![]() Apparently, people thought that we coined the term “folk step,” but none of us said anything about “folk step.” We’re not into branding what we do.ĬURRENT SINGLE “BREEZEBLOCKS”: The song is about liking someone who you want so much that you want to hurt yourself and them, as well. ![]() We’re just happy writing music, and now we’re lucky enough to do that hobby professionally. We don’t like people trying to figure out what our music sounds like, nor do we feel like we do that for them. We’re not interested in trying to define ourselves. NO LABELS: Our mission is not to create a new genre. We’re on the same wavelength which is why we end up sounding okay. ![]() I think because we were all friends before we were musicians, we naturally understand one another. We work very hard, and in some cases we spend years on songs trying to get it right-refining it, picking things out and changing things around. It’s not something we’re aware of, just something we’re told. We just try to play music we like to hear and we’re kind of absentmindedly sounding like no other band at the moment. SONGWRITING PROCESS: Part of the reason is accessible is because we don’t try to go out of the box or be innovative. It’s been an amazing thing for people to like your album-not only fans, but experts to say really nice things-that’s just another level. ON THE POSITIVE FEEDBACK OF AN AWESOME WAVE: We can’t get over it. We talked to frontman Joe Newman, as his train chugged along through England, about sinister love song “Breezeblocks,” having a crush on Baby Spice, and whether or not their interest in triangles could result in an unwanted Illuminati conspiracy theory ( à la Jay-Z’s Roc Nation triangle symbol). The band is currently touring the UK and will be playing the festival circuit this summer. The tale is told with an unexpected urgent sensuality, poetic vulnerability, and an accessible eccentricity that ultimately proves to be the fruitful listening experience music critics have so fervently promised. Their debut intricately entangles multiple musical genres-folk verses, trip-hop atmosphere, pop catchiness, indie rock quirk, rock rattling bass, hip-hop beats, electronic heavy synth riffs-and interweaves it with heartbreakingly intimate lyrics, peppered with film and literary references including shout-outs to Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and Luc Besson’s Léon. The former fine art students met and formed the band (originally named FILMS until a case of mistaken identity with US band The Films) at Leeds University in 2007 and have since succeeded in earning comparisons to Radiohead (a noted influence), nabbing tour time with Ghostpoet and Wild Beasts, and basking in glowing reviews for their debut album, An Awesome Wave. Despite the building buzz surrounding their title and genre name games (which they reluctantly once tagged “trip-folk”), the band has quickly risen above the hype as a genuine bands to watch in 2012. In fact, at first it seemed as if they didn’t want us to find them or figure them out, thanks to what seemed an unsearchable band name-a triangle or delta sign, â?, pronounced alt-j (after the keyboard shortcut which creates a triangle on a Mac)-along with a curious aversion to the camera and an unself-conscious desire to color outside the lines of genre, all of which shaded them mysterious and perhaps a tad pretentious. No timer or anything, take your time-type of a nice challenge.UK quartet Alt-J doesn’t want us to define them. The -cells games are fair, 100% logical, and after implementing a few mechanics, it really gets into the brain twisting. Klocki and Zenge are superb experience, but they aren't really hard, they are chill / exploratory puzzle games. Picross Touch is free and have a few hundred official, and thousands of user-made picross puzzles.Īlso, if Crazy Machines -> then Contraption Maker.Įdit: Square and Hexcells are amongst the absolute best puzzle games I have ever played. Many iterations of the same thing without giving new things. Lyne is solid, but I enjoyed it more on my phone on the go, it misses the variation Zenge or Klocki offer. If you liked hook, then Klocki and Zenge are must-haves, while the names vary a bit basically they are all done by the same people.ĭepending on your screen resolution Hexcells, Squarecells are great as well (last levels can be quite big, but I'm not familiar with how much your spotify would take up from your screen :)
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