Since I Left You

This is ok but I never liked this as much as people seem to think I should

Usually, I like Electronica and EDM, but this was just too much sampling. I appreciate the effort it took to mix this, but 'plunderphonics' is the fitting name for this kind of music.

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, entry for the day: The Avalanches "Since I Left You"... hmmm... it's pleasant music... but, it's a DJ/Producer type thing... loops that are spliced together to make a "song"... I used to do this type of thing on Maloa Warriors when we first started... so, i know it's an art form... and it takes time and effort to do that type of work... i have to respect it... but when you realize it's two guys on turntables with maybe a real bass and drums... it is cool, but not a monumental piece of art in any way... can you dance and groove to it? yes... is it cool background music? yes... should it be on any list with Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, et al??? oh hell naw... lol... i give it two stars... one for the chutzpa... two for the result... pass... PS... who did these people pay to get on this list? lol... zzzzz...

# Album Name: Since I Left You # Artist: The avalanches # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: Since i left you and Frontier psychiatrist are great songs. Apart from that, the rest was a very underwhelming 50 minutes. # Top Tunes: Since i left you and Frontier psychiatrist # Would I listen to it again? No. Just the two songs.

sound ok for a festival, I wouldn't consider it songs or songwriting. These songs are just collection of samples, put together with a rythm to put people to dance. I lost the track of the songs, song names, meanings, or special features of them. These guys just picked a lot of forgotten records, took some samples, made the loops, and pretty much all, I don't even know this is worth mentioning

As an Australian, I got a bit excited at a “rock” and electronic album from a band that I didn’t know. The starting track was really great, and I was excited for where the rest of the album would go. However, it switched to an uninspired and music that sounded like, sound. Some tracks were decent, others just felt rubbish. Fairly disappointed.

The Australian duo of Robbie Chater and Darren Seltzmann belong in the genre ludicrously named plunderphonics (Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative, a referential and self-conscious practice which interrogates notions of originality and identity, so you know). Basically like an artist making collage from cut up bits of magazines. I’m kind of sorry I know this because this album has a reasonable degree of artistic coherence even if the listener has no knowledge as to the source of the sounds. My problem with it as a listen is the problem I have with all edm which is the highly quantised, inhuman repetition. For me art is all about the human imperfections, the cracks where the light gets in.

It wasn’t horrendous but no way could I listen to an hour of that

I barely got through 8 songs…there is no way I could listen to over 2 hours worth. Mostly a bunch of noise. Two stars.

Repetitive stuff. And then there's ridiculous tracks like "Frontier Psychiatrist?" I mean, come on. I didn't know what to expect with a name like The Avalanches," hoping for a band of some sorts. Not this, I can tell you. Because the tracks bleed into each other, it w got boring pretty fast. There were one or two moments that were good, but hardly enough to put in "top tracks". Bleh. NEXT.

Australia has such a cool music scene. Sure, everyone is gaga now over Vance Joy and Tame Impala but it's a lot richer than that. Also much richer than ACDC, Midnight Oil, and INXS (the bigs of past decades). Their music scene from the 2000's might be my favorite. Still, this isn't part of it - for me. Two genres offered on Wikipedia for these guys/this album are sampledelia and plunderphonics. Sounds about right, which to me sounds over-sampled and spastic. Couldn't wait for the album to be over. But I did, which is why it didn't get a 1.

Essentially an album full of samples of other people's stuff.

Each song was very repetitive, not my vibe. Though I did like how the album blended together

This was way too long, way too repetitive and way too much like noise. But I did enjoy a song or two.

Ok as random background music for doing the dishes but not something I will ever be listening to again

I guess the only meaningful measure of quality of dance music is whether you want to dance to it or not. I didn't, not even with my feet

tivoli music. like, what am I listening to? horses neighing and bells jingling?

I'll give credit for the creativity of the sampling, I just didn't feel it particularly compelling. Just washed over me. A Different Feeling was probably the highlight for me, I thought it kind of had a Daft Punk feel Repetitive vocal samples can work but often they're pretty irritating, like Avalanche Rock which is thankfully more an interlude or intro than anything. The use on Flight Tonight is kind of annoying, it feels like a club track that just isn't that appealing outside of that context. I was a bit annoyed that the vibe turned into weird cinematic nonsense around Pablo's Cruise There's another song I've heard with Frontier Psychiatrist. It does an instrumental hip hop thing but i thought it was far too busy, far too many vocal samples and random noises like horses neighing and parrots and scratching (pretty creative to make scratching sounds out of a parrot sample though, to be fair) I can appreciate this but I'm just not that into it, personally 2.5 Highlights: A Different Feeling

Another electronic dance music album with a bunch of noises in each song that weren't musical at all. Unless they were the first artist to do such an album in this genre, I just don't see how any of this music differentiates itself from the other artists in the genre. Just an OK album in my book. 3/10 stars rounded up.

