{"id":69140,"date":"2026-07-23T17:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/the-avalanches-and-karen-o-share-new-single\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:08:31","slug":"the-avalanches-and-karen-o-share-new-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/the-avalanches-and-karen-o-share-new-single\/","title":{"rendered":"The Avalanches and Karen O Share New Single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/25477-the-avalanches\/\">The Avalanches<\/a> are back with another single, and this time <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/6468-karen-o\/\">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\">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\/\">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\/\">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\/\"><em>We Will Always Love You<\/em><\/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\/\">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\/\"><em>We Will Always Love You<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-fixZhC fJBrNq iframe-embed\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/story\/the-avalanches-and-karen-o-share-new-single\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Avalanches are back with another single, and this time Karen O is involved. \u201cBlue Shadows\u201d poses the age-old question, \u201cDoes anybody know how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}