Alt Track

Alt Track

Alt Track are an electronic and experimental group from Bradford, active since 2007. Their music combines contemporary dance rhythms with punk energy and political themes, moving between explosive electronica and ambient, IDM-influenced soundscapes. They draw on a mix of influences that includes Refused’s The Shape of Punk to Come, Bob Marley’s Exodus and Massive Attack’s Mezzanine, and often build dense textures and layered ideas within a track using dance beats as a base.

The group is noted for its live work and performs with a direct, high-energy approach rather than presenting itself as a laptop-based act. It plays regularly across the UK, with coverage from NME and The Fly, and it is described as being equally at home in rock clubs, squat parties, acoustic settings, and street busking. Alt Track also works with an acoustic alter ego.

In 2009, the band releases its self-produced and self-funded debut album, Silence is Approval. The record attracts positive reviews, with Steve Lamacq of BBC Radio 1 describing its opening track as a forceful, polemical piece of pop music, and The Fly calling it an intricate drum and bass and trip-rock album with a conscience. The band also offers the album on a pay-what-you-like basis to make it available to as wide an audience as possible.