Felt like listening to an hour of fashion show music. Or like the music you'd hear playing at a trendy clothing store for teenagers. I didn't get too much out of it

Wikipedia says the album genre is Dance / Sampledelia / Disco / Plunderphonics / Art Pop, or to put it more simply: Prenttenious Trendy Boring Crap. Probably sounds much better in a club with hundreds of sweaty people when you've had some heavy medication, but not when you're sitting at home.

Oh boy. I’m annoyed already.

Moments of brilliance dot the cloudy skies of this album.

pass

2.0 - Weak

Oh look... more 90s/early 2000s electronica. I get maybe 2 or 3 albums but this is getting ridiculous. Nothing special about this in the least. 4/10.

It's been a couple of decades since I heard this. It was the go to album back at Universal for a brief period in early 2001. The office decks rinsed this pretty much all day. It kinda got on my tits after a while. It's useful as a game of Spot the Samples.

His didn’t grab me. This kind of party electronic stuff isn’t really for me I don’t think.

This was the first time I’ve heard of Plunderphonics. It was ok

It would not surprise me if these are the same individuals who were behind Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers.

Also was war jetzt das? Ein wildes Durcheinander von verschiedenen Klängen. Zumindest für mich ohne roten Faden.

Frontier Psychiatrist is really good (haven't heard it for years, but I can still picture parts of the music video) but the rest of it is not my bag.

Not a fan. 2/5

"Frontier Psychiatrist" was great, but overall this album is just a lot of sound bites and samples. It got repetitive fast, although I'm sure it took a lot of skill and time to put together.

repetivive, weird, annoying the cover art's nice though

What is this?

Die Lawiner, die Schlawiner hend grad es album gmacht wo mer nach jedem track sieder überrascht wird was da für e neue track wieder als nächsts inechund :0 Oder andersch formuliert, mir isch i de Arktis imne ander Universum (wos zwar immer na chalt und schneeig isch aber meh infrastruktur ume isch). Es herrscht grad e schneegestöber und mir gsed keini 5 meter wiit. All 3 minute oder all 1 track, lauft mir a öpis unerwarteds äne, zb. E japanische Selecta-Automat, und 1 track spöter chund denn e heisse maronistand, gfolgt vum ne marrokanische teppich händler und c.ronaldo fanshop. Aso uf allfäll d lawine hed mi mit ihrem schneegestöber biz usm konzept bracht. Max random, vor allem am afang na bar easy tracks, aber will i listen again? Doubt it. Also rund ich das uf zum ne 3 wells lustig random isch, oder ab uf es 2 wells scheisse-random isch, das isch die million dollar frag. Ich gib ne 2 schneegestöber

willkomme im sample & scratch town bewohner*inne: 2 lieblingsbeschäftigung: sample, scratche und daydrinking was würdi am liebste zu dere musig mache? irgendwo ufere terasse direkt verschwitzt id sunne ineluege und min 4te drink abeschletzte und denn mini brülle abneh und mit minnere augepartie vo bern-basel eu id auge luege und dumm grinse isch leider aber eher eh wunschvorstellig momentan, welli das album han müese lose während ich versuecht han en bug im scheiss unity zfinde während mir eine inegscratcht worde isch - nöd die beste vorussetzige... drum muesi da leider mini härt site zeige und sege dasi das album sehr warschindlich nüme ahlange wird 2 seamless übergäng vom einte zum andere track

This is #day149 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... this must have been a fun record to make. Still, when it comes to plunderphonics, a word I didn't know (so at least I've learned something while listening), I will always prefer DJ Shadow's Endtroducing. I couldn't really finish this one. It's a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day150.

This album is my first being one of sampledelia. It is a meticulously crafted record that is apparently comprised of thousands of samples, being more an encyclopedia of modern recorded music (though I recognize mostly nothing) than music itself; it disassembles and more or less reconfigures known music to this which I simply dislike. Who likes an encyclopedia being read out aloud?

Not really my thing.

Just find a groove!!!!!! This gives me the same terrible feeling I have when I’m brainlessly scrolling twitter, checking email, news, anything for some kind of breaking information for that endorphin hit. Let’s just pick a few samples and make something. I’ll give them another star because from what I read they were trying to create some kind of concept album, where it sounds like someone traveling following a girl. So fairly ambitious but they also abandoned that plan.

Not totally annoying, some cool soundscapes throughout, but really not my thing. Probably a bit of a blind spot on my part in not appreciation the work it takes to put together a collage of samples like this. The first title track song was nice.

