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“Left Hand Free” by Alt J

From the album This Is All Yours (2014)

“Left Hand Free” by Alt J appears on 30 radio countdowns from 23 stations between 2014 and 2026. It was first released in 2014 on the album This Is All Yours. Its best result is #2 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 2014. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #2 alternative song of 2014, #7,695 alternative song of all time and #109 of the '10s.

30countdowns
23stations
#2best position
0#1 finishes
6top 10 finishes
2014–2026years charted

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alt-J - Left Hand Free (Official Video)

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"Left Hand Free" was the second single from This Is All Yours, the English band Alt-J's second album, released on 7 July 2014, and the band cheerfully called it the least Alt-J song ever. They weren't wrong. Joe Newman, Thom Green and Gus Unger-Hamilton knocked it out in about 20 minutes around a riff Newman used to noodle at rehearsals, and the result is a stomping, Southern-rock-flavored boogie, with Unger-Hamilton taking an organ solo and Green playing the drums as clichéd as he could on purpose.

Word got around that the label had asked for a single, but Unger-Hamilton insisted it was just the band messing around in the studio one afternoon and having a good time. Their American label ended up warming to it more than to any other track. Charlie Andrew produced, engineered and mixed.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2014 2 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2014 91
2014 30 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2014 103
2014 23 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2014 99
2014 16 94.3 WCYY Portland, ME WCYY Top 50 CYY Songs of 2014 50
2014 7 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2014 103
2014 4 96.5 The Buzz Kansas City, MO-KS 96.5 The Buzz Top 96 Songs of 2014 96
2014 14 ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2014 51
2014 3 The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN The Current Top 89 Songs of 2014 89
2014 20 WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2014 104
2014 22 X96 Salt Lake City, UT X96 Top 50 Songs of 2014 50
2014 33 WTMD Baltimore, MD WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2014 89
2014 23 Lightning 100 Nashville, TN Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2014 100
2014 23 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2014 88
2014 12 WFUV New York, NY WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2014 90
2014 8 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2014 107
2014 16 WXPN Philadelphia, PA WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2014 200
2014 16 Triple J Australia (national) Triple J Hottest 100 of 2014 100
2015 7 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2015 88

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2016 420 WYEP WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 913
2018 343 WTMD WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 896
2020 59 CFNY 102.1 The Edge 102.1 The Edge Top 102 of the 2010s 102
2020 96 X96 X96's Top 100 Songs of the Last Decade 100
2022 497 101X 101X 500 (2022) 498
2022 1078 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 603
2024 341 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century 1055
2025 580 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century 909
2025 507 The Current 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now 893
2025 477 WYEP WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) 714
2026 119 KXT KXT 917 Song Countdown 917
2026 783 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound 1055

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