Reviews (page 6 of 10)
Maybe I'm crazy. This album was insanely good, front to back. The cohesion, the production, the creativity! I dare say there were no skips. Sure, some songs at the end weren't as captivating as those at the beginning, but I still thoroughly enjoyed everything I heard. As it had no skips, this album gets my very first 5!
It's a really Good record
2.5/5
Crazy that this thing is even good, much less half as great as it is. Walls of Sound
Gelreat album
Beautiful sonic design. Enjoyed jt thoroughly.
First one so far I have never heard of, never seen mentioned, never popped up on a playlist, never seen the album cover, etc. Turns out it's over 20 years old and there's now a Deluxe Edition. DJ dancy stuff - a lot of vocal loops that get super annoying after 4 minutes - but nothing revolutionary, zero new ideas and hardly cutting edge. These guys couldn't carry Moby's jock, compete with Groove Armada, Air or Thievery Corp, their early 00's contemporaries. Mixed like a DJ would, including needle sounds/static pop between songs, the only original idea here. I do like the song title "Pablo's Cruise", that's fun. The Deluxe edition has remixes by Stereolab, Prince Paul and others, they improve the tracks but there wasn't to work with. Another that does not deserve to be in the Top 1001. Two stars is generous.
no
How much electronica does one really need to hear before they die??
Did not care for this at all
Title track is such a tune, loved this album back in the day. Still decent today!
Since I Left You is just an incredible album. It takes the listener on such a musical journey. The title track has been one of my favorite avalanches tracks despite only getting into the duo in 2019. Their live sets are incredible as well.
Frontier psychiatrist ftw
This is a very special album for me, both musically and personally. A few names to be dropped, I first came across the Avalanches in 1997. They were supporting The Sneaker Pimps at a long closed venue in Newtown, NSW. I loved them from the moment they came on. The were more brash at that stage like a weird cross between Pavement and the Beastie Boys. They wore those influences on their sleeves but you wouldn't see me complaining. Steve Pav, the guys who had bought Nirvana out to Australia in '92 and would go onto sign The Avalanches to his label Modular, came up and he asked me what I though. "Freaking amazing!" was my reply. Over the next few years I saw the band play every time they came to Sydney (I think). Getting to vaguely know Darren Seltman, at least enough to chat about music and graphic design. I was waiting for this album to come out for ages and first heard it in around September of 2000, getting an advance review copy through work, on cassette no less. I took the tape to a friend's party that weekend. She claimed to hate the Avalanches so I slipped on her cassette deck under the guise of it being a mixtape. Every one at the party got really into it, even my friend who did slap me across the arm when I revealed my deception. Anyway, great album that I never tire of listening to
This is a brand new Hell. A 10th Circle of Hell. Having to play a horrible experience on a loop forever!. That's what it's like to listen to this album.
A monumental achievement in sampling and dance music and an undeniable classic. Perhaps due to its sheer inventiveness or diversity, I think it holds up better than albums such as Endtroducing, and certainly compared to the poppier/big beat artists of the time like Fatboy Slim or Moby. I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting this, even if I do prefer their _amazing_ 2020 album We Will Always Love You quite a bit more.
Great immersive album, such an experience
This should be ona list of albums no one should ever have to listen to. 1 star or F-.
The Avalanches know how to groove, but some of the songs get lost in the sauce here. Since I Left You is an incredible start that blends really well into Stay Another Season, but the stuff they're doing on Radio just doesn't hit for me. Then you have the middle of the album which all blends together really well, but becomes forgettable until A Different Feeling hits. Favorites are Two Hearts in 3/4 Time and Frontier Psychiatrist. EDIT: It's been a few days and I have to come back to this. I now accept that some of this might not be my style, but oh my god I have nothing but the highest respect for this album after realizing the number of samples that went into this. It's just damn impressive and needs to be commended.
One of the best produced albums ever. The song transitions flow so smoothly. The amount of time and effort it must have taken to find and effectively use all of these samples is simply mind boggling. Sampling is an art.
Put this beside endtroducing for chill beats
I do not understand the album.
A weird dreamy scratch album
An incredibly interesting piece of electronic music.
achei bom, o maior pre cursor do lo fi
Not bad for this era. 3/5
i didn't like how it constantly repeated itself. just found it quite boring tbh.
Didn’t hate this, but too long and repetitive to be good. It looks like they had fun making the music video to Frontier Psychiatrist. I wish I could say I had fun listening to it
Good vibes.
total rubbish, it was just noise on repeat
Frontier Psychiatrist was enjoyable. The rest bored me.
I LOVE THIS ALBUM SO SO MUCH 😭😭 So groovy Since I left u is my breakup slay song
This is overwhelming and overstimulating - it was triggering my anxiety. Also, I have long-standing personal beef with frontier psychiatrist: my brother would always watch the music video from start to finish whenever it was on the music channels and as a child I couldn’t wait for the infernal noise to be over. That being said, I kind of enjoyed it when I heard it again listening to this album. Maybe if I keep listening to one song at a time over and over I’d understand and appreciate, but who has the time for that?
Dance music that doesnt make me want to dance
Decent but a little too funky. Good study music
The title track was a huge hit on the UK back in 2000 but then nothing else was really heard from the Avalanches after that so I had never heard anything else on the album. I was pleasantly surprised with this I enjoyed it for the most part though only interest started to wain by the end and the title track is head and shoulders above everything else on the album.
Another good one! Lots of great tunes to get you moving.
This was alright. Very Fatboy Slim in terms of sound and ambience. I was done about a quarter of the way through the album and had to spread it over two days to even get halfway through it. I eventually gave up and skipped the second half of the album. Two stars.
