Today, The Avalanches announced their fourth album, No Bad Memories, which will be released October 16 via Modular Recordings. The record, which features 31 new tracks, contains the previously released singles "Blue Shadows" (feat. Karen O.), "Every Single Weekend" (feat. Jamie XX), and "Together" (feat. Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza & Prentiss). The electronic trio also shared their newest single "Can't Get Over Losing You," which features Portraits of Tracy.
Watch the official visualizer for "Can't Get Over Losing You," directed and animated by Jonathan Zawada, below:
No Bad Memories comes six years after We Will Always Love You, a 25-track departure from their sample-reliant 'pluderphonics' composition style, building their songs, instead, from a combination of samples and original instrumentation. The new record takes on a similar structure, calling upon star-studded collaborations and recognizable sample loops to bait nostalgia. Here, songs are pieced together from commercial jingles, proprietary start-up sounds and long forgotten audio logos — all memories forced upon us through techno-capitalism and advertising schemes.
In a press release, The Avalanches reflected on childhood, and how "fond memories" and product ad campaigns designed to be unforgettable were intertwined. They said:
“It's been interesting as adults to reflect on this often stunning period of marketing — the creativity, filmmaking, photography and music — which was also, you know, selling a completely unobtainable dream. The way we value devices and products; the way we reflect and represent ‘a life lived’; the wonder of memory and deep power of nostalgia, especially in sound. 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’."
The new single "Can't Get Over Losing You" siphons a euphoric, nostalgic energy from garage drums, indietronica arrangements, and an electroclash-harkening pop vocal performance from self-taught producer and breakout artist Portraits of Tracy. "Tracy is a hilarious, brave and tender human being who Tony and I have become very close to over the years we’ve been making music together," noted Avalanches member Robbie Chatter on their collaboration. "Tracy’s production and mixing is insane, but it’s her voice and songwriting that break my heart time after time, truly a generational talent! We feel very fortunate to make music together."
Portraits of Tracy added, "I don’t find myself collaborating too often with peeps, but as soon as we connected it felt just right. We started the song in 2024 and rerecorded it / finished it in 2025, and now she just sounds lovely!”

No Bad Memories is out October 16 via Modular Recordings. Pre-order here. No full tracklist has been announced yet.
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