Alt-J: All of This is Yours

Alt-J’s This Is All Yours sounds like it was engineered for headphones, late nights, and people who love albums that reward repeat listens. We are Chris and Tim, and we take this one track by track, chasing what makes the band’s “quiet” approach feel so big: spare guitar lines, careful harmonies, unexpected percussion, and those left-turn moments that only an art-school indie rock band from Leeds would try.

Along the way, we talk about the band’s origin story and why their early dorm-room limitations may have shaped the whole record’s identity. We dig into the meditative pull of “Arrival In Nara” and “Nara,” the playful intensity of “Every Other Freckle,” and the way the songs hint at bigger themes without turning into a lecture. We also call out the sonic details we cannot stop hearing, from layered keys to bold dropouts that make certain tracks feel almost cinematic.

We set one rule: “Left Hand Free” is the hit, so it is off the board. Everything else is fair game. That leads us to a real debate over the album’s strongest deep cuts, including “Choice Kingdom,” “Hunger Of The Pine,” and “Gospel Of John Hurt,” plus a quick nod to how the bonus “Lovely Day” puts a clean finish on the whole listen.

If you care about 2010s indie rock, experimental folk textures, and album reviews that actually rank the songs, hit play. Subscribe, share this with a friend who loves Alt-J, and leave a review then tell us which non-hit deserves the top spot.

Transcript

How Alt-J Starts As Friends

SPEAKER_25 0:00

Um I suppose the starting point um was just being friends and uh how we all met, which was in university and we were all just friends before we we were bandmates and um then we kind of just started playing instruments and then and then that's really how it started, that's how the collaboration started, and then um I started showing them the the the lyrics that I was writing and uh the music that I was writing with the guitar that I was playing with and and yeah that's really how it started, yeah.

SPEAKER_11 0:46

Alright, thank you for listening to the greatest non-hits. I'm Chris, and playing a mashup of the Gospel of John Hurt and Hunger of the Pine from the record This Is All Yours from the band Alt Jay, or the symbol Delta, is my co-host Tim. Uh thank you for listening. Um this is uh a band that a lot of people may not know. It's from the 2010s, of course. Um this is the second album from the band Alt Jay. It's uh these guys are really interesting to me. Um Tim and I were talking about them being what we call, like from our point of view, the uh the band Talk Talk from the 80s. They they're the talk talk of the 2010s. Um educated, highly educated from the uh University of Leeds, they met in 2007. Um they were in art school, um, they studied I think literature and English in the city of Leeds in the UK. And um they blend art school experimentation with folk with electronica, indie rock, art rock, but really good stuff. Not real pretentious, you would think so, but uh really well really well done. Um band members are Joe Newman, he's the lead vocals, plays guitar. Um not you know, he's kinda growing on me. Not not so much a a fan of the wavering vocal tone, but um but a great I in my opinion, uh a great songwriter. Um there's also Tom Sonny Green, who's the drummer. Great look, good drummer.

SPEAKER_14 2:36

Um that was a little Ian Anderson.

