Since I Left You
Since I Left You | ||||
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Released | 27 November 2000 | |||
Recorded | 1999 – February 2000 | |||
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Length | 60:39 | |||
Label | Modular | |||
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Singles from Since I Left You | ||||
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Since I Left You is the debut
After the album's positive reception in Australia, the duo considered an international release – its date was held back until 2001 in the United Kingdom and North America and appeared in slightly altered forms. The delay and changes occurred so that the group could obtain permission to use the samples or use replacements. Four singles were released from the album: "Electricity", "Frontier Psychiatrist", "Since I Left You", and "Radio". The group promoted the album by organising headlining tours in Australia, Europe and the United States.
Since I Left You was acclaimed by critics. It peaked in the top 30 on the
Production
The Avalanches began work on the album in 1999 under the working title Pablo's Cruise, primarily working with a Yamaha Promix 01 and Akai S2000 samplers.[9][10] Group members Darren Seltmann and Robbie Chater spent hours sampling music from vinyl records to create the songs on the album: Chater has estimated that there are over 3,500 samples that were used overall although some estimate the number to be much lower, roughly 900.[9][11] After sampling and arranging, the pair would swap their tapes, listen to each other's ideas, and expand on whatever they had heard. Despite working separately, both Chater and Seltmann had nearly identical studio set-ups.[9]
Initially, Seltmann and Chater were not planning for an international release. They were not concerned with copyright restrictions and so did not keep a list of which tracks were being sampled. According to Chater they "were really unorganised and were just sampling on the fly as tracks progressed ... We had no idea the record would get such a wide-scale release so we saw no need to keep track of what we were using – we were definitely guilty of harbouring a 'No-one's going to listen to it anyway' sort of attitude."
Style and themes
Since I Left You was originally developed to be a
Release
When Since I Left You was being recorded, the Avalanches had trouble choosing songs to be released as singles, finding them not sounding as good outside the context of the album.
In April, Since I Left You was released in the UK through
Versions
Several versions of the album were created due to sample clearance difficulties.
In 2000,
For the first international release, multiple samples had to be cut from the original Australian release, including dialogue by
In July 2011, a deluxe reissue of Since I Left You was announced that would include the original album as well as a bonus disc containing b-sides, demo tracks and remixes of songs from the original album by artists including
In December 2017, some retailers listed a 33-track deluxe edition of the album online.[30] Later, a finished 4xLP deluxe edition copy made its way into the hands of a collector, who submitted pictures and details about the release to Discogs. The deluxe edition features alternate artwork and a collection of new remixes from MF DOOM, Deakin, Leon Vynehall, Canyons, Sinkane, Sun Araw, Black Dice, and Edan alongside select previously released remixes, and the original demo of Thank You Caroline. In November 2018, the band promised the deluxe edition was "nearly ready".[31] In April 2021, the band announced the 20th anniversary edition, consisting of the aforementioned deluxe edition, would be released on June 4.
Tour
To promote Since I Left You, the Avalanches organised their first Australian head-lining tour in October 2000, planning to head to all the capital cities. All dates on the tour were sold out. In their Brisbane show, Seltmann broke his leg in an on-stage collision with bass guitarist and singer Tony Di Blasi. From January to February 2001, the Avalanches toured with the Big Day Out festival in Australia, visiting four capital cities. While on tour in Europe, Seltmann broke his other leg, thereafter the rest of the tour's shows were DJ sets.[10] The British dance music magazine Muzik awarded the Avalanches as best live act.[19]
Critical reception
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 89/100[32] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Alternative Press | 8/10[33] |
Entertainment Weekly | B[34] |
The Guardian | [35] |
NME | 9/10[36] |
Pitchfork | 9.5/10[37] |
Q | [38] |
Rolling Stone | [39] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [40] |
Spin | 9/10[41] |
Seltmann and Chater did not initially think that Since I Left You would receive much attention.
