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It's November 4, 2012, and alt-J is on top of the world. Less than a day earlier, their full-length debut An Awesome Wave had won The Mercury Prize—the much-coveted annual award given to the year's best album by an artist born in the U.K. or Ireland.

For Under the Radar's 13th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2015.