Multi-hyphenate musician and producer Avalon Emerson & the Charm announces new album Written into Changes due March 20th via Dead Oceans. 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), with a music video directed by Ben Turok. LISTEN + WATCH HERE + PRE-SAVE LP HERE.

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.

Speaking about ‘Jupiter and Mars’, Avalon shares: “Jupiter and Mars is the feeling of drinking a cold beer in the shadow of a big wave. Sometimes a salty end is inevitable, but it doesn’t make a beach day any less warm and lovely. Everything is a waste of time, everything is worth the time. Life itself ends at some point, cosmic procrastination is just another term for living. I loved chasing this song with Rostam almost as much as our two little dogs loved chasing each other.”

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.

The cohort that came together to help create Written into Changes with Avalon includes Nathan Jenkins (Bullion), who co-produced & the Charm and came back to handle a bulk of the new project along with co-production from Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend) and assistance from Keivon Mehdi Hobeheidar, who plays bass on several tracks and cello on a few others; Jay Flew, a multi-instrumentalist who was involved in the initial writing sessions; and Avalon’s wife Hunter Lombard, who plays guitar. Much of the initial recording took place in Braintree, England, in the winter into spring of 2024. The tracks with Batmanglij were cut in Los Angeles. Synth touches were added at the Synth Cabin at Rosen Sound in Glendale, California. Instead of designating a set band with every member adhering to a defined role, the “& the Charm” moniker describes a “collaborative entity” of musicians who work on this arm of Avalon’s creative output.

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. 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. Full live dates are below and you can purchase tickets HERE.