Nothing exciting.

This wasn’t for me. I’m not a big fan of music that is all samples and I was bored most of the time listening to this.

I read the 'About the Avalanches' section on Spotify which described them as "wholly original" - preposterous! It's all samples, which by definition means it isn't original. Be that as it may, I didn't enjoy any of this after the first couple of minutes. The sample used in the first track was nice and started out well, but the track didn't go anywhere- it just circled round and round. Great if you're off your tits at a rave and dancing, but hopeless to listen to as music. Completely pointless.

I like the music a lot of the time, but the sampling is insanity-inducing for me. Too much repetition / looping for me to handle.

While listening to the album, I wasn't able to feel its vibe. The concept (if there's one) wasn't very clear throughout the album. In the end, "Since I Left You" is a jumble of samples and genres with no connection between them. It's possible to see that perhaps there was some idea for the album but this idea, unfortunately, was not well executed.

I’m going to be honest: this album didn’t do anything for me. Most of the songs rely on samples that are usually repeated over and over again. I get what it was going for. It an electronic vibe/dance album, so it’s part of the beat. But it mostly just kind of sounded annoying to me. I couldn’t get into it outside of a couple of songs. Honestly, Frontier Psychiatrist was the only track that sounded like a song. Everything else basically a lyric, repeating it over and over again, changing up a little for variety, and call it a day. If this is your sort of thing, that’s fine. But it’s not for me really. Favorite track: A Different Feeling Other hits: Frontier Psychiatrist, Etoh, Electricity, Two Hearts in 3/4 Time

Not my thing

This plays like an experiment in cacophony and disonance. Barely listenable - there are some decent sounds, but they're all kind of mashed into a repetitive mess. I didn't waste any time beyond the first six tracks or so.

zu stressige musik, hat mir nicht gefallen

Teilweise mal ganz chillige Background music, aber meist hats mich echt gestresst beim Arbeiten. 2/5, nichts für mich.

Boring. I can’t stand hearing the same thing said/sung over and over and over again. Couldn’t make it through this.

If I hadn't been doing some mindless tasks at work while I was listening to this album, it probably would be 1 star. But I appreciated the filler background music that consisted of unnecessary scratchy audio and the same samples/bits/vocals being played over and over and over again.

I like sampled music, but this stuff is simply too repetitive for me. I need some more structure or somebody rapping verses over the top of it too mix things up. Makes me feel like I'm going crazy. It might be a better listen if I was doing dishes or something.

I expected this to be good. My bad

Respect this innovative approach to creating music called plunderphonics. Some enjoyable disco-like grooves but ultimately emotionally couldn’t connect with it.

Not an enjoyable listening experience. The little variance of the vocals & music arrangements from track to track proved aggravating & monotonous. In short really didn’t like it.

Won’t revisit. All instruments

if you like electronic & sampling, then this could be the album for you. unfortunately it's not my cup of tea. it was fine as good background music to workout to for about 15 minutes, then I got bored.

Didn't listen to it in full, but I got about halfway through and did not like what I heard. Not my kind of music whatsoever, the repetition in a lot of the songs just made them kinda grating to listen to.

Australian artists who should be on this list but aren’t: Midnight Oil, Kylie Minogue, Savage Garden, Natalie Imbruglia, Powderfinger, Silverchair, Killing Heidi, Missy Higgins Instead we get another dumb electronic group. Robert Dimery clearly has a huge bias in musical taste, and it’s getting really irritating. “Frontier Psychiatrist” was and will always be a banger. The rest of this album is a mix of lo-fi beats and Daft Punk with extra noises added. It’s repetitive and boring, when it’s not just annoying. 2/5

initially sparkling - packed with samples, which flash swiftly past - but that sparkle quickly dims. Not much substance beyond the question of "where was that from?"

Kind of all over the place musically. Nothing I would call particularly memorable.

OK

not my cup of tea

What if we did hip-hop without the MC 25 years later? Still kinda fun

Since I Left You - The Avalanches (2000) Pilhagemfônica As músicas são emaranhados de samples em loopings infinitos, há quem vá gostar desse sentimento drone e quem não vá, mas definitivamente você pode morrer sem ouvir. Melhores músicas: N/A Piores músicas: N/A 2/5

Some bright moments but many annoying animal noises to shake you out of the trance

A bit of a mixed bag with some parts being sublime and others missing the mark and devolving into noise. I keep bouncing between 2 and 3.

