Triangles are my favourite shapes

Alt-J’s triangular logo

I arrived at the venue too late to catch Alt-J‘s appearance at Verona for the A Perfect Day Festival last week but my daughter saw them and has been playing their stuff ever since. She’s got me hooked.

Theirs is a curious hybrid sound that sounds like a lot of vaguely familiar things but is also quite original.

The four man band met at Leeds University and, according to their Facebook profile, currently concoct what they call ‘folk-step’ from a basement flat somewhere in Cambridge. Continue reading