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Matilda (alt-J song)

"Matilda"
Alt-J matilda.jpg
Single by alt-J
from the album An Awesome Wave
B-side "Fitzpleasure"
Released 10 January 2012
Format Digital download, 7" vinyl, 10" vinyl
Genre Indie folk, progressive folk, art rock
Length 3:48
Label Infectious
Writer(s) alt-J
Producer(s) Charlie Andrew
alt-J singles chronology
"Bloodflood"
(2011)
"Matilda"
(2012)
"Breezeblocks"
(2012)

"Matilda" is a song by British rock band alt-J from their debut studio album An Awesome Wave, released on January 10, 2012 as a digital download. It was released as a split single with "Fitzpleasure" in February 24 as a digital download and on 10" triangle shaped vinyl. It was written by Joe Newman, Gus Unger-Hamilton, Gwilym Sainsbury and Thom Green and produced by Charlie Andrew. The song is a tribute to Matilda Davies, a friend of the band, who was an Art teacher at a grammar school in Kings Heath, Birmingham, who later moved to United Arab Emirates. The band would later release the song "Leon", a tribute to the main character of the film.



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