alt-J - Tessellate [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
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Alt-J: unofficial soundtrack of every cool thing, everywhere.
I promise you, you couldn't be further from reality.
@@InvisibleYetVisible Official soundtrack of the Ingress anime though.
@@ChrisD__ maybe. But this shite music is nowhere near good
@@InvisibleYetVisible Good is subjective. This song isn't as good as Alt-J's other songs, but it's still a banger. But what I said is that IS in the OST for that show. It's the theme song!
well said
Wish I knew more people who liked this type of music.
Bradley Peterson oh me too, i've been searching people who likes this music but i don't find it in my country HAHA and i just think ''why i born here?'' D: it's sad.
Bradley Peterson This music is a genius Work !
Fools come and say " illuminati ' without trying to resolve the secrets of this master chief !
***** no, and stop being an spammer, I'm tired of the same comment on every Alt J video
***** You know more music ? smt like Alt J ? :)
Bradley Peterson Me. Indie is the best.
Heard them live. That moment, when thousands of people started singing "Uuuuuh, let's tessellate" gave me goosebumps. Simply unforgettable.
I’ve been to MANY concerts and they were by far my absolute favorite
at that point the crowd started tessellating?
imagine paying good money to see this incredible singer only to have to listen to him be drowned out by thousands of fans singing off key
So what did y'all do? Lay tile or something?
Wish I was there
"Three guns and one goes off, one's empty, one's not quick enough"
That lyric is fucking fire.
That's from the movie . The good the bad and the ugly.
@@salonsoares2179 it's not an actually line right though? It's just a reference to how the scene played out.
What does it mean?
It's so clever and it's actually a metaphor for the singer's homosexuality. He's in the middle of a triple cock meat sandwich but in the end, he only gets a gob full of one as one of the others gets stage fright and the other has already unloaded onto his face.
These are genius lyrics. Forget Dylan, Hendrix etc. Alt J are truly the greatest poets of all time... Their fanbase made up predominantly of hippy Arts students definitely agree.
@@InvisibleYetVisible Um...no, actually it's supposed to be a reference to a Clint Eastwood movie, not a metaphor for a gay threesome, but I guess points for creativity?
I could watch that guy say "Let's tessellate" all day.
Ikr? Who is he
+Qub1 oh, you sweet man. Thank you!
IGOR STEPANOV!! hes really hot lmao you guy should add him on instagram
Well, it seems the video casting did his/her job.
He's actually the alpha in the entire video.
tbh hes kinda ugly
The camera guy pissed all these people off somehow
haha!
hahaha!
except for the hot dancing chicks
hahaha yep
He was probably wearing a trump/hilary mask
It wasn't till years after I fell in love with this song that I found out it was about sex haha
Is it?😳
i think referring to sex with "let's tessellate" is genius, imma use it for sure
I think tesselate means to lay tiles in an intricate complicated pattern.
I think it’s about argument and confrontation.
@@rachelstephens3656 actually the drummer said: “Well, obviously, in maths tessellating is when things fit together and the song is basically about sex.” but I also like your interpretation :)
tes·sel·late
ˈtesəˌlāt/
verb: tessellate; 3rd person present.
decorate (a floor) with mosaics.
Mathematics
cover (a plane surface) by repeated use of a single shape, without gaps or overlapping.
Bite chunks out of me
You're a shark and I'm swimming
My heart still thumps as I bleed
And all your friends come sniffing
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
Go alone my flower
And keep my whole lovely you
Wild green stones, alone my lover
And keep us on my heart
Three guns and one goes off
One's empty, one's not quick enough
One burn, one red, one grin
Search the graves while the camera spins
Chunks of you will sink down to seals
Blubber rich in mourning
They'll nosh you up, yes, they'll nosh the love away
But it's fair to say, you will still haunt me
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
Appreciate it 👍
Wow
it's a definite modern day refference to a painting by Raphael - School of Athens
Stefānija Jančevska THANK YOU! I know I had seen it before but I didn't know the name.
Stefānija Jančevska good eye
+Stefānija Jančevska Wow I actually learnt something useful from youtube comments. Go figure.
+Stefānija Jančevska Wow I actually learnt something useful from youtube comments. Go figure.
+Stefānija Jančevska I knew that :D great painting btw
For those who didn't get the point of the video. This makes a reference to the famous Rafaello Sanzio painting, School of Athens, and shows modern society state of decay, by showing drugs, prostitution and swag culture. A brilliant comparison is the high af Platon, triping in his "world of forms".
