6/20/2023 0 Comments Coming out hard album tracks![]() "Bane", which runs a little long at just over five minutes, features layers of glassy guitar and some almost choral chanting. The trio - Gus Unger-Hamilton, Thom Sonny Green and Joe Newman - are once again joined by producer Charlie Andrew, and once again have produced an instantly recognisable, highly enjoyable 40-odd minutes worth of experimental indie pop.Īnd so the album opens with an ode to Coca Cola. Returning after five years, and in the midst of a pandemic that shows limited signs of coming to a true conclusion, Alt-J show no signs of ring rust. Their sound - a hybrid of smooth MOR and jagged indie rock - has remained steadfast and commercially appealing throughout, with many of their songs finding second lives on popular soundtracks from FIFA to Sons of Anarchy to Marvel blockbusters (“Left Hand Free” was Spider-Man's personal theme music in Captain America: Civil War). ![]() Their third album, Relaxer, saw their critical standing cool slightly, but they still managed to pick up a Mercury Prize nomination and subsequently release a companion record - Reduxer - that gave the whole album a hip-hop inspired makeover and managed to come out sounding almost as good as the original. Despite the departure of founding member Gwil Sainsbury eighteen months later, they still managed to maintain their momentum and kept the great reviews coming on second album This Is All Yours.
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