The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You (Album Review)
Thursday, 17 December 2020
Photo: Grant Spanier
Twenty years ago, the Avalanches set out to showcase the boundless possibilities of sampling with their debut LP ‘Since I Left You’, repurposing fragments of old songs into cohesive new tracks with completely altered personalities. On 2016’s long-awaited ‘Wildflower’ they added guest performers including Danny Brown to the mix. Now, with ‘We Will Always Love You’ the Australian duo have turned their gaze upwards, beyond our skies.
The producers—Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi—found themselves inspired by cultural missives sent into space from Earth, specifically the Voyager Golden Record, which journeyed into the cosmos in 1977. Appropriately, a lot of ‘We Will Always Love You’ concerns itself with sentiments of love, hope and humanity.