Alt-J is pretty much the same as its ideal form tho 😏
and the shark is there cos of?
Copy of xavior naidoo
Also theres a clear shot of the painting on the guys shirt at 0:04 lol
Idk about that, I see it more as, these people are the modern scholars of a modern philosophy... I'd go into it but I don't want to rn lol 😅
Anyone from 2024 listening to this masterpiece?🔥
I took a shazam , from sons of anarchy tv show
Nice song. 😅 Listening in 24 , yes. 😊
Bro..
Hell yeah 2 days no sleep (sober) decided to throw this absolute banger on
Two days ago popped up in my co workers spotify...I shazammed it and now her we r
Sons of Anarchy introduced me to this masterpiece..
me too
same
Me too
Season 6 episode 5
Same here
"Triangles are my favourite shape", Illuminate confirmed
It's their symbol
+Emmi Heart their symbol is the delta sign but yeah
+Trixi trxi Why people always looking for illuminati things in everything? God look for good things to do...
Stephany Kaelin Peña Méndez
Like commenting on other comments that I don't like?
+Trixi trxi Exactly, like saying to others dont look illuminati in music :D
I found both the song and the video sharp and creative. The music is almost erotic to me, it haunts me. And the video too! It's awesome to see they made a reference to the School of Athens in such an ironic but objective way, regarding nowadays. They're pretty cool. Preeeeeeeeeeetty cool.
Someone who actually gets it. I agree with you 100%!!
Awww, thanks
Thank you. I'm glad to see that someone is appreciative of something like this. It ain't exactly "high art" but it entertains & makes one think. Too many ppl simply are offended....for no effin' good reason.
I get what they were trying to do with the video.. Very original idea. I love that. But I don't really see the relation between the video and the song... Do you?
Totally with you on the eroticism and feeling of being haunted by it. It all just strikes a perfect chord inside for me.
Three out of four members of Alt-j studied Art, so it's no wonder they knew about Raphael's masterpiece! Their urban adaption is truely great, well thought and stuff: creative minds know no boundaries, especially if they write tunes this marvelous :3
What's it called again
@@idonthaveaname42 the painting is called 'the school of athens'
Wah. It's a reference to a painting which was shown on a t-shirt in the first five seconds of the video? No way. You're joshing.
So who heard this on The Imperfect?
Samee
This is such an insightful video!
For those of you that don't understand what tessellation is, it is filling a plain with objects (or tiles) that fit perfectly into one another (similar to what you see in a mosaic). So all the talk about triangles is particularly appropriate, although in this video I think it is pretty clear tessellate is being used to describe sex (ie a penis fitting perfectly into a vagina).
But what is really great about the music video is that it is a recreation of the "the school of Athens" by Raphael. The original mural had some of the greatest mathematical minds in history, notably Pythagoras and Euclid.
The song (in my opinion) isn't about sex itself, although that is riddled into the first bars of the song. I think its about relationships between people. He starts off with how much he loves this person and how the sharks (other people) come in to steal the bait. But then the gun goes off and she leaves him. Triangles ARE'NT his favorite shape because there is a third person in-between every relationship according to him, thus referring to the tessellation of every triangle, every "relationship".
None can deny that this song is extremely complex, especially for today's musical audiences. I think they are going to become the next Pink Floyd.
Illuminati?
@@ChaiCoffee69 confirmed
Superbly expressed! @Remi Soare
Listening to this song and checking out the lyrics, I see the song as a PoV from three people in a love triangle, where two people love one person. One of them is deeply in love with the protagonist but is misunderstood and mistreated, the other one is more confident and possessive, and the third is the main protagonist who enjoys the attention she is getting.. This is how I see it.
So the first verse is the PoV from our first character, Mr. Misunderstood, he feels helpless and torn down by the girl he loves, her friends too mistreat him and although he only wants to love her, she does nothing but hurt him, and he has accepted this with lyrics like "Bite chunks out of me, You're a shark and I'm swimming, My heart still thumps as I bleed" Even here, you can see he loves her and keeps doing so through the pain.
The next set is the Chorus, this is the PoV of our protagonist, who says that "Triangles are my favorite shape" because she enjoys the attention from two guys that she gets, "Toe to Toe, Back to Back let's go." Is what I see, an allegory for a western standoff, where the two guys are fighting it out for the love of the girl.
