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The Avalanches

No Bad Memories

Polydor

2xColoured LP

£35.99

Yellow vinyl

Cat Number

7417950

Release date
Expected 16 Oct '26
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Yellow vinyl

Release date: Expected 16 Oct '26

2xIndies Exclusive LP

£35.99

Blue vinyl

Cat Number

7417957

Release date
Expected 16 Oct '26
Format Info

Blue vinyl

Release date: Expected 16 Oct '26

CD

£13.99

Cat Number

7417963

Release date
Expected 16 Oct '26

Release date: Expected 16 Oct '26

The new album is inspired by the simultaneously magical and insidious ways that advertising and name-brand technology wraps itself around our memories. It’s an ambivalent ode to the nostalgic pull of commercial jingles and proprietary start-up sounds. The best things in life may be free, but childhood and corporate entertainment products are completely intertwined. The obsession with advertising and consumer technology informs the sonic make-up of the music as a source of raw material out of which the foundations of the tracks were built. Speaking on this impetus for the album Robbie Chater says ““It seems to be bound up with the nature of sampling itself. Once we start digging through forgotten sounds and uncovering their meaning, almost inevitably you get sent down a path of discovery. Every forgotten sound opens another door. And that’s what I love - feeling like a kid again. Diving into this whole world of advertising, looking at how jingles get made, it’s the kind of thing that keeps me interested in sampling as a process, an art form.”

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CD TRACKLIST
01. Bd-R
02. Together (feat. Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza & Prentiss)
03. Xerox Altalink B8055 (feat. Ryoji Ikeda)
04. I Give Everything I Have 2 U (feat. Loaded Honey)
05. Every Single Weekend (feat. Jamie xx)
06. Friends Forever
07. Blue Shadows (feat. Karen O)
08. Logoland
09. Like Clockwork / Hit By Traffic (feat. Khadija Al Hanafi)
10. All The Time In The World (feat. Rivers Cuomo, Vegyn & Baby Marlboro)
11. 3D Glasses Not Included
12. Vida (feat. Erick the Architect)
13. Paradise Island (feat. Khadija Al Hanafi & Mike Patton)
14. Unicorn Quest™ (feat. Ryoji Ikeda)
15. Far Away (feat. John Glacier & Khadija Al Hanafi)
16. Our Love Is Alive (feat. Suzanne Ciani & Barry Can't Swim)
17. Evergreen Altar (feat. Vegyn) * EXCLUSIVE TO VINYL, CD, CASSETTE
18. Can't Get Over Losing You (feat. Portraits of Tracy)
19. Watch Out! It's Cloudy (feat. Khadija Al Hanafi)
20. Highfield (feat. Panda Bear)
21. Under Yr Power
22. SUV Heaven (feat. Khadija Al Hanafi)
23. One More Fantasy (feat. Carly Simon)
24. Break Out Corporate Tag (feat. Ryoji Ikeda & Portraits Of Tracy)
25. Magic Wand (feat. Barry Can't Swim)
26. Superfun!™ TV Spot (feat. Mike Patton)
27. No Bad Memories
28. The Pavements Light (feat. Haruomi Hosono)

VINYL TRACKLIST
SIDE A:
01. Bd-R
02. Together (feat. Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza & Prentiss)
03. Xerox Altalink B8055 (feat. Ryoji Ikeda)
04. I Give Everything I Have 2 U (feat. Loaded Honey)
05. Every Single Weekend (feat. Jamie xx)
06. Friends Forever
07. Blue Shadows (feat. Karen O)
08. Logoland
SIDE B:
09. Like Clockwork / Hit By Traffic (feat. Khadija Al Hanafi)
10. All The Time In The World (feat. Rivers Cuomo, Vegyn & Baby Marlboro)
11. 3D Glasses Not Included
12. Vida (feat. Erick the Architect)
13. Paradise Island (feat. Khadija Al Hanafi & Mike Patton)
14. Unicorn Quest™ (feat. Ryoji Ikeda)
15. Far Away (feat. John Glacier & Khadija Al Hanafi)
SIDE C:
16. Our Love Is Alive (feat. Suzanne Ciani & Barry Can't Swim)
17. Evergreen Altar (feat. Vegyn) * EXCLUSIVE TO VINYL, CD, CASSETTE
18. Can't Get Over Losing You (feat. Portraits of Tracy)
19. Watch Out! It's Cloudy (feat. Khadija Al Hanafi)
20. Highfield (feat. Panda Bear)
SIDE D:
21. Under Yr Power
22. SUV Heaven (feat. Khadija Al Hanafi)
23. One More Fantasy (feat. Carly Simon)
24. Break Out Corporate Tag (feat. Ryoji Ikeda & Portraits Of Tracy)
25. Magic Wand (feat. Barry Can't Swim)
26. Superfun!™ TV Spot (feat. Mike Patton)
27. No Bad Memories
28. The Pavements Light (feat. Haruomi Hosono)

