The Avalanches celebrated and reframed their legacy on Friday - but one big omission left fans confused.
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The third album by The Avalanches,
We Will Always Love You, arrived as a glimmer of light at the end of a long, dark, COVID-infected tunnel.
Its boundless optimism was a panacea for the Australian music community still reeling from its annus horribilis and it was a surprise to no one that the pair nabbed the J Award for Album of the Year. I think I can speak for a lot of people in Australia when I say we fucking needed it.
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The old adage that âgood things come to those who waitâ is, in general, curiously untrue when applied to album delays (see: Guns Nâ Roses’ often-derided âChinese Democracyâ). Yet sampling heavyweights The Avalanches followed their era-defining debut, 2000’s ‘Since I Left You’, with the genre-shuffling âWildflowerâ â which arrived a full 16 years after its predecessor.
Yet, incredibly, âWildflowerâ lived up to the weight of heavy expectation, further proving that the exalted Melbourne duoâs first record was no mere fluke. Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasiâs status as top-tier musical collagists was solidified thanks to some of the last decadeâs most infectious, life-affirming tracks (weâre looking at you, âFrankie Sinatraâ and âSubwaysâ). With album three completed in a mere quarter of that time, the groupâs near-mythic reputation is further illuminated with
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Matthew Horton
, December 10th, 2020 09:52
The Avalanches set controls for the heart of fun on their new album featuring a bevy of special guests, including Sananda Maitreya, Vashti Bunyan, Blood Orange, Rivers Cuomo and Pink Siifu
In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager space probes into the cosmos, sending with them the famous Voyager Golden Record, a two-disc phonographic time capsule summing up a culture, a species, a planet’s worth of biodiversity. Those slabs of audio-visual gold are out there somewhere in interstellar space, waiting to entertain aliens starved of a cut of prime Chuck Berry. No need for a difficult second album yet.