The third set, the Verse now is Mr Possessive, with lyrics like "Go alone my flower" and "And keep us on my heart" it makes the point that he likes her to only think about him, and he is aware this other guy is infatuated with her, this is him telling her to not go down that path, and to keep her mind on Mr Possessive, not Mr Misunderstood.
The next Verse is about three guns, each gun being a different person, "Three guns and one goes off, One's empty, one's not quick enough" Now at first we don't know who it is who shot the gun, Ie.. Took one other person's life, but we know that it is Mr Misunderstood's turn in his verse, and this means it could be him who shot? Who killed Mr Possessive? No.. "One burn, one red, one grin" The "One Burn" is the death of our Mr Misunderstood, we know this because of "One Grin" which would come from Mr Possessive, who doesn't like Mr Misunderstood because of the last verse, the "One Red" is the emotions of the Protagonist, who in my eyes is angry at how the triangle is broken..
Then the next verse comes from the girl's perspective, and she is mourning the death of the guy she lost, maybe the decision of having a love triangle like this is haunting her? Or maybe the lingering feeling that his death is her fault. "You will still haunt me
"
The final chorus is Mr Possessive, Triangles are his favorite shape, the love triangle he enjoyed because in the end he came out as the winner in this mess, in his eyes, everything went well.
This is how I see the song, it's probably not what Alt-J were thinking when it was written and sung, but I like to over-analyse and enjoy the storytelling that my imagination can conjure!
Nick O'Bree that was deep
You're on crack
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Nick O'Bree Wow! Amazing comment (; thanks for writing it
Nick O'Bree your cmt must be on top. Ty so much.
Bite chunks out of me
You're a shark and I'm swimming
My heart still thumps as I bleed
And all your friends come sniffing
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
Go alone my flower
And keep my whole lovely you
Wild green stones alone my lover
And keep us on my heart
Three guns and one goes off
One's empty, one's not quick enough
One burn, one red, one grin
Search the graves while the camera spins
Chunks of you will sink down to seals
Blubber rich in mourning, they'll nosh you up
Yes, they'll nosh the love away but it's fair to say
You will still haunt me
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
+skilz lost I don't understand why you're linking me to baby photos on Facebook?
Some badass lyrics, right?
🖤 wow that's fuckin interesting dude,thanks for share the lyrics,it’s the first time that I heard that song and I’m pretty surprised, very interesting project then!
Does anyone else listen to Alt-J when they're really high? Me and my friends discovered Alt-J by accident when we were high. Hunger of the Pine was the song we found. All of us sat in silence, just listening and when the song ended, we felt like we'd all gone to another world then came back.
Funny because once we went to Amsterdam, sat in a coffee shop, high af and my friend said "imagine if hunger of the pine came on now" ... 2 or 3 songs later it did! The whole coffee shop went silent and embraced the amazing music.
Thumbs up if you get high to Alt-J! 👍
Bruh they're amazing but high...they're out of this world. I literally play their songs on repeat and they hit JUST AS HARD
Zapped off some Jack Herrer listening rn, brother
Fuuuuk yes alll the time!!
Yes. I used to smoke a lot in high school and I’d just cut on Alt J and close my eyes. It was so nice.
@ash_tray Yes! Eyes closed or in the dark, listening to ALT-J hits different! If you still smoke, try doing it listening to one of their newer songs called "Chicago".
Those dislikes are from people who think dislike means dis-I-like
ha
Hahahhahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahhahahha!!!!!!
Soooo original.
clever +1
No because when you hover over the dislike button it says "I dislike this" so saying "I dis-I-like this" makes 0 sense and it's horrible grammar. So your comment is dumb and meaningless.
d[^_^]b Are you serious? -_^
You need to brush up on your humor comprehension.
i feel like there's lots of references to art in alt-j videos, is that deliberate or? like this is the school of athens painting by raphael, and in the first frame of the breezeblocks video is a reference to ophelia, and the hunger of the pine seems to be a nod to st sebastian. either that or i'm reading WAY too much into this lmao
The three guns line is a reference to The Good, the Bad and The Ugly
really? i had no idea, thanks!
alt-J is a very poetric band, the lyrics have in every line subtext. I definitely wouldn't be surprised if the same goes in some way for their videos.
it seems like there is some reference to the triangle also, he mentions it in the lyrics and everyone has the delta tattoo, the mathematical symbol for change. in the school of athens painting one of the main characters shown is Pythagoras who contributed his famous theorem on them as well.
