The Avalanches
Published September 03, 2002
Let's shift things a bit now - the Avalanches don't want you to achieve climax too early. "A Different Feeling" is a hit of Ecstasy. Everything turns to love and good feeling good, "Electricity's" bleeps, bloops, and 70's funk sounds get all your parts moving and swaying.
"Tonight" is just the right shot of romance, with alien piano loops reminiscent of a balmy night in Casablanca. Time to run to port to catch the train to "Pablo's Cruise." Hurry, or it may leave without you.
Your high is at its peak - you have suddenly been transported into a Hunter S. Thompson novel and everything gets a little weird as you enter "Frontier Psychiatrist." Delirious children run amok; witch doctors probe your cranium; beautiful Arabic women dance around your dream. Is that Clint Eastwood over there with Sergio Leone at the end of the bar?
The rush is beginning to die down and you breathe a little easier. It's time to relax and recoup your strength. "Etoh"'s lilting trance is just the shot of opium you need to take the edge off, and your love is whispering "take me home." You know what that means. "Summer Crane's" saccharine coma transforms your mate into a doting kitten purring in your lap, eager to please.
Crossing the threshold to your cozy accommodations, "A Little Journey" adds a little spice and everything is oh so nice. "Live at Dominoes" gets everything bumping and grinding into a frenetic, feverish, fervor-filled session of orgasmic lovemaking.
Ahhhhhhhh... now it's time to eclipse into post-coital bliss as "Extra Kings" cradles you into a womb-like sleep.
The perfect day is over, but you can always pop in this amazing CD to relive the memories.
Thanks to Jim Treacher for kindly sharing this experience - or at least the CD - with me.
Dawn Olsen is a veteran blogger who proudly supports the guy who publishes this awesome site. She's also an avid reader of high quality tabloid fare, enjoys gardening and scatological skywriting.
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The only reason I know about them is because MTV had one of those "MTV2 Artists to Watch" things late last year, and the "Frontier Psychiatrist" video was just astonishing. I think that was the last time they played it, though. I dug up the video for "Since I Left You" on iMesh, and it's weird yet touching.
You can also find the Gimix tape floating around on the various file-sharing deals. It's the version of the album with all the samples they couldn't get cleared. Stuff like the fade-in from Madonna's "Holiday" to Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone"...
That was quite a find, Jim, thanks again!
"Since i left you is the ultimate summer album,it is simply stunning,up there with "The Stone Roses" self-titled first album as the greatest albums ever
'Frontier' just came on my iTunes at random, and I wondered if any BCer ever wrote about them. I recall them being hailed as the next big thing of sample heavy music, but now 4 years later, they were but another flash in the pan.
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I LOVE this CD. Unequivocally. I got my hands on it last fall and still consider it a valued addition to my collection, even a year later. Such a great musical journey. I wish I could've seen them live on the Area:Two tour but I had to work late the night they came to L.A.