It’s been a quiet few years for alt-J, which wrapped up its Relaxer tour in late 2018 and then went back to the lab for what has turned out to be its first album in five years.
As keyboardist Gus Unger-Hamilton notes, it was almost enough downtime to make him forget what his day job was.
During that break, he and frontman Joe Newman also were introduced to the wonders of fatherhood, making the touring life of a rock star seem even more distant.
