The Avalanches have clearly been constructing as much as an album, and at the moment, 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 good We Will At all times Love You — with the launch of an RPG of types centering on a fictional firm, Takumi Digital Archives, together with varied 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 Dropping You,” is out now together with particulars on the brand new album. It is known as No Unhealthy Reminiscences, 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 reminiscences.” In a brand new assertion, the group explains that this idea applies extra particularly to their private expertise of adverts and types rising up within the late twentieth century:
It has been fascinating as adults to replicate on this usually beautiful interval of promoting – the creativity, filmmaking, pictures and music – however which was additionally – you already know, promoting a totally unobtainable dream. The best way we worth gadgets and merchandise; the way in which we replicate 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 Reminiscences.
“Cannot Get Over Dropping You,” the brand new single out at the moment, 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. Virtually weekly one other track arrives .. “I made one thing new ..what do you guys suppose !?” And so they’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, actually 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 usually with peeps, however as quickly as we linked 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 Reminiscences is out 10/16 on Modular. Pre-order and pre-save it right here.
