Album: The Avalanches - Since I Left You (2001)
Track: “Since I Left You”
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This one gets filed under “essential.”

From the first track - the title track - the tone is set: entirely sample-based, full of life from old vinyl, party sounds, tv and movie talking, cackling… the whole kit-and-caboodle (yay, first time ever writing that phrase).

According to the group, the album is made up of over 3500 samples from vinyl. The tracks flow in and out of each other, never a break for you, the listener. So get ready to party. If ever there were an album to attach “can’t stop, won’t stop” to, it’s this one.

Best enjoyed with the volume to 11 on a good sound system or with headphones to enjoy the party-ness of the album or the layers upon layers of samples, respectively.

Tracklist:

01. Since I Left You
02. Stay Another Season
03. Radio
04. Two Hearts In 3/4 Time
05. Avalanche Rock
06. Flight Tonight
07. Close To You
08. Diners Only
09. A Different Feeling
10. Electricity
11. Tonight
12. Pablo’s Cruise
13. Frontier Psychiatrist
14. Etoh
15. Summer Crane
16. Little Journey
17. Live At Dominoes
18. Extra Kings