Sinceramente aún gustándome la música electrónica y de baile de esa época a mí en particular este disco no me aporta nada. Parece ser que fueron unos innovadores de los samples y efectos sobre el sonido (tipo cuarto de baño), pero no soy capaz de apreciarlo.

this worked as good background music and was pretty unique but nah, this is not for me

Not my style at all. Boring and repetitive.

Too long, self-indulgent and repetitive

Long and not for me.. few highlights though

I'd listened to this album some years ago and have not listened to it again until it came up on this list. I liked it ok. It's good background music to have on while you do something else.

Not my favorit. not much variation and recocnition from other albums.

It sounds like the second track samples a horse? Frontier Psychiatrist is an amazing track title and an ace song. Not only has this sampled a horse but not we’re getting a parrot…This has really lost me toward the end. Definitely ok for a background album but would not be my first choice. Nowhere near as good as ‘We will always love you’. Every track seems to promise something great then just fails to deliver. Ok no, Live at Dominoes delivers- I was hasty. Overall, won’t rush back for a listen.

20 years ago when I first listened to Since I Left You, I hated it. Way too EDM. A more mature me respects the DJ Shadow in The Avalanches. The album starts strong and fades, I like the songs with a more traditional pop structure 4.6/10

Outside of the title track and Frontier Psychiatrist this was incredibly dull

2.5/5

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??

Dance music that doesnt make me want to dance

Decent but a little too funky. Good study music

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.

It was ok. Didnt love it too much. It was a kind of interesting style of sample heavy electronica.

Scratchy. Repetitive. Not my genre for sure.

Ehh… not great, not bad 🤷🏽

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.

frontier psychiatrist and ETOH are all that keeps this from being a 1.

This was...fine. Okay at first but it really began to grate on me by the halfway mark.

I'm still not into this genre.

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.

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

Pleasant noise

dance, lounge, z.T. live, 2001 -> 2

Nicht so meins, versuchte es mehrere Male

A product of its time. Nice but unremarkable, with the title track being the highlight.

It's okay at places but what is the deal with the horse on the second track.

Mashing up music to create new music doesn't work for me.

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

Too chaotic for me

There are two stand out songs - we all know which ones they are. Otherwise it’s a lil dull tbh.

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2. More like 1.5, but I'll round up. I guess some people like this kind of music.

Not my jam. Something I could happily have on in the background, but not an album I would listen to intentionally.

I can only take so much saampling

Didn't get to hear it all, but what I did hear was okay.

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.

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%

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???”

Some okay. A little repetitive

Bleach

Dreamy

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.

Meh, some good tunes but not really my thing

lol. No

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.

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

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

2. Had some alright songs and started fairly strongly but then just went a bit mad and annoying

A lot … even for me

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.

I liked the remixes way more than I liked the actual music.

I'm not a fan of this. I would call it bad, I just don't care for the style. 2/5

Frontier Psychiatrist is about it. The rest is guff.

Australian electronical dancefloor music. Sophistical samples of uncredited snippets other musicians.

Sounded like an album you could only half hear from the stairway of a carpark adjoining a concert venue. Did not enjoy, low 2

Ich verstehe schon, dass diese wilde Sampling-Orgie gut gemacht ist und man das toll finden kann... Für mich aber zu unentschlossen zwischen Pop/Hiphop/Dance/...

I didn’t finish. I’m sure it would be great background music for a chill day doing….something but I don’t know what that is really.

No. This repetitive electronic music puts me in a bad mood. It goes no where and tells no story.

no me gusta

I really wanted to like this, but the repetitive words and samples just got annoying. The beats were boring. The album just felt soulless and empty.

No

Some bright spots but can't get into the album as a whole.

Not a fan of the disco music

It's an amazing achievement in sampling stuff and assembling things into something else completely. Its very loop-based nature does get on my nerves quite a bit quite quickly, though. Frontier Psychiatrist will forever stand as an everlasting piece of genius.

Nej tack😘 Bästa låten på albumet var Frotier Psychiatrist.

Simply not for me!

This album is not for me. I haven't hit the clubs or have good memories of hitting the clubs. There's a lot going on here and I am indifferent to most of it. I like some forms of electronic music and perhaps this just isn't down my alley.

Fun, but one song was enough

A bit repetitive but some funky beats up in here.

It's pretty mediocre in its genre

strange .. is this music, sounds like a lot of different kinds of sounds 2 stars

Not my cup of tea. I found the repetition frustrating and claustrophobic. I was occasionally impressed when new samples seemed to emerge out of the conclusion of other samples. Basically, if you enjoy this sort of thing, here it is. (Paraphrasing the late great Don Thompson).

Ok. Didn't really give me good energy.

Good background music at work.

