‘Hard Drive Gold’ is lifted from the Leed’s band’s eagerly anticipated fourth full size studio album – ‘The Dream’ which is scheduled for launch on the eleventh February, practically 5 years after the discharge of their final album, ‘RELAXER’.
alt-J’s new music channels the hedonistic 80’s of Wall Street’s merchants and cash obsessed bankers as Joe Newman sings “Don’t be afraid to become profitable, boy! Gimme that gold, straight into my arduous drive, child.”
The visible interpretation of alt-J’s newest launch is offered by the extraordinary video; co-directed by Joe Newman and his associate Darcy Wallace. The “hero” of the brief movie, Newman’s directorial debut, is Northern Irish pole vaulter Ellie McCartney. McCartney is seen sitting in her lounge an image of her athlete mom because the information reader publicizes, “This is London bringing you a last warning, you need to take cowl without delay. Move your self and your loved ones to the most secure space you will discover and stay there. The longer you keep sheltered, the higher for you. Keep your radio at hand for additional bulletins.”
Instead of taking the recommendation to shelter McCartney grabs a pole vault from her storage and runs via the abandoned streets of her housing property in direction of the native athletics monitor the place she completes one final vault earlier than…….(No spoilers right here!) alt-J posed the query on their Instagram web page, “in case you had simply 4 minutes, what would you do?” Among the replies got here, “Save the world with Madonna and Justin Timberlake”. I’m unsure that even they may save the world in 4 minutes.
‘The Dream’ is out on February eleventh by way of Infectious Music.