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THE AVALANCHES

Though the Guinness Book of World Records doesn’t award a designation for “Most Time Spent Continuously Working on One Album,” The Avalanches would have to be strong contenders if such a category were created. Sixteen years—that’s how much time passed between the release of 2000’s genre-defining Since I Left You and 2016’s Wildflower . There were false starts and head fakes—a 2008 announcement of an imminent release, rumors of a finished

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