{"id":821564,"date":"2026-07-23T20:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821564\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T20:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:33:11","slug":"the-avalanches-and-karen-o-share-new-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821564\/","title":{"rendered":"The Avalanches and Karen O Share New Single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/25477-the-avalanches\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Avalanches<\/a> are back with another single, and this time <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/6468-karen-o\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karen O<\/a> is involved. \u201cBlue Shadows\u201d poses the age-old question, \u201cDoes anybody know how to mend a broken heart?\u201d It\u2019s built around a prominent sample of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rYklI_5CoRs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shadows From Nowhere<\/a>,\u201d a 1983 Italo single by the composer Celso Valli under his moniker Blue Gas. Listen below.<\/p>\n<p>The new release continues an already-fruitful year for the Australian trio of Robbie Chater, Tony Di Blasi, and Andy Szekeres. After they returned with their first new song in six years, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-an-ipod-and-a-floppy-disc-dance-in-the-avalanches-new-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Together<\/a>,\u201d in May, they followed it up with the Jamie xx collab \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/the-avalanches-and-jamie-xx-reunite-for-every-single-weekend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Every Single Weekend<\/a>\u201d last month. The group\u2019s most recent LP, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/the-avalanches-we-will-always-love-you\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">We Will Always Love You<\/a>, came out in 2020. Karen O <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/the-avalanches-detail-new-album-we-will-always-love-you-karen-o-mgmt-more\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appeared briefly<\/a> on that album via the interlude \u201cDial D for Devotion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Revisit Philip Sherburne\u2019s review of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/the-avalanches-we-will-always-love-you\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">We Will Always Love You<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Avalanches are back with another single, and this time Karen O is involved. \u201cBlue Shadows\u201d poses the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[328,49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-821564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-audio","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}