The Avalanches share "Frankie Sinatra", announce first album in 16 years

The Australian sample fiends have been teasing their return for a while, and this new music arrives ahead of their live comeback. It was revealed by Zane Lowe on Beats 1.

The track features Danny Brown and MF DOOM, samples The Sound Of Music and Wilmouth Houdini's "Bobby Sox Idol", and has a bizarrely dark video about a hallucinogenic neon drink/ice cream treat wreaking havoc in the Deep South.

The long-awaited follow up to 2000's Since I Left You is called Wildflower and it features 21 new tracks. It's got a bunch of special guests, including Father John Misty, Toro Y Moi, Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux, Camp Lo, Warren Ellis of Dirty Three, and Biz Markie.

The band's Robbie Chater says: “What kept us going during the making this record was a belief in the day-to-day experience of music as a life force – as life energy. Hearing a certain song on a certain morning can change your day; it can make the world look different, changing the way you perceive light refracting through the atmosphere for the rest of the afternoon. Literally changing the colour and feeling-tone of your world.”

Wildflower is out 8 July via XL Recordings.

Watch the Fleur & Manu-directed "Frankie Sinatra" video below. The band's interview with Zane Lowe and the album's tracklist is afterwards.

Tracklist:

1. The Leaves Were Falling
2. Because I’m Me
3. Frankie Sinatra
4. Subways
5. Going Home
6. If I Was a Folkstar
7. Colours
8. Zap!
9. The Noisy Eater
10. Wildflower
11. Harmony
12. Live a Lifetime Love
13. Park Music
14. Livin’ Underwater (Is Somethin’ Wild)
15. The Wozard of Iz
16. Over the Turnstiles
17. Sunshine
18. Light Up
19. Kaleidoscopic Lovers
20. Stepkids
21. Saturday Night Inside Out
22. Frankie Sinatra (Extended Mix)