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Encyclopedia > Avalanche (album)
Avalanche
Album cover
Album by Matthew Good
Released March 4, 2003
Recorded Mushroom Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada except track 2 at Warehouse Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Genre Rock
Length 1 hour 9 min 15 s
Label Universal
Producer(s) Warne Livesey
Professional reviews
Matthew Good chronology
The Audio of Being
(2001)
w/ Matthew Good Band
Avalanche
(2003)
White Light Rock & Roll Review
(2004)

Avalanche was Matthew Good's first solo album. It received high praise from both music critics and fans of the singer and songwriter alike. Released in 2003, the album marked a creative departure from his earlier work with the Matthew Good Band, and featured accompaniment by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra on several tracks. Image File history File links Matthewgood_avalanche. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... Matthew Good Matthew Frederick Robert Good (born June 29, 1971, Burnaby, British Columbia) is a Canadian rock musician. ... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... The hour (symbol: h) is a unit of time. ... This article contains information that has not been verified. ... Look up Second in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The second (symbol: s) is the SI base unit of time. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Note: This page should be merged with Music Corporation of America. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) is (among many other tasks) primarily responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for mass production and commercial release. ... Matthew Good Matthew Frederick Robert Good (born June 29, 1971, Burnaby, British Columbia) is a Canadian rock musician. ... The Audio Of Being was an album released by a Canadian rock group called Matthew Good Band in 2001. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... White Light Rock & Roll Review was released on June 8, 2004, as Matthew Goods second album as a solo artist. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Matthew Good Matthew Frederick Robert Good (born June 29, 1971, Burnaby, British Columbia) is a Canadian rock musician. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Matthew Good (born June 29, 1971, Burnaby, British Columbia) is a Canadian rock musician. ...


The album had three singles: "Weapon", "In a World Called Castastrophe" and "Near Fantastica", although "Near Fantastica" was released only to radio in a substantially shorter edit. The music video for "Weapon" won a Juno Award, which was shared between Good and co-director Ante Kovac (Good refused to accept the award, however, as he boycotts the Juno Awards). The Juno Awards are awards of achievement presented to Canadian musical artists and bands; they could be considered the transnational counterpart to the United States Grammy Awards. ...


Producer Warne Livesey, who previously worked with Good on the massively successful Beautiful Midnight, received a Juno Award nomination for his work on Avalanche. Beautiful Midnight was an album released by the now-defunct Matthew Good Band in 1999, as a followup to the 1997 album Underdogs. ...


The CD contains multimedia content, though the website accessed by the applet is no longer active. However, there is an "easter egg" hiding on the opening screen. Clicking just to the right of the main mountain peak brings up a picture of a raccoon standing on its hind legs. CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... A virtual Easter egg is a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, or computer program. ... Type species Ursus lotor Linnaeus, 1758 Species Procyon cancrivorus Procyon insularis Procyon lotor Raccoons are mammals native to the Americas in the genus Procyon of the Procyonidae family. ...


While working on the album, Matt became disenchanted with a completed song called "Comfortable Criminals", so he took the drum elements and reused them as the basis for "A Long Way Down". He later made "Comfortable Criminals" available as a streaming file on the secret website accessed by the multimedia component of the CD.


A b-side called "Dusk" was also recorded during the sessions, and was briefly available for purchase via the Canadian version of Puretracks.


Track listing

  1. Pledge of Allegiance
  2. Lullaby for the New World Order
  3. Weapon
  4. In a World Called Catastrophe
  5. Avalanche
  6. 21st Century Living
  7. While We Were Hunting Rabbits
  8. Bright End of Nowhere
  9. Near Fantastica
  10. Song for the Girl
  11. Double Life
  12. A Long Way Down
  13. House of Smoke and Mirrors

Samples

(audio)
Near Fantastica ( info)
This is an excerpt of the radio edit of "Near Fantastic" by Matthew Good.
Problems listening to the files? See media help.


Image File history File links Gnome-speakernotes. ... Image File history File links MGood-NearFant. ... A radio edit is a remix of a musical performance to make it more suitable for broadcast to the general public via radio. ...


  Results from FactBites:
 
Slant Magazine - Music Review: Sufjan Stevens: The Avalanche (314 words)
What's "epic" in scope to one listener is "bloated and overlong" to another, and the album's 22 tracks give plenty of discussion fodder as to which songs could've been cut to make for a tighter record.
From the nearly 50 songs that Stevens composed for the project, originally intended to be a double album, another 21 (counting three new versions of the second movement of "Chicago") are packaged here as something that only rarely feels like a collection of B-side material.
Stevens is entirely too meticulous and entirely too smart to release the album just for the sake of putting every last line or melody that ever popped into his head into the market—that's why we have Ryan Adams.
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