This Is All Yours

On 25 May 2012, Alt-J released their debut album An Awesome Wave, which won the Mercury Prize in 2012. Alt-J were also nominated for three Brit Awards (British Breakthrough Act, British Album of the Year and British Group of the Year). Bassist Gwil Sainsbury left the band in January 2014. The band began recording the album in April 2014. It was recorded in the same place as An Awesome Wave, Iguana Studios, which Gus Unger-Hamilton described as "a tiny little place, sort of behind a second hand tyre shop". == Music ==

The majority of the songs on the album were written while touring their debut album, An Awesome Wave, while newer ones such as "Hunger of the Pine" were written in "a really cool little converted Warehouse in Hackney, very cliché East London". "Hunger of the Pine" was one of the songs written after their bass player Gwil Sainsbury left in January 2014. == Release ==

On 9 June 2014, the band announced the release of their second album This Is All Yours, as well as putting pre-orders for the album on their website. The album was released on September 22, 2014, as a download, on CD and double vinyl. On 13 June, Alt-J posted a video on their Instagram account featuring a clip of the first single "Hunger of the Pine". The single premiered on Zane Lowe's show on BBC Radio 1 on 18 June. The song was streamed later that day, and released as a single on the iTunes Store the next. "Left Hand Free" was released digitally on 7 July 2014 as the album's second single and impacted modern rock radio on 15 July 2014. On 13 August 2014, the album's third single, "Every Other Freckle", premiered on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show once again. On 9 September 2014, the band released an app that gave access to the album when the user was in select locations. On 15 September 2014, the band made the album available to listen to on music-streaming platform Spotify. On 2 March 2015, the band released "Warm Foothills" as the fourth and final single from the album. == Critical reception ==

Upon its release, This Is All Yours received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 70, based on 26 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". and for IMPALA's European Independent Album of the Year Award. ==Commercial performance==

This Is All Yours debuted at number one on the UK's Official Albums Chart on 28 September 2014. In Canada, the album debuted at number two on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 14,000 copies in its first week. The album fell behind Leonard Cohen's Popular Problems. ==Track listing==

Adapted from LP liner notes. Alt-J • Joe Newman – guitar, bass, lead vocals • Thom Green – drums • Gus Unger-Hamilton – keyboards, backing vocals Additional musicians • Kirsty Mangan – strings • Tim Rundle – penny whistle, recorder Technical • Charlie Andrew – production • Brett Cox – engineering, guitar (10) • Dick Beetham – mastering • RCA – mastering ==Chart performance==

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