Tim Joins And The Noodling Begins

SPEAKER_11 2:42

Uh they also they're influenced by Jethro Tull, you know, they've got uh so many different uh they're they're kind of proggy in a way. I mean, at least I think so. Even though I don't think that that's really what they were going for. I I hear it a little bit. They use a lot of different instruments. Um there's also Gus Unger Hamilton, he's a keyboard vocalist. He contributes a lot to a lot of the harmonies uh that defines the band's sound. Um in this album, the second album, they changed from like a four-piece to a three-piece, and the fourth piece who left right before the album was made was a guy named Gills uh uh Gwill Sainsbury. He's a founding guitarist bassist. Uh he left amicably in 2014. So after he left, uh a guy named Cameron Knight joined as a touring member because they probably needed somebody to play bass. So um anyway, like I mentioned, um they were sort of like a garage band. Uh they recorded a lot of their demos in their dorm rooms, and they used the the software garage band, I guess, to for some of the sounds uh that they used, but um they play very quietly. They're quiet, experimental. That's their approach. Um and it kind of dates back to their early days in the dorm rooms where they had to be quiet, and so they sort of use that and leveraged that to their advantage, and it sort of defined their their sound. So anyway, um this is considered to be the pivotal sophomore second album. Um it's they've got a couple of big tracks. Um the the one called Left Hand Free is like more of a a straightforward rock song. It became a breakout hit, so um in in line with this show, you know, the greatest non-hits, we're gonna listen to all the songs. All the songs that aren't hits, we're gonna rank at the end, give you our top three, and I think the left hand free, I think, is the one that we're gonna consider to be the hit, so that will be excluded from our voting and our ranking at the end. Um people throw in every other freckle, that's another one of the songs. It's uh a little bit more sensual, playful, a lot of percussion in that song. Um it also like some of the other songs sort of have like a Hunger Games and Lord of the Rings kind of uh vibe to them. Um but and that's not really my thing, but I I I I know the basic stories of both of those stories, and um I I I I like what they do. I think that they um they're the real deal. They're not and they're not pretentious about it either, at least from from the reading that I've done, uh from uh some of the uh interviews that I've heard from them. I've only listened to this album maybe two or three times through. Uh and the more, of course, I I always say this, but it's true. I mean the more I listen to it, the more it it you know it sort of sinks in. And uh some of the songs are pretty deep. You know, they've got the Bove Alabama lyric in Nara, has you know political and cultural significance to it. You know, there were LGBTQ themes during this time period, you know, s think back to September 2014, that was you know, that there was uh cultural reckoning everywhere, really, and uh there was pushback in places that maybe like Alabama, Russia, things like that, and so they uh they write about it. So um anyway, it's all good. Um I'm I'm excited to uh to to get into the tracks. I know Tim is as well. Uh he's got some opinions, he's got some uh he was m commenting on you know playing the music. It started to make more sense to him just from the playing, and so he's gonna he's gonna delve into that. And um I guess they've all had some other side projects. Tony's Tom Sonny Green, I guess, the the guitar or the the drummer, I think also had some sort of loss of hearing and that sort of plays to his sound and his I guess he w just experimented with the percussions and he just like I think he liked the the writing of Joe Newman and he sort of played the drums according to that, so we'll we'll have to listen for that. But um anyway, yeah. Tim's into the noodling. He's uh he's packing it, he's packing up, he's getting his earpiece out, he's uh he's putting the guitar away, he's gonna join me, he's gonna give his two cents, we're gonna listen to songs. Um I guess they only have a couple of other studio albums. Relaxer in 2017 and another one called The Dream in 2024. I know they have done a c some interviews in the last year or so. So um really looking forward to uh getting into the podcast. We got some hilarious sound banks. We're gonna get into the comedy shortly with Tim uh coming in. How you doing, bud?

SPEAKER_20 8:07

Oh, howdy campers. Oh, man.

SPEAKER_11 8:11

Barbershop raga. Wait, so what did you think? I mean, there's a lot of Barbershop raga. There's good good raga. I don't know. What do you think?

SPEAKER_20 8:18

I I I got lost in the noodling there. That was Yeah. Simple lines. Intertwining. It's tolerable. It's tolerable. It's quite something. I I mean I don't know. The the three piece reference and triangles.

SPEAKER_11 8:39

Yeah, the delta.

SPEAKER_20 8:42

The Ganges, I guess. Is that the Ganges River?

SPEAKER_11 8:45

Yeah, well, I mean there's a Delta River and then there's the letter Delta, which is the symbol of the band as well, for some reason. But uh What do you think? I mean, yeah, I just think the songs are like.

SPEAKER_20 9:04

I like I like the uh interesting simple simple lines intertwining artwork here. Uh that's kind of just like I kinda like the abstract. It's not telling you much. Yeah, it could be anything, you know. I know. It looks like a head j. It's like this is all yours, and it's this little s little J or C with a maybe a little C horse. Maybe a blue seahorse. Do you see that? I don't know. Oh, the blue is that yes like a square.

SPEAKER_11 9:36

I want to encourage the listeners to look at the uh the album cover here for a second. Tell us what you see first. It looks I see like uh a profile of a person's head. That purple swirl around the edge is the hair, and the blue is a is a brain. And then the red is like the nasal cabin. Oh, I was wrong. Yeah, and then like the green is the windpipe and the the jaw, maybe. This is like a little mouth thing that thing little thing on the colour.

SPEAKER_20 10:08

I wonder who made it, yeah.

SPEAKER_11 10:09

I don't know.

SPEAKER_20 10:10

We can all speculate.

SPEAKER_11 10:15

I don't know. The medulla.

SPEAKER_20 10:17

I don't know what I'm talking about. Well, if this album doesn't play with your emotional cavity of your brain, and I don't know what will.

The Strange Intro And Sonic Palette

SPEAKER_11 10:29

Well, let's play the intro and see see what it does here. La la la la right off the bat. There's a lot of profanity, so the explicit material is gonna be coming up soon. I don't know if you care or not. Brian barking. I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 10:58

Bitch, I don't care.

SPEAKER_20 11:22

Yeah. They're gonna pass out with all these laws. Yeah, do they just sit there and do the la la laws the whole show?

SPEAKER_17 11:32

Oh.

SPEAKER_20 11:33

See. It's part of their like indie sound effects, like they could could be anything, you know. They just choose to do it for their vocals, which is cool. Yes.

SPEAKER_11 11:49

Yeah, and they meant Escher. Wanna draw shit. I pop clips, bitch. Those are the first I mean yeah. These are the lyrics, I mean. It's kind of like the like a church organ kind of a sound. Sure. It's kinda coming off the rails.

