Avalanches, The: Wildflower (2LP) [DECCA]

Why you'll love it

Wildflower went to No. 1 in Australia, reached No. 10 in the UK and No. 27 on the Billboard 200, and went platinum at home. It's back on 2LP alongside Since I Left You, ahead of the band's new album No Bad Memories.

This edition

• 2LP
• 21 tracks
• Reissue of the 2016 album

About the album

Sixteen years after Since I Left You, the Avalanches finally followed it up, and the wait turned into a road trip. Danny Brown and MF Doom trade verses on "Frankie Sinatra", Toro y Moi sings "If I Was A Folkstar", Biz Markie turns up on "The Noisy Eater", Father John Misty closes things on "Saturday Night Inside Out", and Mercury Rev's Jonathan Donahue drifts through on vocals and bowed saw.

"Subways" and "Colours" carry the summery, sample-stitched pop the band is loved for, and the whole thing plays as one long afternoon with the windows down. Proof that some records are worth waiting a decade and a half for, though we wouldn't recommend making a habit of it.

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Tracklist

1. The Leaves Were Falling
2. Because I'm Me
3. Frankie Sinatra
4. Subways
5. Going Home
6. If I Was A Folkstar
7. Colours
8. Zap!
9. The Noisy Eater
10. Wildflower
11. Harmony
12. Live A Lifetime Love
13. Park Music
14. Livin' Underwater (Is Somethin' Wild)
15. The Wozard Of Iz
16. Over The Turnstiles
17. Sunshine
18. Light Up
19. Kaleidoscopic Lovers
20. Stepkids
21. Saturday Night Inside Out

On Decca (cat# 57977272), a reissue of the 2016 album.