Claude says:alt-J recorded their Mercury Prize follow-up in the same cramped studio behind a tire shop in April 2014, now down a bassist and racing to prove An Awesome Wave wasn't a fluke. The album hit number one in the UK and pulled off that Miley Cyrus sample on "Hunger of the Pine" — her "I'm a female rebel" vocal lifted from a remix their drummer had made for her. You grabbed it the month it dropped in 2014 and ran "Left Hand Free" and the Nara trilogy hard through 2016, then mostly let it sit until a surprise resurrection in 2024 brought you back to "Arrival in Nara" and "Warm Foothills" for a solid few months.