This Is All Yours
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Album: This Is All Yours
# Song Title   Time
1)    Intro More Info...
2)    Arrival In Nara More Info...
3)    Nara More Info...
4)    Every Other Freckle More Info...
5)    Left Hand Free More Info...
6)    Garden Of England - Interlude More Info...
7)    Choice Kingdom More Info...
8)    Hunger Of The Pine More Info...
9)    Warm Foothills More Info...
10)    The Gospel of John Hurt More Info...
11)    Pusher More Info...
12)    Bloodflood pt. II More Info...
13)    Leaving Nara More Info...
 
Album: This Is All Yours
# Song Title   Time
1)    Intro More Info...
2)    Arrival In Nara More Info...
3)    Nara More Info...
4)    Every Other Freckle More Info...
5)    Left Hand Free More Info...
6)    Garden Of England - Interlude More Info...
7)    Choice Kingdom More Info...
8)    Hunger Of The Pine More Info...
9)    Warm Foothills More Info...
10)    The Gospel of John Hurt More Info...
11)    Pusher More Info...
12)    Bloodflood pt. II More Info...
13)    Leaving Nara More Info...
 
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  • Personnel: Tim Rundle (pennywhistle, tenor recorder); Edward Whiting, Sarah Andrew (treble recorder); Charlie Andrew (programming).
  • Audio Mixer: Charlie Andrew.
  • Recording information: Iguana Sutdios, Brixton; The Paper Mill, Kent.
  • The 2012 Mercury Prize winners begin their sophomore outing with the subversively titled "Intro," a four-and-a-half-minute highlight reel of what's to come that pairs the monastic chanting that prefaced An Awesome Wave's first single, "Fitzpleasure," with a pastiche of new age and worldbeat-blasted ambient pop that suggests Mogwai by way of Peter Gabriel's Real World studios circa 1990 -- it's both planetarium laser light show and art installation ready. The muted yet equally heady "Arrival in Nara," all fingerpicked electric guitar and diffusive synths, and its more muscular yet no less monkish second half, "Nara," do little to rein in the holistic atmosphere that's so decisively laid out in the remarkably potent This Is All Yours' opening moments, which makes the arrival of the punchy, carnally minded "Every Other Freckle" and the meaty, Anglo-Motown thump of "Left Hand Free" so thrilling, but hardly unexpected. After all, this is a band that proved with its debut that it can go from icy, distant, and often excruciatingly beautiful to downright feral at the crack of a snare drum (or pots and pans, as the group's humble, dorm room beginnings often required), and This Is All Yours does little to tarnish their reputation as choirboys with dark passengers. That penchant for edgy refinement, along with frontman Joe Newman's elastic voice, remains the band's most effective weapon, but it's hard to pinpoint where and when that magic occurs, as it's so effortlessly woven into the group's sound. It's somewhere in between the autumnal and apocalyptic, Miley Cyrus-sampling "Hunger of the Pine," the bucolic, recorder-led "Garden of England," and the oddly soulful, midnight-black posturing of "The Gospel of John Hurt," and it gets under your skin, where it somehow manages to both hurt and heal. ~ James Christopher Monger
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's an ambling, entrancing listen -- full of songs that blur weird folk and electronic zoinkiness, classical filigree and straight-up rock, scrambling in all directions as singer-guitarist Joe Newman sings in a pillowy KID A warble."

Paste (magazine) - "Interlaying so many different phrasings, moods and sounds evokes this impression of traveling through a gallery of sonic sensibilities..."

Clash (magazine) - "'Hunger Of The Pine' might stand to be one of the most emphatic songs alt-J has ever conceived. Written during the darker days of guitarist Gwil Sainsbury's departure, it is a rich and misty masterpiece."
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