Listened to the extended anniversary album. Some interesting sounds but long and repetitive
Not heard this for donkeys. It's well done for sure, really decent record to just bang on in the background and not think about it while you get on with something active. The title track is the best thing here by a distance, the rest is entertaining enough, but it's definitely a bit repetitive in places (Flight Tonight is about 3 and a half minutes too long). A lot of it kinda slipped by until Frontier Psychiatrist, which grabs your attention again but definitely is on the novelty record end of the scale. The rest of the record after this slips by just as before, at one point near the end when the Madonna bassline rolled by again I thought it had looped back to the start. Good for audio wallpaper, but not good for music you want to actually listen and engage with.
It was ok. Didnt love it too much. It was a kind of interesting style of sample heavy electronica.
This album was created entirely with samples. If you research it, you’ll find it contains over 3,500 samples, making it a true testament to the art of sample-based music. For me, this album is like a time capsule. I remember the late ’90s and early 2000s very clearly, and this was the kind of music I was really into. It contains a lot of samples and vibes that bring back precious memories. When I say time capsule, I mean it on two levels: it captures the essence of the past through its samples, and it also resonates with me on a deep, personal, nostalgic level. This album has segments that are more house music oriented, but for the most part, it’s a chill out/downtempo album. Although I’ve known about this album for a long time and have heard bits and pieces of it in the past, I never played it from beginning to end until now. Looking back, I feel like I missed out, but better late than never.
I loved this. I only knew one song, so it was nice to place it in the album. I listened to it in a loop while working and did not even notice it going around.
Scratchy. Repetitive. Not my genre for sure.
Ehh… not great, not bad 🤷🏽
3.5
Haven't heard these guys in about 20 years, first time listening to the whole album
++: Since I Left You, Close to You, A Different Feeling, Frontier Psychiatrist, Live at Dominoes +: Stay Another Season, Radio, Two Hearts in 3/4 Time, Avalanche Rock, Flight Tonight, Diners Only, Pablo's Christ, Etoh, Summer Crane, Little Journey, Extra Kings +-: Electricity, Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life 8,8/10
I'm not normally into this electronic / dance "plunderphonic" (a newly-learnt word for me) kind of music, but once in a while a record of a normally unwelcome genre comes along that's somehow able to make gateways into your soul. This is one such record that does it for me. It's partly out of familiarity (hearing it on Triple J back in the day and playing it myself every few years), and partly because it's a magnificent production. Crazy to think it's composed almost entirely of samples.
I really appreciate the craftsmanship of The Avalanches. How every song is woven into the next, how the samples mix and match. It must've taken years to put this together, and only therefore is an album for the ages. It swings, it dances. Only it does so little for me. I think I would want to like this more than I actually do.
First thoughts, like before: if it's so great, why haven't I heard of it, or them before? On listening: this is very interesting indeed. The phrase "electronic music" worries me but this is a clever use of technology and samples. It's effective.
Despite not being the type of album that I can take in one sitting, there are two absolute standout tracks here.
I've always rated the Avalanches as a slightly better version of Daft Punk. A fair few songs that miss but the album works really well together as a whole. Nice to have on in the background when having mates over etc. Great live as well
Solid album
I think there may be something great here but it drones on and repeats itself so often. Could be a good album to drift off to a bit but it didn't overly grab me. I didn't dislike the one listen though.
Seems like it's the audio equivalent of a mixed up box of old toys from the 1980s and 1990s I usually really mesh with this sort of thing, but this album wasn't doing it for me. Frontier Psychiatrist is pretty good.
A continuous jamming funk/hip-hop beats/R&B album. Not bad, but can get a hair repetitive.
This is not what I was expecting at all. I'm not usually a fan of electronic albums that much, but this one I actually liked a bit. It's a bit longer than I'd like personally but there are a few cool tracks on here. Fav songs: - Since I Left You - Two Hearts in 3/4 Time
Plunderphonics, dance. Super sample heavy instrumental. Loved it all the way through, honestly wish it was longer. 5/5
唱腔不喜欢
Alright
frontier psychiatrist and ETOH are all that keeps this from being a 1.
It's not hip hop... it's electro...
This was...fine. Okay at first but it really began to grate on me by the halfway mark.
Good for running, one or two odd songs
THERE'S A GENTLEMAN THAT'S GOING ROUND // TURNING THE JOINT UPSIDE DOWN
I was slightly familiar with this album. I love Frontier Psychologist, both for the intricate mix of dialogue, score, and beats, and because it’s just funny. The title track is pretty good too. The rest of the album kind of blends as interesting techno, but not necessarily something I would find myself humming to myself.
This album. Drifting around on warm Summer nights in my red '87 Acura Integra, with the headlights popped, windows down and music up. The songs merging with the street sounds in a way where it was hard to know where one ended and the other began.
Feels like the connective tissue between albums like Paul's Boutique and DJs like Girl Talk - and mostly in a good way.
This one is a no for me.
Literally one of my favourite albums ever. So inventive and Dexa is a genius on the decks
I'm still not into this genre.
ai saatana, olin täysin varma että vastaan tulee niin lyssähtävää kitaratyöskentelyä ja kusista laulamista mutta kohtasin sen sijasta elektronista pumputusta.. musiikkia pikkulapsille, pliip ploop plip.... onneksi olen komea nuorimies. luovaa hullunkurisuutta.. kädet visusti kiinni vatsaan ja hekottaa hehehehehehe kulmakarvat nousussa eylid streched position pää kääntyy sivulta sivulle hekotusta heheheheheh...... mutta musiikkikin kuulostaa hyvältä jump around jiump around... every day we party rock it rock it rock it everyday... frontier psychiatrist
Awesome
Wow. I had never heard of The Avalanches, but this is really good. Of course, you have to appreciate EDM, and I used to look down on "dance music", but just because it's got a good beat and is fun to dance to doesn't mean it can't be good music (the problem is that most dance music is pretty lame, so it's easy to stereotype it all.) I expect to revisit some of these songs. 4 stars.
