This stitched together audio quilt of lilting weirdness delivered all I expected, following as it does in the same vein as Wildflower. I don't pretend to fully understand what The Avalanches are trying to say, or how they decide on the interwoven continuities of an album - or, indeed, if those continuities add up to a pre-determined creative concept or theme - but there is something about their sound that pushes buttons on the periphery of memory, where scraps of dialogue, familiar and yet unfamiliar voices, rhythmic repetitions and part-songs drag at elusive sensibilities until it all begins to make some kind of sense, until the point at which it doesn't. Marvellously original stuff and well worth having on repeat.
By: PP Prong