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Watch an iPod and a Floppy Disk Dance in the Avalanches’ New Video

Pitchfork·Walden Green·18 days ago
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The Avalanches have returned with their first new single in six years. “ Together ” features Nikki Nair , Jessy Lanza , and Prentiss, an 18-year-old artist and producer based in Jackson, Missouri. An anthropomorphic iPod and floppy disk are the stars of the song’s accompanying visualizer, which was directed and animated by frequent collaborator Jonathan Zawada . Check it out below. Though they’ve made no official announcement to date, the Avalanches have been teasing their fourth studio album since the fall, when they posted an Instagram story of a stack of hard drives with the caption “LP #4.” More recently, the Australian trio launched a website for a fake company called Takumi , whose mascot is a purple cartoon cat that wears a witch hat and flies on a broomstick. “At Takumi, we understand that digital archives are more than data repositories - they are institutional memory, intellectual property, and cultural heritage,” reads the “mission statement” on takumiarchives.com.…

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