Like Gorillaz met daft punk, I'm going to listen to this again for sure
What an enjoyable surprise this was. So funky and energetic. The only thing that lost me was that I cant point to a song in particular due to the nature of the presentation. Everything shifts and flows into one another, but maybe thats your jam. I'd give a 4.5 if I could.
The high water mark for sampling. Just an enjoyable ride front to back. Frontier Psychiatry is quotable as hell! And he also made false teeth
Somehow I never heard this one back in the day...
samples samples samples... ik heb er genoeg gehoord tot aan mijn sterfbed... wel enkele goeie nummers, maar - heb ik het al gezegd - heel veel samples
I do remember hearing a song from these guys in high school and maybe even post-high school. Interested to check this out. This is not what I expected. Thought it was going to be a bit more indie pop.
A nice of variety of sounds yet remarkably cohesive. There are moments that sound a little too cluttered, though.
An interesting listen, not anything I would have listened to without this site. The title track was quite good, or should I say it's video was quite good. It seemed to me the music was built around the video. Anyway that was alright the rest of the album was an ok listen, but not me really. Better than a 1 but only because of that video.
Repetitive uninspiring samples. 2 stars
Not my thing. If you like hundreds of sampled songs glued together, then listen to Jive Bunny and the Master Mixers. Not this.
This is the album that got me on board with sample based music as an art form. Haven't really listened to The Avalanches in a while, but I still love them, and this album is great as a cohesive experience listened to in order.
1. meh/bra, 2. meh, 3. meh, 4. meh, 5. meh, 6. meh, 7. bra, 8. meh, 9. bra, 10. bra, 11. meh, 12. n/a, 13. bra, 14. meh/bra, 15. meh, 16. n/a, 17. banger, 18. meh Mye trekk pga rare og irriterende lyder i mange av sangene. Overall: 6.5/10
Frontier Psychiatrist es un temazo
I love Frontier Psychiatrist, but the album together felt like overly busy early 2ks. I still enjoyed it, but for the most part I preferred the deluxe edition extra tracks to the original releases.
Couldn't make it past the first song
Great
Now that's interesting. Very listenable and different than anything I've really paid attention to before. Frontier psychiatrist is catchy af and the horses in the background are just 🤌🏼 in the most surprising way. I don't think I need two+ hours of it in my day, but appreciate the introduction.
Not really my kind of music but I can see it’s appeal
Chaotic
I loved their two videos from 20 years ago (Yikes). However, the bulk of the album just seems like random noise. I don’t get it.
Pleasant noise
Very interesting
dance, lounge, z.T. live, 2001 -> 2
Amazing
Listen. I can't get behind someone making "music" out of sampling music from musicians whose residuals ran out or they never had them in the first place. Make. Your. Own. Art. Or, pay the ones who helped you make yours.
Nice sound. Want to listen to more than I did
A no-skips sonic journey that reminds you that a party is only possible with other people.
Perfect for: background music for an early 2000s themed game night
Great samply album. Still remember the dancing miner!
Some of the songs on this album should be added to the playlists of fast fashion stores, difficult-to-understand contemporary art exhibitions, culturally savvy hipster cafés and the game Beach Volleyball Summer Fest for the PS2. 5/5.
The sound and overall vibes of the individual songs are great, and each song can easily be dropped into a playlist without breaking the flow. There are a few songs that I knew and liked even before hearing the album. But listening to the album as a whole gets tiring. The flow between the songs is well done, but listening to 60 minutes of samples flowing from one into the other with the same vinyl-scratch-and-pop buzzing in your ear gets too much. I wish I could give half stars; the album would be a 2.5. I'm rounding up instead of down because I like a lot of the songs for themselves, just not as part of the album.
JA! wieder einmal ein album das man den ganzen tag hören kann ohne dass es langweilig wird. samples von altbekannten songs, rhythmisch gemixt und „klangteppich“ ..
Nicht so meins, versuchte es mehrere Male
Electronica ganz cool.
Erst dachte, ist interessant. Aber der Sound ist grauselig. Kann ich keine 5 min hören.
So-so.
Tried this a few times and never got the hype. Frontier was fun
Frontier Psychiatrist is a BANGER, and Etoh was pretty great as well. The rest of the songs are kind of plug and play, paint by numbers, generic "electronic" music that I have trouble connecting with.
I've always thought "plunderphonics" was a cool genre name. I'm familiar with "Frontier Psychiatrist" but never really dug deeper. The record itself is a pleasing groove, floating through each track and leaving you wondering how far you've traveled to get here. It trails a little near the end, but it's solid enough to warrant further listens. Favorite tracks: "Frontier Psychiatrist", "A Different Feeling"
A product of its time. Nice but unremarkable, with the title track being the highlight.
A fun soundscape which would be better if the tracks were more distinct and didn't roll from one to another so much- WAIT. THIS IS WHERE FRONTIER PSYCHIATRIST COMES FROM?? Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place... I get it. Favourite track: Frontier Psychiatrist.
Too many lyrics
At the beginning there is a pleasant nostalgic atmosphere. You can listen to it in the background, but it doesn’t cause a storm of emotions. 4/5
I had a really tough time rating this album. I picked it up and put it down probably 10 times. I think it just has a little to much fluff for me. The top songs are incredible, no doubt. Bu as an entire project I think it's a bit much.
Different music. Not bad.
It's okay at places but what is the deal with the horse on the second track.
