Hey shady baby I'm hot
Like the prodigal son
I wasn't sure how to feel about this song when you first posted it, but here we are 2 weeks later and it's been stuck in my head ever since I heard it on the radio this morning. This track is freakin' awesome, I'm seriously digging the Southern influence. It's certainly a departure from their earlier work, which I adore, but it still sounds great.
Welcome to Alt-J. That is literally their marketing model. Literally.I wasn't sure how to feel about this song when you first posted it, but here we are 2 weeks later and it's been stuck in my head ever since.
rest of the album is similar though check this out. I like it.
yeah i heard this on soundcloud a while back. npr pushed it my way or something. it also struck me as a bit of a departure, but not as much as the above track. i love the bit after the mix-in. This feels less constructed to me than their first album. But to me it also doesn't have the same liquidity throughout which I think was very much a hallmark of that album. At points it reaches it but it's not sustained. I'm not saying that I dislike it but I think there is a central change in their sound that I didn't anticipate. I think I may like the album better than the band but I can't be sure, of course the first album took months to grow on me as we had discussed.
I was listening to BBC Radio when I heard Hunger of the Pines and it was the first alt-J track I'd listened to in full. I checked them out and was ultimately disappointed. From Hunger I was feeling something reminiscent of James Blake whereas with the above Left Hand Free I can almost hear the beginning of an Audioslave track (who I adore, but they're not totally in line with my tastes at the moment). I don't know if it comes down to structure or not, but I certainly feel that the instruments on Hunger are much more ethereal, even heady, in such a way that the only real precedent I heard from them for it was maybe Ms on An Awesome Wave. Also on the first hundred re-plays of Hunger I heard the lyrics at 2:35 as 'Submerse me // Embracing you' which turned that entire section of the song into a sexual experience. I was disappointed when I finally heard that it was just him repeating sweet mercy. I reserve the right to sing the wrong lyrics and hum the wrong tune in the shower
I know exactly what you mean. They have a handful of songs where you really know they put their shit to work and made it happen. The rest is filler.I was ultimately disappointed