NEW ALBUM, WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU, OUT DECEMBER 11
Today,
The Avalanches today announce a very special livestreamed DJ performance to celebrate their forthcoming third studio album
We Will Always Love You – set for release on December 11 by Astralwerks and available for pre-order
HERE now. Fans who purchase a ticket to the livestream in the U.S. will receive a special discount offering on new album, available from the band’s
store.
Click HERE for livestream tickets.
Available to watch across the globe, the performance will be streamed three times on Saturday December 19th: 8:00pm local time Los Angeles/11:00pm New York EST, 8:00pm local time London; and 8:00pm local time in The Avalanches’ hometown of Melbourne. Filmed on the rooftop of iconic Melbourne institution Curtin House, the duo will be spinning tunes from their own catalogue along with favorites and deep cuts from their vast and eclectic record collections.
In a message to fans, the band say, “What a year! We are extremely grateful to have been able to release music during this tumultuous time and in some small way continue to connect with you all. We would be thrilled if you would join us for our live stream event to help us celebrate the launch of our new album, ‘We Will Always Love You’. We will be putting our hearts and souls into this performance and we hope it will uplift you as much as it does us. Let's end this year on a fucking great note! Come dance with us. –Tony and Robbie”
The Avalanches’ live set will be followed by an exclusive screening of Jonathan Zawada’s short film Carrier Waves, a visual companion piece to We Will Always Love You which also features music from the album.
Of the short film, The Avalanches say, “‘Carrier Waves’ explores the transcendent nature of music itself. Beginning with the physical, we become the ephemeral, escape the confines of the planet before we are bounced back by celestial objects. On our return we have changed, enmeshed in the universal fabric. Having shed physical form, we become one.” This feeling is seconded by Jonathan Zawada who says, “This film is about how we can move from the unsure human condition to a liberated state of positivity and freedom.”
Big believers in the life changing power of music, wherever they’re playing and whatever they’re spinning, The Avalanches’ sets are always guaranteed to be joyous, raucous and uplifting affairs. This performance is one not to be missed!
The Avalanches’ Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi recently spoke with
The New York Times about the new album. The
feature notes, “it began with a unifying, if characteristically grand, concept: light, the cosmos and the Golden Records, the two 12-inch phonograph disks that were launched into space aboard Voyager in 1977.” An exploration of the vibrational relationship between light, sound and spirit,
We Will Always Love You 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.
Sampling remains at the core of
The Avalanches’ sound, but alongside all of the sample ghosts,
We Will Always Love You features an array of living guests who contribute vocals and lyrics, including:
MGMT, Rivers Cuomo, Denzel Curry, Johnny Marr, Neneh Cherry, Perry Farrell, Karen O, Mick Jones, Sampa the Great, Tricky, Kurt Vile and
Blood Orange. The Avalanches’ music has always dripped with melody, but because of this expanded role for guest singers and writers, this is their most song-oriented album yet.
We Will Always Love You, which has been awarded four stars by
Rolling Stone, is available for pre-order
HERE.
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