The Avalanches have announced a surprise “free party” to take place in London later this week – see all the details below.
The Melbourne ‘plunderphonics’ group released their first new track in six years last week in the form of the joyously nostalgic ‘Together’, which featured Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza and Prentiss.
It was their first new music since 2020 album ‘We Will Always Love You’ in 2020, which itself followed up 2016’s ‘Wildflower’, the comeback record that arrived 16 years after their timeless debut record ‘Since I Left You’.
Now, the group have announced a one-off show to take place at OM in East London on Thursday night (May 21). Labelled as ‘The Avalanches & Friends…’, it will run from 8pm until midnight and entry is free. There are limited spaces and you can sign up here.
London, this Thursday 🫂
Free party at OM to celebrate the release of ‘Together’. Plus very special guests! 👾
Limited spaces, so sign up here: https://t.co/wiHM0ifwxI pic.twitter.com/D1YO0cwt07
— The Avalanches (@TheAvalanches) May 18, 2026
‘Together’ is believed to be the first taste of a fourth Avalanches album, and it explores the aching warmth of the nature of memory, with Lanza singing: “You only know the picture me, the one that smiles with hope / You could never picture me at home, crying over my telephone / I’ll never be the picture me, the me I love the most / Staring at a picture on my phone, staring at a memory that’s gone”.
It comes along with a simple video showing a floppy disk and an iPod galloping forward in front of a sun that rises and sets with alarming regularity. Watch here:
NME spoke to The Avalanches in 2020 about the legacy of their landmark 2000 debut album ‘Since I Left You’.
“‘Since I Left You’s shadow got bigger and bigger every year,” Tony Di Blasi said.
“I still remember four years [after it was released] my girlfriend at the time said, ‘You know people say it’s a really classic record?’” Robbie Chater added. “I’d never heard anybody say that. I just heard all the shit I should’ve done better.”
“Now it’s 20, the little kid’s all grown up!” Di Blasi exclaimed.
“I have a great relationship with the album now,” Chater continued. “It sounds like a very young me made it. It’s naïve, heart-on-sleeve, it was never cool or ironic. It was passionate, of the moment, full of joy.”
Last year, The Avalanches contributed tracks to Massive Attack’s ‘Piccadilly Un:Plugged’ installation in London, and in 2024, they collaborated with Jamie xx for his single ‘All You Children’, a follow-on from their previous work together on ‘Wherever You Go’ from ‘We Will Always Love You’.