SPEAKER_20 12:27

I think this is a good priming lesson for the whole bitch.

SPEAKER_26 13:15

Now you've had enough.

SPEAKER_11 13:42

Yeah, I like that talk talk parallel that you mentioned earlier.

SPEAKER_20 13:48

It's like a bath candle album. Uh-huh. Shout out to the bathers and teers out there. Yeah. Absolutely tea bathers. This is like Renfest now. It's getting into Renfest. Renaissance Festival with the Harp decor desk. Yeah. Getting hungry for a turkey leg, right? Oh man, smoke turkey leg? And some uh you've had not had enough turkey legs. Yeah. Wash it down with a nice cold Budweiser.

SPEAKER_26 14:21

The price is wrong, bitch.

SPEAKER_20 14:25

I paid seventeen dollars for this. I love this part. Uh-huh. It's got the Jaguar Moth like overdub, that sort of like European Australian angsty sort of like club club vibe to this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_28 15:03

It's pretty Get out of here, I'll kill you. But come back tomorrow, same time. I get very sad on Sundays when you're not here.

SPEAKER_11 15:12

Okay.

Arrival In Nara And Spiritual Mood

SPEAKER_20 15:14

That was intro. Yeah, it was a little barking. The effect was like kind of like a barking, but then they take us into the arrival in Nala. Yeah. Arrival in Nara. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_11 15:43

It's very delicate.

SPEAKER_03 15:55

Simple lines intertwining.

SPEAKER_11 15:59

This debuted at number one in the UK. I did not know that. That's where it went at Wikipedia. Interesting. This album. Still very falky.

SPEAKER_20 16:25

Hmm. I love the piano. Yeah. Very nice. It's like a mock piece.

SPEAKER_02 16:31

Well, this piece is called uh lick my love pump.

SPEAKER_11 16:33

This is very live lick my love pumpy.

SPEAKER_20 16:39

I believe in fairies. Sorry, sorry, sorry. That's you know, out of control.

SPEAKER_11 16:49

Uh you're excited. You want you want to do the soundbangs. It's all good. It's soothing though. Yeah, it is. Isn't it? It really is. Well done.

SPEAKER_19 17:01

So feeble feet.

SPEAKER_00 17:17

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

SPEAKER_11 17:23

Sounds like Fleet Fox is a little bit more. Oh wow, as a comparison. Well the the singer.

SPEAKER_20 17:28

You're right.

SPEAKER_11 17:39

It's like an example of how they borrow from other bands, but they still have their own. This is better. I'm not not trying to dunk on Fleet Foxes, their awesome band. These guys I like.

SPEAKER_14 17:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_20 17:58

Different tools. Different tools for different craftsmen here, I feel like. Mm-hmm. You know. Songsmiths, if you will.

SPEAKER_11 18:07

Yeah, why aren't we saying that uh that guitar playing, like this acoustic is sort of like a almost you can hear a little bit of classical track to heaven? Oh yeah. And it's a piano.

SPEAKER_20 18:26

Does, doesn't it sound like that?

SPEAKER_11 18:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_20 18:28

It's like stairway to heaven and Well, isn't this supposed to be about arrival at some kind of peace or a peaceful journey or something?

SPEAKER_11 18:39

Yeah, something like that. You talk about the theme of the song? Yeah. It's like uh this is arrival and Nara, it's a No I cannot see I can just think it's about sanctuary, peace, smile.

SPEAKER_20 19:01

You know, I wouldn't add a thing.

SPEAKER_11 19:04

There's a lot of it. There's like a lot of spiritual stuff in this album.

SPEAKER_20 19:09

Nothing more to be added on this one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 19:12

Uh but it's tolerable. Oh yeah, but yeah, yeah. So that was a rival, and then this is just Nara.

SPEAKER_17 19:35

Marry a man I know of I defuse.

SPEAKER_19 19:43

I'm a man. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

SPEAKER_10 19:57

A festival, Jazz Blues Festival.

SPEAKER_12 20:13

I love Lamb Blues. Petrol Blues.

SPEAKER_11 20:18

Petrol Blues.

SPEAKER_10 20:26

A uh fan of the Jazz Blues Festival. When was the blues jazz really? Blues jazz festival.

SPEAKER_20 20:35

I got some French here coming. Little ham and eggs coming at you.

SPEAKER_19 20:46

In my youth.

SPEAKER_20 20:48

In my youth.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

We'll have an eggs coming at you. Hold on, people.

unknown 21:06

Let him leave me be.

SPEAKER_09 21:09

Leave me be.

SPEAKER_20 21:17

Good bass line.

SPEAKER_11 21:18

Let him meet him on me. Here's that little experimental with the drums, too. That'll me.

SPEAKER_20 21:27

Wow, that's cool.

SPEAKER_13 21:32

Yes, not all in your face, but I'm a man.

