- Alt-J An Awesome Wave Review. It’s hard to place Alt-J. Originally from Leeds, they spend their time in a Cambridgeshire basement making their own brand of uniquely.
- Album Description. Named after the Mac command also used as a mathematical equation to show change, formed while studying fine art at university, and prone to throwing in the odd geometric reference within their lyrics, there are signs that Cambridge-based quartet Alt-J might be a little bit too clever for their own good.
Album
Relationships
DESCRIPTION ALBUM: alt-J today announced their second album, This Is All Yours to be released on September 22nd via Infectious plus an European extensive tour. Their previous album An Awesome Wave was met with great reviews and the band quickly became a festival favorite back in 2012. The band was also awarded the Mercury Music Prize. May 28, 2012 Most likely you will have first heard alt-j on the radio with their overplayed single ‘Matilda’, whose chorus quotes the climactic scene from Luc Besson’s brilliant Leon. This is perhaps the least inspiring song on the album, although it sets the scene for the filmic-theme that runs throughout An Awesome Wave. The opening track, ‘Intro.
| associated singles/EPs: | Breezeblocks Dissolve Me (Remixes) by Alt-J Matilda / Fitzpleasure Tessellate by Alt-J |
|---|
| part of: | NME’s Greatest Albums of The Decade: The 2010s(number: 87) (order: 87) Mercury Prize shortlist nominees(number: 2012 winner) (order: 243) |
|---|
| Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/master/443194[info] |
|---|---|
| reviews: | https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/mvm5[info] |
| other databases: | http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/∆/an_awesome_wave/[info] |
| Allmusic: | https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0002338832[info] |
| Wikidata: | Q1389280[info] |
CritiqueBrainz Reviews
There’s 1 review on CritiqueBrainz. You can also write your own.Most Recent
It's hard to place Alt-J. Originally from Leeds, they spend their time in a Cambridgeshire basement making their own brand of uniquely dubbed 'folk-step'. However, the noises that An Awesome Wave emits far escape the dull, dark depths such a creative location suggests. Instead, it's a stunning and encompassing affair of both innovative and electrifying musicianship and exemplary song writing.
Comparing Alt-J to contemporary artists or listing their influences is almost pointless. Each song blurs, stutters, and explodes across a tide of instruments and ideas, fresh and addictive. Breezeblocks is early Mystery Jets with Orange Juice choruses while Dissolve Me is post-Skins generation Foals cuddling up to Fleet Foxes by the campfire. It has moments of slick RnB, gorgeous folk harmonies, and even a choir of children glossing nostalgic school memories.
This album spans every workable idea, genre, and influence that can be crammed under the guitar music umbrella, yet it never feels disorientating. Instead, what swoons gracefully through speakers is an entirely comprehendible and accessible collection of beautiful pop songs.
Alt J An Awesome Wave Album Rar Torrent
Movement is key on this album. Samples and sounds cascade and cross with elegance, but it's Joe Newman's lead vocal that acts as the cement, pulling everything together and guiding it seamlessly into making sense.
Alt J An Awesome Wave Album
Even the lyrics are creatively ambitious. On Breezeblocks he cracks, 'She may contain the urge to run away but hold her down with soggy clothes and breezeblocks / Germolene, disinfect the scene, my love.' It's not your usual Valentine's note but it's their way of taking on the old in a new way that really marks An Awesome Wave as a deeply exciting record.
Okay, it's not that Alt-J can't be pigeon-holed or placed beside peers; it's more that they deserve more. This debut offering is strong, addictive and enthralling, the perfect accompaniment to any mood, any moment, anywhere.
Try typing in the comment section with “alt” and “J” at the same time on your keyboard if you were a Mac user, and definitely send it to me as a way of saying hi.
So, me first: ∆, and here’s my story today.
Alt-J (∆) is the name of the band I really like for the last couple of years. The UK indie rock band’s debut album An Awesome Wave won the 2012 Barclaycard Mercury Prize when I got to know them for the first time. From this award-winning album, the lyrics in a song called “Tessellate” says, “Triangles are my favorite shape, three points where two lines meet.” The band name is really just a delta symbol that implies “change” as a Greek letter used in scientific study, but the band needed a name that is not only written but can be spoken. So alt-J, there it is. How smart packaging is that?
Buzzfeed has compiled a list of “23 Things You Really Should Know About Alt-J,” which is a good read for a fan like me. I personally like the band for so many reasons. Their music genre is hard to give one name, yet well-combined with trip-hop ambience, electronic riffs, indie-rock quirkiness, and pop catchiness. Many music critics compare them to my other favorite UK band Radiohead for a big time. And the band members are adorably weird or weirdly adorable.
I especially love their music album cover, and I’m legitimately biased to say that An Awesome Wave by alt-J has the coolest music album packaging. Art directed by Virgilio Tzaj.
Seems psychedelic? Don’t assume yet.
When the band was choosing the artwork up against a deadline, they tried to Google “delta” for an inspiration. Instead of a delta symbol, Google started to come up with satellite images of geographical deltas. The image selected eventually by the band was a multi-layered radar photo of the world’s largest delta of the Ganges rivers in Bangladesh, acquired from the European Space Agency.
Isn’t that the coolest music album cover, if not ever? Anyway, I just happen to like the labyrinth-like story.
And you know that kind of feeling of being a part of the live concert of your favorite band. So here is a small video I’ve made during alt-J’s Boston tour at Orpheum Theatre on November 18, 2014.
Enjoy, and don’t forget to send me that little triangle ∆ !
An Awesome Wave Torrent