AVALON EMERSON & THE CHARM ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, WRITTEN INTO CHANGES SHARES NEW SINGLE “JUPITER AND MARS”

Multi-hyphenate musician and producer Avalon Emerson & the Charm announces new album Written into Changes due March 20th via Dead Oceans. Written into Changes is an album about not just accepting change, but embracing it with a full wingspan. Progression is a theme both on record and behind the scenes, so that “written into changes” describes a conscious approach to expression and life itself. The album is a memoiristic album and the product of five years of constant travel – including multinational DJing and moving from Berlin to Los Angeles to New York  – Written into Changes reveals itself not just geographically, but over time. 

Alongside the album announcement, Avalon shares a taste from the project with the single “Jupiter and Mars,” which was written and produced with Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend). “Jupiter and Mars” arrives with a music video directed by Ben Turok. Speaking about “Jupiter and Mars,” Avalon shares, “I loved chasing this song with Rostam almost as much as our two little dogs loved chasing each other around the studio.”

Written into Changes is the second album released under the Avalon Emerson & the Charm moniker and includes the previously shared single “Eden.” The making of Written into Changes was very different from that of & the Charm. “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.” With that in mind, Avalon went back to her collaborators to make a body of work that is band-driven but groove-heavy and dance-adjacent. It is a work of rigorous invention and revision that found the working versions of some songs hopping genres before settling into their final forms. 

Avalon Emerson & the Charm will embark on a string of European shows this year to celebrate the release of Written into Changes across Manchester, London, Paris, Berlin and more. Additionally, Avalon Emerson & the Charm will be playing headline shows in California following a performance at C2C Festival in New York City this May. Avalon Emerson will also perform DJ sets in Los Angeles this February at Skyline LA along with festival sets at Lightning in a Bottle in Bakersfield, California, Down The Rabbit Hole in Ewijk, Netherlands and Kappa FuturFestival in Turin, Italy.