Breezeblocks (song)

"Breezeblocks"
Single by alt-J
from the album An Awesome Wave
Released	18 May 2012
Recorded	2011
Genre	Indie pop art rock
Length	3:47
Label	Infectious
Songwriter(s)	Joe Newman Gus Unger-Hamilton Gwilym Sainsbury Thom Green
Producer(s)	Charlie Andrew
Alt-J singles chronology
"Matilda" (2012) "Breezeblocks" (2012) "Tessellate" (2012)

"Breezeblocks" is a song by British indie rock band alt-J from their debut studio album An Awesome Wave (2012). The song was released on 18 May 2012 as the album's second single. The song was written by Joe Newman, Gus Unger-Hamilton, Gwil Sainsbury, Thom Green and produced by Charlie Andrew. It reached the top ten in the UK Indie and US Alternative charts, and was voted into third place in Australian radio station Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2012, behind "Thrift Shop" and "Little Talks".

The band was formed at Leeds University in 2007. Newman (vocalist) and Sainsbury (guitarist) started recording their songs on Garage Band and were soon joined by Unger-Hamilton and Green. They later coined the band name, alt-j.

The sinister love song is about liking someone that you want so much to love you that you want to hurt yourself and them. alt-j stated in an interview that Breezeblocks, as well as the rest of the album An Awesome Wave, was related to the idea of the children's book, Where the Wild Things Are.^[1]