Avalanche (Some Velvet Sidewalk album)

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Avalanche
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Studio album by
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.