SPEAKER_08 21:42

I'm a man.

SPEAKER_11 21:49

But yeah, this is not gonna happen in Bove, Alabama, though. Shout out to Bove. Shout out to the listeners of Bovey.

SPEAKER_20 22:00

Touch blue and blue and bove.

SPEAKER_14 22:02

Blue, you're my boy!

SPEAKER_15 22:10

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_20 22:13

Yeah, I just wish like the scene was just a little bit better. It's a little whiny. It's whiny, yeah. But I hate to say that because this guy's like really probably like a change. I think it fits. Yeah. I think it fits for it. Maybe it does fit for it. Or he needs to do it. Yeah. It has to I think he has a haunting voice. It's a haunting mazley voice. It's good. And nothing more to be added. Stripped it down for this album. That's kind of cool. I didn't realize it was from three, from four to three.

SPEAKER_11 23:07

And this is so tight, like this time. And everybody's gonna chip. The the guy doing was it um?

SPEAKER_20 23:18

And I love this little porn or um wow. Piano overlay here? I know. I mean this this deserves like that international acclaim, I think. This song is pretty cool.

SPEAKER_11 23:39

Yeah. Gus of your hands.

SPEAKER_20 23:43

This is phenomenal. Killing it.

SPEAKER_11 23:47

Like filling in the space. Oh man.

SPEAKER_20 23:57

So cool.

SPEAKER_11 23:59

Yeah, it's all quiet.

SPEAKER_29 24:12

I sick.

Every Other Freckle And Percussion

SPEAKER_11 24:16

Yeah, these guys were in the dorms, man. They were just song is called Every Other Freckle. And this was the release as a single.

SPEAKER_19 24:41

I wanna do all the things your lungs do so much. What?

SPEAKER_16 24:47

I'm gonna bet into you like a cat bats into the mail.

SPEAKER_24 24:54

My cat send you inside out to link you like a Chris packet. And we were going up and and the whole oh my god, the whole goddamn thing went into a like a uh flip-out and it flipped and and bent the whole railing, and it must have gotten caught on the carpet understands.

SPEAKER_20 25:32

Oh, it sounds like a little flip a woolen jumper. What yeah, flip out. What about a little uh a jumper, a romper? A cat romper.

SPEAKER_06 25:43

Notice the sunspots at the top of the right can devour me. Notice the sunspots at the top of the right can.

SPEAKER_11 25:54

Shout out to Mrs. Garrett.

SPEAKER_12 26:09

I love Leo.

SPEAKER_20 26:18

We could have like a whole whole orchestra do this. We'd have like the Philharmonic.

SPEAKER_11 26:25

Yeah, like the string parts.

SPEAKER_20 26:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 26:28

No.

SPEAKER_20 26:29

Efterclang can do it. Al Jay can do it.

SPEAKER_11 26:36

Well this could go in any direction, you know. This could be a part of a blues jazz festival or a jazz blues festival.

SPEAKER_20 26:48

I like the blues. I like the jazz.

SPEAKER_10 26:50

The uh festival jazz.

SPEAKER_20 26:58

Oh.

SPEAKER_11 27:01

I like the this piece is called my love pump. Hey, hey.

SPEAKER_20 27:15

That's a 20 minutes for you there. Yeah, it's just like a uh is this the electronic version of the uh the stomp clap like Ross mentioned? Hey. I was thinking about it. You probably hate this. I don't think you would probably hate this. Okay. He's narrowing, he's narrowing his branches. Maybe a little bit. I don't know. I think he would like this, maybe. Maybe. You know, I he made some good points.

SPEAKER_11 27:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_20 27:51

Anyone that's pretentious.

Left Hand Free As The Hit

SPEAKER_11 27:52

Uh yeah, Father John missed he's pretentious, yeah. These guys, not so much. Yeah. Oh. Okay, this is left-hand free.

SPEAKER_08 28:07

Big up the mini mini money moon flower, you're the chosen one.

SPEAKER_13 28:13

Where does the street once you want to snow?

SPEAKER_04 28:26

Come on, you know.

SPEAKER_11 28:29

I I think that the they they needed a song like this just to kind of show, yeah, we can rock out if we if we want. I mean, we can make a song that's radio friendly. But we wanted to need it. So this is I'm glad that they have the song. This is the hit.

SPEAKER_20 28:45

I almost covered this, but but it was more difficult than I would give it credit for. And maybe it's just too simple. I just I wanted to noodle like the creator of the album, sort of like see where he knows. The vocals are kind of like a melody. But yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:16

And then there's a little jog there.

SPEAKER_11 29:27

We don't have time for that. We're just gonna have perfect time to shout out to the runners.

SPEAKER_20 29:35

Shout out to the runners. You can't run in the tub, but you can't tub in the run, but you can sit. Often I I step in here. This is a banger though.

SPEAKER_06 29:56

This isn't where's this the sunspots at the top of the right can!

