History Music / TheAvalanches

** "Wherever You Go" samples Jimmy Osmond's "Wherever You Go ''Hugo''", which parses as "wherever you go, you go, we go too."
** "Blood Orange" gives the chorus as "We will always love you, but that's not my fault," even though the original sample is "...but that's not ''the point''."

* BookEnds: Of sorts. The first track has the lines, "[[TitleDrop Since I left you]], I found a world so new." The last song, "Extra Kings" has these lines at the end: "I try but I just can't get you... ever since the day I left you..."

** Blood Orange gives the chorus as "We will always love you, but that's not my fault," even though the original sample is "...but that's not ''the point''."

They started work on a second album...in 2005. There had been many announcements of the album's development throughout this time period, but no release date was permanently set. They ''did'' reveal [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XTrz0yvxe0 a demo track]] in 2012, though. In 2016, they released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAMPOAfdH8U a video]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] the album's long creation process, presumably to confirm that they were still working on it. They followed this up with the release of "Frankie Sinatra", featuring Music/DannyBrown and Music/MFDoom, confirming in an interview that the new album's title would be ''Music/{{Wildflower}}'', and [[https://www.facebook.com/theavalanches/photos/a.10150623460292273.387323.23154697272/10153484662442273/?type=3 making an announcement]] on their Website/{{Facebook}} page. After 16 years, their follow-up album was finally released on July 8, 2016 (with a release one week prior on Apple Music), with even more special guests including the likes of Biz Markie, Toro Y Moi, Camp Lo, Ariel Pink, and Jonathan Donahue.

In February 2020, they announced their third album and released a new single, "We Will Always Love You" featuring Music/BloodOrange. [[https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-avalanches-have-finished-recording-their-new-album-2703009 The album was finished in July of that year]] and was released in December 2020, also under the title ''We Will Always Love You''.

The Avalanches are an Australian trio formed in 1997 that deals in ElectronicMusic. Initially, they started out as a rock group called Alarm 115. The line-up had Robbie Chater on the keyboards, Tony Diblasi also on the keyboards, as well as handling bass and background vocals Darren Seltmann on lead vocals, and later Manabu Etoh on drums. Etoh would later be deported (and The Avalanches actually named one of their songs after him), and eventually Alarm 115 disbanded.

After the parting of Alarm 115, they used some old vinyl records they bought to make a demo tape consisting of 30 songs called ''Pan Amateur''. A new group was formed in 1997 that had Chater, Diblasi, Seltmann, and new guy Gordon [=McQuilten=] on keyboards to play the tracks live in concert. Their first four shows were played under [[IHaveManyNames various names]]. [-[[note]]Swinging Monkey Cocks, Quentin's Brittle Bones, and Whoops Down Syndrome. No, really.[[/note]]-] It wasn't until their fifth show until they finally became The Avalanches. The name is actually a ShoutOut to the album ''Ski Surfing with The Avalanches'' by... The Avalanches.[-[[note]]Fun fact: a giant replica of the vinyl pressing of ''Ski Surfing with The Avalanches'' appears in the video for "Frontier Psychiatrist" as another ShoutOut.[[/note]]-]

Their debut single [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness ''Rock City'']] was released in September 1997. The debut EP ''El Producto'' (which was actually a rap EP) was released later that year in December. The EP was so successful that Steve Pavlovic signed them to his new label Modular Recordings in the following year. Another EP called ''Undersea Community'' was released in 1999. [[NoExportForYou UK-exclusive, though.]]

The Avalanches started work on their debut album ''Music/SinceILeftYou'' in mid-1999, using the WorkingTitle ''Pablo's Cruise'' [--[[note]]which would later be merely the title of one of the songs[[/note]]--]. They finally finished it in early 2000, but the release was [[ScheduleSlip delayed]] due to attempts to get the samples cleared. The album finally dropped in Australia in November (America and the UK got it in 2001), along with a mixtape that served as sort of a preview of the album, along with mixing in some of the samples used on it and the group's personal favorite songs.

They started work on a second album... in 2005. There had been many announcements of the album's development throughout this time period, but no release date was permanently set. They ''did'' reveal [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XTrz0yvxe0 a demo track in 2012, though.]] In 2016, they released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAMPOAfdH8U this video]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] the album's long creation process, presumably to confirm that they're still working on it. They followed this up with the release of "Frankie Sinatra", featuring Music/DannyBrown and Music/MFDoom, confirming in an interview that the new album's title would be ''Music/{{Wildflower}}'', and [[https://www.facebook.com/theavalanches/photos/a.10150623460292273.387323.23154697272/10153484662442273/?type=3 making this announcement]] on their Website/{{Facebook}} page. After 16 years, it finally happened on July 8, 2016 (with a release one week prior on Apple Music), with even more special guests including the likes of Biz Markie, Toro Y Moi, Camp Lo, Ariel Pink, and Jonathan Donahue.

