A Mercury prize and an Ivor Novello win with their debut. A Madison Square Garden sell-out and a Latitude headline with their second. Number One in the UK, Number Four in the US; three Brit nominations here, a Grammy nomination there. Three years of world touring that have forged a live reputation as fierce as the trio are tall (that is, very). Quietly, resolutely, impressively, singularly, alt-J have become one of the biggest British bands of
whatever it is we’re calling the 21st century’s second decade.