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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. Everyone loves a catchy tune, and the Avalanches find a new way to entice you and move you in a new way. This album is refreshing, creative and moving, attributes that are rare in music these days. The music itself has the ability to create a mystical and mysterious vibe. 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. Frontier Pyschiatrist and Since I Left You are my favorites. Bound to make you move or chill you out, whatever you're feeling.
It's one work and deserves, more than any other album I've ever heard, to be treated and listened to as such. Some parts of it may take a while to grow on you, but if you have any kind of soul it will happen.
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.
Many people have speculated and argued about what kind of music is played on Hell's loudspeakers. They are wrong.
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.
Besides, at its core it's not a bunch of different songs released on one CD, the way most albums are. It's well worth it.This is undoubtedly the greatest album ever created.
In fact, my advice would be to play these first until you fall in love with them, then move on to the other tracks. This music is so refreshing. They are definately funky. 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. 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.
I talk to pretty much every one I meet about how great this record is. 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 started to feel quite stupid about this. Absolutely brilliantly constructed. A few weeks ago I went out and bought it, because it seriously is one of the best albums I have ever heard. Every time he asked me what I thought of it, I would get extremely annoyed and would feel less like listening to it. Team and figured that they did what the Avalanches do, only more to my liking.
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. A few months ago, my roommate let me borrow this CD, which I automatically ripped and gave back to him. I have listened to this CD several times a day ever since. It is one of my favorite albums ever. I even began searching out all the samples that they used.I haven't found many, mostly just the ones that are listed in the album cover. They perfected what they do on this album (their debut) as far as I can tell, but perhaps they have more that they haven't shown us yet. Actually, I'm a little nervous about their first album.
I had already heard the Go. Not everyone agrees with me.perhaps they too will come around like I did. So I decided to listen to the whole album again. That was about two months ago. Viva Los Avalanches. BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT.
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. 'Since I Left You' is an electronica landmark, a no-holds-barred approach to samples and sounds, creating for funky summer lushness. 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 together. 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. What else can be said. 'Since I Left You' exhibits musical vision, and most importantly, you can dance to it.
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