Avalanches Articles during release of Wildflower

There is a lot of great information coming out this month thanks to the new album, including some tantalizing near-answers to the primary questions of "why did it take so long" and "what happened to Darren?" Here are my favorites as they go by:

"We lost our minds’ – how the Avalanches spent the last 16 years." Includes the usual info about the King Kong movie, the many guest artists they recorded with, Modular's collapse/court problems and the pressure of following up SILY. Goes into some detail about Robbie's autoimmune diseases that happened, the first mention I've seen of Robbie's alcoholism prior to SILY, the old mac that had all their samples on it, the presence of super obscure bands on the new album, some stuff about Darren's departure, lots of details of Robbie's hallucinogenic purge, and the intended song cycle story.https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/14/the-avalanches-wildflower-interview