The whole song's about a love triangle I think, haha. (But only because I read it on genius.com and it makes too much sense xD)
∆
every part of my body feels this
Hello, verified person. Have a good day.
I’d imagine
I feel ya
You and me both, goosebumps and waves making my hair stand on end. Like someone closely whispering in my ear, Alt-J seem to have that effect on me 😂
Jaja hobo xd
Sons of Anarchy brought me here
Nobody cares
Kakashi Hatake U cared enough to waste time writing a reply
+Zap Bash and I highly doubt you even know what this song is about
Me too brother
Google game ingress, Netflix has a show about it, the intro song is this.. I am here because a triangle is three points where three lines meet,, not two, was just wanting to see what's up with this song
Love the song, but the worst Calvin Klein model audition I've ever seen.
Bwahahahahahaha....... ^_^
Funny, but its obviously supposed to be a re-imagining of The School of Athens. They even have the guy in the middle pointing up like Plato and the girl on the side making a triangle shape with her arms.
Alfred Tennyson And at :04 it shows a t-shirt of the painting.
Alfred Tennyson very true but pointing out that its a play on school of Athens isn't saying much given the inordinate population of stereotypical black and hispanic gangsters hitting on light skinned women. theres something else going on in this video that goes way beyond a shout out to Raphael and im very curious what it is
Alfred Tennyson ah I did not know this until i googled the painting, thanks for enlightening us!!
Bite chunks out of me
You're a shark and I'm swimming
My heart still thumps as I bleed
And all your friends come sniffing
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
Go alone my flower
And keep my whole lovely you
Wild green stones alone my lover
And keep us on my heart
Three guns and one goes off
One's empty, one's not quick enough
One burn, one red, one grin
Search the graves while the camera spins
Chunks of you will sink down to seals
Blubber rich in mourning, they'll nosh you up
Yes, they'll nosh the love away but it's fair to say
You will still haunt me
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
congrats. you can copy and paste.
im just helping out don't be salty
+Lily Gordon thanks :)
thanks Lily
you are beautiful
words make it
seem real
but only real feelings
make it feel real
PUFFYTACO
haha this song is now in a anime called "Ingress the animation"
A good one :)
yes i do xd
Just started it
Very good anime on Netflix, it actually bought me here
Just finished it
Love the anime
Especially the music !
Alt-J is slowly starting to become one of my favourite bands
Uddhab Choudhury Good that you have the privilage to go slow because for me it was like getting hit by a bus
Is it still true ?
@@ManthanPandYEAH still is
May I thank Sons of Anarchy for introducing this amazing song. Though there might be a deeper meaning to what I'm seeing in the video, it's not quite what I was expecting when I heard it. I love this song.
Right!? That scene was made so much more powerful through the use of this song. Im glad someone else agrees
Will do
i also found alt-j thru sons of anarchy..so glad i did. i love them.
This was on Sons of Anarchy? Which episode!? I love Alt-J. T_T
Though I do not remember which episode, it was amazing.
did anyone else find it really hot when it showed him first saying "let's tessellate"....
lol
Yes, and I'm straight
I went and found the GIF on tumblr and watched it loop for longer than is healthy.
Then you guys must be triangles. No offense.
Im pretty sure he could use his ears as wings and fly away.
The part about the three guns and the search for the grave while the camera spins is a reference to the famous italo western "The good, the bad and the ugly" from 1966 by Sergeo Leone. The three protagonist share indeed a very interesting relationship that keeps seemingly changing throughout the entire movie.
Hey thats a very good point, especially ones empty, ones not quick enough. Always great to find these references :)
Glad to see someone else figured that out too! Great movie!
I feel like I know you. Do you have an imvu account?
I don't know if it's on purpose, but at 2:37 the girl on the left glitches REALLY weirdly :/
+Antoni Kalkowski How did you notice that :'D
Its so freaky
It does that a few times in the video. Watch this video while tripping and it's an entirely different thing according to my friend.
lag xD
Wow very observant
I read this comment the exact moment it happened! Lol, it's probably the speed-up effect, I guess the white dude must've been taking one long-ass puff for them to speed it up like that.
from Alt J, the next level is Glass Animals.
And the level before Portugal. The man.
Yesssss glass animals! They're amazing live too
triangle :3
+Nika Arevadze yas !
+Nika Arevadze Wow thanks for the recommendation Glass Animals is great.
ha, very right. great bands. Try "Alabama, too.
