THE AVALANCHES’ NEW ALBUM, 'WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU,' IS OUT TODAY

THE AVALANCHES’ NEW ALBUM, WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU, IS OUT TODAY Awarded Four Stars By Rolling Stone, Album Also Features Mick Jones, Neneh Cherry, Rivers Cuomo, Denzel Curry, Kurt Vile, Perry Farrell, Karen O, Sampa the Great, Tricky, Cornelius, Kelly Moran, Cola Boyy, Orono, Blood Orange, Leon Bridges, Jamie XX, Pink Siifu, Clypso, Sananda Maitreya and Vashti Bunyan View Official Video For “The Divine Chord” (feat. MGMT & Johnny Marr) Here:

The Avalanches’ new album, We Will Always Love You, was released today by Astralwerks. In a four-star review, Rolling Stone said, “‘We Will Always Love You’ may be the soundtrack we need–one that builds a bridge between people, emotions and eras.” NME also awarded the album four stars, hailing it as a “vibrant cosmic journey like no other, and a love letter to the unifying power of music.” Download/stream We Will Always Love You HERE. “Spanning 25 tracks over 72 minutes, the resulting album mimics the beautiful, mysterious sprawl of the nighttime horizon as it explores questions about death, the afterlife, and the stars,” said Stereogum, which went on to praise the “psychedelic disco” sound of “The Divine Chord.” The track features vocals from MGMT and iconic guitars from Johnny Marr, who brings the kind of glistening guitar chimes first heard on early Smiths songs like “Suffer Little Children” and “Well I Wonder.” Watch the official video for “The Divine Chord” (feat. MGMT & Johnny Marr) HERE.

Download hi-res photos & artwork HERE The Avalanches Credit: Grant Spanier The Avalanches will celebrate the album’s release with a special livestreamed DJ performance on Saturday, December 19. Filmed on the rooftop of iconic Melbourne institution Curtin House, the duo will be spinning tunes from their own catalog along with favorites and deep cuts from their vast and eclectic record collections. The 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 features music from the album. Fans who purchase a ticket to the livestream in the U.S. will receive a special discount offering on the new album, available from the band’s store. Click HERE for further details and livestream tickets. The Avalanches recently spoke with The New York Times about We Will Always Love You. 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.” 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 that also includes Rivers Cuomo, Denzel Curry, Neneh Cherry, Perry Farrell, Karen O, Mick Jones, Sampa the Great, Tricky, Kurt Vile and Blood Orange. New York Magazine praised the album as “a bubbly, psychedelic song cycle full of catchy cross-genre collaborations.” In a four-star review, D.I.Y. described it as “25 tracks of pure audio sunrise……it’s the sort of artistic escapism we could all use more of.” The Wall Street Journal said, “[‘Interstellar Love’ is] a deeply affecting number that is gorgeous on the surface and has subliminal resonance. The sampled song evokes the heavens, Mr. [Leon] Bridges offers lines about the mystery of creation, and the playful and childlike arrangement positively twinkles.” Awarding the album 4.5 stars, Australia’s Herald Sun observed, “The Melbourne duo have mastered the art of curation and creation on album No. 3…Album of The Year.” If there’s a single spark for We Will Always Love You, it’s the story of the love affair between Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan: “science communicators” whose writings and TV programs brought the ever-deepening mysteries of astronomy and astrophysics to the mass audience. Druyan, who served as Creative Director in charge of curating the Golden Record, appears on the album cover. Taking its title from a sampled slice of ethereal harmony vocal by singing sisters The Roches, We Will Always Love You doubles as an exploration of the human voice and a spiritual reckoning via the big questions “who are we really? What happens when we die?’” So says Robbie Chater, who alongside bandmate Tony DiBlasi and collaborator Andrew Szekeres, has moved beyond the party-up exuberance of The Avalanches’ youthful music to a tender, reflective sound infused with hard-earned life wisdom. As Paste Magazine notes, “The Avalanches turn out a life-affirming and rewarding musical experience that sends its own quiet, necessary refrain out into the world: ‘We will always love you.’”

We Will Always Love You – Track Listing 1. Ghost Story (feat. Orono) 2. Song For Barbara Payton 3. We Will Always Love You (feat. Blood Orange) 4. The Divine Chord (feat. MGMT & Johnny Marr) 5. Solitary Ceremonies 6. Interstellar Love (feat. Leon Bridges) 7. Ghost Story Pt 2 (feat. Leon Bridges & Orono) 8. Reflecting Light (feat. Sananda Maitreya & Vashti Bunyan) 9. Carrier Waves 10. Oh The Sunn! (feat. Perry Farrell) 11. We Go On (feat. Cola Boyy & Mick Jones) 12. Star Song.IMG 13. Until Daylight Comes (feat. Tricky) 14. Wherever You Go (feat. Jamie xx, Neneh Cherry & CLYPSO) 15. Music Makes Me High 16. Pink Champagne 17. Take Care In Your Dreaming (feat. Denzel Curry, Tricky & Sampa The Great) 18. Overcome 19. Gold Sky (feat. Kurt Vile) 20. Always Black (feat. Pink Siifu) 21. Dial D For Devotion (feat. Karen O) 22. Running Red Lights (feat. Rivers Cuomo & Pink Siifu) 23. Born To Lose 24. Music Is The Light (feat. Cornelius & Kelly Moran) 25. Weightless

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 third album, We Will Always Love You, is a stunning aural journey through time and space, one that only The Avalanches can weave.