STACK #264 October 2026

MUSIC FEATURE

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SIMPLY THE BEST T he title says it all: She’s the Best . When Troye Sivan Troye Sivan’s new album is a love letter to the wonderful women in his life. BEST

FUN FACT

She’s the Best was just Nicole Kidman’s fourth appearance in a music video. She appeared with Robbie Williams in their 2001 collaboration, Somethin’ Stupid and, in 1983, she starred in clips for Pat Wilson’s Bop Girl and Moving Pictures’ Where They Belong .

in and listen to this song and look around – the divine feminine is everywhere! Thank God!” The video also features RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Sasha Colby, as well as the singer’s sister Sage Mellet. Troye says the album is “chaotic, layered, organic,

released the title track of his fourth album, he explained: “Boys have come and gone, work has come and gone, but I have always, always had my girls. My whole life I’ve existed in the orbit of incredible women. This is my love letter to them.” The music video for She’s the Best features another Aussie star – Nicole Kidman. Troye met the Oscar-winning actor when they both starred in the 2018 film Boy Erased . “Wow, that girl,” Troye sings. “She’s the best.” The 31-year-old artist says, “Walk

She’s the Best

by Troye Sivan is out Oct 9

via Tokky’s Music/ Interscope Records

ORIGIN STORY

Troye was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. His family moved to Perth when he was two.

troubled, and alive”.

“It feels like the truest and most creative version of myself I’ve ever shared. At some point along the way, I realised the only constant in my life, keeping me

CHART FACT

Troye Sivan

Troye’s first three albums have all hit the Australian Top 10, with 2023’s Something to Give Each Other topping the charts.

Troye has won eight ARIA Awards, including ‘Best Solo Artist’ and ‘Album of the Year’ for Something to Give Each Other . He’s also been nominated for three Grammys. AWARD WATCH

somewhat sane, has not been the work, or the men, but the feminine. “Thank God for

down the street today with your headphones

them.” Jeff Jenkins

Australia’s electronic giantsThe Avalanches unleash album number four. UNFORGETTABLE

STACK called The Avalanches’ 2000 debut Since I Left You “the first great album of the new millennium”. GAME-CHANGER

N ot surprisingly, when The Avalanches started working on their fourth album, they were thinking about sounds, their origins, and how they have shaped us. The result of all that rumination? No Bad Memories , a stunning statement on nostalgia and the modern world. The Avalanches – Robbie Chater, Tony Di Blasi, and Andy Szekeres – explain that the record was “inspired by the simultaneously magical and insidious ways that advertising and name-brand technology wraps itself around our memories. An ambivalent ode to the nostalgic pull of commercial jingles, proprietary start-up sounds, and long-forgotten audio logos.” The band continues: “It’s been

and products; the way we reflect and represent ‘a life lived’; the wonder of memory and deep power of nostalgia, especially in sound. “Revisiting imagery and jingles from childhood and realising how

No Bad Memories by The Avalanches is out Oct 16 via EMI Music Australia/Modular

The Avalanches

profoundly they have stuck... Taking these sound sources

Photo credit: Dean Podmore

CHART FACT

Jamie xx ( Every Single Weekend ), Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo ( All the Time in the World ), Panda Bear ( Highfield ), and Mike Patton ( Paradise Island and Total Recall ). And Can’t Get Over Losing You features America’s Tracy Amare, aka Portraits of Tracy, who says: “Working with The Avalanches was such an awesome experience. “I don’t find myself collaborating too often with peeps, but as soon as we connected it just felt right.” Jeff Jenkins

from within the heart of this kinda corporate framework and flipping the fragments into our own kind of joyous pop music. “Eventually we arrived at this world of No Bad Memories .” The album features an astonishing array of collaborators, including Karen O ( Blue Shadows ), UK producer

interesting as adults to reflect on this often-stunning period of marketing – the creativity, filmmaking, photography, and music, but which was also, you know, selling a completely unobtainable dream. “The way we value devices

The Avalanches’ three studio albums have all hit the Australian Top 5, including 2016’s chart-topping Wildflower . They have also had two Top 10 albums in the UK.

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