This Is All Yours went straight to Number 1 on the UK's Official Albums Chart. On 9 June 2014, they announced their second album This Is All Yours, that was released on 22 September 2014. on 14 October and ended in Washington, D.C., on 19 November. The 23-day tour started in Vancouver, B.C. In early June 2014, alt-J announced a 2014 tour to take place in North America over October and November. On 11 January 2014, the band announced that Sainsbury had decided to leave the group, and that they remained friends. The title "An Awesome Wave" was taken from the Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho.Ģ013–2016: Departure of Sainsbury and This Is All Yours The band would later describe the event as "life-changing, there was a sense of imposters, that the band had somehow got this far without not being a real band, we're just guys from Leeds who muddled through it and magicked a Mercury award". Besides the prize-money, the band saw an increase in their profile resulting in An Awesome Wave reaching 13 in the UK album chart. In November 2012 the band were announced as the winners of the Mercury Prize for their album. They also did concert tour in the United States in December 2012 and performed at the Laneway Festival tour in Australia. The band have featured regularly on summer festivals, including Latitude, Bestival, Reading and Leeds, T in the Park, Green Man, Pukkelpop, and Lowlands. Īlt-J supported Wild Beasts in April 2012 and played a minor headlining tour around the United Kingdom and Ireland in October of that year. It received a score of 4.8/10 on Pitchfork. The album received some favourable reviews and was described as a "captivating blend of insatiable grooves and profound poignancy". Their debut album was released on in the UK, Europe, and Australia, and on 18 September 2012 in North America via Canvasback Music. An Awesome Wave was also produced by Charlie Andrew and compiled at Iguana Studios, Brixton, where the band recorded tracks during the studio's spare time. It was followed by " Breezeblocks" which preceded their first album. Their first 2012 release for Infectious Music was the triangle-shaped 10" " Matilda"/" Fitzpleasure". A 7" single containing " Bloodflood" and "Tessellate" was released by Loud and Quiet in October 2011. Their self-titled 4-track demo EP, ∆, was recorded with producer Charlie Andrew in London and featured the tracks " Breezeblocks", "Hand-Made", "Matilda", and " Tessellate". Joe Newman with alt-J at The Empty Bottle, Chicago, in October 2012Īfter graduating, the band moved to Cambridge where they spent several months working on their music before signing a deal with Infectious Music in December 2011. The band's sound arose from living in student halls, where noise had to be kept to a minimum, so that they were unable to use bass guitars or bass drums. In their second year of studies, Newman showed Sainsbury some of his own songs and the pair began recording on GarageBand in their hall rooms with Sainsbury acting as producer. According to Newman, "I basically went to art school to start a band." Unger-Hamilton (younger brother of Ferdy, head of A&R for Polydor Records) studied English, the other three Fine Art. History 2007–10: Formation and early years Īlt-J (∆) were formed when Gwilym (Gwil) Sainsbury (guitar/bass), Joe Newman (guitar/lead vocals), Augustus (Gus) Unger-Hamilton (keyboards/vocals) and Thomas Stuart (Thom Sonny) Green (drums) met at Leeds University in 2007. The cover art of the band's debut album An Awesome Wave shows an overhead view of the largest river delta in the world, where the Ganges River meets the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh.Īlt-J were previously known as "Daljit Dhaliwal" and then "Films", but were later forced to change to "alt-J" because an American band called " The Films" already existed. "Alt-J" comes from the key sequence used to generate the symbol Δ on an Apple Mac computer: Alt+ J. The band often makes references to triangles (for example, the song " Tesselate" mentions "triangles are my favourite shape", and they make triangle symbols with their fingers during concerts ), which they say is just due to it being a visually appealing shape. The band's actual name is the triangle-shaped symbol Δ (the capital Greek letter delta). In February 2022 the band released their fourth studio album The Dream. Their second album, This Is All Yours, was released on 22 September 2014 and went straight to number one in the United Kingdom. Their debut album An Awesome Wave was released in May 2012 in Europe, and in September 2012 in the United States, and won the 2012 British Mercury Prize. Their lineup includes Joe Newman (guitar/lead vocals), Thom Sonny Green (drums), Gus Unger-Hamilton (keyboards/vocals), and formerly Gwilym Sainsbury (guitar/bass). Alt-J (stylised as alt-J, real name Δ) are an English indie rock band formed in 2007 in Leeds.
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