13 Bands You Didn't Realise Were One Album Wonders
4. The Avalanches
Listening to The Avalanches is like looking down the wrong end of a kaleidoscope. Containing over 3,500 samples, Since I Left You is the most extraordinary patchwork quilt of an album. The eponymous single was the song of the noughties and the entire album is a bottled thunderstorm. The Avalanches made the sort of album that wraps itself tightly around you and makes food taste better. But it isnt just the sheer scale of the sampling employed by The Avalanches, or the wide variety- Since I Left You features samples taken from Raekwon and Madonna to instructional golf videos- but its the bringing together of so many different flavours to make one beautiful music banquet. Remember that scene in Ratatouille, when Remy tries the piece of cheese, then the grape, then both together and fireworks go off in his little rat brain; thats pretty much what The Avalanches do.
