Alt-J - An Awesome Wave (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP but rarely has contemporary music

but rarely has contemporary music summed up a sense of place and time so perfectly

I started following drummers such as Mark Guiliana

while "Taro" somehow melds together the unlikely bedfellows of Americana and bhangra to produce a fittingly oddball but enthralling finale

Slow One's Bothered

Mick El Borado thickens the atmosphere with his improvisational keyboard playing

Alt-J - An Awesome Wave (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP but rarely has contemporary musicCambridge 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