The Avalanches

The Avalanches don’t write songs so much as they excavate them from the ghosts of forgotten vinyl. From their Melbourne studio, the core duo of Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi spent the late '90s meticulously stitching an estimated 3,500 samples into their 2000 debut, Since I Left You—a singular masterpiece of plunderphonics that sounds like a party drifting over the ocean. After a legendary 16-year silence, they returned with Wildflower and We Will Always Love You, inviting collaborators like Danny Brown and MF DOOM to ground their crate-digging epics in the present. They don’t just find sounds; they give them a new, collective memory.