An Awesome Wave - Alt J (2012)

At first blush, it’s easy to think that Alt J are just a bunch of nerds taking weird math rock and hammering it into the shapes of pop songs. And that’s not inaccurate, but there are a lot of layers of detail here. Whip-smart pop rock, with delightfully demented lyrics that still manage to land an impressionist punch.

Tracks I Liked

Tessellate - the horniest song about geometry ever written

Fitzpleasure - “pull the pylons down and wrap them around the necks of all the feckless men that queue to be the next.” I mean….