We Will Always Love You (Explicit)

The Avalanches

Released on 20/2/20 by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.
Main artists: The Avalanches
Genre: Alternative & Indie

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The 16-year stint between Since I Left You, the Avalanches' masterful and mind-blowing debut album, and their sophomore release Wildflower is likely to always be something of an inescapable plotline in the Australian group's career story. However, it should be noted that the mere four years that have elapsed between Wildlflower and We Will Always Love You, the group's third album, are both eminently reasonable by 21st century release standards and completely remarkable given the conceptual richness and production complexity at play here. (And that's leaving out the fact that principal member Robbie Chater had a stint in rehab during that time.) We Will Always Love You is an album that is absolutely full to bursting—with 25 tracks (a handful are sub-30-second interludes), more than 20 guest vocalists, and, yes, scores of richly layered samples, the sheer act of composing, recording, and compiling it could forgivably have taken much longer. However, in the case of WWALY, the group benefited from a clear-eyed concept inspired by Ann Druyan (whose face is on the cover). Druyan’s scientific and creative endeavors, her relationship with Carl Sagan, and how those things intersected most notably with her work on NASA's Golden Record project, actual gold-plated LPs sent into space aboard the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecrafts. The Avalanches have put together their own sort of cosmic mixtape, touching on a wide variety of styles and sounds. Guests range from Johnny Marr, Neneh Cherry, and Vashti Bunyan to Leon Bridges and Denzel Curry; sample sources include Steve Reich, Pat Metheny, Carlinhos Brown and Druyan herself. In keeping with its celestial theme, this is a remarkably adventurous and slightly diaphanous-sounding album, with cuts like the wispy and slightly psychedelic "Gold Sky" (featuring Kurt Vile and Wayne Coyne), the spooky and transcendent "Music is the Light" (with Cornelius and Kelly Moran) and the somewhat on-the-nose "Interstellar Love" (with Leon Bridges) standing as thematic tentpoles. Meanwhile, the more straightforward (and accessible) cuts like the disco groovy "Music Makes Me High," the bouncy and retro "We Go On," and pop/rock treading "Running Red Lights" (which manages to feature a Rivers Cuomo vocal and a David Berman lyric) provide plenty of reminders of terrestrial joy. © Jason Ferguson/Qobuz

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We Will Always Love You (Explicit)

The Avalanches

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Joe LaPorta, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Clint Welander, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - The Avalanches, MainArtist - robert chater, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Tony Espie, Additional Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Szekeres, Producer, Additional Producer, ComposerLyricist - Orono Noguchi, ComposerLyricist - Anthony DiBlasi, ComposerLyricist - Orono, FeaturedArtist - Anthony Di Blasi, Producer, Additional Mixer, Additional Producer, StudioPersonnel - Zachary Zajde, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel