Following the announcement of the forthcoming album Written into Changes due March 20th via Dead Oceans, multi-hyphenate musician and producer Avalon Emerson & the Charm offers another taste of the full-length album with the title track ‘Written into Changes.’ The new single arrives with a performance video recorded in Avalon’s home studio alongside Hunter Lombard and Keivon Mehdi Hobeheidar.
Speaking about ‘Written into Changes,’ Avalon shares, ”Sometimes change barrels down tracks, announced by a high loud whistle. Other times it flows seasonally over sand, carving a canyon.
‘Written into Changes’ is a song about moving across the world and turning chapters in life. This song came together in London with Bullion, Hunter and Keivon.”
Written into Changes is an album 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. The album is 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 – Written into Changes reveals itself not just geographically, but over time.
Written into Changes is the second album released under the Avalon Emerson & the Charm moniker and includes the previously shared singles ‘Eden’ and ‘Jupiter and Mars.’ 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.” With that in mind, Avalon went back to her collaborators to make a body of work that is band-driven but groove-heavy and dance-adjacent. It is a work of rigorous invention and revision that found the working versions of some songs hopping genres before settling into their final forms.
The cohort that came together to help create Written into Changes with Avalon 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. Synth touches were added at the Synth Cabin at Rosen Sound in Glendale, California. Instead of designating a set band with every member adhering to a defined role, the “& the Charm” moniker describes a “collaborative entity” of musicians who work on this arm of Avalon’s creative output.
Avalon Emerson has solidified her position as one of the most respected DJs and dynamic artists from her beginnings in San Francisco’s warehouse scene to her time living and playing in Berlin, performing at the legendary Berghain and other famed clubs for over a decade. Now back in the United States and living in upstate New York, Avalon has been flexing other musical muscles. The aforementioned album, & the Charm, was released to broad acclaim in 2023 and introduced the live band element to Avalon’s musicianship. Co-produced with now frequent collaborator Nathan Jenkins (aka Bullion), & the Charm showcased Avalon’s distinctive range—with a rare ability to move fluidly between euphoric, high-BPM dance music and intimate indie pop. In 2025, Avalon released a modern re-work of a classic Moby track, ‘E After Next,’ as part of her Perpetual Emotion Machine series, a string of conceptually linked singles with her new label, Dead Oceans.
Check out ‘Written into Changes’ and pre-order / save Written into Changes above, and stay tuned for more from Avalon Emerson & the Charm coming very soon.
Avalon Emerson & the Charm
Written into Changes
Written into Changes
Avalon Emerson & the Charm
March 20, 2026
Dead Oceans
- Eden
- Jupiter and Mars
- Happy Birthday
- Written into Changes
- Wooden Star
- God Damn (Finito)
- How Dare This Beer
- Country Mouse
- I Don’t Want to Fight
- Earth Alive
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