Music News - Avalanche City Release Sophomore Album, We Are For The Wild Places, On July 3
28 April 2015 - 0 Comments
The man behind Avalanche City and Silver Scroll winner (Love Love Love) is ready for the next adventure. After his stellar debut performance of single Inside Out on last night’s episode of X-Factor, Dave Baxter will release his sophomore album, We Are For The Wild Places, on July 3.
“We Are For The Wild Places is about where we come alive, that spot in the middle of fear and uncertainty, determination and courage. It’s the moment when we struggle and we can see our own failure just behind us but we push on.”
Explains the songwriter, “I think a lot of fulfilment in my life has come from overcoming obstacles and achieving things I wasn't sure I could. The wild places are where adventure happens.”
In a way, Baxter’s debut outing was a longing for adventure; by his own admission, a collection of pop tunes thrown to the wind to see what would stick. Settling into We Are For The Wild Places is the sound of an artist debriefing an accidental hit career.
We Are For The Wild Places also saw a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Baxter to work with a childhood hero, former Death Cab For Cutie guitarist Chris Walla, who mixed the album.
As the pair huddled in Walla’s bunker-like studio in Seattle, USA, We Are For The Wild Places came alive, a fitting tribute to a happy accident half a decade ago, and a full-circle from the country to the city.
Watch his X-Factor performance of lead single Inside Out here.
The single is a plaintive ode to a friend’s broken relationship that builds from arpeggio guitars and ghostly atmospheres to orchestral brass motifs. Baxter wrote it while the album was being finalised, holding up the final production in order to include it.
Inside Out has been serviced to radio today and is out now.
Pre-order We Are For The Wild Places from iTunes and get Inside Out instantly.
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