In February 2020, they announced their third album and released a new single, "We Will Always Love You", featuring Blood Orange. [[https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-avalanches-have-finished-recording-their-new-album-2703009 It was finished in July of that year]] and was released in December 2020.

* StupidStatementDanceMix: The main chorus of "Frontier Psychiatrist" samples different parts of an old Wayne and Shuster skit in this manner. The "verses," so to speak, also sample various spoken word records.

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Every song on ''Since I Left You'' does this, as do many of the songs on ''Wildflower''.

%%* GratuitousJapanese: "Undersea Community" and "Yamaha Superstar."

** The TitleDrop of ''Since I Left You" is actually "since I ''met'' you."

After the parting of Alarm 115, they used some old vinyl records they bought to make a demo tape consisting of 30 songs called ''Pan Amateur''. A new group was formed in 1997 that had Chater, Diblasi, Seltmann, and new guy Gordon [=McQuilten=] on keyboards to play the tracks live in concert. Their first four shows were played under [[IHaveManyNames various names]]. [-[[note]]Swinging Monkey Cocks, Quentin's Brittle Bones, and Whoops Down Syndrome. No, really.[[/note]]-] It wasn't until their fifth show until they finally became The Avalanches. The name is actually a ShoutOut to the album ''Ski Surfing with The Avalanches'' by... [[NamesTheSame The Avalanches.]][-[[note]]Fun fact: a giant replica of the vinyl pressing of ''Ski Surfing with The Avalanches'' appears in the video for "Frontier Psychiatrist" as another ShoutOut.[[/note]]-]

->''That boy needs therapy...''

After the parting of Alarm 115, they used some old vinyl records they bought to make a demo tape consisting of 30 songs called ''Pan Amateur''. A new group was formed in 1997 that had Chater, Diblasi, Seltmann, and new guy Gordon [=McQuilten=] on keyboards to play the tracks live in concert. Their first four shows were played under [[IHaveManyNames various names]]. [-[[note]]Swinging Monkey Cocks, Quentin's Brittle Bones, and Whoops Down Syndrome. No, really.[[/note]]-] It wasn't until their fifth show until they finally became The Avalanches. The name is actually a ShoutOut to the album ''Ski Surfing with The Avalanches'' by... [[NamesTheSame The Avalanches.]] [-[[note]]Fun fact: a giant replica of the vinyl pressing of ''Ski Surfing with The Avalanches'' appears in the video for "Frontier Psychiatrist" as another ShoutOut.[[/note]]-]

They started work on a second album... in 2005. There had been many announcements of the album's development throughout this time period, but no release date was permanently set. They ''did'' reveal [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XTrz0yvxe0 a demo track in 2012, though.]] In 2016, they released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAMPOAfdH8U this video]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] the album's long creation process, presumably to confirm that they're still working on it. They followed this up with the release of "Frankie Sinatra", featuring Music/DannyBrown and Music/MFDoom, confirming in an interview that the new album's title would be ''Wildflower'', and [[https://www.facebook.com/theavalanches/photos/a.10150623460292273.387323.23154697272/10153484662442273/?type=3 making this announcement]] on their Website/{{Facebook}} page. After 16 years, it finally happened on July 8, 2016 (with a release one week prior on Apple Music), with even more special guests including the likes of Biz Markie, Toro Y Moi, Camp Lo, Ariel Pink, and Jonathan Donahue.

* ''Wildflower'' (2016)

They started work on a second album... in 2005. There had been many announcements of the album's development throughout this time period, but no release date was permanently set. They ''did'' reveal [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XTrz0yvxe0 a demo track in 2012, though.]] In 2016, they released [[https://youtu.be/NAMPOAfdH8U this video]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] the album's long creation process, presumably to confirm that they're still working on it. They followed this up with the release of "Frankie Sinatra", featuring Music/DannyBrown and Music/MFDoom, confirming in an interview that the new album's title would be ''Wildflower'', and [[https://www.facebook.com/theavalanches/photos/a.10150623460292273.387323.23154697272/10153484662442273/?type=3 making this announcement]] on their Website/{{Facebook}} page. After 16 years, it finally happened on July 8, 2016 (with a release one week prior on Apple Music), with even more special guests including the likes of Biz Markie, Toro Y Moi, Camp Lo, Ariel Pink, and Jonathan Donahue.

* CelebritySong: "Frankie Sinatra".

%%* GratuitousJapanese: "Undersea Community" and "Yamaha Superstar".

* LastNoteNightmare: "Two Hearts In 3/4 Time", a [[SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel lovely, calming, bubbly song,]] ends with discordant blip sounds and chaotic drumming drowning out the rest of the song before segueing into "Avalanche Rock".

