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Relaxer (stylised as RELAXER) is the third studio album by English indie rock band alt-J, released on 2 June 2017 by Infectious Music and the Canvasback Music division of Atlantic Records. It was originally scheduled to be released on 9 June 2017 but the band later decided to release it a week earlier. The band recorded Relaxer in London with producer Charlie Andrew, who also produced alt-J's first two albums

The first glimpse of Alt-J’s third album RELAXER came to light on March 3, 2017, after a video named ‘00110111’ (which translates to 3WW in binary) was uploaded to their YouTube channel. The teaser and album artwork use imagery from a game made specifically for the album inspired by the Japanese PlayStation 1 game LSD: Dream Emulator. Producers alt-J & Charlie Andrew. Writers alt-J, Gus Unger-Hamilton, Hans Zimmer & 3 more. Arranger Gus Unger-Hamilton, Joe Newman & Thom Sonny Green.

Label: Infectious Music ‎– INFECT370LP. Format: Vinyl, LP, Album. Includes free download printed on the inner sleeve.

Alt-J the band returns with its third studio album, Relaxer. When the word ‘relax’ comes to mind, one thinks about chillin’. like a villain if you will. Relaxer is an intriguing album, but not without its flaws. 3WW kicks off Relaxer splendidly. It’s not every day a song receives such an odd title, which ultimately stands for three worn words. The sound has a folksy, pleasing quality, which sets the tone for the album.

Their beige and mostly tuneless second album maintained this modest course through the choppy seas of festival bookings and departing band members, but on RELAXER, alt-J have, just maybe, grown a little used to success. They feel, perhaps, ready to stretch, to dip their toes into new styles and ready to take a few, you know, risks. And this must be how we find ourselves confronting Hit Me Like That Snare, the fourth song on RELAXER and the first proudly, magnetically awful thing they’ve ever done.

For their third album, Relaxer, the British trio decided to challenge themselves by expanding their sound beyond the muted, pensive rock of their early years. With only eight songs coming in at 39 minutes, Relaxer is the band’s shortest album yet. However, this brevity does not lead to a tightly focused record. Each track sees the band trying on a different suit, a scattered approach that finds varying degrees of success. Alt-J’s first two records were built off of their comparisons, and on Relaxer they work to forge their own identity. They just haven’t figure out what that is yet. Essential Tracks: In Cold Blood, Deadcrush, and Last Year.

The same could be said about Alt-J's two previous albums as well, but Relaxer is a thornier beast than either of them, carefully concealing its myriad barbs beneath bucolic washes of meticulously forged comeliness. Bookended by what are for all intents and purposes a pair of augmented English folk ballads, the first ("3WW") a patient, swoon-worthy pagan love song, and the second ("Pleader") an impossibly lush, choir-led anthem/hymn inspired by mining in 19th century Wales, Relaxer is aptly named, as between those two cuts.

Frontman Joe Newman describes his band’s third album as a great landscape eliciting different emotional reactions. It’s fabulously treacherous terrain, dotted with unpredictable twists, turns, and rabbit holes. Even the most immediate track- Deadcrush, simmering space-funk inspired by deceased objects of desire-is dazzlingly rich in ideas. The band’s ambition reaches towering peaks on Pleader, which samples Ely Cathedral’s choir and its heating system while snaking through gentle folk, dystopian discord, and symphonic majesty

Relaxer’ is the shortest of the three albums, with just eight tracks and lasting only 40 minutes, the album takes the listener on a perfectly poised ride of boldly inventive passion. Covering a whole different range of sensations throughout the album, after finishing it for the first time your only feelings should be that you didn’t want it to end so soon! Thankfully, unlike most bands that are about to release their third album, Alt J didn’t go down the cliché route of changing everything from the ground up. Instead, they didn’t change a thing when it came to their creative process