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Dr. Charles Fairchild

The Avalanches' Since I Left You - 33 1/3

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Capturing the fraught moment in popular music history as reflected in and anticipated by Since I Left You (2000), the debut studio album from electronic music group The Avalanches.

Since I Left You has a reputation amongst its advocates that exceeds those of nearly all of its closest peers. Yet despite the inordinate amount of attention this album has received, it has never been thoroughly examined in context. While repeatedly celebrated for its artistry, technical skill, and emotional resonance - in particular its sample-based material and then-cutting edge technological feats within the electronic music genre - it has never been definitively placed in the world that produced it.

Charles Fairchild studies this album in a way no one else has. Since I Left You is placed in its historical, technological, and cultural contexts and is examined for the social and aesthetic attributes it was said to possess at the time of its release. There is a focus on the clear set of aesthetic aspirations that guided the album's creators and how those creators pasted together the fragments of many sound worlds.

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The Avalanches

Wildflower

XL Recordings

In a collage of fuzz guitars, tuning radios, pitched up soul samples, pitched down exotica records, and a whole lot of background chatter, The Avalanches return after an unprecedented 16 year wait. Created by the band’s core duo - Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi – "Wildflower" is nothing less than The Beach Boys’ "Smile" reimagined in the Daisy Age - a mind-bending cartoon road movie that’s best viewed with closed eyes and an open mind. Unmistakeably the work of Australia's sample kings, "Wildflower" is a Technicolor kaleidoscope of everything great and groovy about music, blessed with the warm and dreamlike aesthetic we first fell in love with on the sublime "Since I Left You". A throwback to those halcyon days when artists made albums, as opposed to a couple of radio singles and eight tracks of filler, The Avalanches sophomore LP drifts from one track to the next, taking us on a tripped out tour of downtown Melbourne in the summer time.

Lead single "Frankie Sinatra" divided the critics on its initial release, making a marmite statement with its oddball calypso samples, oompah brass and unhinged lyrics from Danny Brown and MF DOOM. Here, nestled comfortably between the gorgeous summertime soul of "Because I'm Me" and the sampledelic disco of "Subways", the track makes perfect nonsense. The inner city synth pop of "If I Was A Folkstar" strolls through the sunshine like a laid back relative of Cut Copy's "Bright Like Neon Love", while the spectral "Colours", featuring some heavily treated vocals from Mercury Rev's Jonathan Donahue, is as dreamy and doped up as pop music gets. Elsewhere Ariel Pink, Father John Misty, Warren Ellis (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) and Toro Y Moi’s Chaz Bundick make cameos, as does Biz Markie on the light-hearted, full stomached old school hip hop of "Noisy Eater". The dusty sixties soul of "Harmony" leaps out the grooves in the middle of a succession of dreamy sketches (in a day-glo Dilla style) before the triple threat of "The Wozard Of Iz", "Over The Turnstyles" and "Sunshine" form the apex of an outstanding LP. "Kaleidoscopic Lovers" and "Stepkids" serve up a pair of pastoral love songs before the driving haze-gaze of "Saturday Night Inside Out" leads us off into the sunset with the widest smile of our lives. Against all odds and expectations, The Avalanches have done the impossible, following up an instant classic with a second album which is even better than the first. If we have to wait another sixteen years for the next one, at least we'll be waiting in the company of two flawless records.

TRACK LISTING

01. The Leaves Were Falling
02. Because I’m Me
03. Frankie Sinatra
04. Subways
05. Going Home
06. If I Was A Folkstar
07. Colours
08. Zap!
09. 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
22. Frankie Sinatra (Extended Mix)

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