The Avalanches Unveil New Video: iPod and Floppy Disk Dance

The Avalanches have released “Together,” their first new single in six years, featuring Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza, and 18-year-old Jackson, Missouri-based artist and producer Prentiss. The track’s visualizer, directed and animated by frequent collaborator Jonathan Zawada, stars an anthropomorphic iPod and floppy disk. While no official announcement has been made, the Avalanches have been hinting at their fourth studio album since last fall. This began with an Instagram story showing a stack of hard drives captioned “LP #4.” More recently, the Australian trio unveiled a website for a fictional company named Takumi, featuring a purple cartoon cat mascot donning a witch hat and flying on a broomstick. The mission statement on takumiarchives.com reads, “At Takumi, we understand that digital archives are more than data repositories – they are institutional memory, intellectual property, and cultural heritage. Our platform combines enterprise-grade security, scalable infrastructure, and intelligent indexing to deliver a secure, future-ready foundation for digital preservation.” Their last album, We Will Always Love You, was released in 2020 and featured an extensive guest list including Blood Orange, Karen O, MGMT, Vashti Bunyan, and Rivers Cuomo, among others. Since then, the group has reissued their Y2K classic Since I Left You for its 20th anniversary, released an MF Doom remix of that album’s “Tonight May Have to Last Me All My Life,” and collaborated with Jamie xx and the late Cola Boyy.