You’ve got to hand it to Reddit, they know how to uncover a conspiracy. Whether or not they’re true is another matter altogether, but in this particular case we have a good feeling we may indeed be hearing new Avalanches music this week.
The Australian alternative hip-hop outfit dropped a mysterious teaser this morning, with fans speculating over what it could mean ever since. Some say it’s an upcoming documentary, others say it’s to hype up their long-awaited second album.
Well, as Consequence of Sound reports, one cunning Redditor may have figured the whole thing out. Curious about the song that comes in at the 1:20 mark in the trailer, the Redditor whipped out his Shazam app to find out what it is.
When you do so, the app returns the track ‘The Wizord of Iz’ by BRAINZ, a band included on Noise 11‘s list of upcoming releases for the week commencing 20th May. According to the list, they’re set to drop a song called ‘Frankie Sinatra’.
The record is being put out by Universal Australia, who originally released Since I Left You, the band’s legendary debut album, via the Modular Recordings imprint. So what? UA put out records all the time, right?
Well, remember how Detroit rapper Danny Brown revealed that he’d been in the studio with The Avalanches? According to him, the name of one of the two songs he was working on was called, you guessed it, ‘Frank Sinatra’.
But it goes even deeper than that. According to another, even more obsessed Redditor, 16 days ago the song title ‘Frankie Sinatra’ was copyrighted by APRA, registered to CHATER/DI BLASI/HOUDINI/RODGERS/HAMMERST.
This suggests the song features a sample of a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical as well as a sample from Wilmoth Houdini’s calypso song ‘Bobby Sox Idol’, which features the repeated lyric “Ahhh Frankie Sinatra”.
Meanwhile, 13 days ago a member of The New Natives, a brass band from Louisiana, claimed on Instagram that he was shooting a music video for a song by The Avalanches titled ‘Frankie Sinatra’, but his posts were soon taken down.
Around the same time, a graphic designer posted an image of a butterfly-shaped patch emblazoned with the words ‘Frankie Sinatra’ and a hashtag saying the same. As you will recall, the band recently updated their social media channels with a mysterious butterfly insignia.
And as Consequence of Sound notes, if you listen closely to the vocals in the ‘The Wizord of Iz’ during the band’s teaser, it does sound an awful lot like Mr Brown. We don’t want to get your hopes up, but it looks like we may have new Avalanches music some time this week.
