Avarena

by Aphir

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    The new album 'Avarena' on colour vinyl, pressed on 180g vinyl by Dunk Pressing in Belgium

    Variant 1 - forest green marble
    Variant 2 - clear rose

    Includes digital pre-order of Avarena. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Download available in 24-bit/48kHz.
    digital album releases October 9, 2026
    item ships out on or around September 10, 2026
    edition of 300 
    Purchasable with gift card

      $55 AUD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Pre-order of Avarena. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Purchasable with gift card
    Download available in 24-bit/48kHz.
    releases October 9, 2026

      $13.50 AUD  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The new album 'Avarena' on CD and with the album art and aphir logo on an AS colour shirt

    Includes digital pre-order of Avarena. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Download available in 24-bit/48kHz.
    digital album releases October 9, 2026
    item ships out on or around September 10, 2026
    Purchasable with gift card

      $55 AUD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Personalised signed copies of the LP & CD along with t-shirt

    Includes digital pre-order of Avarena. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Download available in 24-bit/48kHz.
    digital album releases October 9, 2026
    item ships out on or around September 10, 2026
    Purchasable with gift card

      $100 AUD or more 

     

1.
an angel's tears burn through the roof
2.
you remind me of staring right at the sun, but it doesn’t blind me won’t always need to hide but I hope you still find me trying to get this right living to just survive not looking out for holy fire that’s when it all ignites that’s when you call in one more try all of this breathless, untrustworthy time dust in my hands, shouldn’t matter but you remind me of staring right at the sun, but it doesn’t blind me won’t always need to hide but I hope you still find me trying to get this right clearer with each new day: words that I thought were just mistakes fall into perfect place forces at work here I can’t name those who have seen pure light blaze for a lifetime or one night speak of a sacred quiet flowering inside them at the sight all of this breathless, untrustworthy time dust in my hands, shouldn’t matter but you remind me of staring right at the sun, but it doesn’t blind me won’t always need to hide but I hope you still find me trying to get this right
3.
Can't Be Killed
4.
Ctrl (feat. Max Lawrence)
5.
Negative Space
6.
Messengers video
7.
Hand on Your Heart
8.
Dear as Salt (feat. Zsa LaFine)
9.
chapel perilous (interlude)
10.
Moratorium
11.
The Marker
12.
The Exception

about

Avarena is the name of my 7th album and it’s also the name of a city in the sky that I made up for a story when I was a teenager. in the fictional universe of Avarena, scientists had worked out how to stabilise half a proton and the resulting material was something that looked like clouds and floated in the air but could also somehow support human bodyweight not to mention metropolitan infrastructure. i decided to repurpose the title here for a body of work dedicated to a different idea that was also beautiful in theory

there’s a track on this album called chapel perilous, which is kind of an esoteric term for taking the L: it means realising you’ve become religiously certain of something but the certainty turns out to be based on your own delusions or ego. this album came from a place of facing that i’d indulged in that kind of certainty in an important relationship, and processing the cost of that

i wanted Avarena to be an honest catalogue of how i felt but i also wanted to tell the story with grace for my own limitations as well other people’s. it took me a lot longer to make than albums usually do, because grace moves slowly.

++ huge thank you to Bird's Robe for putting this out in the world ♡ www.birdsrobe.com

credits

releases October 9, 2026

piano on track 1 written & performed by Sam Andrews
guest vocals on track 4 written, engineered and performed by Max Lawrence (maxlawrence.bandcamp.com / www.instagram.com/max_lawrence._/)
guest vocals on track 8 written, engineered and performed by Zsa LaFine (zsazsalafine.bandcamp.com / www.instagram.com/zsa.lafine/)

all tracks written, performed, engineered, produced, mixed and mastered by Becki Whitton

album art by dampwetbody (www.instagram.com/dampwetbody/)
vinyl design by Anna Mayberry

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