Following the announcement of the forthcoming album Written into Changes due March 20th via Dead Oceans, multi-hyphenate musician and producer Avalon Emerson & the Charm offers another taste of the full-length album with the title track ‘Written into Changes’. LISTEN + WATCH HERE + PRE-SAVE LP HERE.

The new single arrives with a performance video recorded in Avalon’s home studio alongside Hunter Lombard and Keivon Mehdi Hobeheidar. Speaking about ‘Written into Changes’, Avalon shares, ”Sometimes change barrels down tracks, announced by a high loud whistle. Other times it flows seasonally over sand, carving a canyon. ‘Written into Changes’ is a song about moving across the world and turning chapters in life. This song came together in London with Bullion, Hunter and Keivon.”

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.

Written into Changes is the second album released under the Avalon Emerson & the Charm moniker and includes the previously shared singles ‘Eden‘ and ‘Jupiter and Mars‘. 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. Full live dates and tickets HERE.

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.