Avalanche (Deluxe) by Jenny Owen Youngs

Every part of making Avalanche has been so incredibly important to me. Writing the songs was gutting, transformative, born of true need. Recording the album was cathartic, essential, necessary. Here now, a year later, are the leftover gooey bits, the supporting evidence, the songs presented in their infancy or in their next stage of evolution, scraped from the nooks and crannies of my brain and various hard drives across America. The writing and recording of Avalanche was deeply collaborative, and now some of these songs enter the next stage of collaboration: arrangements building on top of what these songs revealed about themselves during the original album-making process, and what I learned by singing them on tour, in rooms with real live listeners. Music is, as I always say, better with friends, and I’m honored to have contributions from so many dear ones here, expanding the world of these songs, spelunking down into their depths, stretching and questioning and pushing further, together.
-Jenny Owen Youngs

Avalanche, Youngs’ exceptional debut for Yep Roc records, offers up an achingly beautiful exploration of loss, resilience, and growth from an artist who’s experienced more than her fair share of each in recent years. The songs are deceptively serene, layering Youngs’ infectious pop sensibilities atop lush, dreamy arrangements that often belie the swift emotional currents lurking underneath.

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