Avalanches No Bad Memories, the Australian sample-collage group’s fourth studio album, arrives Friday 16 October 2026 via Modular Recordings. Across a sprawling 31 tracks, it follows 2020’s We Will Always Love You with a deep dive into jingles, commercials, startup sounds, and brand earworms—guest-heavy and deliberately surreal. This ADVANCE Music guide locks street date, concept, and collaborative tracklist before the Oct 16 spike—without twinning Fontaines D.C. Dopamine Chamber (same Friday), Remi Wolf, Pet Shop Boys, or Teenage Fanclub album hubs.

Release date, label, and headline facts

Album — No Bad Memories

Artist — The Avalanches

Release — 16 October 2026

Label — Modular Recordings

Studio album no. — Fourth (after Since I Left You, Wildflower, We Will Always Love You)

Tracks — 31 (digital); format exclusives noted below

Concept — Jingles, commercials, obsolete tech, brand identities

Pitchfork’s August announcement framed the record as a press-release deep dive into marketing-age earworms; Consequence’s September tracklist drop confirmed how far the collaborative net was cast.

Guest list and singles already out

Confirmed collaborators across the cycle include Jamie xx, Panda Bear, Karen O, Rivers Cuomo, Mike Patton, Barry Can’t Swim, Carly Simon, Haruomi Hosono, Ryoji Ikeda, Haley Joel Osment, Loaded Honey, Vegyn, John Glacier, Erick the Architect, Suzanne Ciani, Khadija Al Hanafi, Portraits of Tracy, Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza, and Prentiss.

Pre-album singles include “Blue Shadows” (Karen O), “Every Single Weekend” (Jamie xx), “Together” (Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza & Prentiss), and “Can’t Get Over Losing You” (Portraits of Tracy), the last arriving with a Jonathan Zawada animated video around the album reveal.

Tracklist snapshot (digital edition)

Headline placements from the published list: “Together”; “Every Single Weekend” (Jamie xx); “Blue Shadows” (Karen O); “All The Time In The World” (Rivers Cuomo, Vegyn & Baby Marlboro); “Highfield” (Panda Bear); “One More Fantasy” (Carly Simon); “Magic Wand” / “Our Love Is Alive” (Barry Can’t Swim; latter with Suzanne Ciani); “Paradise Island,” “Superfun!™ TV Spot,” and “Total Recall” (Mike Patton threads); closer “The Pavements Light” (Haruomi Hosono). Osment appears on commercial-style interludes “El Dorado TV Spot” and “Superfun!™ TV Spot.”

Format notes (per Consequence): digital exclusives include “He Lives In The Old World,” “El Dorado TV Spot,” “Total Recall,” and the Loaded Honey version of “Final Credits.” Vinyl/CD/cassette get exclusive “Evergreen Altar” (Vegyn).

People also ask: is this a Since I Left You sequel?

No—press framing treats No Bad Memories as a new conceptual lane after We Will Always Love You, not a reboot of the 2000 debut. The sample DNA remains Avalanches, but the stated inspiration is ad-jingles and corporate sonic residue rather than a pure crate-digging nostalgia trip.

Why ADVANCE now (spike ~16 October)

“Avalanches No Bad Memories,” “No Bad Memories tracklist,” and “Avalanches October 2026” queries climb through release week beside a crowded Friday pile that also includes Fontaines D.C.’s Dopamine Chamber. A sourced Modular date–guest–format explainer outranks thin calendar bullets that bury the fourth album under louder XL marketing.

Related Sunday Profile Music albums

Deepen the cluster with our live Remi Wolf Mud and Pet Shop Boys A Man From The Future—October album neighbours without twinning this Avalanches primary keyword or Fontaines Dopamine Chamber as the main topic.

Career context heading into No Bad Memories

After the long gap from Since I Left You (2000) to Wildflower (2016) and the denser We Will Always Love You (2020), the group has spent the mid-2020s dripping singles that previewed this commercial-universe concept. The Osment trailer (with Liam Oz) and Zawada video underline a visual campaign as maximal as the 31-track runtime.

Pre-order and pre-save links circulated with the August Modular announcement; recheck the official Avalanches store in release week for colourways and indie exclusives typical of large sample-collage campaigns.

Sources and caveats

16 Oct Modular release, fourth-album framing, jingles/commercials concept, guest roster, and 31-track digital list: Pitchfork (6 August 2026) and Consequence (2 September 2026). Chart positions, last-minute track swaps, and physical SKUs can still shift—recheck Modular and theavalanches.com in release week.