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Artist News
Alt-J prepare to start work on second album
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 23 May 2013
Alt-J will soon begin recording their second album later this summer, with the writing of some new songs already nearing completion.
Keyboard player Gus Unger-Hamilton told The Daily Star: “We go in the studio this summer … Some songs have been started and almost finished. It’s feeling good. It’s been hard to write on the road because we don’t [always] have access to our instruments. Maybe we’ll do a Futureheads and make an a cappella album”.
The band have already been in the studio to work on some new music though, having just completed the soundtrack for new British film ‘Leave To Remain’.
Unger-Hamilton goes on: “The film is about asylum seekers in London. It follows three young people who try to seek safety in the UK. It’s sad, it’s life-affirming, it’s brilliant. The music is more free, there wasn’t the pressure to turn ideas into songs [as with our usual work], so it allowed us to come up with interesting sonic landscapes and let them run”.
