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Sep 4, 2014Alt-J taking their distinct sound but adding and subtracting those small building blocks to make something familiar yet beautifully innovative. [Sep/Oct 2014, p.72]
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Sep 25, 2014It is as self-indulgent as Seventies progressive rock, albeit filtered through a 21st-century indie-rock sensibility that keeps things taut and edgy, with virtuoso posturing at a minimum.
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Sep 23, 2014Some of the most enjoyable music on This Is All Yours is the simplest, kindest and funniest.
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Sep 22, 2014That penchant for edgy refinement, along with frontman Joe Newman's impossibly fluid voice, remains the band's most effective weapon, but it's hard to pinpoint where and when that magic occurs, as it's so effortlessly woven into the group's sound.
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Sep 18, 2014Hunger of the Pine and Warm Foothills are stunningly pretty, although This Is All Yours is a more a collection of sublime hooks and textures rather than conventional songwriting.
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Sep 18, 2014The departure of founding member guitarist/bassist Gwil Sainsbury hasn’t left them uninspired.
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Sep 18, 2014For the time being their concoctions remain a successful blend of sardonic and mystical, and will most likely win them a stream of new fans.
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Sep 15, 2014Beyond the flute solos and mind-blowing euphemisms, there’s rich invention behind This Is All Yours.
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Sep 15, 2014This Is All Yours engulfs you like a deep forest. Alt-J Mk II, then: an impressive expansion, with hugely improved connectivity.
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MojoSep 12, 2014There's lyrical playfulness throughout. [Oct 2014, p.89]
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Q MagazineSep 4, 2014This sumptuous riddle of a record is a celebration of everything but normality. [Oct 2014, p.100]
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Sep 23, 2014There is a deeply embedded sense of travel in that certain melodies or musical sounds will never repeat, thus the arrangements feel exploratory or impulsive.
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Sep 30, 2014They’ve created the rare sort of album that manages to be both familiar and disorienting at the same time, an expansively cinematic experience that remains unpretentiously grounded.
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Sep 24, 2014The band achieves a surprising degree of poignancy by consistently handling these potentially outrageous moments without the slightest trace of irony.
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Sep 22, 2014The band’s best and weirdest moments arrive in the second half of This Is All Yours.
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Sep 18, 2014There are still several moments of brilliance--including the mesmerising and cinematic Bloodflow Pt II, which revisits their debut--but it is also found lacking when it comes to the overall end product. That said, it remains a worthy and accomplished follow-up from Alt-J.
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Sep 16, 2014Overall, then, This Is All Yours is a respectable follow-up to an acclaimed debut that raised the bar for alternative music.
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Nov 6, 2014Alt-J could come off as pretentiously obfuscating but for the overt playfulness within the experimental.
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Entertainment WeeklySep 29, 2014The plethora of headphones-friendly tones frequently overshadow melodies that feel less than fully developed. [3 Oct 2014, p.69]
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Sep 26, 2014On their second album, This Is All Yours, they compensate for their own quirks by granting access points both for the radio-only audience and for the Internet music fans.
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Sep 8, 2014With more attention paid to plucked triads and syncopation than packing any sort of resolute punch, This Is All Yours just can’t see the wood for the trees.
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Sep 23, 2014Alt-J remain impossible to put a pin in, which makes This Is All Yours almost as frustrating as it is absorbing.
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Sep 23, 2014At their best, when not wandering along in a gilded fog--much of This Is All Yours is akin to meandering in a pretty, if tiring, gloam.
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UncutSep 4, 2014It lacks the debut's punchiness, and a compelling thread to bind those disparate elements. [Oct 2014, p.67]
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Sep 23, 2014Mallet percussion, multilingual lyrics, chesty vocal huffs, fumbled acoustics, roundabout vocal harmonies, tentative EDM dipping, Asian monasticism, "Rule Britannia", American gothic: they all get sucked into the vacuum of This Is All Yours without leaving an impression.
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Alternative PressSep 4, 2014The larger flaw of This Is All Yours is the excessive studio ornamentation attached to songs like "Choice Kingdom" and "Hunger Of The Pine" that fails to cover up unbalanced, disjointed writing. [Oct 2014, p.96]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 118 out of 156
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Mixed: 24 out of 156
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Negative: 14 out of 156
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