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This Is All Yours is the second studio album by English indie rock band alt-J. Released in 2014 by Infectious Records. The album includes the singles "Hunger of the Pine", "Left Hand Free", and "Every Other Freckle". It was also nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.

“This is a band that proved with its debut that it can go from icy, distant, and often excruciatingly beautiful to downright feral at the crack of a snare drum (or pots and pans, as the group's humble, dorm room beginnings often required), and This Is All Yours does little to tarnish their reputation as choirboys with dark passengers. That penchant for edgy refinement, along with frontman Joe Newman's elastic voice, remains the band's most effective weapon, but it's hard to pinpoint where and when that magic occurs, as it's so effortlessly woven into the group's sound. It's somewhere in between the autumnal and apocalyptic, Miley Cyrus-sampling "Hunger of the Pine," the bucolic, recorder-led "Garden of England," and the oddly soulful, midnight-black posturing of "The Gospel of John Hurt," and it gets under your skin, where it somehow manages to both hurt and heal.” - AllMusic

“Some of the most enjoyable music on This Is All Yours is the simplest, kindest and funniest – songs like "Warm Foothills," a rustic ditty with chopped-up vocals from Conor Oberst that's only a hayride away from Mumford & Sons, or "Left Hand Free," which sounds like a loopy alt-rock hit from the Nineties, with a Southern-fried beat and some low-fi guitar action. You've gotta love a band that writes a drum-heavy space-folk hymn ("The Gospel of John Hurt") inspired by the actor who had a monster pop out of his gut in the movie Alien. These guys know that alienation works best when it's a little bit fun.” - Rolling Stone

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