The Avalanches have clearly been constructing as much as an album, and right now, they’re prepared to inform us about it.
4 months in the past, the Australian band/manufacturing crew started teasing a brand new LP — the follow-up to 2020’s sensible We Will At all times Love You — with the launch of an RPG of kinds centering on a fictional firm, Takumi Digital Archives, together with numerous different immersive multimedia content material exploring the connection between promoting and nostalgia. They’ve since launched three singles: “Collectively” with Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza, and Prentiss; “Each Single Weekend” with Jamie xx; and “Blue Shadows” with Karen O.
A fourth new track, “Cannot Get Over Shedding You,” is out now together with particulars on the brand new album. It is known as No Unhealthy Recollections, it is dropping in October, and it’s certainly “impressed by the concurrently magical and insidious ways in which promoting and name-brand expertise wraps itself round our recollections.” In a brand new assertion, the group explains that this idea applies extra particularly to their private expertise of advertisements and types rising up within the late twentieth century:
It has been attention-grabbing as adults to mirror on this typically beautiful interval of promoting – the creativity, filmmaking, pictures and music – however which was additionally – you realize, promoting a totally unobtainable dream. The best way we worth units and merchandise; the best way we mirror and signify “a life lived”; the surprise of reminiscence and deep energy of nostalgia, particularly in sound. Revisiting imagery and jingles from childhood and realizing how profoundly they’ve caught… Taking these sound sources from inside the coronary heart of this kinda company framework and flipping the fragments into our personal form of joyous pop music … finally we arrived at this world of No Unhealthy Recollections.
“Cannot Get Over Shedding You,” the brand new single out right now, pairs the Avalanches with Portraits Of Tracy, aka Baton Rouge musical artist Tracy Amare. Robbie Chater of the Avalanches elaborates on their ongoing collaboration:
Tracy is an hilarious, courageous and tender human being who Tony and I’ve change into very near through the years we’ve been making music collectively. Nearly weekly one other track arrives .. “I made one thing new ..what do you guys suppose !?” They usually’re all the time SO good. Each single track ! Tracy’s manufacturing and mixing is insane nevertheless it’s her voice and songwriting that break my coronary heart time after time, really a generational expertise ! We really feel very lucky to make music collectively.
Lastly, some phrases from Portraits Of Tracy:
Working with The Avalanches was such an superior expertise! I don’t discover myself collaborating too typically with peeps, however as quickly as we related it felt good. We began the track in 2024 & rerecorded it / completed it in 2025, and now she simply sounds pretty!
Pay attention beneath.
No Unhealthy Recollections is out 10/16 on Modular. Pre-order and pre-save it right here.
