Alt-J on tackling “harrowing” personal experiences on new album ‘The Dream’
nme.comAlt-J have opened up about the dark themes they explored on their upcoming fourth album ‘The Dream’.The record has so far been previewed with lead single ‘U&ME’, which is about “having a good time, togetherness, and the feeling in life that nothing could be any better than it is right now”.During a new interview with The Guardian, however, Alt-J spoke about how their forthcoming LP takes a “doomy, dramatic” turn, as the outlet described it.“We experience a lot of harrowing things in our lives,” explained frontman Joe Newman. “They build up and you write about them in time, and you come up with ideas that fit those emotions and you put it all together.”‘Losing My Mind’ was inspired by a traumatic experience Newman went through in his teens,.
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