This Is All Yours
*This Is All Yours* is replete with a mesmeric, album-opening “Intro” of revolving vocal snippets and the disarming, pre-halftime instrumental interlude “Garden of England.” It includes the mischievous guitar groove of “Left Hand Free,” the spectral, Bon Iver-like beauty of “Warm Foothills” and the Miley Cyrus-sampling hypnotics of “Hunger of the Pine.”
Alt-J's sophomore effort fails not because of hype or unfair standards but because it's dull and tuneless—a frustrating development for those who still believe in alt-rock as an incubator for unfashionable and undeniably great bands.
The second effort from the Leeds based lads is sometimes complicated, sometimes simple, and most always somewhat dull.
We're trying to choose our words carefully here, because we're almost tempted to write "profound" while describing an alt-J album.
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Leeds quirk-rockers Alt-J must somehow follow 2012’s Mercury Prize-winning debut An Awesome Wave. But far from any rested-upon laurels, This Is All Yours is a band looking its own hype in the eye, exhibiting both innovation and a continuity that is neither contrived nor rehashed.
Alt-J's 2012 debut, An Awesome Wave, is one of the great modern indie success stories. The now-trademark unconventional and accessible songs took both the independent and the mainstream music worlds by storm, catapulting the band from the blogosphere to t
Album review: alt-j - This Is All Yours. Lacks the schizophrenic unpredictability of what came before…
With This Is All Yours, Alt-J keeps one foot rooted in melodic prog while constructing songs with a baroque precision.
alt-J new album 'This Is All Yours' reviewed by Northern Transmissions, the band's full length comes out on September 22nd via Infectious/canvasback records
The Mercury prizewinner’s second album exhibits playful adventure, featuring chiming bells and oriental flutes alongside songs constructed from vocal samples, writes <strong>Dave Simpson </strong>
Alt-J follow-up their debut with a lovely, dazzling but self-indulgent album, says Neil McCormick
Art-student rock sounds like a terribly dated concept, but listening to This Is All Yours for the first time, it suddenly feels very relevant. This is music of the broadest cultural horizons, that takes in global influences, but can’t resist the desire to shock, sometimes just for the sake of it.