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Radar Recommends: Alt-J + New Australian Tour!

THIS JUST IN:

Alt-J announce their biggest Australian tour to date & Perth you don't miss out this time!

Frontier Members pre-sale via www.frontiertouring.com/altj

2pm AEDT Wed 6 Mar to 2pm AEDT Thu 7 Mar

Perth: General public on sale from 12noon local time, Wed 13 Mar

Sydney/Melbourne: General public on sale from 9am local time, Wed 13 Mar

Sat 27 July Perth | Challenge Stadium (All Ages)

Ticketmaster.com.au | Ph: 136 100

Tue 30 July Melbourne | Festival Hall (All Ages)

Ticketmaster.com.au | Ph: 136 100

Wed 31 July Sydney | Hordern Pavilion (All Ages)

Ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849

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THIS JUST IN... (14/11/12): Alt-J have debuted a new track "Buffalo" featuring Mountain Man (the all-female American folk trio) set to appear on the soundtrack to the forthcoming David O. Russell film Silver Linings Playbook. Have a listen...

It doesn't have as much of an electronic hinge to it; the fusion between beats and folk having been what helped them bag The Mercury Prize, but it's lovely all the same...

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Radar Recommends Alt-J

Making wild claims to your friends along the lines of ‘this album will change your life’ or ‘if you don’t hear this you might die’ sound extreme, but it’s albums like this, An Awesome Wave debut release from UK four piece Alt-J (or ∆ - the symbol you make when you press those mac keys) that send you on an insane trajectory of random predictions like a street-corner preacher… it’s just that good.

It’s also albums like this that send critics into a mad flurry trying to pigeonhole what sound it actually is. So far, they’ve come up with: Art-rock, dub-pop, folk-step, Mumford and Sonar – okay that last one’s a joke. The allusive compounds certainly help give you a sense of Alt-J’s sound, but it really is something that’s wreathed together so many different styles and influences – it doesn’t quite fit on any pre-existing hook. And isn’t that new music at its best!

Supposedly, the ∆ symbol in mathematics indicates change, so I think we should take the bands advice and run with it.

If you already are, you can check Alt-J out this October in Sydney & Melbourne, dates below.

If not, have a listen to some of the tracks below and you’re as easily seduced as I was, get their album, An Awesome Wave is out now.

Australian Tour Dates

Mon 28th Jan 2013

Silo Park, Wynard Quarter

Auckland

Australia

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Fri 1st Feb 2013

RNA, Fortitude Valley

Brisbane