AN AWESOME WAVE
Track Listing
Intro
❦ (The Ripe & Ruin)
Tessellate
Breezeblocks
❦ (Guitar)
Something Good
Dissolve Me
Matilda
Ms
Fitzpleasure
❦ (Piano)
Bloodflood
Taro
My Rating
8.5/10
Average Critic Rating
7.5/10
Overview
A Mercury Prize winner - An Awesome Wave received an incredibly interesting response at the time - a weird yet beautiful album, it almost bridged the gap for Pop lovers and Indie kids, this Folktronica record is compiled of complicated and delicately crafted songs that, despite its weirdness, appease to the Popular Music mind. Simply, this is a record where everyone will take at least one song away with them, but they should be taking the whole album.
Recommended for Indie kids looking for a weird and beautiful journey into the river delta of your own mind.
Featured Song
Intro
Most Streamed
Breezeblocks
Least Streamed
❦ (Piano)
Underrated
Bloodflood
TVV Top 3 Songs
Breezeblocks | Something Good | Bloodflood
Singles
Tessellate | Breezeblocks | Something Good | Dissolve Me | Matilda | Fitzpleasure | Bloodflood
TVV Top 3 Non-Singles
Intro | ❦ (The Ripe & Ruin) | Taro
Listen to Again?
Yes
No-Skip Album?
Yes
Album Artwork Rating
8.5/10
It is kind of perfect if you ask me - the whole meaning behind the name of “Alt-J” is that when pressing it on a Mac keyboard, it produced the Delta symbol (∆), and thus Alt-J decided on using an arial photo of the Ganges river delta. Clever matchmaking in my opinion. The colour scheme is soft and welcoming and I also feel this matches the mood of the album perfectly.
Genre
Folktronica
RL
Infectious Music
Recording Studio
Iguana Studios (London, England)
Alternative Artwork
