It’s finally happening. No joke, no trolling, it’s actually finally happening. 16 long years after the release of their iconic debut album, Australian plunderphonics crew The Avalanches are finally releasing new music and it’s happening today.
No, really.
As Pitchfork reports, Zane Lowe announced on the latest episode of his Beats 1 radio show that the group will be releasing new music later today and members Tony [Di Blasi] and Robbie [Chater] will be joining the broadcaster for their first new interview.
Coming up at some point in the next 12 hours, new music will emerge and you will hear the first new interview with Tony [Di Blasi] and Robbie [Chater] aka the Avalanches,” he told listeners, no doubt eliciting many exclamations of ‘Wait what?’
Beats 1 have since uploaded several teasers of the upcoming interview, which will be broadcast via Beats 1 at 2pm Sydney time, according to a tweet from Lowe. Unfortunately this means you have to be an Apple Music member if you want to hear it.
However, if you just want to hear the single (and we know you do), you can tune in to triple j for free “just before 2pm today”. According to the national youth broadcaster, they’ll be premiering a brand new Avalanches track titled ‘Frankie Sinatra’.
As you may recall, ‘Frankie Sinatra’ is the track we were supposedly meant to get last week after crafty Redditors connected dots from the far corners of the internet and realised the release of the band’s hush-hush Danny Brown collab was imminent.
The track never came, but we did get a snippet of new Avalanches music in the form of ‘Subways’. To hear the excerpt, you had to call a hotline found on posters around the UK and Australia and then do your best to decipher the music amongst all the distortion.
But after 16 years of holding on to hope and oh so many broken promises, new Avalanches music is finally here and triple j is promising we’ll also get to hear some details about that follow-up to Since I Left You. We are trying so hard to remain calm.
Meanwhile, according to a tweet from Aaron Venimere, who’s somehow been able to procure a T-shirt for The Avalanches’ upcoming tour, the band’s follow-up to Since I Left You is likely titled Wildflower.
UPDATE: The Avalanches’ first single in 16 years, ‘Frankie Sinatra’, is finally here. Check it out out below.
