- alternative, alternative rock, indie rock, rock
- 49 min
- 13 tracks
- Liberator Music
An Awesome Wave is the debut album by English indie rock band Alt-J, released on 25 May 2012 through Infectious. The album includes the singles "Matilda"/"Fitzpleasure", "Breezeblocks" and "Tessellate".
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Character-led, contemporary, spare and grave.
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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Metacritic 71/100 · AnyDecentMusic? 7.4/10
- AllMusic3.5/5 ★
- The A.V. ClubC
- The Irish Times4/5 ★
- MSN Music (Expert Witness)B+
- The New Zealand Herald4/5 ★
- NME8/10
- Pitchfork4.8/10
- PopMatters8/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Intro2:38
- 2❦ (Ripe & Ruin)1:12
- 3Tessellate3:03
- 4Breezeblocks3:47
- 5❦ (Guitar)1:17
- 6Something Good3:38
- 7Dissolve Me3:59
- 8Matilda3:49
- 9Ms3:59
- 10Fitzpleasure3:39
- 11❦ (Piano)0:54
- 12Bloodflood4:09
- 13Taro12:42
13 tracks, 49 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- alt‐J
- Label
- Liberator Music
- Released
- 2012
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- AU
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