* ShoutOut: During his guest appearance on "Noisy Eater", Biz Markie raps the line "I don't want no chicken 'cuz it tastes like wood", a reference to Music/TheSugarhillGang's "Rapper's Delight".

** There's an instance of Siamese ''Triplet'' Songs; "Flight Tonight", "Close To You" and "Diner's Only". The synth sample heard in "Flight Tonight" keeps playing for a bit while it goes into "Close To You", which in turn has a section near the middle that is sort of reprised in "Diner's Only". There's also a vocal sample used in "Close To You" that goes "Gentleman that's going round, turning the joint upside down" that can be heard in "Diner's Only", but a lot quieter.
** ''Wildflower'' has a Siamese ''Quintuplet'' song, with the opener "The Leaves Were Falling," "Because I'm Me," the album version of "Frankie Sinatra," "Subways", and "Going Home" all seamlessly leading into each other.

* StupidStatementDanceMix: The main chorus of "Frontier Psychiatrist" samples different parts of an old Wayne and Shuster skit in this manner. The "verses", so to speak, also sample various spoken word records.

-->After the tears
-->True love can start
-->Where there's a heartache
-->There must be a heart

* WordSaladTitle: The three names the group had before settling on "The Avalanches".

* RegionalBonus: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] Some samples on ''Since I Left You'' had to be taken out of international releases due to licensing issues, most notably the flute sample in "Summer Crane".

* NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Many of the songs on ''Since I Left You'' are hard to define as a specific genre. The only exceptions are "Live At Dominoes" (HouseMusic), "Etoh" (Trip-Hop), and ''maybe'' "Frontier Psychiatrist" (Hip-Hop with a bit of classical).

They started work on a second album... in 2005. There had been many announcements of the album's development throughout this time period, but no release date was permanently set. They ''did'' reveal [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XTrz0yvxe0 a demo track in 2012, though.]] In 2016, they released [[https://youtu.be/NAMPOAfdH8U this video]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] the album's long creation process, presumably to confirm that they're still working on it. They followed this up with the release of "Frankie Sinatra", featuring Music/DannyBrown and Music/MFDoom, confirming in an interview that the new album's title would be ''Wildflower'', and [[https://www.facebook.com/theavalanches/photos/a.10150623460292273.387323.23154697272/10153484662442273/?type=3 making this announcement]] on their Website/{{Facebook}} page. After 16 years, it finally happened on July 8, 2016 (with a release one week prior on Apple Music), with even more special guests including the likes of Music/BizMarkie, Toro Y Moi, Camp Lo, Ariel Pink, and Jonathan Donahue.

* {{Mondegreen}}: "Since I Left You" [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this; the original lyric was, "since I ''met'' you". It just ended up sounding like "left" when it was sampled.

** Their two collaborations with David Berman, "Saturday Night Inside Out" (from ''Wildflower'') and "A Cowboy Overflow of the Heart" (a demo the band released as a free download)) both consist of Berman reciting his poetry over music.

They started work on a second album... in 2005. There had been many announcements of the album's development throughout this time period, but no release date was permanently set. They ''did'' reveal [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XTrz0yvxe0 a demo track in 2012, though.]] In 2016, they released [[https://youtu.be/NAMPOAfdH8U this video]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] the album's long creation process, presumably to confirm that they're still working on it. They followed this up with the release of "Frankie Sinatra", featuring Music/DannyBrown and Music/MFDoom, confirming in an interview that the new album's title would be ''Wildflower'', and [[https://www.facebook.com/theavalanches/photos/a.10150623460292273.387323.23154697272/10153484662442273/?type=3 making this announcement]] on their Website/{{Facebook}} page. After 16 years, it finally happened on July 8, 2016 (with a release one week prior on Apple Music), with even more special guests including the likes of Biz Markie, Toro Y Moi, Camp Lo, Ariel Pink, and Jonathan Donahue.

* ShoutOut: During his guest appearance on "Noisy Eater", Biz Markie raps the line "I don't want no chicken 'cuz it tastes like wood", a reference to Music/SugarHillGang's "Rapper's Delight".

* ShoutOut: During his guest appearance on "Noisy Eater", Biz Markie raps the line "I don't want no chicken 'cuz it tastes like wood", a reference to Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight".

In February 2020, they announced their third album and released a new single, "We Will Always Love You", featuring Blood Orange. [[https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-avalanches-have-finished-recording-their-new-album-2703009 It was finished in July of that year]] and as of this writing is awaiting release.

* TBA (2020)

-->''"Flight 22 is off to Honolulu"''

* RegionalBonus: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] Some samples had to be taken out of international releases due to licensing issues, most notably the flute sample in "Summer Crane".