Having interviewed alt-J before, we would usually leave it a while before


revisiting the band again, but with alt-J, this is not a regular situation. Since last we spoke, some short nine months ago, the band have realised the potential of the momentum we could feel brewing, and won the Mercury Music Prize and


Ivor Novello for best album in that short time. While the major newspapers were still playing a game of ‘file the


promo CD in the stagnant, abandoned in-tray’, the greater populus of the UK and good-music-loving America had already decided alt-J were their new


favourite band. Tis summer, they’ve been given the headline slots to prove it, and that’s exactly the subject we embark upon as Gwilym Sainsbury, bassist from the band, gives us his


time. Oh, and they’re as polite as you might have heard. I’m all for the ‘gentrification of rock’ if it means I can have a nice chat with a swell guy called Gwil.


12 /July 2013/ outlineonline.co.uk


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