Article Response: Tim's Avalanches Review

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Read it , it's great. As is the album, which gets better with every listen. (Tangent: I'm perturbed that half of the records in my top ten of 2000 have yet to be released in the US, even though they're all poppy shit that everyone should own, i.e. Daphne & Celeste, Boredoms, Hellacopters, etc. Yay Napster.)

― Otis Wheeler, Monday, 15 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ohmigod! I have to have it. Now! Is it out in the UK yet?

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 16 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I logged on this morning and thought, oh, that's good, I did for once remember to do an article response thread. Deluded me. Thanks Otis, and thanks Tim for writing it - and yes, I now also have to hear it. (You can get it off Amazon, Richard, as an import, not too expensive either.)

― Tom, Tuesday, 16 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't remember the last time I was so excited by a review on FT. The quality in Tim's review - of capturing excitement and euphoria while retaining rationality and descriptiveness - reminds me of Simon Reynolds in 1986; it has that same combination of wide-eyed wonder and childlike losing-of-self, with a formidable intelligence and range of reference points.

I have to hear this record.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 16 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

UK Release date information

The Avalanches will release a single on March 26th, followed by the Album in April, according to this weeks 7 magazine.

Take a look at their UK label, XL recordings for further info

http://www.xl-recordings.com/

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― DJ Martian, Saturday, 20 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Man, I just have to hear this one. It's as if someone made a record just to please me...Talk Talk, Screamadelica, The Orb, etc. etc. Back to the old only-samples-please ethic of '87-'88. Although there's a suspicion that if this record doesn't quite match up to the review it will just be mediocre Coldcut/DJ Food (then again if it's something like Food's "Bay City Roller" than I'll be very, very happy). Maybe I'll just go to my local record-shops, start harrasssing them with questions about the new Avanlanches cd, "it'stheshityouknow". The...whoooo?!?

― Omar, Monday, 22 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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