Well, it is a nice answer to the clip Power of kanye west.
- It begins on an eye like power.
- You have an acceleration and deceleration of time like in power.
- The character disposition and their occupation is very similar.
- The presence of classic art make the same impression as egyptian symbols in power.
- Even the rapid movement of camera from one character to an other reproduce power.
* Kanye in his clip is like an half god enlightened from the inside by the wiseness. He is BEYOND the comon mortals. He is not part of the humankind anymore.
* He is empower in the videoclip and the music reflect it very powerfull and energetic.
* Kanye use allegories, real people are representied by mythological creatures and idealized huan bodies.
* Here the singer is with human or even not there, in every human. He is a part of the humanity itself. He is not above like kanye. He is not wiser like kanye. He just "tesselates" with humankind to create a "big picture".
* Here, the music is calm and peacefull. Like he just want peace and calm to appreciate the beauty of the world and not rule it like kanye.
* Here, bodies are not idealized. people are weird, girls are pretty but not idealized. We DO see REAL sommon people, in fact probably the people that listen to kanye music! It shows the greatness in the most simple peoples. The perfection in the imperfection of humankind.
* Here, the half god that come from above humankind (kanye) is a fucking shark... no need to explain the message ,)
great job!
aswer to?
Ridiculous, dont give kanye any more creds then he deserves.
This is just a great clip.
Bram Boeshoe
Sorry there is a clear reference to the video clip of "power".
Basically, It says "kanye is a dangerous fucking douche".
Pr. shadoko i dont wanna give you shit for this, because that's what art is about, making up your own meaning. but you seem to be reaching super far for this alt+J said in an inverview this based off an actual art piece sooo
yea, i recognize some renaissance painting in it, where some great (ancient) greek scientist/philosophers were painted
It's based on The School of Athens by Raphael :)
Just discovered this band on Pandora..yes I've been living under a rock...point being is that this band is awesome. New chords, new melodies, new lyrics, totally fresh and alive. No recycled horse shit. It sounds atomic!
Please listen to Taro
@@shreytiwari3684 I've been listening to all of them.
@rogueart7706 i live under a rock too 💙
The song is better then the video
...then what?
Cody Hen then he went to the elementary school.. again
Pavel Toporcea hahaha xD
Pavel Toporcea Hahahahahahaha my sides
This song is dope, but the moment I saw the white kid with the grill trying to look hard, I died laughing.
I thought it was a retainer
Vanessa Sandberg Folks, folks,....take it easy. It IS a retainer AND a "grill." You can buy those now....I thought you knew. And the white kid, .....well,...it IS an all white English rock band doin' this tune ain't it? Not too many black folks are gonna be checkin' out this song or video..... besides, he's cute doin' that....and finally, IT AIN'T THAT SERIOUS (of an issue)!
Richard Bowman
LOL the video's full of black people and intentional hip-hop clichés.
Alan Horton So? What, do we have (segregation) lines again? Blacks on that side, whites only over here, "others" over there, etc.. No Jewish rappers, No crossing over or intermingling? No integration? We can do this but y'all cain't, No Black Rock Coalition? Symphonic (classical) music is "serious music"!, Jazz is jungle music, Rock& Roll is degenerate music, Everybody in their place, No "Hick-Hop"?!? Somebody better tell Cowboy Troy he's outta a job! So, there's no ('scuse me) blurred lines?
If it's such a big deal or so offensive (to see a white boy "actin' black"), well, partner, get into a time machine & go back to the '30's. The 1830's! Oh, by the way, I'M a middle aged black man. I know black people when I see "us"; just as I recognize hip hop clichés. (shaking my head) Whew, effing knuckleheads....
Richard Bowman
You basically implied that because the band is English, they couldn't find enough black people to have the guy with the grill be black, and I pointed out all of the other black people in the video. Here, you respond with a bunch of scatterbrained bullshit that you extrapolated from my post. I'm not saying white people can't rap, or that black people can't play rock music. What I'm saying is that grills in particular, look silly on white dudes. It's this super chiched hip hop machismo thing, and when middle class white dudes try to pull it off, they look like Ali G.
Hey, guys, let's go hang out and look angry!
In some random roman building!
This is the best comment on this video
Early 2000s be like
Closing using in TV Series The Imperfects S01E03 - Portland Wearhouse Massacre
ingress the animation brought me here
Funny, I think I prefer Ingress intro to this video... Maybe I just don't get it's references.
