Avalanches, The: Since I Left You (2LP) [DECCA]

Why you'll love it

Since I Left You won four ARIA Awards in 2001, reached No. 8 in the UK and turns up on every serious list of the best albums of the 2000s: No. 10 on Pitchfork's top 200 of the decade and No. 34 on The Guardian's 100 best albums of the 21st century. It's back on 2LP alongside Wildflower, ahead of the band's new album No Bad Memories.

This edition

• 2LP
• 18 tracks
• Reissue of the 2000 album

About the album

The Melbourne group built their debut almost entirely out of other people's records. Robbie Chater put the count at more than 3,500 samples, and the songs flow into each other like one long night on the radio dial, from the title track's lounge strings through "Electricity" to "Frontier Psychiatrist", a novelty-record collage of horses, parrots and a man convinced that boy needs therapy.

It came out in Australia in November 2000 on Modular and took the long way round to the rest of the world, which suited a record that sounds like a holiday you can't quite remember the end of. Twenty-odd years on, nobody has managed to make another one quite like it, and the Avalanches themselves took sixteen years to try.

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Tracklist

1. Since I Left You
2. Stay Another Season
3. Radio
4. Two Hearts In 3/4 Time
5. Avalanche Rock
6. Flight Tonight
7. Close To You
8. Diners Only
9. A Different Feeling
10. Electricity
11. Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life
12. Pablo's Cruise
13. Frontier Psychiatrist
14. E.T.O.H.
15. Summer Crane
16. Little Journey
17. Live At Dominoes
18. Extra Kings

On Decca (cat# 57977258), a reissue of the 2000 album.