Wildflower
The Australian group finally returns with its long-rumored follow-up to *Since I Left You*, the 2000 album that earned them a ravenous following. *Wildflower* is a continuous mix of the wild and weird, another hallucinogenic collage of samples ranging from R&B to orchestral pop. From the calypso-klezmer \"Frankie Sinatra,\" featuring Danny Brown, to Biz Markie chomping over a Beatles sample on \"Noisy Eater,” it’s the tour de force soundtrack to music\'s past and present.
Whatever you might think about sampling others’ music rather than making your own, The Avalanches’ Since I Left You is arguably the apex of the art form/act of wanton criminality. The Australian group’s 2000 debut made even the expertly crate-digging DJ Shadow look like a bored Sam Goody browser. Its surgical…
A wide-eyed and gleeful crayon meld of primary colour and clashing sounds that doesn’t give a damn about staying within the lines.
There won’t be a 2016 album with a more exuberant opening than the Avalanches’ Wildflower. On the opening cut, “Because I’m…
The Australian trio’s long-awaited return brings no radical changes to their style
Download this: 'Because I’m Me', 'Frankie Sinatra', 'Colours', 'The Noisy Eater', 'Kaleidoscopic Lovers', 'Saturday Night Inside Out'
In the 15-plus years since they released their masterpiece of sample-based electronica, Since I Left You, the Avalanches have been legendary ghosts kept alive by hopes, rumors, and memories of greatness compounded by a lack of anyone coming along to fill their shoes.
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After one of the most critically acclaimed debuts in recent history, it seemed sensible for the Avalanches to create their second album following 2000’s Since I Left You, but after 16 years it becomes almost mythical.
In the time it's taken Tony Di Blasi and Robbie Chater to follow up The Avalanches' sublime 2000 debut Since I Left You the world has somersaulted on its axis more than once.
A pastoral, wistful brand of psychedelia works its retro magic on this long-awaited comeback
After waiting so many years, it’s worth the extra patience to let the Avalanches’s Wildflower sink in.
'Wildflower' by The Avalanches, album review by Matthew Wardell. The album comes out 7/8 on Astralwerks. The lead single "Frankie Sinatra" is now streaming.
The Aussie sample stichers' follow-up inhabits the light and makes sense in the sun. CD new music review by Barney Harsent