Nothing comes close to Senfter's still-awesome debut "Kernkraft 400", a scuzzy, electro-punk reworking of an old videogame riff which gatecrashed the UK Top 10 in 2000 – and saw Senfter and pals appear on Top Of The Pops covered in fake blood and waving around prosthetic limbs.
But it's mostly an awesome solo debut.
There are a lot of awesome new voices debuting in the next six months.
Unlike the xx's debut, An Awesome Wave will probably prove a polarising affair.
Alt-J also received a second nomination for the album award, for their debut An Awesome Wave.
The song will appear on This Is All Yours, the follow-up to their 2012 debut, An Awesome Wave.
The standout single, "Tessellate," from their debut, "An Awesome Wave" (Infectious/Canvasback), includes the nasal yet soulful singer Joe Newman crooning, "Triangles are my favorite shape" — a typically pleased assertion of geekdom from a band that takes its name from the mathematical symbol for change.
"Tessellate," the standout single from the band's full-length debut, "An Awesome Wave" (Infectious/Canvasback), includes the nasal yet soulful singer Joe Newman crooning, "Triangles are my favorite shape" — a typical assertion of geekdom from a group that takes its name from the mathematical symbol for change.
Kitty Empire Alt-J This Is All Yours, 22 Sept "Thanks for not making us get jobs," said the four members of Alt-J, addressing their parents on winning the Mercury prize in November 2012 with their extraordinarily charmed debut, An Awesome Wave.
A proverbial tumbleweed was syndicated from newswire to newswire as readers worldwide failed to give much of a stuff about the signing off of a founding member of a band whose debut, An Awesome Wave, has done great business, selling in six figures.
