Album · The Avalanches
Wildflower by The Avalanches
Wildflower is an album by The Avalanches, released in 2016. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 7 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Frankie Sinatra”, on 5 lists with a best position of #14.
Wildflower, the Avalanches' second album, finally arrived in July 2016, a full 16 years after Since I Left You. It spent most of that time in development hell: side projects, a King Kong score, an animated musical that ran out of money, and Robbie Chater sick for three years after work restarted in 2011. Chater, with Tony Di Blasi alongside, finally pieced it together the way you'd build a mixtape.
The wait shows in the best way. It's a plunderphonics head trip built from mountains of samples, heavy on '60s psychedelia, drifting through funk, disco and hip-hop with a counterculture spirit. Chater pictured it as an acid-soaked road trip from the city out to somewhere far away. The guest list is wild: Danny Brown, MF Doom, Biz Markie, Father John Misty, Toro y Moi, Kevin Parker, David Berman. Critics loved it, and it went to number one in Australia.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Wildflower on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frankie Sinatra | 5 | #14 | – | 2016–2022 | |
| 2 | Because I'm Me | 1 | #75 | – | 2016 | |
| 3 | Subways | 1 | #91 | – | 2016 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.