Alt-J live in concert.
ON TOUR

Alt-J

273
critic concert reviews
rock

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

71
%
Based on 
273
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
75
%
Based on 
6
critic concert
reviews

Real Live Certified  

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Critic Consensus

Based on 273 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Alt-J is rated as a decent live performer, with shows that lack distinction. Alt-J concert reviews describe live shows and performances as ambitious, elegant, lovely, retrospective, infectious, eccentric, and extraordinary.

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Latest Release

The Dream (CARBS Remix Edition) (28 April 2023)

Artist Info

Genre
rock
Origin
Leeds, United Kingdom (2007 - present)
Bio
Alt-J (sometimes stylised ∆) was formed when Gwil Sainsbury (guitar, bass), Joe Newman (guitar, vocals), Gus Unger-Hamilton (keyboards), and Thom Sonny Green (drums) met at Leeds, UK University in 2007. The band currently resides in Cambridge.
Has Performed With
Wildcat! Wildcat!, The Horrors, San Fermin, Bishop Briggs, Portugal The Man, Just Mustard

Critic Concert Reviews

The Music (Australia)

May 4, 2023
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"Yesterday they sung it loud, but I think you can sing it louder."

The 13th Floor (New Zealand)

April 19, 2023
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alt-J brought the majestic and awesome sound of their compelling avant-garde rock to stunning effect for the first time to New Zealand.

Ambient Light (New Zealand)

April 18, 2023
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alt-J returned with a bang and let's just say years away from the music scene certainly hasn't hindered their ability to create pure musical magic.

Berkeley B-Side (USA)

April 2, 2023
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Alt-J's Immersive Light and Sound at the Fox Theater

Soundcheck SF (USA)

March 28, 2023
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Alt-J Live In Concert

Backseat Mafia

August 26, 2022
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After selling out Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre twice at the beginning of the summer, the quirky and ever-mesmerising Alt-J promptly returned to fair city last night to kick off the first ever Wider Than Pictures concert series at Collins Barracks.

Backseat Mafia

May 25, 2022
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On the first show of a two-night stint in Dublin’s 3Olympia, alt-rock experimentalists Alt-J dazzled their boisterous Irish crowd last Sunday in support of ‘The Dream’, their latest record which dropped last February.

Past critic reviews published in

The Upcoming (UK), The Guardian (UK), Howl and Echoes (Australia), Festivalrykten (Sweden), PressPLAY OK (UK) and more

Image Credit

Henry Laurisch [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons