The Avalanches

There's a lot I can say about the new Avalanches single, We Will Always Love You.  Or maybe there isn't a lot I could say, but either way it doesn't matter because whatever I say would be inadequate compared to what they themselves have to say:

Sometimes we receive a message. Telling us our music has been there; through dark times, loneliness, loss.

There are no words to express how moving or profound this connection with you is.

Because the music was born out of such moments itself, and so it is felt, by those with open hearts, on the same wavelength it was first created.

Morse Code beamed and received by hearts and hearts alike.

Our new record is about such journeys, from darkness to light.

About life after (all kinds of) death. About the transcendent nature of music itself.

Every voice ever played on the radio over the last 100 years now exists in the stars; the transmissions of these singers are forever floating around out there, lost in the cosmos, endlessly travelling.

Tonight Smokey Robinson duets with Dev Hynes and The Roches.

Those spirits are out there.

We are each a tune, floating in space

And this one's for you.

The Avalanches employ pluderphonics, sampling existing recorded music in lieu of producing their own to create something new and original.  The principal sample for We Will Always Love You comes from Smokey Robinson & The Miracles's I'll Take You Any Way That You Come.  The Roches and the Australian Boys Choir also make appearances.