Reduxer vinyl

Leeds in the UK has been responsible for quite a few of the worlds most loved bands, and alongside the Kaiser Chiefs, Soft Cell and even The Sisters Of Mercy, there's Alt J. As Mercury prize winners in 2012, their meteoric rise to the top sees them with three albums in their wake, and this Reduxer package is an aptly named alternative of sorts to last year's Relaxer LP. With street rhymes and urban beats nestling up alongside strokes of synth pop and Joe Newman's melancholic crooning, heavy collaborations come in from contemporary hip hop artists like Pusha T and Danny Brown. They don't, however, steal the show from the huge range of other vocal talent to be taken in, like Little Simz' devastating opening gambits to the more lyrically exotic affairs from Lomepal and PJ Sin Suela. Crashing style and genre like no one's business.