The Avalanches have announced the release of their first album in 16 years and also unveiled a new single, Frankie Sinatra, a weirdly trippy slice of hypnotic circus-style grooves.
Details of the Australian band’s new album Wildflower – the long-awaited successor to their massively successful 2000 debut, Since I Left You - were revealed earlier today and will be released on July 8.
Speaking to Zane Lowe on Beats 1, band member Tony Di Blasi said: "There was so much music and so many different projects going on that, at a certain point, we realised we had to pull a record together."
Collaborations on the new album, which features a massive 21 tracks, include Danny Brown and Doom – who both guest on new single Frankie Sinatra, which they themselves describe as an "old world carnival inspired rollercoaster of a song".
Judge for yourself here. Naturally the accompanying video, which was filmed in New Orleans, is suitably hallucinogenic.
Also guesting on the album is Father John Misty, Mercury Rev singer Jonathan Donohue, Biz Markie, Toro Y Moi, Royal Trux singer Jennifer Herrera, Ariel Pink and Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis.
Fellow Avalanche member Robbie Chater added: "We’ll have another album done in three years."
