The Avalanches are again and mixing their third album

Followers needed to wait 16 interminable years between The Avalanches’ debut, 2000’s Since I Left You, and their follow-up, Wildflowers. Fortunately, it gained’t be one other decade and a half earlier than the duo returns as soon as once more, as a brand new Instagram publish has revealed they’re already mixing their third studio album.

Whereas Since I Left you was a main instance of basic of end-of-the-millennium plunderphonics, Wildflowers noticed band members Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi take a extra blended strategy with collaborations from Danny Brown, MF Doom, Toro y Moi, and others. It appears to be like like this new effort will observe the latter’s sample, as a click on on the Instagram publish reveals a bunch of tagged musicians, which any armchair Sherlock may inform are doubtless collaborators. The Avalanches appear to have acquired assist from JPEGMAFIA, Dhani Harrison, Cornelius, Naeem Juwan (fka Spank Rock), Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux, and lots of extra.

The image itself is of the Voyager Golden Report, the gathering of humanity’s audible accomplishments that NASA shot into house. The Avalanche’s location tag is “Planet Earth”, which might be a touch about their interplanetary ambitions, and never simply the obvious assertion of the 12 months.

Lastly, the publish comes with one sentence of cryptic writing: “See you quickly L.A.” In fact, L.A. clearly stands for Lege Artis, Latin for “in keeping with the regulation of the artwork — or possibly it’s simply Los Angeles. However as for “see you quickly?” Nicely, that might imply darn close to something. Hopefully, we get extra information on The Avalanches’ LP three someday within the subsequent few weeks, months, or years.