Not my kind of music. I liked some songs, but those lasers where annoying

It felt like a collection of sounds / words more than an album

I've listened to this more than once to truly nail down how I feel about it. The reality is, I just don't want to listen to it anymore, and probably won't ever again. The sampling is neat, but that's about it. 2/5

Generally not a big fan. Frontier psychiatrist is a banger though

Sounded like a soundtrack to 1080 or SSX Tricky

2,5 *

Eclectic. Generally, too-layered electronically for my taste. Good samples but feels like I need drugs other than caffeine to appreciate this sound. Lo-fi / nightcore is an interesting development and they do it well.

I didn't like this as much as I thought I would It was 100x easier to listen to when I played it in my car compared to playing it over my airpods The high whistling noises in close to you, and the popping noises in Two Hearts were a lot, even when I played them out loud. The crackling and popping were far too asmr for my liking Frontier Psychiatrist was the only song I kindof knew and the whole time it played I just thought it would make a great tiktok sound "that boy needs therapy"

Cool album art, especially for this kind of music. I want to enjoy this, but it's a bit messy on the first take. I suppose I've come to prefer Daft Punk's cleaner, less cluttered sound. May enjoy more on another listen. Frontier Psychiatrist is a hell of a tune though.

Electronic music is such a chore for me to sit down and listen to. I get why is recognized as good and why other people like, but I just cannot stand it in large doses.

Repetitive and tinny

Nice to listen to this again

Not a fan, but I’m also not very into electronic music. I didn’t find any songs memorable

favorite song - electricity flight tonight was painful to listen to. felt like my skin was crawling. two hearts wasn't as bad. others were just not memorable. couldn’t finish it

A lot of horse noises.

- Frontier Psychiatrist

Did not care for this album

All songs sounded basically alike. Uninspiring even though some songs dance beat was ok. Not my thing

I've never heard of this band or album before, but since I enjoy electronica music, I figured there was a high chance I'd like this album. After listening to it though, this album was pretty middle of the road for me. The album was pretty long, and even though only two of the songs were over five minutes, a lot of the songs felt much longer than their actual run times. I liked the way that The Avalanches used samples to build their arrangements, but some of the songs just got repetitive and uninteresting really quickly, and a few of them were just downright grating after about a minute. I think The Avalanches have a unique way of approaching electronica music, but the end result just wasn't that great to listen to.

Far too electronica-y for my taste. There are vocals, which helps, but not enough.

Think this was on the other list but i don’t remember it at all and i think i know why. Was pretty excited after the first song (and most of the second song since it basically was still song 1) then nothing else really ripped for me. Was honestly a battle to get thru most of it bc i was not enjoying the sounds of any track. Electricity pierced my god damn ears. Having said ALL of that. Mac miller definitely sampled tonight on aliens fighting robots which was pretty dope to see

A decent beat tape, but I felt like they tried to cram in too much into a song for it's own good. It made it feel like the beats had so much going on that they were trying to achieve the "wall of sound" aesthetic, but couldn't quite get there where it sounds all harmonious. Instead it just sounds like "too much" at the same time

Messy. Didnt find the full album

It’s not bad. It’s just not interesting.

Easy lazy basement music. Not for me.

Old man hates shit electronic music

I didn't hate all of it, but I hated a lot of it

Moments of excellence but too meandering.

I recognize the craft but it seems like it’s stuck in a loop. 2 stars

not for me

Avalanches- so many samples. Idk 1.5-2

A miscellany of sounds, that passed like a blur of background noise

I don't get it.

Let’s let them leave me.

Enjoy as background music but isn’t the greatest album I’ve ever heard.

Catchy, fun listen, but I don't think it's something I will come back to. Seems to be very "lo-fi beats" which is not really my cup of tea.

- lots of samples - this is some stuff you’d hear blasting from where in the woods at 5am

I want to like this so bad but I just dont

Weird vibe-i-ness

Ég fíla þetta ekki. Ekki slæm plata bara ekki skemmtileg. Það var eitt lag þarna sem ég þekkti. Ég veit ekki einu sinni af hverju ég kannast við það.

Ikke for meg

Too much electronic/EDM style for me. I'm sure this is awesome at a club, but I don't go to clubs so I'll never listen to this again.

Stimmungsvoll, reichhaltig, leider anstrengend. Spezielle Stimmung, verträgt keine Ablenkung. Klingt die ganze Zeit, als ob der Gesang gleich einsetzt. Versatzstücke. Gleichzeitig wie im Hintergrund, Atmosphäre und aufmerksamkeitsheischend.

I’m really getting tired of these “sampledelia” albums, but it wouldn’t be fair to rate this one too harshly simply because it appeared on the list after several others of the type. So, in the interest of objectivity: it’s not terrible, but it wore out its welcome pretty quickly, which is unfortunate as it’s an hour long…

Not my type of music

I recognize the skill, but the was to much repetitivness and random animal sounds for me.

