“3WW” by Alt J

Alt-J opened Relaxer, their third album, with "3WW" and sent it out first, as a single, in March 2017 through Infectious and Atlantic. Joe Newman, Gus Unger-Hamilton and Thom Sonny Green wrote it, Charlie Andrew produced, and Ellie Rowsell of Wolf Alice drifts in as the guest voice.

The band have told it as the tale of a young drifter's night on England's northeast coast that winds down to three whispered words, which is where the title comes from. The chorus reaches as far as Verona, to the statue of Shakespeare's Juliet that visitors have worn down by rubbing it for luck in love. It plays more like a short story than a single. Alex Takacs, who works as Young Replicant and had already made clips for Lorde and Flying Lotus, directed the video that followed a month later.

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