20 Years After Their Debut, The Avalanches Have Perfected The Art Of Finishing An Album It s only because we were absent for so long that [ Since I Left You ] became a myth.
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If someone had told Steve Pavlovic, founder of Modular Records, that The Avalanches would be releasing their third studio album in 2020, he would have laughed. And then he would have cried.
Because having waited more than 15 years for the group to follow up their seminal, untouchable debut
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The Australian groupâs ambitious third album overflows with ideas, samples, guests, and sheer stimuli. In their sparkling music, every sound feels like a treasured memory.
Life, death, and the cosmos set the boundaries of the Avalanchesâ ambitious third album,
We Will Always Love You. The record begins with a farewell voicemailâa final communication, we are led to believe, from a young woman who has passed awayâand it ends with the Morse code-like bleeping of the Arecibo Message, an interstellar transmission carrying information on the human species into the infinite beyond. In between those poles, the Australian group continues doing what it has always done: spinning the sounds of disco, soul, easy listening, and other nostalgic staples into luminous, ludic shapes, turning musical collage into a sparkling, four-dimensional fantasyland.
Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins, Lost Horizons) lists his Top 10 LPs of 2020
Cocteau Twins, but these days he spends most of his time running
Bella Union Records, which is home to Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips, Laura Veirs, Pom Poko, Penelope Isles, Drab City, BC Camplight, Daughter of Swords, and more. He s also currently making music as one half of
Lost Horizons, his collaboration with former Dif Juz member Richie Thomas, who just put out the first part of their
In Quiet Moments double LP which features guest vocals from John Grant, Porridge Radio, Penelope Isles and more. You can listen to that below;