The Avalanches Turn Nostalgia Into Euphoria on Fourth Album ‘No Bad Memories’
The Australian electronic pioneers return with a star-studded new album featuring Karen O, Jamie xx, Rivers Cuomo and more, alongside a new video starring Hollywood actor Haley Joel Osment.
More than 25 years after changing the possibilities of electronic music with Since I Left You, The Avalanches are still finding extraordinary new ways to make the past sound like the future.
The Australian electronic pioneers have released their fourth studio album, No Bad Memories, a kaleidoscopic collection that transforms the forgotten sounds of advertising, television commercials and everyday technology into something altogether more human.
For a group that has built its reputation on transforming discarded fragments of popular culture into emotionally resonant music, the concept feels like a natural evolution.
This time, Robbie Chater, Tony Di Blasi and Andy Szekeres have turned their attention to the sounds that quietly infiltrate our lives: advertising jingles, sonic logos, electronic notifications and the countless musical fragments that become inseparable from childhood memories.
The result is an album that explores the strange relationship between consumer culture and nostalgia, finding unexpected beauty in sounds originally designed to sell products.
And, as ever with The Avalanches, they’ve invited an extraordinary collection of collaborators along for the ride.
The album features contributions from Karen O, Rivers Cuomo, John Glacier, Jamie xx, Barry Can’t Swim, Loaded Honey, Ryoji Ikeda, Portraits of Tracy, Haruomi Hosono, Khadija Al Hanafi and electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.
Ciani’s involvement is particularly fitting. The electronic composer helped shape the sound of modern advertising through her groundbreaking work creating audio identities for brands including Coca-Cola and Atari.
In the hands of The Avalanches, those once-disposable sounds become the building blocks of something considerably more enduring.
The band marked the album’s arrival with a message to fans.
“Our album No Bad Memories is out in the world today. We’re beyond grateful for the endless enthusiasm and love our music receives after all this time. Thank you for taking the time to listen, we hope you enjoy it!”
Haley Joel Osment Takes a Ride With The Avalanches
Among the album’s highlights is “I Give Everything I Have 2 U”, featuring Loaded Honey, a euphoric, soul-sampling track that captures the album’s fascination with the emotional power of familiar sounds.
The accompanying music video stars Hollywood actor Haley Joel Osment, best known for The Sixth Sense, in an unlikely adventure through the streets of Tokyo.
Filmed by cinematographer Andrés Arochi, whose credits include Longlegs, the video follows Osment as he navigates the chaotic traffic of Shibuya in a single-take sequence.
“Working with our friend Haley on the visual for this song was such a thrill,” the band said.
“A one-take scenario with Haley trying to navigate the Shibuya traffic, a huge camera strapped to the outside of his windshield is not a bad memory indeed!”
The video adds another playful chapter to the group’s long history of creating visual worlds that are every bit as inventive as their music.
The album’s rollout has already delivered a succession of collaborations and singles.
“Blue Shadows”, featuring Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O, finds The Avalanches in a more intimate and haunting mood, while “Every Single Weekend”, their collaboration with Jamie xx, embraces the dancefloor.
The latter’s Jonathan Zawada-directed video has been nominated for Best Video at the 2026 ARIA Awards.
Other tracks include “Can’t Get Over Losing You”, featuring Portraits of Tracy, “Far Away”, with John Glacier and Khadija Al Hanafi, and the glitch-heavy “Together”, featuring Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza and Prentiss.
“Together” has also received new interpretations from Frost Children and Baalti, extending the album’s sonic universe beyond its original recordings.
A Quarter-Century of Reinventing the Past
Few Australian groups have exerted the international influence of The Avalanches.
Their 2000 debut, Since I Left You, remains one of the defining electronic albums of the 21st century. Constructed from more than 3,500 vinyl samples, it created a seamless musical universe from forgotten records, obscure voices and fragments of sound.
The album established a new benchmark for sample-based production and helped turn the Melbourne collective into one of Australia’s most internationally revered musical exports.
After a famously lengthy absence, The Avalanches returned in 2016 with Wildflower, which debuted at No. 1 in Australia and on Billboard’s Vinyl Albums chart, while reaching the UK Top 10.
Their third album, 2020’s We Will Always Love You, expanded their creative ambitions further, bringing together an eclectic cast of collaborators and exploring themes of love, loss, memory and the afterlife.
With No Bad Memories, the band returns to one of its most enduring obsessions: the way music can transport listeners through time.
It’s a fascination that has helped The Avalanches accumulate more than 700 million streams, 140 million YouTube views and over one million album sales worldwide.
The new album has already attracted enthusiastic reviews, with Clash awarding it 9/10 and describing it as “Mad, joyous and utterly absorbing.”
NME called the record “Joyously nostalgic”, while Rolling Stone awarded it four stars, praising its ability to draw on the past while exploring new musical territory.
The Avalanches Return to the Stage
The release also signals a renewed period of live activity for the group.
Following their first-ever live performance in Mexico, The Avalanches have announced a series of international dates, including a show at New York’s Terminal 5 on October 22 and two sold-out performances at London’s Roundhouse as part of the Pitchfork Music Festival in November.
The group has also been making appearances across the international electronic music circuit, including a back-to-back DJ set with The Dare at his Freakquencies party in France, performances at All Together Now in the UK and Poplar in Italy, and surprise pop-up sets in London, Los Angeles, Sydney and Tokyo.
Further appearances are planned at C2C in Italy and Les Nuits Weekender in Belgium.
Australian audiences will have their chance to experience the new material when The Avalanches return home for their No Bad Memories Live shows in March 2027.
For a band that once seemed destined to be defined by the extraordinary achievement of its debut album, The Avalanches have spent the past quarter-century demonstrating that their creative possibilities are almost limitless.
What began as an obsession with dusty vinyl records has evolved into an ongoing exploration of how sound, memory and emotion intersect.
And on No Bad Memories, they’ve found another way to make the familiar feel wonderfully strange.
The Avalanches’ fourth studio album, No Bad Memories, is out now. Their Australian No Bad Memories Live shows take place in March 2027.