight |
| 12. Pablo's Cruise |
| 13. Frontier Psychiatrist |
| 14. Etoh |
| 15. Summer Crane |
| 16. Little Journey |
| 17. Live At Dominoes |
| 18. Extra Kings |
Product Description
From Amazon.com
The Avalanches are a much-feted six-man crew of sample addicts from Australia whose debut album, Since I Left You, is a bargain-bin vinyl throwback to the Daisy Age. This album is constructed like a mix tape and calculated to tweak the dance floor. Snatches of familiar rhythms bubble up throughout, giving the record a comfortable lived-in feel but also betraying the fact that the group hasn't dug very far through the crates to source their raw material. There's little doubt that this kind of sample reconstruction has become standard fare for retrogressive adolescents with precious little musical flair and a mania for collecting records. The Avalanches get full marks for their seamless mixing skills, but otherwise it all feels way too tidy, bristling with its own inventiveness when it should be striving for something that transcends its influences. --Chris Campion
Chronique amazon.fr
Avec ce remarquable premier album, les joyeux Australiens de The Avalanches viennent jeter le discrédit sur les barrières qui cloisonnent les styles en laissant copuler ensemble les mélodies de la pop, la rythmique du hip-hop et la gaieté scintillante de la disco moderne. Après avoir publié pléthore de maxis, parmi lesquels le très remarqué Frontier Psychiatrist, la formation, originaire de Melbourne, a été prise d'une frénésie du sampling et du collage tous azimuts, échantillonnant à tout va les sonorités les plus curieuses allant du hip-hop (dont on reconnaîtra quelques références), jusqu'à à la noisy-pop, et de Madonna jusqu'à la disco des années 80. Le résultat verse dans un bric-à-brac sonore sans nom, égratignant les styles avec un sourire vengeur, et naviguant sans accrocs entre les sons les plus divers. Et si The Avalanches est inclassable, il ravira les fans de mélanges iconoclastes et de sons étranges, au confluent de la pop, du hip-hop, du trip-hop et même du reste. Sur ce Since I Left You, les têtes pensantes Robbie Chater et Darren Seltman ont déniché, pour le plus grand bonheur de nos oreilles, des cris, des hurlements, des sifflements aigus, des hennissements dignes d'un Cypress Hill, des guitares flamenco, des cordes classiques et des rythmes de hip-hop d'une lourdeur à faire exploser les baffles de la planète, le tout ciselé de scratches soigneusement décalés. Joyeux délire instrumental augmenté de quelques samples de voix piochés çà et là dans un répertoire cinématographique, Since I Left You est sans doute un des collages les plus judicieux qui aient vu le jour jusqu'ici. Sans jamais tomber dans l'écueil facile de la juxtaposition des styles, les deux agités du sampler sont parvenus à créer de vraies harmonies, avec des sons venus pourtant d'univers totalement différents. Amateurs de hip-hop, de pop et de top, ce disque est pour vous. --Toma Blondeau
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5.0 out of 5 stars
heavenly,
By B (houston, tx) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Since I Left You (Audio CD)
I never thought of this cd as a dance pop kind of thing even though it has a lot of very danceable moments...I suppose I perfer to see it as a work of art. In case you haven't heard, there are a lot of samples on this cd...it probably took a decade for all these guys (there's like 8 of them) to collect all these records and stuff. They've managed to make something meaningful that stands on its own merits, even if you're too young to recognize any of the samples.The earlier tracks and the later tracks stand out as individual songs (the first four tracks are all amazing, and two hearts is especially nice and a very fresh sound, frontier psychiatrist is very cool for turntablist fans), but most of the middle, from Flight Tonight to Electricity gets muddled together into a long piece of hyperactive stream of consciousness. This is not a weakness; rather, it illuminates the very natural flowing sound of what must have been a very technically difficult project. Of all the sample-collaging people out there, some of whom are Japanese and go overboard on kitsch, and others of whom take a more treaded jazz approach to things, the Avalanches have truly set themselves apart. I suspect they might never make another album, and if they do, not for several years. They've made their statment well; this work will stand up to the test of time. For something so thick with pieces of musical and cultural history, this album is surprisingly light and heavenly.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dance Floor Pleaser,
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This review is from: Since I Left You (Audio CD)
The Avalanches' "Since I Left You" is an amazing record. It's got a flowing mixture of sweet downbeat tunes with glowing samples, and thick, bassy dance floor hits. Think of this: Junior Senior and Prefuse 73 meet the guys from Air at a Massive Attack show. It will keep you moving all night. It'll even make you feel good when you're sitting down, relaxing. It's safe to say it just sets a good aura. So, whoever gave the Amazon.com editorial review really has no idea what they are talking about. This CD belongs in your collection.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Masterful good times,
By Kurt Lennon (Calgary) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Since I Left You (Audio CD)
I run a personal website (http://www.angelfire.com/music/diamondawards - if you're interested) where I often write end-of-year album reviews. For 2001, I named this album the best of the year, simply because of the hype I've heard about it and because I had faith the album would be good. In February 2002 I finally purchased the album, and I am convinced I made the right choice: this album is simply fantastic. Ignore those people who say this album "hisses" or doesn't "fit together": when you compose an hour's worth of music from 900 samples, you would expect to hear some technical glitches. In my opinion, those fragments of discordant harmonies and off-time beats add to the mystique and thrill of this album.By the time the title track is reprised on "Extra Kings", you are certain you've heard a very special and wonderful piece of music composition done by very creative and talented artists. It is simply a joy to hear the many sound samples these guys put together on one song: a bassline from a Madonna song, a golf instruction video, horses neighing, the horn of a ship, who knows what else. Especially cool is when they mix sounds from different eras together ("A Different Feeling" melding 70's horns with 80's electronic bleeps). Trust me, if you give this album time, you will spend more time with it than it took to create. And that's a lot of time. Hugely enjoyable and recommended.
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