Album · Matthew Good
Avalanche by Matthew Good
Avalanche is an album by Matthew Good, released in 2003. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 4 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “In A World Called Catastrophe”, on 2 lists with a best position of #15.
Avalanche, Matthew Good's first album under his own name, arrived in March 2003, a year after the Matthew Good Band, one of Canada's most successful alt-rock acts, had come apart. It's a deliberate break from the old band's sound: Warne Livesey produced, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra swells in behind Good on several tracks, turning his brooding rock songs into something grand and stormy, strings and all.
Good's voice, raw and anxious, still sits at the center, and the whole record has a restless, uneasy pull. "Weapon", "In a World Called Catastrophe" and "Near Fantastica" were the singles, the last of them sent only to radio, and in a much shorter edit.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Avalanche on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In A World Called Catastrophe | 2 | #15 | – | 2003 | |
| 2 | Weapon | 1 | #33 | – | 2003 | |
| 3 | Near Fantastica | 1 | #64 | – | 2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.