Christian Ward of NME hailed it as "a joyous, kaleidoscopic masterpiece of sun-kissed disco-pop",[36] and Andy Battaglia from The A.V. Club called it "a psychedelic disco fry-up",[47] while Andy Kellman of AllMusic called it one of the most intimate and emotional dance records that is not vocal-based.[2] Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle found the album as surprising as "Primal Scream's life-changing Screamadelica was a decade ago. It's downright shocking how fun this is".[48] Pitchfork's Matt LeMay credited the Avalanches for developing a "unique context" for the songs without compromising their original "distinct flavor" and said that the album "sounds like nothing else" because of how the samples are employed rather than their quality or volume.[37] Q magazine's Gareth Grundy remarked that its clever music is delivered as engagingly as "more conventional dance sounds" and that the album "finally fulfils sampling's original promise" of producing new, extraordinary sounds from artfully appropriated pieces of existing songs.[38] Amy Bell of Drowned in Sound praised it as one of the year's best albums.[49]
Robert Christgau of The Village Voice was less enthusiastic and said that the Avalanches deliver "the long-promised new-songs-from-old-songs trick, in which untrackable samples are stitched together until they mesh into compelling music that never existed before. Unfortunately, the music in question is string-section disco."[6] Stylus Magazine's Tyler Martin felt that the tracks lack innovation, nuance, and rhythmic complexity, but that several of them are exceptional.[50] The website later placed the album at number 16 on their list of top 50 albums from 2000 to 2005.[51] In a retrospective review for The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, Michaelangelo Matos praised the Avalanches' balance of "the familiar and obscure" through their sampling techniques and their "playful, airy grooves", as well as the album's "surprisingly resonant emotional core".[40]
Accolades
Since I Left You was placed in some year-end polls. Pitchfork placed Since I Left You at number three in their top twenty albums of 2001 poll and number 10 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s, declaring the album "a masterpiece of mood-setting that riffs off an ideal where getting on an airplane and landing in another corner of the world was the most exotic thing a person could do."
On
Track listing
Where appropriate, the writers of the sampled material are credited alongside the Avalanches' members.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | " David Willis[75] | 1:35 | |
9. | "A Different Feeling" |
| 4:22 |
10. | "Electricity" |
| 3:29 |
11. | "Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life" |
| 2:20 |
12. | "Pablo's Cruise" |
| 0:52 |
13. | "Frontier Psychiatrist" |
| 4:47 |
14. | "Etoh" |
| 5:02 |
15. | "Summer Crane" |
| 4:39 |
16. | "Little Journey" |
| 1:35 |
17. | "Live at Dominoes" |
| 5:39 |
18. | "Extra Kings" |
| 3:46 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Since I Left You" (Cornelius remix) | 5:35 |
2. | "Tonight May Have to Last Me All My Life" (Edan remix) | 3:53 |
3. | "Frontier Psychiatrist" (Mario Caldato Jr.'s 85% remix) | 4:04 |
4. | "Close to You" (Sun Araw remix) | 6:10 |
5. | "Since I Left You" (Stereolab remix) | 4:36 |
6. | "Flight Tonight" (Canyons Travel Agent dub) | 6:00 |
7. | "Radio" (Sinkane remix) | 8:33 |
8. | "Since I Left You" (Prince Paul remix) | 3:48 |
9. | "Electricity" (Harvey's Nightclub re-edit) | 6:30 |
10. | "Summer Crane" (Black Dice remix) | 3:38 |
11. | "Extra Kings" (Deakin remix) | 4:42 |
12. | "Tonight May Have to Last Me All My Life" (MF Doom remix) | 2:54 |
13. | "Tonight May Have to Last Me All My Life" (Dragged by Leon Vynehall) | 5:24 |
14. | "A Different Feeling" (Carl Craig's Paperclip People remix) | 10:37 |
15. | "Thank You Caroline" (original Avalanches demo tape) | 4:11 |
4:00 | |||
20. | "Tonight May Have to Last Me All My Life" (Dragged by Leon Vynehall) | 4:01 | |
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21. | "Tonight May Have to Last Me All My Life" (Edan remix) | 3:39 |
Personnel
Credits according to album notes and AllMusic.[1][89]
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Additional personnel
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Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[104] | 2× Platinum | 140,000‡ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[105] | Gold | 100,000^ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
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See also
References
- Dimery, Robert; Michael Lydon (2006). ISBN 0-7893-1371-5.
- Warwick, Neil; Jon Kutner; Tony Brown (2004). The Complete Book of the British Charts: Singles and Albums. ISBN 1-84449-058-0.
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