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The Avalanches' Since I Left You by Charles Fairchild

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The Avalanches' Since I Left You by Charles Fairchild

Capturing the fraught moment in popular music history as reflected in and anticipated by Since I Left You (2000), the debut studio album from electronic music group The Avalanches.

Since I Left You has a reputation amongst its advocates that exceeds those of nearly all of its closest peers. Yet despite the inordinate amount of attention this album has received, it has never been thoroughly examined in context. While repeatedly celebrated for its artistry, technical skill, and emotional resonance - in particular its sample-based material and then-cutting edge technological feats within the electronic music genre - it has never been definitively placed in the world that produced it.

Charles Fairchild studies this album in a way no one else has. Since I Left You is placed in its historical, technological, and cultural contexts and is examined for the social and aesthetic attributes it was said to possess at the time of its release. There is a focus on the clear set of aesthetic aspirations that guided the album's creators and how those creators pasted together the fragments of many sound worlds.

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It'll no doubt have you reaching for your copy of The Avalanche's debut once again* Classic Pop Magazine *
Charles Fairchild is Associate Professor of Popular Music at the University of Sydney, Australia, and the author of Musician in the Museum (Bloomsbury, 2021), Sounds, Screens, and Speakers (Bloomsbury, 2019), Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album (Bloomsbury, 2014), and Music, Radio and the Public Sphere (2012). His work focuses on cultural mediation in the music industry, focusing especially on the period from 1975 to the present, examining how intermediaries within different kinds of institutions shape the ways people consume and make meaning from music.
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ISBN 13 9798765115510
ISBN 10 8765115511
Title The Avalanches' Since I Left You
Author Charles Fairchild
Series 33 1 3 Oceania
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year published 2025-01-09
Number of pages 136
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.