alt-J by Rosie Matheson
alt-J release their new album on February 11th, 2022.
alt-J have posted Get Better from The Dream, ‘a union of two songs’, according to Joe Newman.
“The first was an improvised song I sang in 2018 to my partner,” he continues. “To her I sang, ‘Get better my Darcy, I know you can’. She filmed it and I kept revisiting the fragment with a plan to write more.”
“The second was a chord structure I worked on in lockdown that focused on someone living through a bereavement. I felt a nervous heat when writing Get Better.”
“The context of the Coronavirus pandemic lent my words a chilling weight and gave me a new sense of responsibility as a lyricist. Whilst the direct events described are fictional, I believe – or I hope – that it’s emotionally the most honest song I’ve written.”
It’s the first studio album from the band since 2017’s Relaxer, which was remixed and re-released as Reduxer a year later.
