Like
Regurgitator, the Avalanches have taken the Australian version of
technology driven music on a journey all of their own. Be it hip
hop or rap, Australia has struggled with this side of music, because
it's so foreign to our musical culture; and like in the days when
punk burst out, in the end we've come up with musical responses
like no other in the world. When they started out, on stage, and
even with their singles, the Avalanches came from a Beastie Boys,
lots of adrenalin, crowd chants, boys goofing off direction. This
long-awaited album delivers them in a completely different place,
more like a Dirty Three version of the new music than the Beastie
Boys grown up as Moby. On 'Since I Left You' musical thoughts drift
together and separately like a raging sea. The album refers to the
time the band has spent away from the stage creating this 'work'
where samples weren't used to colour songs but used to form them,
where pieces were created to bridge songs and every time such a
bridge was created it changed the course of the entire album. 'Since
I Left You' has been three years in the making, and every moment
has been worth it. A lot of technology driven music is about the
'now', part of a throwaway disposable culture. It doesn't care if
it's dated the moment we hear it. The Avalanches have created an
album which will live on into time.
Like
Regurgitator, the Avalanches have taken the Australian version of
technology driven music on a journey all of their own. Be it hip
hop or rap, Australia has struggled with this side of music, because
it's so foreign to our musical culture; and like in the days when
punk burst out, in the end we've come up with musical responses
like no other in the world. When they started out, on stage, and
even with their singles, the Avalanches came from a Beastie Boys,
lots of adrenalin, crowd chants, boys goofing off direction. This
long-awaited album delivers them in a completely different place,
more like a Dirty Three version of the new music than the Beastie
Boys grown up as Moby. On 'Since I Left You' musical thoughts drift
together and separately like a raging sea. The album refers to the
time the band has spent away from the stage creating this 'work'
where samples weren't used to colour songs but used to form them,
where pieces were created to bridge songs and every time such a
bridge was created it changed the course of the entire album. 'Since
I Left You' has been three years in the making, and every moment
has been worth it. A lot of technology driven music is about the
'now', part of a throwaway disposable culture. It doesn't care if
it's dated the moment we hear it. The Avalanches have created an
album which will live on into time.