Over-long and you really only need to listen to one song to know what the album is like.

Meh, the beats were pretty good but I need some actual lyrics.

Multitude of sound. Only listened one time sorry. Unfortunately I did not found anything exceptional/remarkable :(

Echt geen idee wat ik hiermee moet. Beetje poppige elektro, maar dan zonder zang. Niet echt dansbaar, dus dan blijft er weinig over. Het is ook niet super slecht of onluisterbaar ofzo, dus dan maar 2 sterren.

Psychedelic, too repetitive, not something I would listen to

Album starts very strong with a couple tracks that modernize the 70s groove. After that, they still use those 70s elements, but start fading into a lot of experimental work. It’s not bad, but a little much for my taste. Mid 2.

It's alright. It's not really my style and I doubt that I'd listen to it actively in the future, but I recognize that it's well done for what it is. I like the concept, I just don't love the execution - not because it's bad, just because it's not my jam.

As sonic wallpaper while I worked it was fine, but I don't know why someone would deliberately sit down and listen to this.

This one was okay. It had static sounds that my ears are sensitive to. I liked the beats but I wouldn't listen again.

This album provided decent background music for getting some work done at the office over lunchtime. Not sure I'll be listening to it on the regular.

Eh. 2. 3. Couldn’t decide.

Not my thing, not a fan of the weird sampling in these types of songs

Meh

Weird album, Frontier was good, rest was uncomfortable.

While I understand why this received the critical acclaim that it did; over 900 samples integrated seamlessly and creatively into a cohesive and interesting record...I still had to force myself to listen to the whole thing. It just wasn't enjoyable.

Electricity is cool, Frontier Psychiatrist also. Funky bass on Live at Dominoes.

A dozen songwriters is exactly as scattered as it sounds.

The sample work is rich and impressive but it really is not my kind of music. Samples of female singers, then high-pitched? Nah, not for me!

Weird "world music" sounding electronic. It feels like a new technique applied to an old style. Unfortunately I do not enjoy that old style, so this is not really for me.

Some noises

I remember buying and then never playing this CD - one trick pony bollocks

some tracks are nice but most are very “royalty free” reminiscent. then again if someone handed me this record and some drugs of their choice I think I’d have grand time. instead I listened on a cold and rainy august day. I fear I fudged the ideal conditions for the avalanches.

some good/interesting songs but overall nothing catchy for me personally

Plunderphonics is an interesting genre, in that its basically taking sampling to its extreme, to where songs are nothing but the samples themselves. And Avalanches apparently used like 1000 or so, which is unbelievable to me and must have taken endless amounts of time. So hats off to their determination to make such a record. However... I was kinda bored for a lot of this. There was a ton of chopped up vocals and decent grooves, but it just never progressed for a lot of the record, and it quickly just felt like alright background music. A shame, because I did really enjoy Frontier Psychiatrist, which did feel like a individual song here that even kinda had a chorus to it too. More songs like that would have allowed me to enjoy this better.

Es electrónica. Prometió el primer tema pero se quedó ahí.

Not bad, not great. Wouldn’t listen again.

Ehh, this is the kind of electronic that does nothing for me. It’s scattered and feels like an MF Doom album without the rapping. Frontier Psychiatrist was ok.

I would expect to hear this as background music in a bar. Wouldn't go out of my way to listen but it's not terrible.

Enpä tiennyt, että Since I left you -biisi on näin vanha! Vähän liian suureellinen albumi mun makuun, en saa joka vyörytyksestä mitään irti, massaa on.

Kuulostaa usein hyvältä. Onko "hyvää"? Ei niin hyvää, että ottaisin itsenäisesti kuunteluun. Eikä ole väärin kaivata musiikkiin vokaaleja.

Vet inte riktigt vad det här är.

This just feels like a live DJ session or an underground mix tape from back in the day--in a good way. Nothing I would ever listen to regularly, but it was fun enough.

nsomma....

Didn’t enjoy much, not as developed as other albums so far. Didn’t want to listen again. While I lie the singles, the album together didn’t do it for me 5/10

Some small bits are ok. It's mostly just a bit repetitive and annoying

Some solid grooves and interesting samples. Pleasant enough, but not super engaging.

knew frontier psychiatrist as the song all the "wacky" people enjoy. Rest of the album opens nice and chill and then just repeats itself over and over, as do each of the songs.. all start with a nice hook then just repeat it over and over. 2 as it's a little different

als hintergrundmusik ok, aber boring

Some cool moments, but mostly noise. Favorite track: ETOH

Very wacky album. First song is good. Gets a bit crazy. Frontier Psychiatrist might be the craziest song and sun up the wackiness of the album.