Sons of Anarchy anyone?
Techromancer562 me hahaha xD
Techromancer562 me :D
Techromancer562 what episode ?
Mag'Namia season 6 episode 5
Techromancer562 Thanks! I had marked this on Shazaam a long time ago, but couldn't remember where I heard it from.
i swear they're the only band that i have trouble recognizing the lyrics of their songs . lucky english-speaking bastards !
Hey we can have a hard time too. These guys are German, I think, so accent isn't completely gone. And he mumbles a lot of them
geoff3610 no , I'm pretty sure this band is british...look it up if you don't believe me
+daly5297 They're from Leeds.
Well their lyrics are hard to make sense of which adds to it.
+geoff3610 they're from Leeds mate xD
I was a stripper when this song came out, I used to have this on my stage set. Memories of that dimly lit basement gentlemen's club will sit down comfortably in my mind whenever I hear this song, 🎶 'til morning comes, let's tessellate
@@hagonistheman7880 oh no someone has good memories about something, grow up.
Its such a nerdy sex song lol, was it shocking to hear this and then here something like mo bounce?
Really odd flex but that's cool, hope your new career path gives you success
AMAZING
@@The_Jinxed_Joker shes not gonna blow you
I think the video is saying how back before the modern day culture, the ancient world focused on finding the answers to philosophical and theological questions, while that's passed due to scientific reasoning and the passing of the traditional ages, the world's philosophy focus's on fashion, empirical pop culture, giving off the vibes of a males dominance of the way one perceives and the way pop culture look at women, which are dancers, sluts, whores, etc (hence the blurring of the woman speaking or stinking her tongue out) and in the beginning where they show an eye, eyes very much have the shape of a triangle, and how what we perceive in society is what dominates our world to what it is. To tessalate means to form a pattern, and it's a continuing pattern throughout the video of it going through the same people, same kind of people and even same actions. Modern day society is a tessalate in -it-of itself. Quite sad...
I like your take on this video. Very interesting.
legit. too legit, even! nice take
Or... its just a bunch of people hanging out you know...
Exactly! Well said... The shirt and scene give it away, right!? For those of you that don't know or are skeptical it is a clear reference/homage to Raphael's 'Philosophy' which is in the Vatican.
Interesting take... Unfortunately the song is honestly just about sex. The music video is just an artistic interpretation of hip hop videos, perpetuating sexual symbols.
dance Aristotle dance! ;)
+Josué Díaz he had arthritis
Triangles are my favorite shape. Three points where two lines meet.
+John Feltham hahaha
+John Feltham I'm sure even women love triangles, don't they ?
no doubt
+John Feltham im confused ∆ thats not how a triangle works...? ∆ IM CONFUSED
I must have been drunk I don't remember commenting that and I don't find this funny. Haha. Wow.
2021?
This song can play on repeat like 10 times in a row and i'm totally satisfied the whole time
No other group ever managed to achieve such harmony in such diversity and complexity of sound. Great.
Laughs in Nine Inch Nails
@@jwljwljwwwwl I love you
@@jwljwljwwwwllaughs in (many bands)
6 underground, fkj & masego and the list goes on. Lots of talent out there. All of it isn’t marketable so you’ve never heard of it. But hey that’s most things in life for most people.
Ur world is very small
fuck me i love this shit
Memelorde
I do not think it is a good idea to say 'fuck me' on the internet.
OBSCENITY ON THE INTERNTNET!?!? WHAT IS THIS?!?!?!?!?!x
Found this song by talking to a Ai about twenty one pilots 💀
Is it just me, or is the guy who says let's tesselate really hot?
it's just you :P
+Norma Cruz nah. He's pretty damn hot. Lol
+Dylan Lategan don't compete.
Is it cause he vapes?
+geoff3610 gay
I don't understand the music video,
I need a hipster to explain.
Alt-J said they had no idea what the music video was about either. Lol.
BEO2 oh they do
It's based on a painting called The School of Athens
Dank Memes bahaha! Same here!
Its a sad reflection of our growing toxic mainstream society.
To anyone who doesn't know the meaning of tessellate (like the actual word) it means to decorate with mosaic, most commonly colored glass.
That doesn't mean that's what the song is about. In interviews I've heard Joe say he wrote the song about making love. Most of their meanings are around an abstract topic
When two shapes tessellate it means they slot perfectly together. It's just innuendo.
