Frontier Psychiatrist

The Avalanches' debut album is built entirely from samples — over 3,500 of them, sourced from thousands of records — and the result sounds like no other record in existence. It is simultaneously a party record, a found-sound collage, a love letter to vinyl, and a genuinely surreal piece of art.

Frontier Psychiatrist is its most delirious track: a collage of spoken word fragments, comedy records, orchestral stabs, and a vocal hook that lodges in the brain like a splinter. "That boy needs therapy" has become one of the most quoted lines in sample-based music.

The Avalanches took sixteen years to release a follow-up. Since I Left You is their monument — the record that couldn't be made twice.