British indie rock band Alt-J always delivers dope sounds and amazingly creative music videos. This video for the infectious track “Tessellate” on their debut album, “An Awesome Wave” is def no exception.
The video is inspired by the 16th Century mural painting in the Vatican by Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. The original painting (embedded below) features prominent figures in philosophy music and theology such as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. The music video flips that concept on its head by featuring urban characters in similar positions and poses.
The Video also features sexy British “cool ass white boy” model Igor Stepanov (pictured to the right) as the lead character singing the title of the track, Tessellate (which means to come together physically). Before you Illuminati conspiracy theorists comment on all of the triangles in the video, the band’s name “Alt-J” actually refers to the Delta symbol (∆) on the Apple keyboard…this is a letter in the Greek Alphabet primarily used in Mathematics. Damn, son…You just think you so smart, huh?
Triangles are my favorite shape,
Three points where two lines meet,
Toe to toe, back to back, let’s go, my love; it’s very late,
‘Til morning comes…let’s tessellate.”
I’m glad this group is getting play. I still prefer Breeze Block but this track is awesome too.
Thank for introducing me to this group, watching they videos now and just bought there album on youtube, love the messages behind the songs
If you enjoyed the sounds of the original, you must definitely need check out the Ellie Goulding mix (its pure sex)…
Nick thanks for introducing me to something new……now let me do the same for you. Brian Tyler is a film composer, he has composed and conducted the scores for the following movies “Eagle Eye” for producer Steven Spielberg; the box office hits “Fast Five” and “Fast and Furious” for Justin Lin; “The Expendables”, “Expendables 2”, and “Rambo” directed by Sylvester Stallone; “Law Abiding Citizen,” “Constantine,” and the science-fiction film “Battle: Los Angeles.” Tyler scored the fastest-grossing entertainment event in history “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.” His latest is for the movie ‘Now You See Me”, the music for the movie is off the chain, I’m giving you two links to videos for the title track “Now You See Me” the 1st is the original version, the 2nd is the remix by Robert Delong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei4eH-aYiRo , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=357Vwa0sehw I’m telling you this dude mixes symphonic music and hip hop beats that will blow your mind…..at least I think so, just give them a listen….