alt-J - Tessellate [OFFICIAL VIDEO] 

Wish I knew more people who liked this type of music.

Alt-J: unofficial soundtrack of every cool thing, everywhere.

"Three guns and one goes off, one's empty, one's not quick enough" That lyric is fucking fire.

No other group ever managed to achieve such harmony in such diversity and complexity of sound. Great.

Heard them live. That moment, when thousands of people started singing "Uuuuuh, let's tessellate" gave me goosebumps. Simply unforgettable.

I could watch that guy say "Let's tessellate" all day.

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! 👍

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!

"Triangles are my favourite shape", Illuminate confirmed

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".

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.

Sons of Anarchy introduced me to this masterpiece..

it's a definite modern day refference to a painting by Raphael - School of Athens

Alt-J is slowly starting to become one of my favourite bands

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

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.

This song can play on repeat like 10 times in a row and i'm totally satisfied the whole time

THIS IS PURE ART.

Why all Alt-j's songs are so great? I can't stop listening to them

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

from Alt J, the next level is Glass Animals. And the level before Portugal. The man.

every part of my body feels this

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...

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.

Ingress's opening.I like this song.

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.

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!

this song is freakin awesome

It took me 9 years to actually look up the word tessellate. This song is god tier.

It wasn't till years after I fell in love with this song that I found out it was about sex haha

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.

Triangles are my favorite shape. Three points where two lines meet.

I get chills watching this, the good, no, great chills it’s so amazing

I honestly only come back here after so many years listening to this song, to hear the beginning. The first 15 seconds is soooo great!!!!!!!!!

i like the rhythm it is calming

Saw alt-j by chance at a festival 10 years ago. Never heard of them at the time. I’m still listening.

Brilliant, absolutely phenomenal vocals, “ toe to toe, back to back, let’s go “

Long live SOA! I've heard this song hundreds of times on 94.5 The Buzz and already knew it so when it happened to be on my favorite show I found that to be awesome. Sutter always knows how to visually set the scenes and always finds the perfect song for the occasion!

The camera guy pissed all these people off somehow

This song's a masterpiece!!

PHENOMENAL SOUND! This really makes me feel awesome!

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.

did anyone else find it really hot when it showed him first saying "let's tessellate"....

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 ❤️

I love that I can't use words to describe what it is that makes alt-J so captivating... its ∆✨🌀🎱

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

In love with the voice of this guy. I really DO dig this group! 😍

I’d barely even heard of these guys until today and I cannot believe I hadn’t??? They’re so good.

wouah ! du Grand Art ! Bravo, alt - J , comment nous transporter dans un cercle ....spirale...génial !

Gente...que música!

These guys are unreal... all there songs are deep!

Been looking for this song for an hour 😰🔥🔥

Me, studying for my geometry test while listening to this: Triangles are my favorite shape 👁👄👁

To anyone who doesn't know the meaning of tessellate (like the actual word) it means to decorate with mosaic, most commonly colored glass.

this song does things to me...

Oh my goodness gracious me. That was outstanding!! The video was perfection!! There's some nice looking people in this world!! 👏🏼👏🏾👏🏿

This boys are so talent! Must see more! This is Handmade Music!

Such an underrated song.

this video looks like a huge painting of this century...

The good the bad and the ugly reference gets me every time

I can close my eyes when listening to this and go to a completely different dimension inside my head, where this world just fades completely away for a few minutes. All songs make me feel emotion, but few make me daydream. Hope anyone reading this is well. Remember to be kind today, it's easy...

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

This video says so much, amazing directing and idea. great fkn song too.

Ich werde nie vergessen wie ich diesen Song damals zum ersten mal gehört habe 😍

One of the best video ever made, used it on my presentation about the influence of Greece on Ocidental Lifestlyle. The concept of the delta, de painting by Rafael Sanzio, it's all just perfect and way more justified than any other music video so far.

2021?

If I wasn’t in love with this band before, now I really am.

10 anos desse lançamento já e até hoje toca. Perfeita demais ♡

This song gives me goosebumps

What a coincidence to come back to this song/video exactly 10 years after it uploaded.

Amazing.. I love this.

I CAN'T GET OVER THIS SONG

Who’s here in 2020 😎♥️

exquisitely riveting, the Choreo•graphic coordinates of the body!! ay yay yay!

Alt-J is one of the best out there!! 🧠

I never get ad's on this video. Thank you Alt J

Love the Good,Bad, and the Ugly reference in this song ;)

Those dislikes are from people who think dislike means dis-I-like

A great song for the season 1's end of a great serie 😍 : atypical 💖

As a curator of fine art, there is so much to change in the imagery of this official video. A final product delivering true tesselations in rhythm of an underlying romance is well worth the challenge.

Como eu amo essa música, aaaaaah. Sz

This is a very special song.

so man brilliant moments in this video man. Hearing this live was fantastic.

Love the beats on this. Massive!

I listened to Ellie Goulding's cover first and was like wow this amazing! So I decided to check out the original and omg! Even better!

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

The imperfects ✨✨

still completely fresh, their best album

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

Sons of Anarchy brought me here 4 years ago and I’m so glad

I got so excited when this came on ingress, I’ve been a fan since the song came out years ago

This MV is sooooo 2000's. Loved it.

I listened to this for the first time when I was high. It's fucking bad ass even when you're not. Damn I love this band.

Ufff que buena rola... Los vengo escuchando hace como 4 años y se la siguen rifando... Saludos desde México...

I love alt J!!

I heard this on Sons Of Anarchy really like this song now!

Watching Ingress right now and this is the theme :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.

Great sound arrangement!!!