TownieDeac
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10. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
I put off writing this all day, feeling like I don’t really have the words for it. There isn’t too much of a story for me to tell about my personal relationship with it either, except to say I do remember this album fully living up to the hype of every review I ever read of it, and getting unreasonably excited about the recent follow up to the debut, and trying not to let it disappoint me, but it did. There’s 10000 words out there about bands who could never live up to their great debuts, but The Avs don’t really deserve that.
Truly, a better album has not come out since this was released. It’s complete perfection filling every second. This duo must have picked an insane amount of crates to find these samples, they echo around my brain all the time. They tell a story with each song, with each verse, and it questions everything about originality and creativity. It’s just one of those masterpieces that makes you wonder how it got made. It makes me question my own approach to life and writing and art all the time.
I don’t know what you guys think but even though the lyrics suggest otherwise, I’m not sure the person is happy with the new world they’ve discovered since they left their love. Picking a single song from this album does feel like it’s doing a disservice to the vision but I do think there are individual songs that stand on their own, this one and Frontier Psychiatrist especially. “You’re a nut! Crazy in the coconut!” is a line that rattles around my brain a lot. But SILY is a disco electronic dance dream of a song. It’s the thematic core of the album, announcing itself. It’s wistful and dreamy and beautiful. I can go whole years forgetting this album exists and come back and discover things new about it, but I often return to this song and it’s as I left it.
I put off writing this all day, feeling like I don’t really have the words for it. There isn’t too much of a story for me to tell about my personal relationship with it either, except to say I do remember this album fully living up to the hype of every review I ever read of it, and getting unreasonably excited about the recent follow up to the debut, and trying not to let it disappoint me, but it did. There’s 10000 words out there about bands who could never live up to their great debuts, but The Avs don’t really deserve that.
Truly, a better album has not come out since this was released. It’s complete perfection filling every second. This duo must have picked an insane amount of crates to find these samples, they echo around my brain all the time. They tell a story with each song, with each verse, and it questions everything about originality and creativity. It’s just one of those masterpieces that makes you wonder how it got made. It makes me question my own approach to life and writing and art all the time.
I don’t know what you guys think but even though the lyrics suggest otherwise, I’m not sure the person is happy with the new world they’ve discovered since they left their love. Picking a single song from this album does feel like it’s doing a disservice to the vision but I do think there are individual songs that stand on their own, this one and Frontier Psychiatrist especially. “You’re a nut! Crazy in the coconut!” is a line that rattles around my brain a lot. But SILY is a disco electronic dance dream of a song. It’s the thematic core of the album, announcing itself. It’s wistful and dreamy and beautiful. I can go whole years forgetting this album exists and come back and discover things new about it, but I often return to this song and it’s as I left it.