Avalanche (Some Velvet Sidewalk album)

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Avalanche
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Studio album by
Some Velvet Sidewalk
Released1992
Recorded1992
Genre Experimental rock
Length33:07
Label K
Producer Steve Fisk
Some Velvet Sidewalk chronology
Appetite for Extinction
(1990)		Avalanche
(1992)		 I Scream (EP)
(1993)

Avalanche is the third album by the American band Some Velvet Sidewalk, released in 1992. [1] [2]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Trouser Press noted, "Although [Al] Larsen's nasal delivery can be one of the band's greater charms—especially when he's struggling, à la [Jonathan] Richman, to fit in as many words per bar as possible—his ineptitude as a 'singer' reveals itself again when the band turns down on 'Little Wishes'." [1] Jersey Beat said that the band revels "in a kind of studied amateurishness". [5]

Track listing

  1. "Avalanche"
  2. "Loch Ness"
  3. "Curiosity"
  4. "Froggy"
  5. "Peaches"
  6. "Little Wishes"
  7. "Deep Sea Green"
  8. "No Real Home"
  9. "Alien"
  10. "Right/Wrong"
  11. "Ice Cream Overdrive"

References

  1. 1 2 "Some Velvet Sidewalk". Trouser Press. Retrieved September 6, 2025.
  2. ↑ Boddy, Jennifer (August 1, 1992). "Some Velvet Sidewalk". The Rocket. No. 154. p. 11.
  3. ↑ AllMusic review
  4. ↑ Robert Christgau review
  5. ↑ "Some Velvet Sidewalk Avalanche". Jersey Beat. No. 47. Fall 1992.


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