The Avalanches seem to have left smouldering in a Darlinghurst back alley for too long.
Not of the 'yacht rock' school, which some seem so anxious to resurrect, this is well-wrought mash-up and sample splicing, which can range from the sheer frenetic squelches and beeps of T.I.N.A., to the more pop song-structured focus track, Undertow with its '80s-referencing synthetic saxes, or the hip-hoppy challenges of Real Talk. Their first offering of 'original' material, the straight outta Ballarat duo already has some international notice – from touring, perhaps bizarrely, with Mumford & Sons – and may carry the torch The Avalanches seem to have left smouldering in a Darlinghurst back alley for too long.