Avalanche (Matthew Good album)

Reception & Commercial performance

Track listing

Composition

• "Near Fantastica" is perhaps the oldest songs from Avalanche. Written in 1996, "Near Fantastica" was originally stated by Good to have been musically similar to "Suburbia" and vocally similar to "Every Name Is My Name" On Avalanche the lyrics were altered slightly from those Good posted online in 1999. The music, too, was changed to incorporate aspects of another song "Villain of the Year", which Good had become disenchanted with during the recording of Avalanche. The original version, which is a mere 4:23, was dubbed the 'radio edit' of the song and released as the record's third single. The 8-minute version on the album was altered from the original version during the mixing of Avalanche as he preferred it to the "simple verse, chorus, structure of the original."
• "A Long Way Down" was one of the last songs written for Avalanche. The song is based around a drum track that was taken from another song, "Comfortable Criminals", which was later cut from the album and released as a b-side.

  Personnel

• Matthew Good – vocals, guitar, art direction
• Christian Thor Valdson – guitar
• Pat Steward – drums, percussion
• Rich Priske – bass guitar