The Avalanches
We Will Always Love You
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Stereo
- Label
- EMI · 3504363
plunderphonics
ElectronicHip HopPop AmbientSoulDiscoHouseIndie PopHip Hop
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The Avalanches Wildflower Wildflower is the predecessor — We Will Always Love You is the Avalanches continuing the project into a new decade, the omnivore ethos applied to a different archive of source material. -
DJ Shadow Endtroducing... DJ Shadow and the Avalanches are the two poles of what plunderphonic music can sound like — Shadow's asocial sanctuary and the Avalanches' exuberant collage are both built from the same raw material. -
Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique Paul's Boutique is the record that sealed the form off legally — the Avalanches are the artists who kept making music in that form anyway, at considerable legal cost.
EMI, 2020. Leon Bridges, Rivers Cuomo (Weezer), Mick Jones (The Clash), MGMT, Karen O, Cola Boyy — plus samples from Smokey Robinson and Vashti Bunyan and dozens of others. We Will Always Love You is the Avalanches continuing to operate according to the logic of their entire project: that other people’s music, properly rearranged, can produce something that feels entirely new.
The title comes from Dolly Parton via Whitney Houston. That borrowing — taking the most famous cover version of a song and using its title as the name of an album full of samples — is either very funny or a precise statement of the Avalanches’ aesthetic, depending on how seriously you take it. Both readings are available.