We Will Always Love You
2020 studio album by the Avalanches
We Will Always Love You is the third studio album from Australian electronic group The Avalanches, released on 11 December 2020 through Modular Recordings.
Background
The Avalanches (Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi) released their second studio album, Wildflower, in 2016. As the album came 16 years after their debut, Since I Left You, the group felt they now had a clean slate to work on new material. While on tour for Wildflower in early 2017, Chater left the tour to battle his alcoholism at a detox facility. Di Blasi continued the tour with a full backing band. After the tour was completed, they began work on a new album. Before production began, Chater sold most of his collection of 7,000 records to nurture a fresh start.
Production
We Will Always Love You is built on sampling, but is less of a plunderphonics record than the band's previous material. Chater explained that making sample-based music is time-consuming. According to Chater, Since I Left You had 900 samples, and We Will Always Love You "still contains hundreds and hundreds of samples [...] fragmented across the record." The group set out to use samples as the basis of songs, but added instrumentation to build out the sound they wanted to achieve more easily and quickly.
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