THE AVALANCHES SHARE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘WE GO ON’ FEATURING COLA BOYY & MICK JONES
Photo Credit: Grant Spanier
THE AVALANCHES WIN THE 2020 AUSTRALIAN MUSIC PRIZE FOR THEIR CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM ‘WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU’
THE AVALANCHES RETURN TO THE STAGE THIS APRIL IN AUSTRALIA
The Avalanches today share the official video for ‘We Go On’ (feat. Cola Boyy & Mick Jones) – the latest single to be lifted from their critically acclaimed third studio album ‘We Will Always Love You’ which was described as "A vibrant cosmic journey like no other, and a love letter to the unifying power of music" by NME and recently took out the prestigious 2020 Australian Music Prize.
Cola Boyy, a/k/a Matthew Urango, is a nu-disco artist from Oxnard, California and “is one of the most talented producers and writers around, as well as riotous good fun .. having him on the same record as Mick Jones made so much sense to us”. But the latter is here not so much for his Clash rebel rocker history as Big Audio Dynamite, the first time that a young Robbie Chater encountered sampling. “One or two of their songs were big pop records on Australian radio – and it was that feeling, as a kid, of ‘how did they do that? What is that? It was sampling’”
The video directed by Jonathan Zawada & Michael Dole is a transcendental journey through a mystical Avalanche-esque streetscape.
The Avalanches return to the stage this coming April when they bring their brand new fully live set to a sold out show at the Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne and the Wine Machine Festival in Perth.
Building on the sample-based approach of their classic albums Since I Left You and Wildflower, but stepping boldly into new terrain and sparkling with the treble frequencies that made Since I Left You such a dizzy thrill, We Will Always Love You is dedicated to probing “the vibrational relationship between light, sound and spirit.”
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.
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: MGMT, Rivers Cuomo, Denzel Curry, Johnny Marr, Neneh Cherry, Perry Farrell, Karen O , Mick Jones, Sampa the Great, Tricky, Kurt Vile, Blood Orange, and more. The Avalanches’ music has always dripped with melody, but because of this expanded role for guest singers and writers, We Will Always Love You is their most song-oriented album yet.
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 (Modular Recordings). 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.”