The Avalanches : Rolling Stone

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Since I Left You

The Avalanches are a five-man DJ-performance collective from the land down under who sample as freely as the Beastie Boys circa Paul's Boutique. Since I Left You is as sunny as an Australian summer, harnessing a wide range of music - soul, hip-hop, warped analog synths, disco, orchestral crescendos...

2000 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

Biography

Anyone with a sampler can create a new song out of bits and pieces of existing music, but it takes real panache to balance the familiar and obscure. Since I Left You, the first album from Australian quintet the Avalanches, strikes that balance perfectly. Composed of hundreds of samples, the disc's playful, airy grooves are ecstatic with the endless possibilities of sound, evoking the Beastie Boys'...

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