and we have a confirmed song called Every Single Weekend that had a video shoot in march
https://stereogum.com/2497750/the-avalanches-tease-new-album-with-retro-futurist-arg/news
Fascinating, they must have turned this into a full, structured song (they produced it)

Fascinating, they must have turned this into a full, structured song (they produced it)
!https://youtu.be/_OhKtYi6xnE?si=7sHCF_0qHocs48nkwait you're a genius I forgot they prod on this one too!! wonder if jamie is fully involved in the full song too especially knowing how heavy they were working with and inspiring each other for WWALY & In Waves sessions
Really sorry I didn't save this, but a few days ago they posted a brief snippet on their Instagram story, it had graphics of a cute 3D-animated cassette tape with eyes, arms, and legs, while audio played with WWALY-esque synth stings and sampled audio about recording on tapes and buying tapes from Walmart
EDIT: It's the 10th slide on this post!
https://takumiarchives.com/
Here's another website, seems to be related to the rollout.
yh u get a bunch of different snippets clicking through there, love the web design also
so it seems "digital archives"/ internet nostalgia might be the theme of the album
wow... loving these visuals AND sound
yh u get a bunch of different snippets clicking through there, love the web design also
so it seems "digital archives"/ internet nostalgia might be the theme of the album
said this a bit prematurely, this might be something but after going through the whole website the main theme definitely seems to be advertising aesthetics
also as one clue the "theme" opening their early NTS sets was "Angel", the OG vaporwave song by OPN. that teaser is giving me massive OPN vibes wonder if he's maybe involved even


Takumi in collaboration with Freeplay Inc, are proud to announce the new Superfun™ console - yours to own May 15. Featuring 32 Bit RISC Processors, 32768 Colors, 50000 polygons/sec and Digital Stereo Sound and two Interchangeable Game Pak Cartridges.
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Takumi Digital Archives are proud to announce a new partnership with recording artists The Avalanches.
Today sees the launch of a new recording - Together - exploring the themes of memory, identity loss and media decay - built using the actual whirring, clicking and static of aging technologies once used to capture and store personal experience.
We look forward to a fruitful and efficient relationship with The Avalanches.
The beat was made using the sounds of old hard drives and the like, neat!