The Avalanches link with Leon Bridges for new single "Interstellar Love"

"Interstellar Love" marks The Avalanches' debut collaboration with Leon Bridges, and follows on from last month's "Take Care In Your Dreaming" featuring Denzel Curry, Tricky and Sampa The Great, and "Music Makes Me High".

The new track samples The Alan Parsons Project's "Eye In The Sky". Speaking about the collaboration, The Avalanches' Robbie Chater says, "Leon is an incredible singer, with just the most beautiful voice. He’s from Texas but we both happened to be in LA at the same time, which was lucky as he was on my all-time wish list. When we were in the studio, I told him the story about Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan and how her love-struck brain waves were sent out into space on the Voyager’s Golden Record. And this song came out of that."

We Will Always Love You will also feature earlier outings "Running Red Lights" featuring Rivers Cuomo and Pink Siifu, "Wherever You Go" featuring Jamie xx, Neneh Cherry and CLYPSO, "Reflecting Light" with Sananda Maitreya and Vashti Bunyan, and Blood Orange collaboration "We Will Always Love You".

The new album is their first in four years, following 2016's Wildflower.

Chater says their new album is "an exploration of the human voice". He adds, "For us, to make the same record again, no matter how well executed, wouldn’t have been satisfying. We were looking to do something that would open up possibilities for the future. Take a bit of a left turn that frees us up to do whatever we want to next."

He also explains that their new LP came together "like a single thought, that was followed through in one process, quite quickly. The conceptual heart of things is really important to me, I can’t just be blindly creative, I need to find a feeling and a deeply personal place that gives me the energy to start making a record and a story to share. Wildflower changed so much over fifteen, sixteen years, whereas with this album, we knew what it was about right at the beginning, and then we did it, and it’s done."