This album was created entirely with samples. If you research it, you’ll find it contains over 3,500 samples, making it a true testament to the art of sample-based music. For me, this album is like a time capsule. I remember the late ’90s and early 2000s very clearly, and this was the kind of music I was really into. It contains a lot of samples and vibes that bring back precious memories. When I say time capsule, I mean it on two levels: it captures the essence of the past through its samples, and it also resonates with me on a deep, personal, nostalgic level. This album has segments that are more house music oriented, but for the most part, it’s a chill out/downtempo album. Although I’ve known about this album for a long time and have heard bits and pieces of it in the past, I never played it from beginning to end until now. Looking back, I feel like I missed out, but better late than never.
Couldn’t finish. Not my thing.
By no means bad... but do not see myself coming back to this one.
Mashing up music to create new music doesn't work for me.
This felt like art, not music. The soundscape was fascinating and really well put together. The mix of sounds they put together was extremely impressive as well. But all its intricacies made it hard to engage with and I generally felt lost while listening (which I think the artists would take as a compliment). Album to hear before you die? No question. But is this something I’ll come back to often? Probably not
I thought the production was cool at first...but got tired of it after the first few songs. 3/5
7/10.
I hated this
Really enjoyed the sampling and experimentalism of this one.
I had no expectations for this and when the first track started I assumed it was going to be some disco-funk album that I really wasn't in the mood for. I was delightfully surprised to learn that this is one of the smoothest, booty-moving, mood-boosting, low-fi sets that I've heard in a long time. Besides how skillfully crafted and assembled the pieces, one of the biggest things that strikes me about this album is that if it were made today it would probably never get a professional release as an album through a publishing house—it'd be released in a sea of podcasts and loved by their followers. Then five years later it'd disappear without warning when they broke up and shut down their SoundCloud account, leaving naught but the fond memories of a few and a soundless placeholder within The Internet Archive to prove it ever existed.
Very much a mixed bag here. It's weird, some of it was fun, there's some interesting stuff, and unlike Throbbing Gristle this actually works as music rather than a collection of sounds. As an album...it doesn't work that well. It was kinda hard to get through and I very much welcomed the end of the album even though I didn't necessarily dislike most of the songs. A song from this band here or there to add some variety to a playlist is perfectly fine, but given the overall experience of the album I can't rate it very high. 2.3
Had zero expectations coming in, but fun and interesting.
listened to again still an absolute masterpiece
As repetições dos samples e loops entre músicas faz você perde um pouco a noção de tempo, ainda mais ouvindo ele de cabo a rabo, mas de um jeito bom
An achievement in sampling as far as that goes. I didn't hate it & grew tired of the repetitiousness less than while listening to Fatboy Slim. Guess that earns a 3.
New type of music to me. I loved it. DJ'ying is always an art form I admire. This is a very good listen and the craft is really something to admire. Album sequencing is also quite good.
Techno is another genre I'm just not super into but this album wasn't too bad. It's typically so repetitive (we get it you have a flight tonight!) or just so focused on a beat that I don't see any beauty in it. But this was pretty good to me. Songs were not too long and they were not so repetitive that I was bored
interesting
This is not what I expected. I thought they were some rock band along the lines of The Strokes. Very pleasantly surprised but I don’t know if it’s intriguing enough to come back to very often.
This feels whimsical and fresh. More of a vibe than something that hits at my soul, but it was a fun and groovy listen. It started off a little meh but got better as the album went on. Lots of fun samples.
Too chaotic for me
not quite that 5 magic but very good
There are two stand out songs - we all know which ones they are. Otherwise it’s a lil dull tbh.
this one grew on me, actually enjoyed it. this might be the first album on the list I had never heard of before that I might actually purchase! Only took 151 days before finding one....
Never heard anything by the Avalanches except the silly hit Frontier Psychiatrist. It was some kind of novelty passed around as an mp3 in junior high, and I'd assumed for a long time that the Avalanches were either a one off or a novelty group. The best moments of this album are really good. It's got sections that are too much repetitive dance music for me & that holds it back. (⌐♼_♼)
Definitely a rounding up, based on my taste. Just that here, I can really imagine liking it a lot. But I’m not the guy for liking it a lot.
This is entertaining. Definitely a good chill road trip album
сомнительно
очень софтовый, в каких-то моментах даже джазовый, альбом. Звучит свежо и приятно под весенне-летние деньки алкоальбом: лимонад лайм лимон
2. More like 1.5, but I'll round up. I guess some people like this kind of music.
I didnt particularly disliked it but i didnt reAlly like it either
Albums that rely so heavily on sampling typically feel repetitive and irritating to me. This album was less so.
I went into this knowing the hit song Frontier Psychiatrist, but hadn't listened to anything else. The rest of the album is interesting and intriguing, yet it falls short of the refined chaotic brilliance of the hit.
Before I say anything else, I just need to note that I don't like this genre or style of music. I generally find repetitive electronic music boring and uninteresting. That said, this album does actually do some really interesting things, even if there is a lot of boring repetitions still. Bending of pitches. Manipulations of samples already introduced. Using non-musical samples in musical ways. I didn't love it, but it wasn't offensive to me, like a lot of other electronic/dance albums have been, and there were some occasional really good things happening!
Not my jam. Something I could happily have on in the background, but not an album I would listen to intentionally.
What a great surprise , very chill and pleasant album , like IT
already very familiar with this album. one of the standard-bearers for sample-based music for me, so music fun and consistently vibrant across its 18 tracks. I haven’t listened to this in a while so I’m rating this based off memory. 9-9.5
Since I Left You is a great experience. I love the sound palette in this album. So magical and charming. It's like the sweet spot between DJ Shadow and M.I.A. I would recommend the first 7 songs to anyone. The only problem I have with this album is its length. Maybe 10% less would do it.
I can only take so much saampling
I hate this - it started out ok but quickly made me want to rip my ears off
Didn't listen
Didn't get to hear it all, but what I did hear was okay.
