''Changa'' is the fifth studio album by Australian electronic trio

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. It was released on 10 November 2017 by the independent label

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. It follows their 2012 remix album in collaboration with

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, ''

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'', and is their first studio album since '' Soft Universe'' (2011). It is also their first album as a trio, with vocalist and co-founder

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's brother

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joining in 2016. The album was preceded by the lead single "

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" in November 2016, which reached number four on the ARIA Singles Chart, and number 11 on the

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. It features vocals by Kira Divine. It has received over 25 million streams on

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and been certified double platinum by the

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. On 25 August, Pnau released three more tracks in promotion of the album: "Into the Sky", "Young Melody" featuring

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, and "Control Your Body", with "Into the Sky" debuting on

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. Divine also lent vocals to "Control Your Body". "Into the Sky" was accompanied by a video of Nick Littlemore as a floating head set against psychedelic visuals. " Go Bang" was released as a single on 27 October. In the lead-up to the album's release, the trio embarked on an Australian tour, performing at the Listen Out festival in Sydney on 30 September, and at the Adelaide dance event Oh Yes. At the

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, ''Changa'' was nominated for

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Music and themes

Upon its release, ''

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'' compared "Young Melody" to the "smooth

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vibes of PNAU's sublime debut LP ''

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''". Pnau said of "Into the Sky": "It is a song that wrote itself. We like to think that it captures the ambition, angst and ambivalence we held as teenagers." Nick Littlemore commented that the trio had been influenced by

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for the song. Al Newstead of

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called "Into the Sky" a "fuzzy, distorted drum heavy track that ..tak sinspiration from the '

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' '90s dance scene". He also labeled "Young Melody" a "blissful dance" track, and noted the "4am rave vibes" of "Control Your Body". Amnplify described "Control Your Body" as having "enigmatic instrumentation and vocals before settling into a deep rhythmic groove – a true acid workout and a nostalgic homage to the bands formative rave days". "

" was additionally called a "festival favourite and dance floor anthem".

Album title

The album is named after Changa, the DMT-infused smokeable form of

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Track listing

Notes * Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 10 feature vocals by Kira Divine. * The bonus tracks from the 2018 tour edition came from their previous album ''

''.

Charts

References

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