The vista is ever-so British: bleak, grey, foreboding council estates looming (that's what the English call "the projects"), skeletal trees that may never bloom green again. In the middle of what appears to be a burned out, post-apocalyptic soccer field (plus a random telephone box), stands a bunch of men in suits, looking like blank banker automatons. One holds center-stage and proceeds to have a cataclysmic meltdown—the likes of which I haven't seen since the devil took over Reagan's body in The Exorcist. This is not going to end well.
Musically it's Alt-J at their most elegantly acoustic and sparse with a chorus that flays singer Joe Newman bare.
"Are you a pusher or are you a puller? / I pull the weight towards me / And I lack the zest of a lemon, looking forward / Unless I have a woman pushing me," he quavers. Ideally you want a pusher and a puller, don't you? I certainly don't want to spend all my time pushing—that shit's tiring—but this is sweetly soothing.
Alt-J Tour Dates
3/12-15 - Bogota, CO - Festival Estereo Picnic
3/14-15 - Santiago, CL - Lollapalooza Chile
3/21-22 - Buenos Aires, AR - Lollapalooza Argentina
3/28-29 - Sao Paulo, SP - Lollapalooza Brazil
3/30 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
4/01 - Cleveland, OH - State Theater at Playhouse Square - SOLD OUT
4/02 - Pittsburgh, PA - Benedum Center - SOLD OUT
4/03 - Raleigh, NC - Red Hat Amphitheatre - SOLD OUT
4/04 - Atlanta, GA - Chastain Park Amphitheatre - SOLD OUT
4/06 - Nashville, TN - Grand Ole Opry - SOLD OUT
4/08 - Oklahoma City, OK - Chevy Bricktown Events Center - SOLD OUT
4/11 - Indio, CA - Coachella Music Festival
4/13 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint
4/14 - Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara Bowl
4/16 - Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre - SOLD OUT
4/17 - Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre
4/18 - Indio, CA - Coachella Music Festival
7/24-26 - Oro-Medonte, ON - WayHome Music & Arts Festival
7/25 - Kansas City, KS - Sporting Park
7/27 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
7/28 - Council Bluffs, IA - Stir Concert Cove at Harrah's Council Bluffs