{"id":11343,"date":"2012-07-06T07:08:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=11343"},"modified":"2012-07-08T06:33:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T14:33:12","slug":"new-music-alt-j-and-tessellate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-07\/new-music-alt-j-and-tessellate\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music:  Alt-J and &#8220;Tessellate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back after roaming in the desert for what seemed like 400 years, one of our favorite music-fans slaked our thirst for some new music (thanks Haznah).\u00a0 Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/altjband.com\/\"><strong>Alt-J<\/strong><\/a>, the smarty-pants band from Cambridge, England, and a couple of performances of their very catchy song, <em><strong>Tessellate<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 We&#8217;re just getting a feel for the band, but <strong>Alt-J<\/strong> smacks of suave alt-pop that blends shimmering synths, hip hop metrics and smooth vocal harmonies.\u00a0 Reminds a bit of some of the old stalwarts, such as <strong>Blue Nile<\/strong>, but updated well.\u00a0 Alt-J released its first album, <strong>An Awesome Wave<\/strong>, on June 5th, which you can stream in its entirety <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/alt-j\/sets\/an-awesome-wave\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Check out two winning live versions of <em><strong>Tessellate<\/strong><\/em> below.\u00a0 As a bonus check out the official video for their song, <em><strong>Breezeblocks<\/strong><\/em> at bottom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alt J - Tessellate (Live at the Africa Centre)\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GG8qvVNAGMY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alt-J - Tessellate (The Amazing Sessions)\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YqMCucTWFdg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"alt-J (\u2206) Breezeblocks\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rVeMiVU77wo?list=UUAMWWQQNQeD73DtiddfBrpg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back after roaming in the desert for what seemed like 400 years, one of our favorite music-fans slaked our thirst for some new music (thanks Haznah).\u00a0 Check out Alt-J, the smarty-pants band from Cambridge, England, and a couple of performances of their very catchy song, Tessellate.\u00a0 We&#8217;re just getting a feel for the band, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}