The opener to alt-J’s An Awesome Wave, “Intro” wastes no time indicting the pretentious, unoriginal ilk of the music festival scene. It’s a beautiful song with some really biting lyrics.
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse]
Shit them all festival, laugh at the beautiful
It's just a nod to the canon
Simple man Stan can't stand up on the beautiful
It's just a nod to the canon
Stickle brick, tickle quick, laugh at the beautiful
It's just a nod to the canon
Hustle over hot muscle shower, twitch off the beautiful
It's just a nod to the canon now
[Outro]
One, two, three... yeah
Intro was written by Gwilym Sainsbury & Gus Unger-Hamilton & Thom Sonny Green & Joe Newman.
Intro was produced by Charlie Andrew.
Speaking to Loud and Quiet Magazine:
“The beginning of the album isn’t really representative of the rest of the record,” warns Gwil. “When we were in Berlin a guy there was like, ‘it’s weird that at the beginning of the album you’ve got two tracks that are pretty hard and then it’s hit after hit.’”...