{"title":"alt-J","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter winning the Mercury Prize in 2012 with their debut album An Awesome Wave, Joe Newman [vocals, guitar], Gus Unger-Hamilton [vocals, keyboards, bass] and Thom Sonny Green [drums, percussion] made the Grammy-nominated This Is All Yours (2014) and followed it with Relaxer (2017). Along the way they plotted globe-trotting tours, sold out Madison Square Garden, the Hollywood Bowl and the O2, amongst many others, and headlined almost any festival you care to mention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey sampled Miley Cyrus, collaborated with hip-hop alt. heroes Pusha T and Little Simz on 2018 remix album Reduxer, and made history by co-creating the first immersive sound show of its kind at New York’s Forest Hill Stadium in the summer of 2018, where 360 degree speakers made the performance sound like it was optimised for every single member of the audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Dream, alt-J’s fourth album, began life on schedule when the band first regrouped at their own studio, a rented house in east London where they write and record. Navigating Covid as it arrived and hung around – with Green shielding throughout the pandemic and often working remotely, The Dream was recorded from August 2020 until June 2021 with long-time producer Charlie Andrew. What emerged was a record of intrigue and ambiguity that fizzes with a rejuvenated sense of experimentalism. The Dream is the sound of a band experimenting more than they ever have, recharged and reinvigorated – the twelve tracks make for the fullest sounding alt-J record yet.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"alt-j-the-dream-milky-clear-vinylindie-exclusive","title":"- The Dream (LP | Milky Clear Vinyl, Indie Exclusive)","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0in\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in\"\u003ealt-J's The Dream is an LP made on milky clear vinyl, exclusively available to independent record stores. It features a gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeve, as well as two new tracks, 'U\u0026amp;Me' and 'Hard Drive Gold'.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family:\"UICTFontTextStyleBody\",serif'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eTracklist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family:\"UICTFontTextStyleBody\",serif'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eA1                   Bane\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family:\"UICTFontTextStyleBody\",serif'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eA2                   U\u0026amp;Me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family:\"UICTFontTextStyleBody\",serif'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eA3                   Hard Drive 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This design maximizes the impact of your music, offering superior sound quality and great visuals. Packaged with maximum audio fidelity in mind, The Dream LP is the perfect choice for listeners seeking an immersive musical experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family:\"UICTFontTextStyleBody\",serif'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eTracklist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan 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Gold\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family:\"UICTFontTextStyleBody\",serif'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eA4                   Happier When You're Gone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family:\"UICTFontTextStyleBody\",serif'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eA5                   The Actor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp 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The muted yet equally heady \"Arrival in Nara,\" all fingerpicked electric guitar and diffusive synths, and its more muscular yet no less monkish second half, \"Nara,\" do little to rein in the holistic atmosphere that's so decisively laid out in the remarkably potent This Is All Yours' opening moments, which makes the arrival of the punchy, carnally minded \"Every Other Freckle\" and the meaty, Anglo-Motown thump of \"Left Hand Free\" so thrilling, but hardly unexpected. After all, this is a band that proved with its debut that it can go from icy, distant, and often excruciatingly beautiful to downright feral at the crack of a snare drum (or pots and pans, as the group's humble, dorm room beginnings often required), and This Is All Yours does little to tarnish their reputation as choirboys with dark passengers. 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Indeed, other than frontman Joe Newman's impassioned -- if occasionally bordering on parody -- vocal style, there's little here in common with the tweeness of Mumford \u0026amp; Sons. \"Tessellate\" combines the glitchy electronica of Thom Yorke's solo career with the wistful wintry harmonies of Fleet Foxes; \"Fitzpleasure\" fizzes along with its dubstep-lite beats and acidic basslines before it's interrupted, first by a burst of jangly post-rock and second by the kind of shimmering guitar twangs you'd expect from a Tarantino soundtrack; while \"Taro\" somehow melds together the unlikely bedfellows of Americana and bhangra to produce a fittingly oddball but enthralling finale. It's to Andrew's credit that these eclectic arrays of sound are woven together in a manner so effortlessly that the results never feel forced or contrived. There are a few more straightforward moments such as \"Matilda,\" a gentle acoustic folk ode to Natalie Portman's troubled character in L?on, and the sparse, haunting \"Ms.\" But Alt-J's wave is far more awesome when it's at its most schizophrenic. ~ Jon O'Brien\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRSD Date: n\/a\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 09\/18\/2012\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBest Sellers: Top Seller\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Alt-J","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44599058956521,"sku":"1900O7-YA0G-00","price":28.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/alt-j-an-awesome-wave_zfxW2.jpg?v=1740706271"},{"product_id":"alt-j-relaxer-1","title":"RELAXER","description":"A heady and sometimes capricious piece of work that vacillates between pastoral folk, classical crossover, proto-punk, and progressive rock, the Mercury Prize-winning trio's third LP is never clear about its overall intentions. 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