If you've been looking for a song with a great beat that's purely fun, then alt-J has you covered.
I do admit that there's not too much substance to this song, thus there isn't a ton to dive into as far as breaking down the song goes. But this is the perfect song to throw on during a cruise around town, a road trip, or whenever you need a bit of a fun boost. I mean, Marvel used the song to introduce Spiderman into the MCU in Captain America: Civil War, so if nothing before has shown you that this is a fun song, that better do the trick.
Give the song a listen below, chances are you'll recognize it from somewhere. For me that was definitely the case, it was one of those songs I knew I'd heard before and always wanted to know where it came from, so finding it was a welcome treat.
One of my new most loved groups, Alt-J heats up a great deal of power down into a firmly contained console based sound. The story goes that their style rose up out of playing in English college dormitories, where they needed to hold the uproarious commotions down. This track is a touch of an exception for the band, with its shaking edge, as well as the fiercely incongruent handgun-fight content. Somewhere else Alt-J will give you echoes of Fairport Convention, Genesis, Traffic, and even mid seventies Beach Boys. Cheers to them and to some other specialists trying to combine the exploratory with the standard like this.
In other words, they’re the bomb 👌