Avalon Emerson & the Charm have announced the release their new album Written into Changes which is set for release on March 20th via Dead Oceans. The LP is about not just accepting change, but embracing it with a full wingspan. Progression is a theme both on record and behind the scenes, so that “written into changes” describes a conscious approach to expression and life itself, a memoiristic album and the product of five years of constant travel – including multinational DJing and moving from Berlin to Los Angeles to New York.
Alongside the album announcement, Avalon shares ‘Jupiter and Mars’, which was written and produced with Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend). ‘Jupiter and Mars’ arrives with a music video directed by Ben Turok. Speaking about ‘Jupiter and Mars’, Avalon shares: “I loved chasing this song with Rostam almost as much as our two little dogs loved chasing each other around the studio.”
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Written into Changes is the second album released under the Avalon Emerson & the Charm moniker and includes the previously shared single ‘Eden’. The making of Written into Changes was very different from that of & the Charm. “For the first album, the songs were pretty soft and kind of bedroomy,” Emerson observes. “And then playing them on a big kind of festival stage was a learning experience. Coming back into the studio for a second round, it was important to think about the dynamics and energy of what we were making and how they might be performed in the future.”
The album includes Nathan Jenkins (Bullion), who co-produced & the Charm and came back to handle a bulk of the new project along with co-production from Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend) and assistance from Keivon Mehdi Hobeheidar, who plays bass on several tracks and cello on a few others; Jay Flew, a multi-instrumentalist who was involved in the initial writing sessions; and Avalon’s wife Hunter Lombard, who plays guitar. Much of the initial recording took place in Braintree, England, in the winter into spring of 2024. The tracks with Batmanglij were cut in Los Angeles.
Avalon Emerson & the Charm
Written into Changes
Dead Oceans
Tracklist
- Eden
2. Jupiter and Mars
3. Happy Birthday
4. Written into Changes
5. Wooden Star
6. God Damn (Finito)
7. How Dare This Beer
8. Country Mouse
9. I Don’t Want to Fi
