Good luck trying to keep your head from spinning around like Linda Blair. ...more
Q Magazine
A record that finally fulfils sampling's original promise of generating fabulous new sounds from skilfully lifted bits of existing tracks. ...more
Under The Radar
Here to bury you under a mound of fresh samples and dope beats, The Avalanches hail from the seemingly unsnowy Australia. Equal parts DJ You, DJ Me and Daft Punk, The Avalanches blend strange samples from god knows where with effective house beats. ...more
Stylus Magazine
In a world of mindless dance music and soul-less pop, the Avalanches strive to be innovators, a worthy cause, but one which is wholly unmet by their disappointing first album. The Avalanches make their music as many DJ groups before them have, ...more
Launch.com
Spinning a zoo of samples redundantly, song after song, can only amuse the most blissed-out of stoners... ...more
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Rolling Stone
A record this layered and quirky is easier to make than it was when Prince Paul first started cutting up old 45s (case in point: the Wiseguys), but to do it well - keeping intact an aesthetic that threads together all these disparate sounds - is true ...more
Slant Magazine
Into Love Boat drug music for fashion runways and neo-hippie gay weddings? Then the Avalanches, Australia's buzzing dance export, have the disc for you. Disorienting, irksome but never uninteresting,Since I Left Yourecycles old 45's in a ...more
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