I've only heard a couple of tracks so far, but these guys sound interesting, if anything.
This one is very promising - kind of Pere Ubu meets Hot Chip or something?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkt4xU2wwhU&feature=relmfu
And this is the big video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVeMiVU77wo
― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
Uploaded an mp3 of them a couple of days ago:
http://www.moteldemoka.com/2012/07/30/premiers-symptomes/
Don't know how popular they'll get here but they've been getting some serious love in the blogosphere in the past months. I've seen their tracks in the popular section of hypem a few times and all of their tracks in there have like 4k and 3k 'likes'.
― Moka, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
Said the Gramophone says it's like Eagle Eye Cherry + Dj Shadow. That sounds awful tbh.
― Moka, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
raves from UK DJs though i don't really get it. BBC Music review here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/mvm5
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't listened to it yet but all these descriptions make it sound terrible!
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.
― dmr, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
*vomits on own shoes*
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
haha o man what a description
― just sayin, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
fuck that video
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
hear hot chip in here, but no trace of pere ubu. okay i guess, but neither of these tracks is doing much for me.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
when I first heard of them they were being described as shoegaze and hadn't yet added the alt-J bit. I was like, good luck.
― owenf, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
ok I watched the breezeblock video. having a violent reaction against this dude's voice. hideous.
― dmr, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
Something Good is well, good. The rest of the tracks I'm having trouble with.
― Moka, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
This band's abject shittiness makes me SO ANGRY.
― maura, Thursday, 2 August 2012 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
Alt-F4 amirite
― van smack, Thursday, 2 August 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
They're opening for Chairlift here on Sunday ... guess I shouldn't bother showing up early?
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Thursday, 2 August 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
fuck that video― contenderizer, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 18:18 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Why?! That's a great video, regardless of the song! I didn't see it coming, anyway.
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 2 August 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
I like Fitzpleasure better than anything else I've heard from this band so far. I do actually quite like the guy's voice, but then I'm a big fan of unusual voices - sounds kidn of tonal, like he's speaking drunk Chinese or something.
― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Thursday, 2 August 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
― maura, Thursday, August 2, 2012 1:00 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
cosign
― lex pretend, Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
Saw these supporting Wild Beasts a few months ago, they were pretty awful.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
― Walter Galt, Thursday, August 2, 2012 7:40 AM (2 hours ago)
didn't enjoy seeing a woman get murdered in slo-mo for four minutes
― contenderizer, Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
you're crazy. everything looks cooler in slo mo
― Moka, Friday, 3 August 2012 05:29 (eleven years ago) link
And having won the Mercury Prize their quality has been agreed on by millions no wait hang on agreed on by almost nobody.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 November 2012 12:07 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry girls, they're spoken for
http://cdn.theguardian.tv/brightcove/poster/2012/11/2/121102MercuryPrizeResult_6855935.jpg
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 2 November 2012 12:13 (eleven years ago) link
There aren't enough pits of creosote for them!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 November 2012 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
Evidence for the prosecution under human rights crimes:
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/media/s3618488.htm
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 November 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
I listened to half this record and this is basically the 10's indie Dave Matthews Band, right? Instead of a an electric violin player we get a guy dicking around with keyboards?
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
In fairness, I have my "Not in a mood to listen to new music" toggle turned on right now, but I never heard an 'indie' band before Alt-J that sounded safer than they are catchy. Alt-J make the two oil and water respectively.
Dave Matthews Band comparison OTM.
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Monday, 31 December 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
This is a nice find. First time the nytimes has turned me on to a band.
― calstars, Friday, 18 January 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
Full disclosure: I also love the Darkness
― calstars, Friday, 18 January 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
God, imagine waking up one morning and discovering you had this dude's voice.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 16 May 2013 13:33 (ten years ago) link
I thought Alt-J was a rapper until today.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 00:30 (ten years ago) link
Aside from some of the guy's quirkier vocal stylings I've decided they're quite good.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link
i.... kind of like left hand free?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 December 2014 11:09 (nine years ago) link
A mate of mine with good taste reps hard for this band but they've always sounded like a shitty anaemic Radiohead to me
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Monday, 29 December 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
"This is how Alt-J makes music"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlBskd3IaNw
― JRN, Sunday, 24 May 2015 05:31 (eight years ago) link
They sold out Madison Square Garden. Does anybody else find that odd?
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 24 May 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
"Left Hand Free" has been on alt-rock stations, the ones that still exist, every hour for the last 8 months or so fwiw. but obviously not all bands that do that sell out MSG.
― some dude, Sunday, 24 May 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
Haven't really liked any Alt-J output since their first album, including the first two tracks released from their new album.
This third track "Adeline" is much better, if not the most conventional thing they've recorded:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XwU8H6e8Ts
― yesca, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 03:14 (six years ago) link
i avoided this band because they sounded like they were shit and then I heard "3WW" from Relaxer and really liked it.
― akm, Thursday, 16 November 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
but then I heard another song and it was shit so who knows
― akm, Thursday, 16 November 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
3WW is so good. It's a shame about literally everything else they've ever done.
― Doran, Thursday, 16 November 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link