The Avalanches Return With “Together,” Featuring Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza, and Prentiss

The Avalanches have finally pushed out a new song after months of slow-burn teases around the follow-up to their 2020 album We Will Always Love You, which was our Album Of The Week. The Australian electronic duo has spent the recent stretch building the rollout in pieces, first with a new logo and then with a retro-futuristic role-playing game linked to a fictional company called Takumi. “Together” is the first clear payoff from that campaign.

The track brings in a sharp cross-section of collaborators: LA-based producer Nikki Nair, Canadian dance-pop experimenter Jessy Lanza, and Prentiss, the viral teenage sensation. It arrives with a video directed and animated by Jonathan Zawada, whose visual language keeps circling the same digital-era ideas that have already defined the Takumi concept. Here, an iPod and a computer disc move together, reinforcing the project’s fixation on obsolete media and the strange afterlife of technology in pop culture.

It’s a rollout that feels deliberately layered, and in keeping with the Avalanches’ long habit of making their releases feel like worlds rather than simple singles. That kind of framing has become part of the appeal around the group’s post-Since I Left You era: less a clean reset than another carefully assembled detour through collage, nostalgia, and digital excess. Check it out below.