A highlight of alt-J's debut album is given a glitchy retooling by the German producerChoosing a band name can be a tricky business, not least because the good ones are nearly always taken. So it was when friends Gwil, Joe and Thom from Leeds formed FILMS, only to have the biog for another band called the Films copied word for word in an early feature on them. They toyed with the idea of renaming themselves Daljit Dhaliwal, after the broadcaster, before settling on alt-J, or ∆, the shape that'...
Guardian Music — A highlight of alt-J's debut album is given a glitchy retooling by the German producerChoosing a band name can be a tricky business, not least because the good ones are n... more info