Alt-J - An Awesome Wave (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP while "Taro" somehow melds together

while "Taro" somehow melds together the unlikely bedfellows of Americana and bhangra to produce a fittingly oddball but enthralling finale

Reb Fountain released her self-titled album via New Zealand label Flying Nun Records to much critical acclaim

Mick El Borado thickens the atmosphere with his improvisational keyboard playing

the band has accumulated acclaim from critics and musicians

but rarely has contemporary music summed up a sense of place and time so perfectly

Alt-J - An Awesome Wave (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP while "Taro" somehow melds togetherCambridge based quartet Alt J might be a little bit too clever for their own good. Produced by Charlie Andrew (the Laurel Collective), their debut album, An Awesome Wave, is occasionally guilty of pretentiousness, particularly the irritating a cappella vocal warmup of the interlude "(The Ripe & Ruin)." But for the most part, its 13 tracks do for nu folk what Everything Everything's equally ambitious debut did for indie rock, breathing new life into