Alt-J - An Awesome Wave (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP Slow One's Bothered

Slow One's Bothered

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

Negative Nancies exist in their own universe

Mick El Borado thickens the atmosphere with his improvisational keyboard playing

which recalls an Asian girl group backed by a ska band

Alt-J - An Awesome Wave (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP Slow One's BotheredCambridge 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