SPEAKER_08 30:14

Big up the mini mini money flow.

SPEAKER_20 30:17

Okay, mini mini money. I can't remember who was the prodigal The Bell and get pitted, so pitted like yeah, maybe even it is a little stomp clap even.

SPEAKER_11 30:54

Yeah, that's not even like the second or third best song I've heard yet. That's that was the hit.

unknown 30:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 30:59

I don't know. Short and sweet, maybe. And then we got this.

SPEAKER_12 31:12

I hope you noticed we have a serious situation.

Choice Kingdom And Quiet Experimentation

SPEAKER_11 31:54

This isn't gonna be my time for me, I'll just tell you. Shout out to the uh frozen cave-man lawyer. Uh the next song is gonna be Okay, now we're on Choice Kingdom. We're done with Garden of England.

SPEAKER_20 32:57

This is like spa music. Yeah, you know Deep Meditative Spa music. Yeah, just like sitting in a blood pool. Yeah. Cucumbers over your eyes, yeah, that kind of thing. Somebody's playing bongos in the background.

SPEAKER_11 34:13

Right idea to hide.

SPEAKER_20 34:15

This is like almost like vampire weekend now or something. Like Indy. Are there waves in England?

SPEAKER_11 35:17

No. I think so. Like maybe in Penzance.

SPEAKER_20 35:20

Take the wave all the way to the Falklands. Oh.

SPEAKER_11 35:29

Do the Falklands have waves? That was probably not. Well, maybe. It's on the Atlantic side.

SPEAKER_20 35:35

I don't know. There's nobody out there to enjoy.

SPEAKER_11 35:41

I don't know. Enjoy the waves. Yeah. There are. My primitive mind can't grasp those concepts, so I don't know.

SPEAKER_21 35:57

I'm just a kid.

SPEAKER_11 37:05

Yeah, there's a Miley Cyrus sample on this somewhere. Female rebel. Yeah. I guess Gwill Sainsbury's leaving the band inspired this, maybe. Or it's like the transition and how they were kind of like. But I think more of like generally speaking, it's just about loneliness and the ache of separation, according to Wikipedia.

SPEAKER_20 37:33

Well, they're also saying I'm a female, I'm a female.

Hunger Of The Pine And Longing

SPEAKER_11 37:42

Yeah, what's that all about? I'm a female rebel. A female rebel. Hunger of the Pines. I think that they're indirectly referencing the Hunger Games. Came out in 2014.

SPEAKER_20 37:55

Hunger of the Pines also was that old, like folk song. It was about that uh you know, the the woman that was sleeping around. Hunger of the Pines. So I met like uh Kurt Cobain covered it. Uh yeah, my primitive can't grasp that concept.

SPEAKER_11 38:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_21 38:24

Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW and run off into the hills or whatever.

SPEAKER_11 38:37

Yeah, wrong on me. Hunger Hunger of the Pine Star. It's just yeah, I guess it's a s it symbolizes insatiable longing, blending emotional desire with the pain and vulnerability of love.

SPEAKER_07 38:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 38:52

So I guess it's just like a medieval concept or medieval reference. I don't know.

SPEAKER_20 38:58

Maybe to step outside the BMW for this one.

SPEAKER_26 39:11

Now you've had enough.

SPEAKER_20 39:17

I like that horn effect. I love it, yeah. It's a drone that's the coolest part where they drop everything and then they start again. I like I really like that as it's such a bold move. It's such a bold move as a as a song. You don't really see it a lot. It is very creative.

SPEAKER_21 39:41

Your world brightens and confused man.

SPEAKER_11 39:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_20 39:55

Uh lots of music videos, but this one. There's the guy getting shot with arrows, and then there's the hunger game arrows, and I don't know.

SPEAKER_21 40:06

Little demons get inside and type it. I don't know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_20 40:10

Who typed this script?

SPEAKER_21 40:12

Who typed little demons I don't know. My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts.

SPEAKER_27 40:24

Thank you for your consideration.

SPEAKER_20 40:30

That was tight. That was that was some tight clipping right there. That horn.

SPEAKER_11 40:39

It's been all the way through it. It's kind of like a Pink Floyd thing where they have like a bell playing throughout the whole song, like kind of the same rhythm. This is that horn that kind of thing.

SPEAKER_20 40:55

And you'd have Alt J do Hunger of the Pines at Pompeii. Maybe not Pompeii, maybe their own Pompeii.

SPEAKER_11 41:03

What are they? Like, I don't know. Stone Edge. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 41:06

Or I don't know.

SPEAKER_11 41:11

What's up in the northern part of Scotland? Some something like that. Some castle. Yeah. Just put it in a castle, it'll be fine.

SPEAKER_20 41:20

Yeah, we're warm.

Warm Foothills And Story Details

SPEAKER_11 41:22

What song is this now? Warm foothills. Okay. We're getting another home stretch here. We've got a few left here. Some good ones. Warm foothills.

