Trivia / The Avalanches

• Bad Export for You: Some samples on Since I Left You had to be taken out of international releases due to licensing issues, most notably the flute sample in "Summer Crane".
• Cut Song: "With My Baby" was originally meant to be on Since I Left You, between "Stay Another Season" and "Radio", but it ended up as a B-Side on the "Frontier Psychiatrist" single. In addition, Wildflower has many, including some tracks featuring guest collaborators; the group plans to release some of the material left over from that album's production.
• Saved from Development Hell: Wildflower, their second album, finally came out on July 8, 2016, but it took over ten years for it to happen.
• Sequel Gap: Wildflower was released about 16 years after Since I Left You.
• Troubled Production: Wildflower had a pretty long production. The project was announced in 2005 and almost forty tracks were made, but the project was abandoned in 2007. It resumed in 2011, but was stalled for 3 years due to member Robbie Chater suffering from illness. The group also spent their time trying to make music for an animated movie that ended up being cancelled (remnants of their work can be heard on the album). Production was able to get back up in 2014, and the album was released in 2016 to rave reviews and commercial success.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Since I Left You was originally going to be a Concept Album, featuring a love story about "a guy following a girl around the world and always being one port behind," with the cosmopolitan sourcing of records reflecting his travels. The group eventually scrapped the idea as they decided they shouldn't make their themes too obvious.
  • During Wildflower's long, tumultuous creation process, it went through a smattering of different directions. When it was reported in 2005, the band described it as "ambient World Music", but by 2007, they had produced around 40 different tracks that had instead leaned towards Hip-Hop. Around 2013, the band also got involved in producing and making the score for an accompanying feature-length animated film of the same name, described as "the hip hop version of Yellow Submarine", said to feature classic cel animation style by an undisclosed artist from South Korea and drawing influences from 1960s Japanese pop art. The film eventually fell through due to lack of funds two years in, but some of its soundtrack made it onto the final album, namely "The Noisy Eater".
  • We Will Always Love You was originally set to be titled "Pink Champagne" (one of the songs on the final album retains the title) and was to feature a photo of an exploding nebula as the cover, but they changed their minds as they felt it sounded too much like Drake.

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