This is how Alt-J makes music
June 12, 2015 11:24 AM Subscribe
Somebody needs to teach that guy which beats to accent.
posted by uncleozzy at 11:46 AM on June 12, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by uncleozzy at 11:46 AM on June 12, 2015 [4 favorites]
I don't have any rice crackers; is there a technique which will work for me?
posted by Wolfdog at 11:49 AM on June 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Wolfdog at 11:49 AM on June 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
As always, drugs are awesome.
posted by Cosine at 11:52 AM on June 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Cosine at 11:52 AM on June 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
I'm not sure how to express the fact that this is deeply terrible -and- that I immensely enjoyed it simultaneously.
Presented without comment: The second song on their bandcamp is entitled "Wake And Bake".
posted by solarion at 11:54 AM on June 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
Presented without comment: The second song on their bandcamp is entitled "Wake And Bake".
posted by solarion at 11:54 AM on June 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
The second song on their bandcamp is entitled "Wake And Bake".
I don't hate that, but wow, that sounds a lot like every 90s garage band. Or maybe that's just what every garage band sounds like always.
posted by uncleozzy at 11:59 AM on June 12, 2015
I don't hate that, but wow, that sounds a lot like every 90s garage band. Or maybe that's just what every garage band sounds like always.
posted by uncleozzy at 11:59 AM on June 12, 2015
I don't hate that, but wow, that sounds a lot like every 90s garage band
If my calculations are correct, in the whole scheme of societal trends repeating themselves scale, we should just about be moving from a repeat of the painter hat and fluorescent color 80s into the late 80s early 90s Material Issue pre-grunge college rock/garage band phase.
posted by bitdamaged at 12:35 PM on June 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
If my calculations are correct, in the whole scheme of societal trends repeating themselves scale, we should just about be moving from a repeat of the painter hat and fluorescent color 80s into the late 80s early 90s Material Issue pre-grunge college rock/garage band phase.
posted by bitdamaged at 12:35 PM on June 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
bitdamaged, does that mean we get new music from Dean Wareham?
posted by a halcyon day at 12:56 PM on June 12, 2015
posted by a halcyon day at 12:56 PM on June 12, 2015
"we should just about be moving from a repeat of the painter hat and fluorescent color 80s into the late 80s early 90s Material Issue pre-grunge college rock/garage band phase."
So, yeah, I thought at first their second track sounded like the Pixies. Then it didn't. When do you calculate we'll have another Pixies? Because I calculate "Never x π (Pi)"...
posted by mr.curmudgeon at 2:02 PM on June 12, 2015
So, yeah, I thought at first their second track sounded like the Pixies. Then it didn't. When do you calculate we'll have another Pixies? Because I calculate "Never x π (Pi)"...
posted by mr.curmudgeon at 2:02 PM on June 12, 2015
Nailed it.
posted by saul wright at 2:11 PM on June 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by saul wright at 2:11 PM on June 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
I'm happy that Adam Sandler's baby voice got work with Alt-J. I look forward to their new single "Stop Looking At Me Swan!"
posted by unsupervised at 5:08 PM on June 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by unsupervised at 5:08 PM on June 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
I've seen this parody before (It was pointed out in the comments section on Giant Bomb when they posted this game trailer that uses an Alt-J song). The weird this is, I like it better than any of the other songs on the creator's youtube channel, and some of the actual Alt-J songs I've heard since. Is creating songs out of layered loops just considered cheap and hacky, or something?
posted by Wandering Idiot at 7:37 AM on June 14, 2015
posted by Wandering Idiot at 7:37 AM on June 14, 2015
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