Since I Left You and Frontier Psychiatrist were the big hits but the other deep cuts were surprisingly evocative and good. Really enjoyed this.
Nope. I don't care for this. Might be one of the better electronica albums I've listened to so far. And that saves it from 1 star. But I still don't care for it.
It’s really good! The atmosphere, the vibes, if I’m not high and I’m listening, I kinda wanna be high and if I am high and listening well, turn on the Sega PlayStation dude bc I Found the World So New. 4 stars
I LOVED this, pleasantly surprised for a band I've (somehow) never heard of. Always a sucker for sampled electronica.
Uma das piores coisas que já ouvi!
Pleasant. Maybe overly so... Barely a 3, but a 3.
I'm not sure why I had such a negative reaction to this as the beats are quite nice and it's easy to listen to. But, I found myself not caring and thinking this was either groundbreaking or a wild misuse of sampling. Fun for a dance floor, not so much for listening.
Sadly, the jigsaw puzzle for sampled music is just not that interesting to me. Maybe with a spreadsheet id appreciate this but I think I have to be a 2
Frontier Psychiatrist I enjoy a lot. The rest of the album I'm not that into. WIll I listen to again: 5%
💖 frontier psychiatrist 🗣️ 9️⃣
Nice to work, but when I hear an album like this I think about all the amazing albums I know that are not on the list and I scream into the heavens, “Why???”
I didn't like it.
Love the flow. Very nice subtle shifting through nice melodic songs
The Avalanches Since I Left You is a masterpiece of sampling. This album is filled with inventive, creative tracks that uses samples and synthesizers to make joyful, engaging dance music. There isn't much to compare the Avalanches to - they expanded the potentials of music made with samples. Their music has inspired generations of djs and producers in a range of electronic styles.
I’ve seen this on a lot of lists but never got super into it. It’s really good, but also seems really hyped to me.
Some okay. A little repetitive
Had "Frontier Psychiatrist" on repeat in high school and put it on a bunch of mix tapes one year. Still love it and this album.
Very cool
They sample and scratch a fucking bird. All you need to know about this incredible record
It's actually pretty good, I had heard Frontier Psychiatrist before but not the album around it.
Great stuff.
Bleach
one of my all time faves. soooooo good
Enjoyable and interesting.
Good enjoyable fun. How many samples is too many samples? Arguably, it's the amount the Avalanches use every single second of this album, but take nothing away from them, they now how to create complex and interesting songs that also get your feet going. Frontier Psychologist is a great song.
I don't have a ton of exposure to dance or Electronic music. I typically don't like it. I did like this, it grew on me over time and it put me in a better mood than when I started. This album felt like a collage of pieces, but where some electronic music sounds robotic when put together, this felt very human which I liked. This album felt like a journey and I think the concept of it as a cruise around the world taking it all in is a great concept and executed upon very well. Favorite tracks: Frontier Psychiatrist, Electricity, Live at Dominoes
Dig Frontier Psychiatrist. Overall pretty chill and something I never listened to when it released.
I like mix albums in general and the flow of this one is nice. These guys did some great work with the samples and production in general. I remember this album being played a lot the summer before I left Europe; lots of good memories associated with it. It's not groundbreaking and I think it's not nearly as good as some of their genre "Pair of DJ's or one dude making anglo pop dance music" contemporaries (The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, Moby, Fatboy Slim, etc) but it is a fun album. Unchallenging dance music for a good time.
This was a little all over the place. A little techno, a little funk, a lot of wishing they were one of the bigger sounds of the time. I thought it was fine. The music video for Since I Left You involves dancing miners.
quite enjoyable as background sound
Eletrônico....
oku! 6.5/10
Very danceable and poppy
Strong, groovy, beats. Great vibe music.
Super weird Fatboy Slim/Pink Floyd vibe, not for me.
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL COOKING!!!
Knew the hits but hadn't heard the album. Jigsaw puzzle music, fascinating approach but seems like a lot of tedious work.
I remember loving this album as a kid thinking it was so clever. And the sampling is dtill done very well. But the album doesn't resonate with me as well nowadays and I expected to enjoy this more than I did. Frontier Psychologist is still the obvious best song here, but I also liked Two Hearts in 3/4 Time.
Very dancy, electronic music. It feels like a full dance club set with transitions and everything which is cool. And to think that everything is sampled from another song, it’s cool to see how it all fits together. Since I left you is my favorite track, though they’re all super cool. A nice use of music concrete, and a good way to kick off the 21st century. That being said, it’s not 5 stars it doesn’t really speak to me in that way. A lot of the samples can get repetitive and annoying and the development of every song is just though layering, with the songs mainly separated by tempo and drum pattern. Production is top notch too. It seems like it was a pretty big deal in electronic music.
I'm a little amazed by how much I dig this. I'm having a similar reaction to this music as I had with The KLF.
the light at the end of the tunnel that is 90s electronic music
I was excited for this one, since I had stumbled across the track Frontier Psychiatrist previously and really liked it. Ultimately, I was a little disappointed…the album is atmospheric and groovy, there is a lot going on, so it’s never boring. But there is maybe one other stand out track (Since I Left You); besides those two, there aren’t any songs I would come back to listen to outside the context of listening through the whole album. Maybe that’s good in some ways (I love an album that knows it’s an album—cohesive and interwoven), but it doesn’t really jive with how I tend to consume music.
First track sounds like it out of the 70s. I really like it. Ok. This is wild. It’s like someone wanted to go back and make the 70s record they always wanted to hear. This is a great blend of hip-hop and 70s disco and soul. I love this record.