SPEAKER_23 41:44

I'm just getting warmed up.

SPEAKER_11 41:54

From the nape of her neck, he made his descent.

SPEAKER_09 42:09

From the nape of her neck, he made his descent.

SPEAKER_11 42:16

Those two words don't rhyme, but it sounded like they did. That was pretty clever, I thought.

SPEAKER_09 42:20

From rock to see.

SPEAKER_20 42:23

Rock and roll. Alright. I wonder what like Van Halen thinks of this band. Yeah, they probably hate it. Yeah, it's too sensitivo for them.

SPEAKER_11 42:57

You got the whistling. I mean, of course, it belongs right here. You know, it's it's not forest.

SPEAKER_20 43:11

This is the uh Shire. I found some some Tolkien uh paperbacks in my my attic. Oh really? Some some previous tenants. They're pretty cool.

SPEAKER_22 43:30

Oh, the weeds. Tell me more about it.

SPEAKER_20 43:34

Well, I mean they're not hardback, but they're a paperback. It's the whole trilogy of Tolkien. The Tolkien. Yeah, they're probably from the 70s. Okay. Passed down. Shout out to Jerry. I don't know. It's the tenants, uh, whoever lived in my apartment last. Oh, it's from the apartment.

SPEAKER_11 43:56

Okay, it wasn't from the guy I gotcha.

SPEAKER_20 43:58

Yeah. We found it. We were like, wow, this is this could be worth some money. I don't I wouldn't lead him. I mean, uh just give it to the guy and look short. Shop.

SPEAKER_11 44:12

I never really realized how far north Leeds is. Leeds United.

SPEAKER_20 44:17

I mean, it's like it's north of Manchester. Yeah. Shout out to Dominic Calvert Lewin. Leading the goal tally for Leeds. Leeds United. They're a good team. How are they doing this year? Right mid right in the mid-table. Okay. Uh Brendan Aronson, the American.

SPEAKER_11 44:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_20 44:43

Lovely.

SPEAKER_02 44:46

That was a lovely lad.

SPEAKER_20 44:51

Alright, so that was simple lines.

SPEAKER_11 44:54

That was very that was lovely.

SPEAKER_20 44:56

That was good, actually. That might be in my consideration. Third lesson, Warm Foothills is uh Tetris.

SPEAKER_11 45:14

Tetris? Tile seeking.

SPEAKER_29 45:17

Tile seeking.

SPEAKER_11 45:20

Did you ever see the movie about how Tetris was made, like in Russia? And it was like it's a pretty intense movie, but this is the second reference to something Russian in this movie in this album. Earlier.

SPEAKER_20 45:37

Interesting. They go about things differently, don't they?

Gospel Of John Hurt And Dynamics

SPEAKER_11 45:41

Yeah, they're very subtly. I mean, this is a political album, too, in in some ways. Yeah. These guys are deep thinkers, I think. John Hurt. Yeah. Jinx. Yeah, that wasn't Jinx.

SPEAKER_20 46:18

And we were talking about how their drums almost have keys to them so you can play these rhythmic almost like a xylophone, but like a glass. I can hear it, you can hear it now. Their own version of what it's a xylophone? They like create their own drums. I mean. It's probably a xylophone on this one. It's percussive. I'm sure they bought a good xylophone for this. But they used to do bottle caps and like bottle. Yeah. That's the cool part. Just ad hoc, do whatever you can.

SPEAKER_11 47:05

It's just like Glockenspiels, xylophones. You know. Costly with low payout, you know.

SPEAKER_20 47:14

Instruments of the earth. Yeah. So yeah. Altering our frequency for the good.

SPEAKER_11 47:20

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the bottle caps, it is.

SPEAKER_20 47:23

Just an old Coke bottle.

SPEAKER_11 47:26

You know.

SPEAKER_20 47:38

Or is he playing a drum? Sounds like a bongo. Or a light drum. Pretty fast.

SPEAKER_05 47:49

The villain get pitted, so pitted like just a minute.

SPEAKER_14 48:05

Oh, Chess Bursts like John Hurricane.

SPEAKER_20 48:15

Coming out of the woods. This is my favorite part, the little slow down speed up part.

SPEAKER_25 48:22

It's just good cycling music.

SPEAKER_20 48:32

I put this whole album on cycling multiple times. Multiple times. Because it's so steady. But you also gives you time to break and like slow down. You don't always want to be sprinting on the bike. That's true.

SPEAKER_11 48:51

If you want to use it to pace yourself, yeah, you use that as a pacer. See why not.

SPEAKER_20 48:57

A lot of these songs have slow and fast parts, which is cool. Tempo is very fluid.

SPEAKER_11 49:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_20 49:21

That's cool. Now it's like Orta's head. It's like getting into like cool sound effects like Pink Floyd.

