It really hurts me to have to leave a 2 star review of Avalanche, but as a former weekly devotee I feel I have to. I spent a great deal of my teen years (and pocket money) in the West Nicholson Street and Lady Lawson Street branches, I loved the short lived vinyl basement at Teviot, and the Cockburn Street branch was like a second home when I went through my early 20s and started spending most of my money on vinyl again. But those halcyon days are gone.\n\nThe shop's premises in the Grassmarket are a great space, I will say that. But it seems like since the move they haven't sorted anything out properly, none of the records or CDs seem to be in any sort of order, there's a lot of wasted space in the middle of the floor, nothing is priced, and a lot of the sections that were ones filled to bursting are now notable by their absence.\n\nThere are still some great records in the shop, and the prices charged for them are pretty reasonable for the most part, but it now feels more like a junk shop and less like a record shop than it ever did before. Hopefully things will get better, but since there have been problems with getting a lot of new releases in stock (aside from the local indie-folk bands) I remain sadly sceptical.