We Will Always Love You

We Will Always Love You is the third studio album from Australian electronic group The Avalanches, released on 11 December 2020 through Modular Recordings.

The Avalanches (Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi) released their second studio album, Wildflower, in 2016.

[10] The group set out to use samples as the basis of songs, but add instrumentation themselves to more easily and quickly build out the sound they were looking to achieve.

[12] The title track "We Will Always Love You" features vocals from Blood Orange and samples from "Hammond Song" by the Roches and "I'll Take You Any Way That You Come" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.

[15] "Running Red Lights" is dedicated to David Berman and features lyrics from the Purple Mountains song "Darkness and Cold".

[17] The album features many collaborators: Sananda Maitreya, Vashti Bunyan, Blood Orange, Rivers Cuomo, Pink Siifu, Denzel Curry, Tricky, Sampa the Great, Leon Bridges, Johnny Marr, MGMT, Clypso, Neneh Cherry, Jamie xx, Kelly Moran, Cornelius, Karen O, Kurt Vile, Mick Jones, Cola Boyy, Perry Farrell, Wayne Coyne, and Orono.

The album's concept is rooted in "death, the afterlife, the stars, celestial beings and everything that's out there" in the context of their tendency to sample music from artists who have died.

"[12]The cover art features an image of Ann Druyan, creative director of the Voyager Golden Record project.

[29][30] Another double-A sided single "Music Makes Me High" / "Take Care in Your Dreaming", was released on 14 September.

[31] On 11 December 2020, the band released "The Divine Chord" with Johnny Marr and MGMT, alongside its music video.

Mark Beaumont in The Independent noted that the group had "tempered their youthful party vibe to contemplate themes of the afterlife and cosmic profundity",[34] while Julien A. Luebbers in The Spokesman-Review similarly remarked on the album's thematic sophistication, calling the album "a soaring testimony to spirituality and being part of something greater than ourselves" and "a piece of true artistic brilliance".