In Cold Blood (Alt-J song)
[1] The song was written by Joe Newman, Gus Unger-Hamilton, and Thom Sonny Green and produced by Charlie Andrew.[2] It features a brass section recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London[3] and a Casiotone the band purchased for £1.05 on eBay.We recorded the brass section at Abbey Road Studios in North London, which was an amazing experience.The song starts with the eight digit binary phrase: "zero one one one zero zero one one" (01110011), which is 163 (octal), 115 (decimal), and 73 (hex), which translates to a lowercase "s" under the ASCII system.[9] The band also performed "In Cold Blood" for their second NPR tiny desk concert in an acoustic, string accompanied medley.Robin Murray of Clash called it "both straight-forwardly melodic and fascinatingly complex, the interweaving vocals underpinned by bleeping electronics and flashes of brass.