Wednesday, June 18, 2014

The Daily Dose: alt-j 
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Cambridge outfit alt-j, whose 2012 debut album An Awesome Wave was, well, awesome, has released the first track from their second LP, This Is All Yours (out September 22nd). Though "Hunger of the Pine" is pervaded by the same warbling mysticism of their first record, the track wades into new territory––notably its sampling of Miley Cyrus's "4x4," particularly the line "I'm a female rebel." Band member Gus Unger-Hamilton describes the song as
"composed entirely of new and spontaneous ideas that arose during writing sessions for the second album. It was written very quickly using some guitar chords and sounds being layered on Ableton, and seemed to signal a bit of a new sound for us. The lyrics mainly suggest the idea that missing someone — pining — can be a physical pain much like hunger."
Indeed, the track broods and pines (wastes and pines?) through both familiar and different territory, ending (à la "Matilda") in some vaguely pensive French: "Une immense espérance a traversée la terre / Une immense espérance a traversée ma peur" (An immense hope has crossed the land / An immense hope has crossed my fear). What exactly this hunger of the pine is is not exactly clear, nor is it supposed to be; rather, the track is yet another obscure and fascinating page in the mysterious hymnal that is alt-j. Stream it below.





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