I know what I'm listening to if I ever hang with Molly. Not my thing.

I had this at the time, though it wasn't an obvious album for me. I quite like it, but I'm not sure it stands up to much repeat listening. It's sort of OK, I don't know, maybe now I've got to talk about it maybe it's just quite boring and repetitive. Still like Frontier Psychiatrist though.

This was an interesting and long pop/electronic album. The first song started off great and I really enjoyed it. As the album progressed it felt like it had some daft punk sounds going on and other times it felt like a 90s pop album mixed with distorted techno sounds which wasn’t great. And then I found out I still had about six more songs. Overall it was too long for what it was and didn’t live up to the first song. 4.6/10

I almost started to like this, then it started to repeat and got annoying. It was kind of chill, but again, when a song repeats the same thing over and over, I start to hate it.

Amalgama de samples i retalls dels '80s i de diferents estils per generar un treball més cerebral que encissador, tot i que és com una marea sonora que si et deixés t'acaba emportant suaument

Okay I suppose

Not the type of music I'd listen to with headphones on. I get how it would be groundbreaking for use of samples in dance music, but not really my jam.

Very mediocre, nothing bad but I would definitely not listen again

Look they’re super talented. I just don’t particularly enjoy this sound. In my opinion there’s too much repetition with not enough change to keep me interested. I know this is a crazy influential album and I know there’s other albums in this space that I really enjoy so it’s hard for me to rate it this low but it just doesn’t hit for me.

since i left you contains a lot of sampledelia; i've mentioned this before, but suffice to say, sometimes i worry sampling shows more of a lack of creativity and doesn't allow an artist to create their own music. the songs that didn't rely too much on sampling other pieces of work were better. the album alternated between easy listening and dance music, an interesting combination. there were some noises early in the album that were incredibly jarring and unpleasant. all in all, a forgettable listen.

The album had an excellent flow; it felt continuous and like one combined, cohesive experience. This is not my first sampledelia type album on this project, though, so if I'm being honest, I just don't think I'm particularly into sampledelia from a musical perspective. Technically, it is impressive, and it wasn't even bad to listen to, but I just wasn't really grabbed by this.

I'm sorry, but I'm not impressed. I've heard so much more effective use of sampling. The feat of layering that has been acheived here is astounding, but I feel the technique gets so blurred, it just becomes dense music. Nothing about this album was memorable for me. I'd expect to hear it playing in some fashionable shop.

I wish I could do halves. Not a 2 and not a 3. Lo fi LL cool J. Not bad, cool beats

Parecia mais legal, lembra daft punk, lembra justice, mas é mais repetitivo

not exciting

An album made entirely of samples all spliced together. Cool tech (for the early 2000s) but not something I'd normally listen to

Samples. Lots of Samples. But that alone doesn't make for a good album. I guess this is not my kind of music at all. 2/5

Didn't know what to expect knowing nothing about the group. The album turned out to be disappointing, repetitive and ultimately irritating.

A few interesting songs, but mostly it just sounds like background music to me.

It was okay

Very meh

Never heard of em.

Don’t remember it so must not have been great.

Respect the amount of sampling that went into making this album and I thought the transitions between songs were pretty seamless. There's a big lo-fi element that makes it somewhat quaint at times. Overall suffers from the same issues I have with most electronic music which is repetitiveness. Might be more fun in a live setting, but for individual listening is really boring to listen to. The only song I found interesting was "Frontier Psychiatrist" which pretty dynamic/not repetitive and had a cool Halloween/spooky theme throughout.

A bit much at times

Not my favourite, though I kinda liked Frontier Psychiatrist.

Spawned a genre. Not for me Some is very samey. Frontier Psy is very clever

Repetitive

2.25

i did not like this

I have the honor to give the 1000th group vote. Not the best timing though. I needed a few spins to find out what this is: a dj set cutting and pasting every sample they could lay their hands on. They probably had a lot of fun but there is no need to bother me with this stuff. Still two stars as some of the samples are really nice and groovy.

Poor, was dull then, still dull.

Dull, no real passion in it

It's like someone made a collage that almost doesn't look like a collage. They put a lot of work into the flow of it and you really appreciate the attention to detail. BUT... the subject, theme, or general feel of the piece is just not that extraordinary. It doesn't scream listen to me AND THEN you find out it is a sampling album. It screams sample album from the beginning. Maybe they did it at a time when it was harder than just having a MacBook. Maybe they did it before others did. Maybe they spent hours pouring over each cut. Does it elevate the collage to the work of Basquiat? I think it falls short.

