The Avalanches have shared their latest single, the summer-ready ‘Every Single Weekend’ with Jamie xx – check it out below.
The Melbourne electronic group returned last month with the nostalgic ‘Together’, their first new track in six years, which featured Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza and Prentiss.
Now, they have followed it up with another new banger in the form of ‘Every Single Weekend’, a track that first appeared as an interlude towards the end of Jamie xx’s 2024 album ‘In Waves’.
The track and its video slyly poke fun at the shallow and insincere language of advertising, and it follows on from The Avalanches’ previous collaborations with the producer, ‘Wherever You Go’ from ‘We Will Always Love You’, and the 2024 single ‘All You Children’.
Watch the video for ‘Every Single Weekend’ here:
The Avalanches have said: “We’ve loved collaborating with Jamie xx over the years – his ‘In Colour’ album reignited our passion for sampling, and this track is all about letting go, forgetting the 9-5 grind and enjoying every single weekend.”
The new songs mark the first new material from The Avalanches since their 2020 album ‘We Will Always Love You’, the follow-up to ‘Wildflower’ in 2016, which itself was their return 16 years after their landmark debut record ‘Since I Left You.
They also recently played a surprise “free party” in OM in East London, where they went b2b with Yu Su, Nikki Nair and Baalti.
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.”
Elsewhere, The Avalanches contributed tracks to Massive Attack’s ‘Piccadilly Un:Plugged’ installation in London.