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Music : Since I Left You
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Since I Left You by: The Avalanches |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0643443117722 Format: Enhanced Label: Elektra / Wea Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Elektra / Wea Release Date: November 06, 2001 Studio: Elektra / Wea Sales Rank: 16867 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: 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 Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - AmazingThis album is refreshing, creative and moving, attributes that are rare in music these days. Everyone loves a catchy tune, and the Avalanches find a new way to entice you and move you in a new way. When I first heard this album I knew I wanted to hear it again. It is something you can listen to anywhere with anyone for any type of mood. This album definately has sentimental value to me because it brings back memories of a good period in my life, but that's not the only reason why it holds so much value. The music itself has the ability to create a mystical and mysterious vibe. Frontier Pyschiatrist and Since I Left You are my favorites. Bound to make you move or chill you out, whatever you're feeling. Rating: - Absolute joyMany people have speculated and argued about what kind of music is played on Hell's loudspeakers. I don't know the answer to that question, but I guarantee you Since I Left You is on a 24-hour loop in Heaven. This album is amazingly, unbelievably, mind-blowingly great. It is total and utter joy and freedom from beginning to end. Some people will tell you that this and that song are good, and this and that song aren't as good, and blah blah blah. They are wrong. Some parts of it may take a while to grow on you, but if you have any kind of soul it will happen. Besides, at its core it's not a bunch of different songs released on one CD, the way most albums are. It's one work and deserves, more than any other album I've ever heard, to be treated ... Read More: Rating: - Already one of my all-time favorites...This music is so refreshing. I agree with some of the other entries, you definately need to listen to it a few times before you make any decisions about it. Pay close attention to tracks 1, 2, 9, 10, and 14. In fact, my advice would be to play these first until you fall in love with them, then move on to the other tracks. They are definately funky. I'm always grooving my head or tapping my foot to this music, which is uncommon for me. Anyway, highly recomended. If you have eclectic taste in music this is one you have to have. Rating: - A Modern ClassicA few months ago, my roommate let me borrow this CD, which I automatically ripped and gave back to him. I didn't really listen to it until he had urged me enough times that it got on my nerves...after listening to the first song, I was unimpressed. I had already heard the Go! Team and figured that they did what the Avalanches do, only more to my liking. Every time he asked me what I thought of it, I would get extremely annoyed and would feel less like listening to it. Then one day we got into an arguement about the album where I explained my reasons for not thinking it was anything special. It got heated and I eventually kicked him out of my room. I started to feel quite stupid about this. So I decided to listen to the whole album again. ... Read More: Rating:  - Multicoloured samples = funky summer lushness'Since I Left You' is an electronica landmark, a no-holds-barred approach to samples and sounds, creating for funky summer lushness. The Avalanches' debut is a dense recording in the same way Da Bomb Squad is dense, but instead of avant-garde noise, it's more about creating summer radiance, sparkling brilliance. Just think 'Bitches Brew' meeting 'Three Feet High And Rising' by De La Soul. After awhile though, this continuous sample-fest (yes there are no breaks) drags-on a bit, the impression that samples were randomly thrown together, almost like audio-babble, the more overdubs the better. But on the otherhand, there is no sense of overkill and chaos, creating for a lighthearted ambience, with a beat-driven backbone holding this multicoloured-cocktail ... Read More: |
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