LONDON (AP) — Indie pop quartet Alt-J has won Britain’s prestigious Mercury Prize, beating more established acts to the 20,000 pound (roughly $32,000) prize at the Roundhouse in north London.
Formed of four Leeds University students who met in 2007, the band’s sharp but spare vocals, genre-bending sound and occasionally bizarre, nasal lyrics propelled them onto the charts well before its members found fame.
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