Alt-J's Mercury prize win marks rise of boffin rock

Triumph of indie four-piece may end dominance of solo female singers and big labels"We had rather a late night, yeah," laughs Gus Unger-Hamilton, keyboard player with Alt-J, winners of the Mercury Prize for their album An Awesome Wave. "I think I got in at about 7.30am. We ended up in east London at one of our record label people's flat where we had a boogie to some seriously smooth R&B."Alt-J, a four-piece band who met at Leeds University, where three of them studied fine art and the other took...

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