The Avalanches have already surprised us enough this year, what with the whole returning after a sixteen year absence and all. But one week out of their long-awaited sophomore album, they’ve got one more trick up their sleeves: the album, Wildflower, has been made available for streaming a week early, exclusively on Apple Music.
We’ve already heard the first single, Frankie Sinatra featuring Danny Brown and MF DOOM, Subways, and Colours featuring Mercury Rev’s Jonathan Donahue, and now the entire album is available for your listening pleasure.
Speaking about the album, Robbie Chater remarks, “We see Wildflower as a celebration of the ‘little things,’ of the beauty in the oft-unnoticed and overlooked.” Fellow member Tony Di Blasi also added, “To me, a wildflower is a person – a free spirit, unrestrained by conventionality. They have haven’t lost that innate curiosity and lust for life.”
Not many albums have been this highly anticipated, well, ever, but The Avalanches’ 2000 debut Since I Left You was so groundbreaking and unique that the past sixteen years have been torturous for some. Finally, the wait is over.
The Avalanches will also be appearing at Splendour in the Grass later this month, and we can only hope that a full national tour will be announced in the coming weeks.
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