Unfortunately, music like this breeds pseudo intellectuals like yourself and all the people who have replied to your fuckwit of a comment. Do you really think this music is clever? Do you feel more intelligent listening to it? Do you go round with a smug sense of self-importance listening to this tripe, looking down on the minnows as they listen to their inferior simpletons music? "Oh dear me Gilbert, I saw that boy from that dirty estate again the other day, he was wearing a Van Halen shirt, plaahhh, what a pleb'.
This? This pretentious shit, is some of the most boring, ordinary music you can listen to. There's nothing clever about this pal, musically or lyrically. This smug style of 'hipster' trash has all been done before and better. Musically, this is about as pathetic as it gets. I think the best way of referring to it is 'stealing a living'. The lyrics sound like they're an after thought, written on a piece of paper after the music was completed, probably the day before they were due in recording. "Go alone my flower, And keep my whole lovely you" - You actually think that's clever? They're some of the worst lyrics I've ever heard. No wonder this junk is enjoyed by students, I'm guessing it makes them feel clever in between their sociology classes.
Fucking triangles, shove them up your arse.
InvisibleYetVisible And why are YOU listening to this "tripe," this "hipster trash" & checkin' out the brothas in the video all the while railing against it and the ppl who like it? Are you off of your medication again? (and about shoving things up somebody's ass, 'scuse me, "arse"....well, never mind...)
Richard Bowman Someone told me I should check out Tessellate by Alt-J. Am I not allowed? Is there a rule against it?
Me, studying for my geometry test while listening to this:
Triangles are my favorite shape 👁👄👁
This track fucks my soul up in so many different ways. I zone out into a realm of thought. A continuous journey of imaginative evolution when i listen to this on repeat.
this is one of the best youtube comments ive ever read in my life. and ive been watching youtube videos for half of my life. masterpiece of a statement
2021 agrees
Thats beautiful
Did lots drugs as kid , alt j , good shit
so, I couldn't understand any of this, but when I could after all the intense panning I hear TRI ANGLES ARE MY FAVORITE SHAPE
Lol as soon as i scroll down to the comments and read this those lyrics play
@@panchikofan123 you should stay in school then and pay more attention in English class.
Who’s here in 2020 😎♥️
Me🤪
Yoh
@@allanponce2540😎
2021
Ingress's opening.I like this song.
my school used this song in our indoor drumline show last year. theres a video on my channel if anyone cares
Tyrell Wiggems NOBODY CARES
GentlemanGaGa29 alright
which video?
the one with the cool blue floor tarp with triangles on it. its titled King Philip Regional High School indoor percussion 2016.
Its a metaphor on the famous Fresco painting by Raphael/"School of Athens". It was a meeting of renaissance minds. Tesselate is a v. "to patch a quilt", perhaps these are our generations movers & shakers? Got it? Good shit!!!
I'm not usually in to this type of genre... BUT THIS IS LYRICAL METH
Binaural beasts
This song... it flows... too good.. I really wish I knew someone who loves this kinda music like I do.. or someone who listens to Alt J...
Loads of us
I find this one better than Ellies cover of it....
It is the original, and in most cases the original surpasses the copies.
Wolfy262
Unless it's Johnny Cash, because, if Johnny Cash covers your song... Well it's not your song anymore
Ellies version remixed by Rezonate is amazing, it's on TH-cam
Sons of Anarchy led me to track down this track.
Same
Mark Bailey they put this song on that show?
Same here bahahahahaja... literally re watching sons now and it made me think of this song so I had to listen to it again.. wasnt even to that episode yet buuuut made me think of the song bc of watching replays episodes of SOA lol
i like the rhythm it is calming
Watching Ingress right now and this is the theme :D
finished the series
@@JustCallMeCypher I have the mobile game ingress prone and it's actually kinda fun lol
same just started a couple days ago and its all because of the animation
Enlightened for life
Yessss ! 👍
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Is this supposed to be a take on the painting "The School of Athens"?
0:04 Yep.
Here because of The Imperfects
It's about a love triangle between two men and a woman. A love triangle is not a true triangle, because the two men have no connection other than the woman. That's why it says "Three points were two lines meet." The man singing the song loves the woman, and even though he knows she doesn't feel the same way about him, which is why he feels she hurts him. This is re-enforced by the "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" reference: "Three guns, and one goes off, one's empty, one's not quick enough. One burned, one red, one grin. Search the graves while the camera spins." The woman is the only one who ends up happy in the situation.
