Avalon Emerson & the Charm - Written into Changes

Released 20th March 2026

Change, they say, is the only constant in life. Fittingly, multihyphenate musician Avalon Emerson sounds at home harnessing the steady flux of her existence on Written into Changes, the memoiristic second album released under her Avalon Emerson & the Charm moniker. A work of rigorous invention and revision, the albums themes of personal and relationship evolution came into clarity after they were all done, according to Emerson.

The making of Changes was, appropriately enough, very different from that of & the Charm. While that album was, in Emersons words, soft and bedroomy, the energy was upped this time around, as Emerson carefully considered how this material would work in a live context. The resulting body of work is banddriven but grooveheavy and danceadjacent. The breakbeatassisted Eden has a baggy sound thats reminiscent of dancerock hybrids of the late 80s and early 90s. The witty How Dar