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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 (twelve years ago)

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 (twelve years ago)

Said the Gramophone says it's like Eagle Eye Cherry + Dj Shadow. That sounds awful tbh.

Moka, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago)

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 (twelve years ago)

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 (twelve years ago)

*vomits on own shoes*

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago)

haha o man what a description

just sayin, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago)

fuck that video

contenderizer, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago)

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 (twelve years ago)

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 (twelve years ago)

ok I watched the breezeblock video. having a violent reaction against this dude's voice. hideous.

dmr, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago)

Something Good is well, good. The rest of the tracks I'm having trouble with.

Moka, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago)

This band's abject shittiness makes me SO ANGRY.

maura, Thursday, 2 August 2012 13:00 (twelve years ago)

Alt-F4 amirite

van smack, Thursday, 2 August 2012 13:06 (twelve years ago)

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 (twelve years ago)

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 (twelve years ago)

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 (twelve years ago)

This band's abject shittiness makes me SO ANGRY.

― maura, Thursday, August 2, 2012 1:00 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cosign

lex pretend, Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago)

Saw these supporting Wild Beasts a few months ago, they were pretty awful.

nate woolls, Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago)

Why?! That's a great video, regardless of the song! I didn't see it coming, anyway.

― 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 (twelve years ago)

you're crazy. everything looks cooler in slo mo

Moka, Friday, 3 August 2012 05:29 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

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 (twelve years ago)

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 (twelve years ago)

There aren't enough pits of creosote for them!

Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 November 2012 12:14 (twelve years ago)

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 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

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 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

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 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

This is a nice find. First time the nytimes has turned me on to a band.

calstars, Friday, 18 January 2013 22:27 (twelve years ago)

Full disclosure: I also love the Darkness

calstars, Friday, 18 January 2013 22:30 (twelve years ago)

three months pass...

God, imagine waking up one morning and discovering you had this dude's voice.

Matt DC, Thursday, 16 May 2013 13:33 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

i.... kind of like left hand free?

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 December 2014 11:09 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

four months pass...

"This is how Alt-J makes music"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlBskd3IaNw

JRN, Sunday, 24 May 2015 05:31 (ten years ago)

They sold out Madison Square Garden. Does anybody else find that odd?

kornrulez6969, Sunday, 24 May 2015 15:26 (ten years ago)

"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 (ten years ago)

two years pass...

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 (eight years ago)

five months pass...

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 (seven years ago)

but then I heard another song and it was shit so who knows

akm, Thursday, 16 November 2017 19:36 (seven years ago)

3WW is so good. It's a shame about literally everything else they've ever done.

Doran, Thursday, 16 November 2017 19:48 (seven years ago)


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