With its complicated arrangements and unique tone, alt-J’s second album “This Is All Yours” is a refreshing take on the alternative-indie genre of music. Instead of repeating the same overused lyrics about lost love and eternal youth, the 14 songs (including the iTunes bonus track) have substance to them that most modern albums lack.

The album starts off with “Intro,” a 4 minute layered track that sounds almost like a choir of singers, which then leads into the first two songs of a three-part series, “Arrival in Nara” and “Nara.” Singer Joe Newman belts through the soulful single “Left Hand Free” and the piano driven “Bloodflood Pt. II,” is a continuation of the song “Bloodflood” on their debut album, offering a nice flow that keeps the album interesting.

Gwil Sainsbury, Gus Unger-Hamilton, Thom Green and Joe Newman formed the band in Leeds in 2007 when they met at university and started making music together. While in university, they had to keep their noise level low, and the band’s now-infamous style of music stems from not being able to use bass guitars or drums in the dorms. Though Sainsbury left the band in January, his influence lives on in the band’s folk-pop style, and Cameron Knight will act as support for bass and guitar during live shows. The band is often represented by the delta sign (∆), which uses the keyboard shortcut alt + J on a Mac.

“This Is All Yours” shot up on the UK charts after its release on Sept. 22, and rightfully so. I enjoyed every dimension of this album, and as a fan of their first album, “An Awesome Wave,” I was not disappointed.