SPEAKER_11 49:32

I like the harmonies here.

SPEAKER_20 49:36

This might be one of one of my favorite albums we've done in a while. I agree.

SPEAKER_11 49:44

It's got depth to it. It's a it's really kind of relaxing though, too, which Yeah. I don't know. It's a We're recording this on a Tuesday. It's like after work. This is actually good.

SPEAKER_29 50:13

Often I I sit.

Pusher And Emotional Metaphors

SPEAKER_11 50:17

Alright, so that was the Gospel of John Hurt, a great song. This one's called Pusher.

SPEAKER_20 50:30

It's a good Steppenwolf song, too.

SPEAKER_19 50:34

Oh really?

SPEAKER_20 50:35

I don't know that Pusher. Okay.

SPEAKER_19 50:42

Completely different.

SPEAKER_18 50:52

Crush through the scening on me.

SPEAKER_19 51:08

Crush Bone.

SPEAKER_11 51:09

Oh, I didn't I just kinda go back to that last song when it was saying chest bursting scene. Chess bursting scene and alien. That's what that was. I I it was like I knew the chest bursting had to be to refer to something, and it was in the movie Alien.

SPEAKER_20 51:26

Oh. I've not seen that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 51:29

I don't I'm but I think it's supposed to be like a metaphor for something growing inside of you. Fear, love, that kind of thing, but it's based on a fictional. Is it alliteration? I don't know.

SPEAKER_20 51:40

Alliteration of a canopy. Some heavy shit, man. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 51:50

But this song Pusher, this is just kind of not one that's seems like very blue.

SPEAKER_18 52:02

Put me as night.

SPEAKER_20 52:13

Imagine the story.

SPEAKER_18 52:14

So abandoned that we left alone, I shall be waiting for that.

SPEAKER_20 52:42

Oh, I love lemon zest. Shout out to the disasters out there. Every recipe could use a little lemon zest. It's a good thing. Shout out to the pullers out there too.

SPEAKER_11 53:04

Yeah. The carriers? Yeah. But just who would you want to be with in general? Would you want to be with a pusher or a puller? I say puller, but fear and love.

SPEAKER_20 53:35

In line.

SPEAKER_11 53:39

I held the held that note pretty far.

SPEAKER_10 53:41

Good drama. Great look. Good drama. Yeah.

Bloodflood Themes And Anxiety

SPEAKER_11 53:45

Stumpy Joe peeves. Stompy Joe. Alright, this is called Bloodhood Part 2. Was there a Bloodhood Part 1?

SPEAKER_20 53:54

Blood Flood.

SPEAKER_11 53:57

A Blood Flood, I'm sorry. Oh yikes.

SPEAKER_20 54:00

We used to get nosebleeds in middle school. It's like a whole tissue box. Gnarly.

SPEAKER_11 54:14

Did it just go away? How did it resolve? Did it just resolve itself?

SPEAKER_20 54:18

I also smashed into a lacrosse goal. Oh well that's running full speed. I thought it was just something. That was in high school though. Oh okay. The lacrosse goal ended. I think it improved my nose, actually. I had charred it into place. Well, congrats, man.

SPEAKER_11 54:43

Uh so. What are we out of here? It's just some political stuff. Mandela. Little did I know then that the Mandela boys soon become Mandela Men.

unknown 55:00

Mandela men razor blades.

SPEAKER_11 55:02

Say that's n times fast. Yeah, razor blades of helping toothbrush. Assassination de la police. Shout to South Africa. Stay safe. Great look, good country.

SPEAKER_20 55:49

Is that what that is?

SPEAKER_11 55:53

I heard the bassoon is like super hard to play. I mean the French part.

SPEAKER_15 56:17

What is he talking about?

SPEAKER_11 56:23

Okay, so I guess Blood Flood Part One is a sequel, or Part Two is a sequel to Part One from the previous album, An Awesome Wave. Guess this is about anxiety, adrenaline. A lot of these themes are about just like emotions.

SPEAKER_20 56:45

Abstract, man.

SPEAKER_11 56:46

Yeah. I guess this one is around fear. No, this one is around love rather than fear. I guess this is according to fear and love, you know?

SPEAKER_20 56:58

Taste Maker's image.

SPEAKER_11 57:01

Oh, Tastemakers Magazine.com.

SPEAKER_20 57:03

This band is definitely Donnie Darko fans. Fear and love.

SPEAKER_09 57:13

It's not that simple. You just can't group two things in.

SPEAKER_11 57:28

A flood of blood to the heart. It's kind of easy to do like the like this these harmonies, you know, layered in the lead vocals with the horns in the background and um the drums layered in there. It's a serious situation.

SPEAKER_22 58:32

Cheers in his eyes, I guess.

SPEAKER_20 58:35

It's a serious situation. No, it is. I love Lamp.