As for "tessellate", that's sex. It's pieces fitting together. He'd rather her be with him and not love him, than to not be with him at all.
So it is about sex, I thought I was just having a dirty mind
Okay but have you ever been in a gay love triangle though? I speak from experience; tessellation is maddening and inevitable
0:33 alt J is illuminati confirmed
Reference of the eyes of God
Liam Donaher God is Illuminati confirmed
+Bolter21 also 1:38
+Liam Donaher ∆ this is your god
+Bolter21 Now, Dumb ass confirmed.
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“Imperfects” brought me here
Netflix's serie Atypical
She’s a cheating bitch!!!
Yes!
Netflix’s series Longmire
YAAAAS
Jhorge Settler I screamed when I heard it
I could watch that dude say "let's tessellate" all day.
Mél.... I'll always love you. No matter what. Ici & ailleurs. Amour 💚
Ingress brought me here
Is that... Bhad Bhabie?
This band sounds like something from 2016
this song is freakin awesome
Sons
Of anarchy 😎😎😎
Suggestion: do not wreck song by watching bargain basement moderately gyrating and irritating video. Instead: Jump in vehicle, put song on and just drive.. tessellate~
I can’t believe the low. number of likes for this amazing song. I remember when this first came out. I listened to it over and over. Hopefully it reaches more people.
Why all Alt-j's songs are so great? I can't stop listening to them
Here from imperfect show!
School of Athens, what what!
i'm not sure of the meaning of the song (video aside since i dont care about the video) but i did catch myself thinking about the line "3 guns and ones goes off, ones empty, ones not quick enough One burn, one red, one grin
Search the graves while the camera spins"
and to me it sounds like a reference to the movie "the good the bad and the ugly" the scene when Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef "square off" in a 3 way duel. in the shape of a triangle. however clint only has to worry about Lee Van Cleef's character as he unloaded Wallach's gun beforehand without him knowing. so there are 3 guns, a triangle, two go off, one wasnt fast enough (Lee Van Cleef) and one was empty (Eli Wallach) . thereupon Clint Eastwood's character makes Wallach search all the graves nearby for the treasure while the camera spins around...
Nah, they're referencing Greece through this whole video. For instance, Triangles are the Greek Delta symbol. Alt+J get's you the Delta symbol (Unless it doesn't work, or if you have an older computer). See what I mean?
greece how? please explain how that makes more sense than mine.
and yes i know about the alt j symbol.
also im not talking about the video. im talking about the song. the lyrics.
did you read my comment?
@@neverknowsbest4994 you are right
Ingress: The Animation me trajo aquí
Jajaja al fin español jajaja explícame el vídeo y a qué se refiere la letra porfa jajajaja
Thos song has floated jn my brain since the Ingress anime, and all these years ive never known it had a music video, or an alternate meaning.
I just thought it was made for the game...
THIS IS PURE ART.
Yeah...
Who's here from Ingress The Animation?
This song is too deep for most people to understand
Shut your hipster ass up
+Drew Hash You right budy.. less who are deep enough to handle the deepness of this song, and do the right analysis of it. shouts out to Alt-j Fans.
+Drew Hash -because it is a piece of babbling shite
+Ian Cichock You poor guy
It's just about sex
I'm here because of the series called Ingress on Netflix
Just recently started watching Sons of Anarchy. Yes I know I'm way late to the party but I was so pleased to hear this song there. It brought me back here again after all those years before I heard this ❤️
Pentagons anyone, anyone?
Genius piece of music as well as the video. The collaboration of the instruments working together in this song and + one group of people representing so many different stories/scenarios is just awesome. Topping it of with a kick ass voice and way to sing. 3 points where 2 lines meet. Perfect.
Is anyone else here because on Sons of anarchy season 6?
"Three guns and one goes off, one's empty, one's not quick enough" is a reference to the final scene in the (excellent) movie "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". During a duel with the three titular characters, Blondie (the good) shoots first, hitting Angel Eyes (the bad) before he can hit any of them. Tuco (the ugly) had a empty gun, given to him by Blondie. Tuco had a habit of betraying him, so he made sure it would not happen this time. I know it's a spoiler, but the movie is from 1966, almost 50 years old! Thought someone might like to know this little trivia.
Such a good movie. I remember watching it when I was really young with my dad. The Ecsasy of Gold playing while the camera spun. I was as hyped up as Tuco was.