Album of the Day: The Avalanches

Nice call. Don't know about best of decade, but it is awesome. They really need to get the follow-up out. Loved their remix of Wolfmother's "Woman" this year.

Good pick.

[...] You do remember them, don’t you? Back before Girl Talk went sample crazy, these Aussies used much less smackingly obvious snippets to craft what more than one writer here at Prefix thinks was the best album to come along in quite some time, 2000’s Since I Left You. Seven years later, we still don’t have a follow-up, but the band has posted what they’re calling a “teazer” (sic) on their website. It’s not any material that will show up on Since’s eventual successor–its more akin to the DJ mixes members of the band do around clubs in the Land Down Under. Reminds me of a great appearance they put in on KCRW’s Morning Become Eclectic, which you can still cull up here.            [...]