alt-J - This Is All Yours

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enters the Billboard chart this week at #4

Spotify online listen
4.0 of 5.0 from allmusic

no preconceptions as to what this would be
never heard of them before and haven't read anything prior to listening
without a doubt the best way to listen to music
this is the groups second album
Brit Award nominations and a Mercury Prize win for the first one
a few good tracks for me on this
a few instrumentals also

artist website - http://www.altjband.com/

Bio - from allmusic



English indie rockers alt-J, named for the triangle that appears when pressing "Alt" and "J" on a Mac, formed in 2008 under the moniker FILMS.
The quartet members, all of whom met at Leeds University, spent two years rehearsing before inking a deal with Infectious Records in 2011. The
group's signature blend of layered, folk-inflected dub-pop and soaring alternative rock, which has been compared to everyone from the Wild
Beasts and Hot Chip to Coldplay, was first heard on the 2012 singles "Matilda" and "Fitzpleasure." The group's full-length studio debut, An
Awesome Wave, arrived later that year and went on to earn them the prestigious Mercury Prize, alongside three Brit Award nominations. The
following year the four-piece embarked on a string of shows worldwide, including dates in Australia, Singapore, America, and Europe. However,
the heavy touring schedule and increasing success eventually led to bassist Gwil Sainsbury's departure at the turn of the year. The remaining
trio continued undeterred and their sophomore record, This Is All Yours, was issued in the autumn of 2014.

Album Review - allmusic



The 2012 Mercury Prize winners begin their sophomore outing with the subversively titled "Intro," a four-and-a-half-minute highlight reel of
what's to come that pairs the monastic chanting that prefaced An Awesome Wave's first single, "Fitzpleasure," with a pastiche of new age and
worldbeat-blasted ambient pop that suggests Mogwai by way of Peter Gabriel's Real World studios circa 1990 -- it's both planetarium laser light
show and art installation ready. The muted yet equally heady "Arrival in Nara," all fingerpicked electric guitar and diffusive synths, and its
more muscular yet no less monkish second half, "Nara," do little to rein in the holistic atmosphere that's so decisively laid out in the
remarkably potent This Is All Yours' opening moments, which makes the arrival of the punchy, carnally minded "Every Other Freckle" and the
meaty, Anglo-Motown thump of "Left Hand Free" so thrilling, but hardly unexpected. After all, this is a band that proved with its debut that it
can go from icy, distant, and often excruciatingly beautiful to downright feral at the crack of a snare drum (or pots and pans, as the group's
humble, dorm room beginnings often required), and This Is All Yours does little to tarnish their reputation as choirboys with dark passengers.
That penchant for edgy refinement, along with frontman Joe Newman's elastic voice, remains the band's most effective weapon, but it's hard to
pinpoint where and when that magic occurs, as it's so effortlessly woven into the group's sound. It's somewhere in between the autumnal and
apocalyptic, Miley Cyrus-sampling "Hunger of the Pine," the bucolic, recorder-led "Garden of England," and the oddly soulful, midnight-black
posturing of "The Gospel of John Hurt," and it gets under your skin, where it somehow manages to both hurt and heal.

let me know when you figure the video out:

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Track Listing

1. Intro
2. Arrival in Nara
3. Nara
4. Every Other Freckle
5. Left Hand Free
6. Garden of England (Interlude)
7. Choice Kingdom
8. Hunger of the Pine
9. Warm Foothills
10. The Gospel of John Hurt
11. Pusher
12. Bloodflood, Pt. 2
13. Leaving Nara/Lovely Day