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alt-J (?) s name takes a little explaining. Pronounced alt-J , the delta sign is created when you hold down the alt key on your computer keyboard and punch J on a Mac computer. The symbol has a deeper meaning for the band, as guitarist/bassist Gwil Sainsbury notes, in mathematical equations it s used to show change, and the band s relatively new name came at a turning point in their lives.

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Gwil, Joe Newman [guitar/vocals], Gus Unger-Hamilton [keyboards] and Thom Green [drums] met at Leeds University in 2007. Gus studied English Literature; the other three Fine Art. In their second year of studies, Joe played Gwil a handful of his own songs inspired by his guitar-playing dad and hallucinogens, and the pair began recording in their dorm rooms with Gwil acting as producer on Garageband.

Needless to say, the response to Joe s hushed falsetto yelps and Gwil s rudimentary sampling skills was good. When Thom was played the tracks he joined the band straight away. I hadn t heard anything like it, he says. It was music I was looking for, I just didn t know I was. I just loved it.

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Gus completed the band s lineup and together first as Daljit Dhaliwal and then as Films the four friends spent the next two years playing around town, developing a precise and unique brand of alt. pop that draws on poignant folk verses, crushing synths, smart hip hop syncopations and tight vocal harmonies. They dropped the moniker of Films in 2007, largely to avoid confusing the band with Californian punk troupe The Films. alt-J (?) gave them a unique name to go with the unique folk-step that they now concoct in the basement of a terrace house in Cambridgeshire.

Overview

Named after the Mac command also used as a mathematical equation to show change, formed while studying fine art at university, and prone to throwing in the odd geometric reference within their lyrics, there are signs that Cambridge-based quartet Alt-J might be a little bit too clever for their own good. Produced by Charlie Andrew (the Laurel Collective), their debut album, An Awesome Wave, is occasionally guilty of pretentiousness, particularly the irritating a cappella vocal warmup of the interlude '(The Ripe & Ruin).' But for the most part, its 13 tracks do for nu-folk what Everything Everything's equally ambitious debut did for indie rock, breathing new life into the genre with an intriguing but accessible series of art rock twists and turns. 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 & 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 Léon, and the sparse, haunting 'Ms.' But Alt-J's wave is far more awesome when it's at its most schizophrenic.

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