Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Alt-J Cover

Ellie Goulding is an artist everyone in our day and age knows. She did a cover of an awesome indie band called Alt-J. This song is Tessellate. IT'S AWESOME!!! Since everyone knows Ellie, I decided to share her version and then the history of Alt-J; and also their original version of this so you can pick which you prefer :)
Alt-J was formed when Gwil Sainsbury (keyboards), Joe Newman (guitar/vocals), Gus Unger-Hamilton (guitarist/bassist) and Thom Green (drums) met at Leeds University in 2007.
Unger-Hamilton studied English Literature, the other three Fine Art. Newman showed Sainsbury a handful of his own songs and, the pair began recording in their halls rooms with Sainsbury acting as producer on GarageBand.The quartet spent two years rehearsing before signing a deal with Infectious Records in 2011.
The name "Alt-J" is an allusion to the Greek uppercase letter delta which can be typed on Apple Mac OS X by the key sequence alt + J. "Alt-J" were formerly known as both 'Daljit Dhaliwal' and 'Films'



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