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I canвЂ™t say that IвЂ™ll be pulling this one out for repeated listens nearly as often as its predecessor. But when the albumвЂ™s best moment is an offbeat cover of an old R&BВ song squirreled away in the вЂњhidden trackвЂќ slot at its very end, you know somethingвЂ™s gone horribly wrong in the creative process. ThatвЂ™s not to say that the entire thing is a wash вЂ“ I think there might be enough interesting cuts on it to warrant a very meager recommendation to the moreВ patient listeners among you. IвЂ™m cynical enough to think This Is All Yours might be guilty of the latter on several occasions. ThereвЂ™s trying to be different from your previous sound because youвЂ™ve found exciting new avenues for your band to explore, and then thereвЂ™s being contrary just because you feel like the critics expect it of you.

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I can only guess that the band was savvy enough to not want to repeat the template for that album, plus they were in a different headspace after the departure of bassist Gwil Sainsbury earlier this year, who apparently contributed more to the creative energyВ of that first album than I had realized. A band aiming for a continuous listening experience would find a better way to segue between the quiet meanderings and the boisterous percussion breakdowns вЂ“ and you could hear them skillfully dismantling lively jams only to build them back up again on some of WaveвЂs more adventurous cuts. I like hearing those little hints that thereвЂ™s a larger story being told, but since I can never make heads or tails of Alt-JвЂ™s lyrics to begin with, those little Easter eggs arenвЂ™t much of a selling point. With little rhyme or reason, songs with sharply conflicting moods butt right up against each other, and the obscure lyrics often suggest some sort of continuity between several tracks, and even a few of the tracks from their previous album. Individual songs that donвЂ™t quite hit the mark could be forgiven, I suppose, but the real failing of This Is All YoursВ lies in its pacing. The Miley Cyrus experiment isВ incredibly offbeat even in comparison to the rest of this stuff, but that doesnвЂ™t make it inherently better than most of it, IвЂ™m afraid. The ingredients are all there, but the execution feelsВ a bit rote. But even a lot of this recordвЂ™s upbeat tunes feel out of place and pale in comparison to the best stuff from Wave. IвЂ™m not saying that a band like Alt-J should feel the pressure to be all rhythmic or all instrumental bombast, all the time. A lot of them just felt like half-asleep acoustic noodling, with only a few tantalizing hints of the multi-instrumental deliciousness and choirboy vocal harmonies that had helped them to carve out such an identity for themselves. But no matter much I tried to pay attention to a lot of those calmer moments, they just didnвЂ™t have the same sort of texture or ambiance as tracks like the lovely вЂњBloodfloodвЂќ and the trance-like вЂњTaroвЂќ that closed out Wave so beautifully. вЂњMaybe this one will be a growerвЂќ, I rationalized after going through the emotional whiplash of getting lost in one of their trademark clanging rhythms and then suddenly struggling to hear much of anything going on throughout a long swath of uncharacteristically quiet brooding.

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They werenвЂ™t doing it for shock value or anything.ДЄnyway, the full album arrived not long after that, and my first listen was massively disappointing, quite unlike my first trip through An Awesome Wave, which had its mellower moments that needed to grow on me, but to which I honestly never had a negative or even lukewarm reaction. The very idea made me cringe, but I tried to keep an open mind, since the worst a little bit of Miley was bound to do in Alt-JвЂ™s world was add to the surreal nonsense they were already concocting. But then along came the first single from their follow-up record, This Is All Yours, and it was built around a vocal sample from none other than Miley Cyrus. Alt-J demonstrated so much promise on their debut An Awesome Wave, a record that pretty much had me at hello with their offbeat combination of chamber pop and dorm-bredВ psychedelic indie rock. Well, it looks like the old sophomore slump has bitten another once-promising band.

ThereвЂ™s being experimental and вЂњout thereвЂќ, and then thereвЂ™s being languid and lifeless, and they spend too much of this record doing the latter while thinking theyвЂ™re doing the former. In Brief:В Coming fromВ a band with such a strong sense of rhythm and so many fun quirks, This Is All YoursВ turns out to be a surprisingly disjointed and frustrating record to listen to.

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