Dreamy
Kicks off with a cacophony of noisy street talk, random samples and high-pitched baby-doll vocals. I hate it. It’s never good when the you have to skip the lead track. However, I will persevere… Beats? Is this simply a DJ set? In the 1001 list? This is no Moby or even Fatboy Slim (not a high bar, either). What am I missing? Oh, I get it. It’s a house party soundtrack. I’m not supposed to be placing a platter of black vinyl onto my turntable then sitting back on a comfortable sofa to absorb it. I am, in fact, supposed to be at a party already, where layers of noise placed loosely over a solid kick drum / rolling bass arpeggiation keeps me tapping my toes, swaying my hips, sipping my margarita whilst shouting into the ear of whomever happens to be nearby, mirroring my own behaviour. No thanks. Side 2 isn’t getting a look in. Sides 3 & 4 will stay permanently inside their plastic sleeve.
love the transitions
One of the best albums of all time. Best Song: Since I Left You No duds on this album
Not for me.
Loved it on first listen. Could easily put it on repeat already & it instantly made vinyl wishlist. Easily MASTERFUL work in sampling. Really great album.
I know people love The Avalanches. I do have fond memories of Frontier Psychiatrist. But as a genre - it just doesn't do too much for me.
Lekker dance sample album chille nummers
Love the samples and chopping, a new sound I haven’t really heard before
Not something I’d probably listen to again but some good stuff here
sampledelia is not my thing i've heard samples enough to keep me till halfway into the next decade
Not bad, the single Frontier Psychiatrist was a jam back in the day and still is.
Super repetitive, boring and overrated.
interesting...
Not what. I Was expecting. Nice sounds
2.9 - There was some great parts to this album, but it just feels like it's stuck on repeat mostly and drives me insane. I wonder if that's to do with how much I focus on music in general, but struggled with this. However I really loved Frontier Psychiatrist.
Such a great ride. This album is crazy in the coconut. The Avalanches are fantastic. Fave Tracks: Since I Left You, Tonight May Have to Last Me All My Life, Frontier Psychiatrist, Summer Crane 4.8/5
p870. 2000. 1 star. Tedious sampling album that detracts from the original songs, intercut with random, annoying, out of tune sound bites. WTF is this shit doing on the list?
Meh, some good tunes but not really my thing
Since I Left You really describes what i like about a lot of these electronica albums and that being that you can take any sound or sample and with the right composition, it can be a really catchy and fun song. Initially the album didn't seem like anything too special with the first two songs but then Radio came on and showed just how cool and drug-tripy (for lack of a better word) it is. The album is a bit long at around an hour but with its weirdness, it was more than enough to keep me liking it. Best Song: Frontier Psychiatrist Worst Song: Since I Left You
lol. No
Made my head ache worse.
It's good
Listening to this album is like a wide awake strange dream. This soundtrack would.make it weird without a doubt. This album apparently set the standard for sampling. According to some sources there are between 900 and 3000 samples used and reconfigured to create the songs. Horses, ship horns, scratches, the song "Tammy", " Lawrence of Arabia theme, dialog experts from I assume old movies. It is a strange brew.
Gave me a headache, hard pass. If they stuck more to the melodic sounds it could have been great but there were too many grating sounds. I have sensitivity to certain sounds, I have learned of the years, and some of the sounds in this album made me want to get violent if I could not stop listening to it asap.
If you enjoy repetitive sounds, loud dissonance, and the occasional sound of seagulls you might enjoy this album. There were one or two tracks that I enjoyed like ‘Frontier Psychiatrist’, but it was too much like the experience of an ADHD brain trying to understand a strange world for my liking. 2.2 stars
Entertaining enough to give it a 3
You wanna know how many times I’ve quoted “Frontier Psychiatrist” over the years? I would like to know as well, because it would probably be a crazy (in the coconut) high number.
I thoroughly enjoyed this but wouldn’t just put it on, but if it was on I would he nodding my head in approval
A groundbreaking masterpiece!
I guess I listened to the extended album that went over 2 hours. That alone pissed me off because I was just wanted this to end. I thought there were a few times I heard a nice sound or groove, but for the most part, just could not get into this, whatever they were trying to accomplish. 2
3.5 I read a review from someone before listening who claimed that this album is the kind of thing you have to be on E to enjoy. So, I was expecting rave music, and while it’s certainly danceable at times, for the most part, this really isn’t that - it’s more chill electronic music, much like that DJ Shadow album we had. Also much like that DJ Shadow album we had, this thing consists entirely of samples, allegedly over 3500 according to one of the guys who created it, none of which I recognized (though I swear one of the sound effects here sounded just like something from Animal Crossing). While I have a hard time believing that this really has quite that many, I have learned to develop a bit of an appreciation for sample-based music after having listened to the aforementioned DJ Shadow album (Endtroducing.....) and Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique. I feel like creating new music by combining elements from existing music and various other audio formats is an interesting niche that takes a certain kind of creative mind to pull off as compared to writing something from scratch. So, that to say, I struggled with my rating a bit on this one. At first, I didn’t think this album did the whole samping thing nearly as interestingly as the other two I mentioned did. But, I kept finding myself drawn to re-listen, and I eventually realized that it’s not trying to do what they had already. Rather than being a showcase of using samples in more conventional songwriting, this is more of an effort to create an operatic, concept-driven piece of art through sampling. The fact that each song segues directly into the next was something that I thought was really cool and helped prevent the album from getting too stale, even if a lot of the individual pieces weren’t overly remarkable - with the exception to that assertion obviously being the “Boys need therapy” song, Frontier Psychiatrist. It’s the single best track here and the one moment I found myself looking forward to the most on re-listens - good work there, guys, that’s a great piece of electronic music. So, while I still don’t think that this is the kind of thing I’ll likely be putting on again in the near future, I do think that what this album does is cool and will definitely get a replay from me at some point. Also has me curious to check out more sample-based music!
