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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Label: Atlantic ‎– 560179-1, Canvasback ‎– 560179-1, Infectious Music ‎– 560179-1. Format: Vinyl, LP, Album. Country: North America (inc Mexico). How upsetting is this album to everyone else? My copy is still sealed so I can't rate that, but I'm not sure that I even want to play it after listening to it digitally. Reply See 1 reply Notify me Helpful.

For ‘RELAXER’ alt-J outwardly project a musical freedom; the grandiose inclinations of their second record have been channelled into magnificent string arrangements that convey a cinematic bent. It still plays like an alt-J album – disparate and enigmatic, wry and artful. Yet ‘Relaxer’ is best explored as a gaudy anthology of anomalous but charming tales, borne out of voyeuristic observations.