Alt-J are a bandage with admirers in top places. Their admission album, An Awesome Wave, won the 2012 Mercury Prize, and its songs were covered by Paramore, Ellie Goulding and Mumford & Sons. None of that, however, could analyze to seeing Miley Cyrus use "Fitzpleasure" to soundtrack a bondage-themed video break during her Bangerz bout date at London's O2 Arena.
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"It was surreal," action keyboard amateur Gus Unger-Hamilton, sipping tea alfresco Alt-J's administration appointment in East London. "We were like, 'It's us!' but her adolescent admirers didn't absolutely apperceive what was traveling on. It was a continued appearance and that was just a moment in it, like the bit area she put on a analysis shirt and sang a Bob Dylan cover. The army were like, 'What the fuck's this? I'm a 14-year-old girl, I don't apperceive who Bob Dylan is.'"
Nonetheless, the adventure concluded up influencing Alt-J's additional album, This Is All Yours, due September 22nd. After affair backstage, an absurd accord developed, with Alt-J bagman Thom Green remixing one of Cyrus' songs and Cyrus alms Unger-Hamilton Flaming Lips albums on iTunes. Now, the English alt-rockers accept alternate the favor on This Is All Yours' hypnotic advance track, "Hunger of the Pine", which samples Cyrus' "4x4." Cyrus herself helped bright the sample with the added writers and publishers involved.
"There was a lot of bureaucratic, red-tape business," says singer-guitarist Joe Newman. "She stepped in and said, 'Everyone calm down, yield a footfall aback and let's get this approved.'"
Still, admitting affective in these celebrity circles, This Is All Yours declines to yield a accident brawl to Alt-J's indie credibility. While there are brilliant guests - "Warm Foothills" cuts and splices vocals from Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst, Lianne La Havas, Sivu and Marika Hackman over close rhythms and a whistled refrain - the bandage alternate to the aforementioned tiny south London location, Brixton's Iguana Studios, area they almanac their debut, even re-teaming with ambassador Charlie Andrew.
"It was absolutely no basic whatsoever," says Unger-Hamilton. "We went to the sandwich boutique beyond the alley every day. We don't acquiesce ourselves to get too bedrock brilliant about stuff."
Not aggregate was unchanged, however. Guitarist-bassist Gwil Sainsbury affably larboard the bandage on the eve of the sessions, accepting become disenchanted with their new lifestyle. "He wasn't absorbed in getting acclaimed at all," says Unger-Hamilton. "Not that we're absorbed in getting famous, but he absolutely hated signing autographs and stuff. Fair enough, but it's allotment of the job. We couldn't allow to let it agitate things."
The band's aqueous access to administration altered instruments meant that Sainsbury's roles could be abounding internally, but his absence did change the bandage dynamic. Consequently, Green took a added proactive programming role, bringing an cyberbanking bend to "The Gospel of John Hurt" (about the chest-bursting arena in Alien) and the "Arrival in Nara"/"Nara"/"Leaving Nara" leash that anchors the record.
Apart from "Left Hand Free," a full-on Southern-fried soul-rocker ("It didn't complete like us at all," says Newman, "but it was so catchy."), a lot of of This Is All Yours builds on the characteristic dub-folk/alt-rock arrangement accustomed on Alt-J's debut, a complete Unger-Hamilton describes as "smart abundant to be cool, but attainable abundant that humans like it."
"The aboriginal anthology was absolutely an act of self-expression," says Unger-Hamilton. "So we thought, 'Let's do that again, because that blueprint seems to work.'"
However, with An Awesome Wave affairs over 1 actor copies worldwide, the bandage is aswell grappling with added apprehension levels from both admirers and music industry. The admission was a slowburn success, but if advance individual "Hunger of the Pine" premiered on U.K.'s Radio 1 endure week, the bandage begin itself trending globally on Twitter for the aboriginal time. Confronted with this advice Newman laughs, "I don't even apperceive what that means!"
"Expectation swings both ways," adds Unger-Hamilton. "There's the apprehension of humans absent a acceptable almanac and of humans absent us to fuck up. In the end, your alone best is to accomplish the almanac you wish to make. We account our admirers abundant to accomplish a circuitous and complicated album, and our admirers account us abundant to accept to annihilation we put out."
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