“Fade Out Lines” by The Avener featuring Phoebe Kildeer

"Fade Out Lines" became the calling card of French producer the Avener, and it later fronted both his self-titled American EP and his 2015 debut album, The Wanderings of the Avener, as the lead single. It takes "The Fade Out Line", which the Australian band Phoebe Killdeer & the Short Straws put on Innerquake in 2011, and remakes it as deep house, with Killdeer's own voice still at the center. Killdeer and Craig Walker, the singer of Archive, share the writing credit.

The result is a smoky, rolling groove, and it caught fire on the continent in 2014: onto the charts in France that April, up to number three there by November, and straight in at number one in Germany in October.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.