Frontman Joe Newman describes his band’s third album as “a great landscape eliciting different emotional reactions”. It’s fabulously treacherous terrain, dotted with unpredictable twists, turns and rabbit holes. Even the most immediate track—“Deadcrush”, simmering space-funk inspired by deceased objects of desire—is dazzlingly rich in ideas. The band’s ambition reaches towering peaks on “Pleader”, which samples Ely Cathedral’s choir and its heating system while snaking through gentle folk, dystopian discord and symphonic majesty. A remarkable balance of invention and accessibility, Relaxer places alt-J in a lineage of great British rock innovators that stretches from Pink Floyd to Radiohead.
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02 In Cold Blood.m4a
03 House of the Rising Sun.m4a
04 Hit Me Like That Snare.m4a
05 Deadcrush.m4a
06 Adeline.m4a
07 Last Year.m4a
08 Pleader.m4a
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