SPEAKER_03 58:39

I mean, no, it's simple lines intertwining.

SPEAKER_11 58:48

I mean, I have a this is gonna be tough. I don't know. This is the twelfth song. There's 13 songs, and there's a bonus song at the end. Lovely day. It's like the remake. It's a bonus track. Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill. Bill Withers. Bill Withers.

unknown 59:05

Bill Weathers.

Leaving Nara And Bonus Track

SPEAKER_11 59:06

Yeah, yeah, you're right. Bill Withers was the writer of it. So we're going back to Bove, Alabama now with uh this is leaving Nara. So this kind of harkens back to the arrival in Nara and then the song Nara.

SPEAKER_20 59:27

Shout out to all the Noras out there. And the Naras. If there's any Naras.

SPEAKER_11 59:33

I don't know if I've ever met a Nara. Yeah. Shout out to Nora though. Congrats on your uh on your recent retirement. Yeah. Good job. Kudos. I'll have to make sure she knows the shout-out. That's Nora.

SPEAKER_20 59:54

This is Nara. Get to Alabama. Get some good beaches there.

SPEAKER_11 1:00:04

Alabama does not have good beaches. But it's not far from good beaches. You know, let's. Yeah. So part of Alabama is, I think, an underrated area, actually. I mean, I went to c college in Tallahassee. It's not an hour and a half, two hours away. Shout out to Dothan. I had some friends from there. Did you rush?

SPEAKER_23 1:00:30

Blue, you're my boy! Thank you, sir.

SPEAKER_11 1:00:33

I did. Nice. Yeah. I did, I rushed.

SPEAKER_20 1:00:42

Greek triangle. Musical fraternity.

unknown 1:00:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:00:54

No, shout out to Thai Capasai. Shy. There's no Delta in there, which is fine. This is fine.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:07

A uh festival. Jazz Blues Festival.

SPEAKER_11 1:01:10

Alright. So I mean those are all the songs. Now we've got still What do we got coming up here? Lovely day.

SPEAKER_20 1:02:10

Yeah. And uh good choice. Maybe on another listen, it could be up there in number one. I don't know, the the layering, the song, the sort of at a story plot of some sort. Makes me want to read history and figure it out.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:34

Yeah. Right on. What's okay? So that's number three. Well, this this is all that Bove Alabama, there's that whole story. That uh that story much the LGBTQ 2014 revisit. Um I'm gonna say I'm gonna go number three Choice Kingdom. Nice. It was uh it speaks to the the um I'm gonna chew everything that's good about this group and this album, it's very experimental, it's very quiet. You know, they're picking and choosing where to place things and Choice Kingdom did that for me. Wow. So uh so I mean that's gonna be my number three. Um think we're gonna have some overlapping in some of our choices here, but uh I'm sorry. Yeah. But we're saying though that left hand free is the only hit, right? Everything else is up for grabbing. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_20 1:03:43

I do like every every other freckle, but it's not gonna make it. It was released as a single. It's not gonna it's still not gonna make my um I'm going for the Hunger of the Pine number two. When the day that's a good choice. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_18 1:04:07

I mean it had had depth.

SPEAKER_20 1:04:13

When someone else is club qualities. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:04:18

I think so.

unknown 1:04:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:04:21

They have that Miley Cyrus sample in it. I'm I'm gonna go with that with my number two as well. That's good. Yeah, it's just kind of an emotional song, but in a good way. It was done very well. Yeah, I'll I'll give that my number two as well.

SPEAKER_18 1:04:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_20 1:04:39

Um, which brings me to my number one. Which Yeah, I've gotta go the gospel. Yeah. It's such a different song, and it has such a haunting quality to it. Yeah. Uh, this is a chess bursting. I didn't even know he was saying that because half the time I can't even understand his lyrics, but that was a cool reference in that song.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:12

And the the guitar playing, even though it was very sparse, it was well done. Yeah, I yeah, and then it had those horns layered on top of it. It was cool. Endless.

SPEAKER_20 1:05:23

Yeah. They put a lot of work into this album, I can tell.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:26

Yeah, you can't, I mean, for as chill and quiet as it is, it's there's a lot of musical depth. It isn't just like some Sims. Even this calming and soothing, you know. It's uh yeah, a lot of care, a lot of work, and a lot it was clever. And it was tight. You can tell the friendship. You can tell when band members are friends with each other because everything is is tight and it's all it's all together.

SPEAKER_20 1:05:54

So very good. Good stuff. And the bonus track was phenomenal. I mean, that's

SPEAKER_11 1:06:00

Yeah, that lovely day. That was all that was good. And uh wrapped a bow on put a nice little bow on it. So another episode in the books. Again, I want to thank everybody for listening. Tim does as well. Any last words? Just keep it going.

SPEAKER_20 1:06:15

Enjoy.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:16

All right. We'll see you. We'll see you on the flip side. Take care.