The song’s lyrics reference two UK-brand medical products. The blocks are also heavily associated with violent death while a cinderblock to the head will definitely mean curtains, they’re more commonly linked to the ‘concrete shoes’ method of body disposal used by the mafia in urban legend, in which a victim is weighed down by cinderblocks or cement before being thrown into a body of water. They’re often a top choice for the construction of buildings in hot climates, because their holes allow a breeze through (hence ‘breeze blocks’). These building bricks are made from small cinders (hence ‘cinderblock’) mixed with sand and cement.
‘Breeze block’ is, of course, a synonym for the more commonly-heard (in Australia) term ‘cinderblock’. “I had been thinking about doing a backwards video,” he said in 2013, “and then when I listened to the track, the first words were, ‘She may contain the urge to run away, so hold her down with soggy clothes and breeze blocks.’ And an image of a woman submerged in a bathtub with a cinderblock on her chest popped into my head.” So, how’d he get the job? By simply pitching his idea through a commissioning site. The infamously clever clip was conceived and directed by Ellis Bahl, who didn’t know any of the Alt-J bandmembers or team beforehand. We related that idea to Where the Wild Things Are, which we all grew up reading, where in the end the beasts say ‘Oh, please don’t go! We’ll eat you whole! We love you so!,’ that they would threaten cannibalism to have that person. Alt-J’s guitarist and lead vocalist Joe Newman said upon the song’s release in 2012: “ about liking someone who you want so much that you want to hurt yourself and them, as well. Its lyrics were heavily inspired by Where the Wild Things Are, the 1963 picture book by late American author and illustrator Maurice Sendak (1928 – 2012). Here are five facts you may not know about the still-captivating track. Breezeblocks, the second single from English indie act Alt-J’s debut Mercury Prize-winning album An Awesome Wave, burned a bright and bewitchingly weird streak through the musical zeitgeist when it was released 10 years ago today.
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