Alt-J This Is All Yours

alt-J’s debut full-length, 2012’s An Awesome Wave, was a frequently haunting collection of mood music that brazenly combined the textures and melodic sensibilities of folk, indie rock and electro-pop. The intrepid British art-rock quartet have approached their highly anticipated follow-up effort, This Is All Yours, in similarly clever and conceptual fashion—replete with a mesmeric, album-opening “Intro” of revolving vocal snippets and the disarming, pre-halftime instrumental interlude “Garden of England”. With 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 have shown themselves to be a band capable of both boldness and restraint.