This Is All Yours | ||||
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Studio album by Alt-J | ||||
Released | 22 September 2014 | |||
Recorded | 2014 | |||
Studio | Iguana Studio (London, England) |
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Length | 64:35 | |||
Label | Infectious | |||
Producer | Charlie Andrew | |||
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Singles from This Is All Yours | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 70/100 |
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AllMusic | |
The Daily Telegraph | |
Entertainment Weekly | B− |
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Mojo | |
NME | 8/10 |
Pitchfork Media | 4.0/10 |
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Rolling Stone | |
Uncut | 5/10 |
This Is All Yours is the second studio album by English indie rock band Alt-J. It was released on September 22, 2014 by Infectious Music. The album includes the singles "Hunger of the Pine", "Left Hand Free" and "Every Other Freckle". It peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart, number two in Belgium, Australia, and Canada, and number four in the United States. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.
On May 25, 2012, Alt-J released their debut album An Awesome Wave, which won the 2012 British Barclaycard Mercury Prize. Alt-J were also nominated for three Brit Awards (British Breakthrough Act, British Album of the Year and British Group of the Year). Bassist Gwil Sainsbury left the band in January 2014. The band began recording the album in April 2014. It was recorded in the same place as An Awesome Wave, Iguana Studios, which Gus Unger-Hamilton described as "a tiny little place, sort of behind a second hand tyre shop".
The majority of the songs on the album were written while touring their debut album, An Awesome Wave, while newer ones such as "Hunger of the Pine" were written in "a really cool little converted Warehouse in Hackney, very cliché East London". Unger-Hamilton said that the "song cycle" of the album is made up of "Arrival in Nara", "Nara" and "Leaving Nara", Nara being a city in Japan. "Hunger of the Pine" was one of the songs written after their bass player Gwil Sainsbury left in January 2014. The song features a sample of "4x4" by Miley Cyrus, of her singing "I'm a female rebel". The sample originally came from a remix Thom Green, Alt-J's drummer, made for Miley Cyrus. Joe Newman said "I was playing the guitar and Thom was responding to what I was doing on Ableton and before we knew it, we'd come up with this really interesting structure, and I came up with lyrics for it quite quickly." Gus Unger-Hamilton said "it sounded cool with what Joe was playing on the guitar." The band asked Miley Cyrus if they could use the sample, which Newman said she was "cool with it". He said that Miley Cyrus has "been really supportive of us, and she's a fan, I think, which is really nice."