I have no idea what the fuck I just listened to. 3/10

Feel like this woulda been better if they cut out like 20 minutes in the middle

A couple of bangers and a lot of filler. I nearly gave up on this one.

I have never heard of this band before so I didn't know what to expect. Unfortunately im not much of a fan of this type of electronic (?) Music. It was cool how they blended previous songs into the next songs in certain spots. The super repetitive lyrics on book a flight x 20 was frustrating to listen to. This was not my ideal album.

More electronic music.

Maybe I didn't give it a fair go, but I didn't enjoy it much. The style of voice sampling got irritating pretty quickly

Couldn't listen to it all, too long. Lovely, warm production.. that choppy, sampley thing is done well but also kind of annoying. Liked by people in Bristol probably.

Hi- A Different Feeling, Etoh Lo-Flight Tonight, Diner's Only Is this music? It sounds like samples repeated over and over until the artist gets tired of hearing them (usually long after I have). I'm just not a fan of repeating samples 16x times and calling it done, and that's mostly what is going on here. Some tracks actually do a pretty decent job of turning samples into music, A Different Feeling and Etoh are good enough tracks, but I'm not going to take them with me.

The name of the band plus the album art made me chuckle. I'm happy to take a break from 1970 but don't have any idea what to expect, I've never heard of them and the cover and track list don't give much away. I didn't expect this! I also didn't entirely leave the 70's. The opening track is quite surprising, nostalgic, layered, interesting. I like it but I don't like the production, I feel like I am overhearing the party next door through the keyhole or something. As I listen on I'm feeling like an hour of this is likely to wear me out. Yeah, turns out too much of The Avalanches is tedious listening. Faves: title track and Summer Crane.

No thankyou!

Not a fan of the repetition in most electronic music, and this one is no exception. Nothing particularly interesting here, fine as background music. 2 stars.

electronic didn't catch me

Revisiting 70’s motown. I find it boring

Cool album art, especially for this kind of music. I want to enjoy this, but it's a bit messy on the first take. I suppose I've come to prefer Daft Punk's cleaner, less cluttered sound, at least for studying to. May enjoy more on another listen. Frontier Psychiatrist is a hell of a tune though.

This one's all about "Frontier Psychiatrist." There's a reason it's the one song I ever heard from this band back when independent alternative radio was an actual thing; everything else barely made a dent. Speaking of dents, my relationship with this website is apparently broken. I wrote a whole thing for the Janis Joplin record, clicked "submit," and it promptly told me to go fuck myself by deleting every bit of it and not letting me even rewrite it. But I really liked that record. Even if "Cry Baby" was the only song on it I'd probably give it 4 stars. I like the others enough to keep it there. Also, spot on comparison to Joe Cocker, Craig. That had never occurred to me; now it's all I hear. Fishbone. I completely expected this entire album to be nothing but variations on "Bonin' in the Boneyard," (which lol, so so bad). Instead, I was pleasantly surprised that it was not that at all. I'd probably still prefer to listen to Living Colour or (for sure) Faith No More, if I'm in the mood for something that's at all in this ballpark. But it's a solid three star effort to my ears. Also, I still laugh at that story that supposedly John Cusack played some Fishbone song on set while holding up the boombox during that pivotal moment of SAY ANYTHING. Hahaha. Little Richard. You know what the drill is from the word "go," but as far as albums with songs that all kind of sound the same it's hard to argue against the effectiveness of this one. I assume this was all recorded live, as well? I mean, damn. "Ready Teddy" blows the roof off. No wonder white people stole this.

Electricity Since you drop the ball, it will roll all the way down, here it comes the whole mountain. By the name Avalanches you might think it's a revolutionary group or a single artist showing another view in the morning, but when you're listening you start to understand why they get that name. Assuming you're in that period of time you can mix anything with everything, that can be a massive success or a messing failure, let's put them in the middle of this scenario. Fact is no one survives after an avalanche or gets out without a scratch, this one is here to prove how things can go after a natural-case-event. Don't get too acquainted with the situation, just let it go and try to learn new stuff. D

udmærket men nah

I didn’t really have any use for this. It wasn’t actually offensive but struck me as wall after wall of bland sound assortments narrowly meeting the definition of a song.

Could see this being fun at a party maybe, but I found it annoying and too repetitive. I did recognize and enjoy "Frontier Psychologist" but that was my only respite. More than ready to be through with this by the end.

Alightly nauseating

Cleanly spliced together, but oh-so lightweight and boring. What was all the fuss about in 2001?

EDM-like. OK for what it is.

Why did I need to listen to this? It just wasn't very good. Insanely repetitive.