Music Capsule Review

Since I Left You (2001)

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Release Date: Nov 06, 2001; Lead Performance: The Avalanches

By David Browne

David Browne

David Browne is EW's music critic and author of ''Dream Brother: The Lives & Music of Jeff & Tim Buckley'' (HarperCollins)

If there's such a genre as short-attention-span dance music, Australia's Avalanches are its masters. Every track on their debut is a restless, ever-morphing collage of R&B, pop, and rock samples that continually keeps you off balance. When the technique works (like on the sparkling title track, which sets the Main Attraction's vintage-soul wail to disco strings), the results are exhilarating -- jittery music for uneasy times. At its weakest, the album's a cursory high that fades as fast as it arrives.

Posted Nov 09, 2001

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