The Avalanches Release New Demo With Silver Jews Member

The spoken word demo A Cowboy Overthrow Of The Heart has just dropped.

They are the biggest teases in the music world today; it's been almost 12 years since The Avalanches released the masterpiece that is Since I Left You and we've been waiting for a follow up pretty much ever since, but to no avail.

Hints have been dropped, rumours circulated and the band themselves have even made a few half-promises, but still nothing has been forthcoming. A couple of days ago, they promised they'd give us something.

twitter.com/rosaliiinda/ ok lets do this. trax coming tommorow xxx
— ♥∆v∆L∆NCH∑≤♥ (@TheAvalanches) August 18, 2012

Sure enough, today The Avalanches have released a demo on their website, giving hungry fans their first taste of new material in quite some time. Anyone who registers on the band's website can listen to A Cowboy Overthrow Of The Heart, a mainly spoken work track with a few unmistakable Avalanches flourishes in the background. The narrator in the song is one David Berman of Silver Jews fame.

We have absolutely no idea whether this will be a track on their next record, if we ever actually get to hear it, but it's better than nothing.