Avalon Emerson & The Charm Announce New Album, Share Single ‘Jupiter and Mars’
Written into Changes is due out Friday 20 March via Dead Oceans.
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Multi-hyphenate musician and producer Avalon Emerson & the Charm returns this year with sophomore album Written into Changes, due out Friday 20 March via Dead Oceans (pre-order here).
Written over the past five years as Emerson has been DJing across the globe, from Berlin to Los Angeles to New York, Written into Changes acts as a diary of sorts and is a work of invention and revision.
“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.”
Emerson also reached out to many of her collegues to collboarte with her on the record, including producers Nathan Jenkins (Bullion) and Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend), bassist and celloist Keivon Mehdi Hobeheidar, multi-instrumentalist Jay Flew and her wife Hunter Lombard, who plays guitar.
Following the release of first single ‘Eden’, Emerson has shared latest track ‘Jupiter & Mars’. Written and produced with Rostam Batmanglij with a music video directed by Ben Turok, the track is a spirted indie-pop creation you won’t be able to shake.
Speaking about ‘Jupiter and Mars’, Avalon says, “‘Jupiter and Mars’ is the feeling of drinking a cold beer in the shadow of a big wave. Sometimes a salty end is inevitable, but it doesn’t make a beach day any less warm and lovely. Everything is a waste of time, everything is worth the time. Life itself ends at some point, cosmic procrastination is just another term for living. I loved chasing this song with Rostam almost as much as our two little dogs loved chasing each other.”
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Born in San Francisco and raised in Arizona, it was in her city of brith where Avalon Emerson first made a name as a DJ in the warehouse party scene. Graduating to clubs in Berlin, including the legendary Berghain, she has spent the past decade playing lively sets across the globe.
Emerson dropped her debut album & the Charm in 2023 to much acclaim, going on tour with a live band and performing tracks from the release. She is set to celebrate the release of Written into Changes with more shows across Europe. Hopefully an Australian visit is on the cards soon.
‘Jupiter and Mars’ by Avalon Emerson & The Charm is out now. Listen here. Written into Changes arrives Friday 20 March via Dead Oceans. Pre-order/pre-save here. Check out the album artwork and tracklisting below.
Written into Changes
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
