as well as announcing in May 2017 that they would be playing a five-date UK tour at seaside venues, starting on 4 September 2017.
Three weeks later, on 29 March, they released ” In Cold Blood “, the second single from Relaxer .
On 6 March 2017 Alt-J released ” 3WW “, which features lead singer Ellie Rowsell of Wolf Alice , as a digital single
and announced dates for the Relaxer Tour in support of the album.
On 3 March 2017 Alt-J began teasing their third studio album on their social media accounts with an audio clip captioned “00110011 01110111 01110111” (Binary code for “3ww”).
Stereogum reported later that day that the band’s third album would be titled Relaxer and was scheduled for release on 2 June 2017.
In 2017, the band toured with and opened for Kevin Garrett and, later, Coin . In March of that year, their single, “Oceans Away” had garnered 35.8 million streams on Spotify . On May 19, 2017, the band released its debut studio album, Gallery , on Atlantic Records. The album…
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Relaxer was nominated for the 2017 Mercury Prize .
On January 13, 2017, of Montreal released a new EP by surprise, entitled Rune Husk . On March 9, 2018, the album White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood was released on Polyvinyl, with singer Barnes explaining that the sound was influenced by “extended dance mixes” from the 1980s.
On 22 November 2016, De Backer debuted his group Ondioline Orchestra in New York, in which he paid tribute to Jean-Jacques Perrey . Perrey, who was originally going to attend this tribute, died at the age of 87 on 4 November. In May 2017, De Backer launched a new record…
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