My favourite album: Since I Left You by the Avalanches

Continuing our series in which Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same – Sam Richards falls for the first Avalanches record"Get a drink, have a good time now, welcome to paradise." Amid the excitable hubbub of what sounds like a Hawaiian beach party in full swing, the sampled voice at the beginning of Since I Left You says it all. This is not going to be an album that frightens parents, upsets the status quo or attempts to unravel th...

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