A live video courtesy of the good people at KEXP of Alt-J playing one of the prettier ballads from the band’s new album, An Awesome Wave. Check out a review of the album right here.
On their full-length debut, the UK’s Alt-J bursts out of the gate with a group of songs that are equal parts creative, eccentric, and playful. Art pop for those with sunny dispositions.
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It isn’t particularly easy to categorize the music of alt-J, a quartet that has origins in Leeds, England. I could apply a phrase like “indie rock,” but the band’s combination of folk-indebted guitar work, expansive instrumentation, and lead singer Joe Newman’s distinctive vocal delivery, makes such a
