I'm in love love love with this song! ;) (as if you didn't see that coming...)
Avalanche City is from Auckland, New Zealand. Inspired by The Rocket Summer's DIY first album, Dave Baxter decided to take matters into his own hands. Baxter has come from a personal background of music involving being a guitarist in the hardcore bands One Must Fall, & The Chase (the former starting in high school), & also obtaining a degree in music & writing [music] for television. Roughly 4 years ago, however, he bought a folk guitar, & "just started writing riffs, little plonky cute kinda riffs"*.
Baxter wrote, produced, recorded & performed all the instruments** on the City's album "Our New Life Above The Ground", which was released on April 4th, 2011, & distributed through Warner. "Love Love Love" was the first single & it reached #1 on New Zealand's singles chart, & "Our New Life..." debuted at #1 on the iTunes album chart. Since Avalanche City's inception, other musicians have joined Baxter, creating a 6 piece band who have joined in & are becoming the official band. They've since played to a 3000+ crowd at New Zealand's Parachute festival, & are currently on a small U.S. tour.
This song is from "Our New Life Above The Ground".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWzzbuJJYQc
* - http://www.libel.co.nz/blog_posts/2539-interview_with_avalanche_city
** - all instruments except a drum circle, during which he & a couple of his friends brought floor toms & played in a circle on a couple tracks; he also had another friend play harp for another song
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