Try these 5 ways of dealing with your feelings about The Avalanches' 'Frankie Sinatra'

So you've waited 16 years for one of your favourite bands to release new music. And after all the hype, you're a little underwhelmed by 'Frankie Sinatra'.

Look, I totally understand. I get it.

You think that the track sounds like the Hilltop Hoods remixing the Cat Empire? That's fine.

You think that the song sounds as though it belongs in a cordial commercial? That's ok too.

You think that Danny Brown's verse (“I divide and conquer / rolling Willy Wonka / baby momma wanna suck up the dong at the concert”) perhaps lacks the whimsical subtlety of 'Frontier Psychiatrist'?

Well, fair enough. You're entitled to your opinion.

I too have been grappling with 'Frankie Sinatra', tied up in a complicated mess of emotions and expectations.

Do I love it? Do I hate it? I still don't know. But I'm loving that messy feeling of being somewhere in the middle.

We are all, in our own ways, attempting to realign ourselves to this brave new world where The Avalanches are alive and active.

If you're having some adverse side-effects from listening to 'Frankie Sinatra', here are a few tips to help you in this difficult time.

Enjoy the ambivalence: it’s okay to have different opinions

Straight up loving or hating music is so boring. Whatever your complex opinions are about this song, enjoy the fact that they are complex!

Just let go and enjoy the feeling of not being sure about a thing. Soon enough, after you've heard it a few more times, your opinions about 'Frankie Sinatra' will crystallise into something concrete and boring.

Make the most of how complicated a feeling this is right now.

Hold your judgment until you hear Wildflower in full

The Avalanches make mixtapes, not albums. 'Frankie Sinatra' might make more sense in the context of the record

Since I Left You is essentially an incredibly complicated mixtape. There's a handful of shining pop songs scattered throughout, but most of the tracks on that album don't really make a lot of sense when isolated from the rest of the journey.

If you're not feeling 'Frankie Sinatra' now, hold out judgment until you hear it in the context of Wildflower.

Remember, the first single from Since I Left You wasn’t the best

The lead track from the Avalanches' first album was 'Electricity', a charming genre mash-up with surprise vocals from both Sally Seltmann and Australian operatic soprano Antoinette Hallorann.

Most critics at the time noted the song's heavy Daft Punk influence, but as a lead single it was a bit of a curveball, especially in hindsight. 'Frontier Psychiatrist' and 'Since I Left You', singles two and three, were the ones that conquered hearts and minds.

Catch the vibes, catch the vibes… learn to love electro swing

As you may have noticed from snarky comments on your Facebook feed from your hipster friends, many have traced the dorky groove of the new Avalanches single back to a loose phenomenon called electro swing. It's a style of dance music which has been called the worst genre of music in the world, ever.

From Lucas With The Lid Off to Yolanda Be Cool's smash hit 'We No Speak Americano', there's a whole spectrum of swingin' club hits from the past 20 years, some credible and some less so.

Where the calypso-sampling 'Frankie Sinatra' fits on this spectrum remains to be seen. But, I promise, learn to love 'Mambo No. 5' again and you'll hear 'Frankie Sinatra' in a whole new light.

Remember that it's just music – and, hey, the singularity is near anyway

It's great that we can all come together to debate the merits of shared cultural objects, to have responses both intellectual and emotional to a musical moment that means a lot to a lot of people.

But just remember, folks, it is just music. There are more important things in life.

So if you're really getting hot and heavy about the new Avalanches track, one way or another, an easy way to cool your jets is simply to remember that we are but meaningless specks in the vastness of the cosmos, awaiting our inevitable transmutation into a post-human world when the time of technological singularity is upon us.

Music may have very little relevance once the concepts of time and space have been eliminated from our experience of existence - so why not enjoy a little calypso-rap electro-swing while you still can.

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