Whoever decided to put more EDM on this list needs to re-evaluate what music "needs" to be heard. I feel like since I heard one EDM album I've heard them all: droning beats with songs that don't go anywhere. At least this album wasn't 2+ hours, and the music videos for Since I Left You and Frontier Psychiatrist were fun
I liked it. After a while it all sounded the same and felt aimless and endless, but I still liked it. Too much for one sitting though.
I would consider Since I Left You to be a very good after party wind down album, (not my scene but if it was this is what I’d put on)
Since I Left You Frontier Psychiatrist
Nicht meins. Instrumentals und Stimme haben mMn nicht zusammen gepasst
Pretty interesting messed with a couple songs
Ok, not really my music though. Was an ok listen
I've been really conflicted on electronica throughout this list. I always think there are some very interesting ideas going on, but then I always think they take those ideas and beat them into the ground, and then do it again, and again, and again. This is one of the better electronica albums on the list, and I liked Since I Left You a lot.
Amazing album.
Loved it- I had never heard this album before!
Good background music
I really liked this album for not knowing what I was getting myself into.
Une croisière électro entraînante.
Cool. Only knew 2 songs before but this is quite good.
I kind of admire Plunderphonics more than I actually like it. When I was first getting into Hip-Hop, I had one of my life’s first serious discussions about art when debating sampling as an art form with my mother. For what it’s worth, my mother is a fairly typically lower middle-class white woman, who with all the best will in the world, fell off of from popular music forms in the late 80’s. I think I managed to convince her of the art of the sample, and later about the art of rapping in general, during that conversation. She’ll now happily listen to whatever Rap I happen to be listening to, and can engage in a pretty good discussion about Kendrick Lamar if pressed. Despite my passionate defending of sampling as a form of reinterpretation and contextualisation, when it comes to my own active listening, I tend to stick with the more conservative example set by Hip-Hop, where the sample’s job is simple, and the lyrics and flow are the real stars of the artistic show. The Beastie Boys early albums and A Tribe Called Quest were the masters of this sort of style, taking either recognised and recognisable samples, or more obscure Jazz, R&B and Soul, and incorporating them into a backbeat for their rhymes. It’s a tried and tested formula, and for me, as reinterpretation and contextualisation I find it works beautifully. As such, I can appreciate Plunderphonics from a philosophical point of view. Taking the underlying idea (wouldn’t it be cool if we took this Black Sabbath riff and put a John Bonham beat under it?) and applying a maximalist vision to it (wouldn’t it be cool if we took a load of different samples and made a whole song without the rapping with them?) it served to create an entirely new art form. I am primarily a writer, focusing mostly on Realistic short stories and novels and Romantic and Confessional poetry, and I’ve engaged in Plunderphonics literary equivalent, Found Poetry, many times. I can understand the artistic drive behind the style very well. And as such, I’m not going to make the statement I so often make when I don’t like an album or style, that I have no idea why someone would want to make music that sounds like this, for two reasons: 1.) I think that Since I Left You sounds pretty fantastic, both regarding the music itself and the quality of it’s production, and 2.) I absolutely understand the artistic reasoning behind making an album that sounds like this. But despite all of the appreciation, I still struggle with full enjoyment of Since I Left You specifically, and electronic music in general. It’s a genre that seems, to me, to be rooted in a fairly specific place, that of a club or a rave, and I struggle to find a time when I would want to sit down and listen to it just as music. Outside of the singles intended specifically to be played on dancefloors, it seems to be a very album heavy genre, where the intention is to sit and listen (or dance and listen, I guess) to the full experience in one go. And for albums over a certain length, and under a certain track number, I find that quite difficult. My brain is primed for short bursts. My two most listened to genres are Rock and Jazz, and they both scratch different itches that electronica never seems to be able to reach. I quite enjoyed the experience of listening to Since I Left You, despite it losing me a little in the last quarter. It’s music I find I can put in in the background and concentrate to. But I can never bring myself to love it. That is a failure on my part, no doubt. But a failing I believe I share with a great number of the general listening public. Electronica is, I suspect, a ride or die genre. And I’m afraid my ride or die genre is Jazz. I’ve spent my time tuning my ear to that genre and it’s styles and intricacies, to the detriment of other ride or die genres. I made my choice, and I don’t regret it. But I did appreciate Since I Left You
Dear God. What repetitive generic bullshit is this?
I haven’t heard of The Avalanches before. They’re a fairly modern band to be included on the list, with this album being released in 2000, but I live under a rock so it completely passed me by. Then again, I was 10 when it came out so maybe I can be forgiven. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: Since I Left You This was a nice chilled out album. Apparently the genre is called plunderphonics, which I’ve genuinely never heard of in my life. To my ears, it’s relaxed electronica. It felt nice as ambient sound to have on while working, but I’m not sure I’ll be rushing back to seek this out again. It’s good, but didn’t blow me away.
W.T.F. This is the most annoying album I have listened to ever. (Well until now, I sure there will be another album in the future that will piss me off even more but I will deal with that at the time.) Repeating the same few words over and over and over and over and over gets VERY irritating VERY soon. And what's with the adding of pop's and crackle's? Clearly a misguided attempt to make it sound like (a parody of) vinyl. I remember the introduction of CD's and how happy I was not to have to listen to that distracting garbage anymore. I do not want to be reminded of the general crapness of vinyl as a means of music distribution thank you very much. And finally unlike most punk bands I can't even excuse this abomination on the basis that the people resposible are incompetent a-holes who don't know any better, these people are actually competent (but defenitely a-holes) and have inflicted this on the world knowing exactly what they were doing. Unfortunately it is not possible to award negative stars so 1 star is the only option but it should really be -10 stars at least.
