The Avalanches have announced their fourth studio album, “No Bad Memories,” due out October 16. The Australian trio of Robbie Chater, Tony Di Blasi and Andy Szekeres unveiled the project alongside a new single, “Can’t Get Over Losing You,” featuring Louisiana singer-songwriter and producer Portraits of Tracy.
The album purports to explore how advertising and consumer technology have woven themselves into personal memory, drawing on commercial jingles, tech start-up sounds and half-remembered audio logos from their childhood. “It’s been interesting as adults to reflect on this often stunning period of marketing – the creativity, filmmaking, photography and music – but which was also – you know, selling a completely unobtainable dream,” the band said in a statement. “Revisiting imagery and jingles from childhood and realizing how profoundly they have stuck…Taking these sound sources from within the heart of this kinda corporate framework and flipping the fragments into our own kind of joyous pop music eventually we arrived at this world of No Bad Memories.”
