The Avalanches had their audience prepared to wait another decade for their next album. The Australian group’s Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi surprised everyone with the relatively quick arrival of their third album, We Will Always Love You, only four years after its predecessor, Wildflower, which took four times as long to be released after the group’s critically and commercially acclaimed debut album, Since I Left You in 2000.
It is Chater, but also the other albums. An abuser of primarily, but not strictly, alcohol from his young teens, it was upon Chater’s initial recovery at 20—after a seizure and prolonged stay in intensive care—that he was able to make . And it was partially his relapse, among multiple other health issues, that was responsible for delay. A look back at Chater’s life with perspective, is the most personal of The Avalanches’ albums.