Easy listen, classic electronic album can't go wrong with it reminds me of LCD, toro y moi etc.
Sounds like an out of tune radio
2. Had some alright songs and started fairly strongly but then just went a bit mad and annoying
So it turns out that, for years, I’ve been singing the wrong words. Since I left you is a very different message to ‘since I met you’. It’s a whole new slant. Whoops! Maybe this girl needs therapy. Two great songs on here. The rest is unmemorable but it was fun to listen to.
It works as a bunch of tracks of samples to be sampled. It doesn’t work as something to listen to all the way through in one sitting!
Before this experiment, I would have said I was mostly indifferent to ambient, electronic music. Now, I mostly don't like it at all.
This surprised me. I liked it a lot. Why do I like this over EDM? I think it's the analog samples and organic feel. Also, although it's repetitive, it never went overboard. Cool sounds, atmospheric production, and playful vibe.
A lot … even for me
I really enjoyed it.
Hmmm. This was interesting. Sort of dance, sort of Dub-Step, sort of DJ mixes. It was all over the place. Interesting to listen to but not remarkable.
Cool use of sampling, found it a bit repetitive after a while but not a bad listen
Ah yess weer een beetje een modern album. Had deze lang niet meer geluisterd, maar erg chill Vet dat deze hier tussen staat, onverwachts maar heeel terecht
lijkt wel alsof ik een of ander youtube hiphop/jazz to listen and chill & relax to heb aangezet dat is op zich wel nice hoor daar niet van Wss wel de eerste die dit deden dan, en dat is wel heel vet
Favorite Tracks: Frontier Psychiatrist Since I Left You Electricity
Probably the only true album that you must hear before you die. To make an album that's made of disjointed samples and to structure them in a way that both sounds good and is as cohesive and as smooth as SILY is extraordinary, most bands fail to do this with normal instruments. There will never be another album like this, even The Avalanches didn't try this style again, opting for more actual instrumentation and features on their next two albums.
One of the few albums I’ve not wanted to even try to get through. Honestly, this is shit.
I wasn’t sold on this album - maybe it has some sort of cultural importance but it sounded like lofi hip hop for the most part.
Some good moments, but ultimately a bit boring for me
Repetitive awfulness, but at least no foul language. So an extra 0.5 for that. This album demonstrates how art and creativity is missing from music so maybe they were ahead of the game on that.
Cool use of textures and layering familiar samples made it welcoming yet fresh to listen to - first time exploring this genre through a full album. I liked it a lot and it was at the end of the day just a fun album to listen to, calm, relaxing and easygoing music.
It was fun. I enjoyed the album flowed seamlessly between songs
Tiresome cacophony of samples, scratching, crackling and 1970s disco-style sounds.
I liked the remixes way more than I liked the actual music.
Frontier Psychiatrist brought me to this band. An unbelievable song that is only great if you watch the video. I really liked this album. Not all of it but most of it. My only issue with this type of music is where do you play it? It seems like it’s fit to have its songs remixed into some dancehall anthem and that’s ok. I can hear it. You won’t want to play this at a wedding or while you are pregame drinking but you’ll want to play it if pure lyrical singing isn’t your thing. If anything, listen to my choice cut, watch the video and repeat. Choice Cut: Frontier Psychiatrist
I liked the flow!
Ja jävlar. Hade helt glömt detta band. Lyssnat som fan på since I left you och frontier psychiatrist. Blev en sjuhelsikes nostalgitripp. På ett bra sätt, tycker fortfarande det är bra. För det mesta är det bra.
Jag gillar både samplingsbaserad musik och scratching och jag tycker att det här genomgående är bra, utan att kanske riktigt lyfta till de allra högsta höjderna. Klar fyra dock.
I'm not a fan of this. I would call it bad, I just don't care for the style. 2/5
Here's another group I knew nothing about going in. I typically listen to these albums first thing in the morning while I'm working. This one was a perfect background music for an early Saturday morning work session. I was pleasantly surprised how much I like it. I loved how each track flowed into the next. Definitely worthy of another listen.
I don't know what this type of music is called, but I hate it.
Frontier Psychiatrist is about it. The rest is guff.
I've never taken MDMA so the ceiling here was a 2. If you take out the unnecessarily repeated bits I reckon you could knock this out in 15 minutes or less.
The Avalanches prove how sampling can be just as impressive as any other form of creating in music
1. not feeling it
Nice sound
I really really enjoyed this album. The Avalanche's use of samples really stands out, even today when it's becoming more and more popular in music. I enjoyed it so much that I sought out their other music after listening to this. Four stars without hesitation.
I did like their use of samples, but their overall sounds isn’t something I would usually seek out. Still enjoyable!
I didn't get into this when it came out but thought I might enjoy it now. Unfortunately, I can't say I did. It's just not very enjoyable. I think I got about 5 songs in before I started skipping ahead to see if I enjoyed any of their music. I didn't. I can't quite out my finger on why I didn't enjoy it so much. I find it all very noisy and messy. There's a lot going on. 1.5 stars.
White noise.
Australian electronical dancefloor music. Sophistical samples of uncredited snippets other musicians.
Deze heb ik ontdekt toen een lotgenoot deze moest luisteren voor de lijst en sindsdien heb ik deze meerdere keren geluisterd. Een ontzettende zomerse, lekkere plaat van begin tot eind. Een combinatie van house, soul, instrumentale hiphop en triphop. Als het een boek was zou het volgens de leraar Nederlands niet meetellen voor de literatuurlijst, maar dat houdt me niet tegen om een 5 te geven.
I really enjoyed the vibes on this album.
Sounded like an album you could only half hear from the stairway of a carpark adjoining a concert venue. Did not enjoy, low 2
Since I left you I found the world so new And every day Yeah, this is pretty good. 4/5