THE AVALANCHES’ NEW ALBUM, 'WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU,' SET FOR DECEMBER 11 RELEASE

THE AVALANCHES’ NEW ALBUM, WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU, SET FOR DECEMBER 11 RELEASE Two New Tracks Out Today – “Take Care In Your Dreaming” Ft. Denzel Curry, Tricky and Sampa The Great And “Music Makes Me High”

Design by @zawhatthe Pre-Order Album HERE   The Avalanches’ new album, We Will Always Love You, will be released by Astralwerks on December 11. An exploration of the vibrational relationship between light, sound and spirit, it doubles as an examination of the human voice and a spiritual reckoning via the big questions: Who are we really? What happens when we die? The Avalanches – Robbie Chater and Tony DiBlasi alongside collaborator Andrew Szekeres – have moved beyond the party-up exuberance of their youthful music to a tender, reflective sound infused with hard-earned life wisdom. Building on the sample-based approach of their classic albums Since I Left You and Wildflower, but stepping boldly into new terrain, We Will Always Love You is their most song-oriented album yet, made with an array of guest singers and writers. Teasing the album in the months leading up to today’s pre-order launch, The Avalanches released collaborations with Blood Orange (“We Will Always Love You”), Rivers Cuomo and Pink Siifu (“Running Red Lights”), Jamie xx, Neneh Cherry and CLYPSO (“Wherever You Go”), and Sananda Maitreya and Vashti Bunyan (“Reflecting Light”). Look for additional collaborations to be unveiled in the coming months and check out the two new tracks released today. “Take Care In Your Dreaming” featuring alt-rapper Denzel Curry, Tricky and Melbourne-based Zambian rapper-singer Sampa the Great is a song about unrealized dreams and navigating unexpected journeys through life – a “careful what you wish for” kind of thing. Zane Lowe gave the track its first spin earlier today on his Apple Music show. WATCH THE VISUALIZER FOR “TAKE CARE IN YOUR DREAMING” HERE:

The up-tempo disco-funk “Music Makes Me High” has a golden glow that simultaneously harkens back to tunes like The Whispers’ “And The Beat Goes On” and to the filter-house echoes of that era such as Stardust’s “Music Feels Better With You” and Gusto’s “Disco’s Revenge.” A gospel choir can be heard very softly in the mix, singing over the “music makes me high” sample.  WATCH THE VISUALIZER FOR "MUSIC MAKES ME HIGH" HERE:

Jonathan Zawada created visualizers for both tracks and designed the album’s cover, which features Ann Druyan. If there’s a single spark for We Will Always Love You, it’s the story of the love affair between Druyan and Carl Sagan: “science communicators” whose writings and TV programs brought the ever-deepening mysteries of astronomy and astrophysics to the mass audience. Chater was profoundly moved by the fact that the couple’s romance was captured and carried into space, thanks to the Voyager Interstellar Message Project. Druyan served as Creative Director in charge of curating the Golden Record: earthling music and assorted terrestrial sounds gathered for the contemplation of any alien civilizations that might be out there and be advanced enough to construct a playback system. An hour’s worth of Druyan’s brainwaves were recorded only a few days after Sagan proposed marriage to her, conceivably preserving her head-over-heels mind-state. These lovesick frequencies were then propelled into interstellar space alongside the sounds of Chuck Berry, Beethoven, humpback whale-song, etc. The Avalanches’ “Wherever You Go” begins with greetings from planet Earth, sampled from The Voyager Golden Record. The band teamed up with The International Space Orchestra (ISO) to create the accompanying video, which can be viewed HERE.  Originally, Druyan was set to be a presence on We Will Always Love You: a studio was booked to record her telling her own story. That never transpired, but Druyan “gave us permission to use her photo on the album cover,” says Chater. “We photographed it off a static-y television set and ran it through a spectrograph to make the cover image. So that was a beautiful way that Ann could still be part of the record. We turned her into sound and back again.”   We Will Always Love You is available for pre-order HERE now. Fans who pre-order the digital album will instantly receive “Take Care In Your Dreaming” and “Music Makes Me High,” plus the previously released “We Will Always Love You,” “Running Red Lights,” “Reflecting Light” and “Wherever You Go.” Unlike its precursor Wildflower, We Will Always Love You came together in just a couple of years. “The conceptual heart of things is really important to me,’ Chater explains. “I can’t just be blindly creative, I need to find a feeling and a deeply personal place that gives me the energy to start making a record and a story to share. Wildflower changed so much over 16 years, whereas with this album, we knew what it was about right at the beginning, and then we did it, and it’s done.” About THE AVALANCHES On their groundbreaking debut, Since I Left You, The Avalanches presented the world with a totally unique sound, crafted by meticulously combining over 3,500 vinyl samples. This approach set a precedent for dance music, inspiring a whole generation of musicians and producers. Released in Australia in 2000 and in the U.S. and the U.K. in 2001, Since I Left You is now regarded as a modern classic, It was named one of the year’s best albums by critics around the world and later placed in the Top 10 of Pitchfork’s Top 200 Albums of the 2000s and in the Top 20 of Rolling Stone’s Greatest EDM Albums of All Time. The video for the title track won Best Video at the 2001 MTV Europe Music Awards and was named as one of the top music videos of the 2000s by Pitchfork.   The release and subsequent touring in support of Since I Left You was followed by a 16-year radio silence, which was broken with the release of The Avalanches’ sophomore album, Wildflower (Astralwerks). It debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Vinyl Albums chart and atop the Australian Albums chart in 2016. Wildflower earned six ARIA Award nominations and international acclaim, with The Guardian hailing it as "a joyous journey" and Pitchfork proclaiming it “better than just about any music ever made” and “an album that could have been made by nobody but the Avalanches.” Their forthcoming third album, We Will Always Love You, is a stunning aural journey through time and space, one that only The Avalanches can weave.

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