Dig into this week’s Saturday Alternative playlist. The Fitting Room album was I Tell A Fly by Benjamin Clementine, out now on Virgin/EMI.
Benjamin Clementine’s story is that of an uncompromising artist. When he was 19, the London-born musician moved to Paris without a real plan, other than to create, and where most would draw the line at homelessness, Clementine did not. He got by on his own, busking in the streets and sleeping in them too. Eventually, he began receiving some well-deserved attention from the right people, which led to playing bigger shows and festivals, and even an appearance on Later with Jools Holland. Jump ahead a couple years, and he’d won the coveted Mercury Prize for his debut full length, At Least For Now. After being enlisted by Damon Albarn to appear on the new Gorillaz album, Clementine has now returned with his sophomore effort, I Tell A Fly. His voice is best described as classic and sophisticated, and his style and delivery, as theatrical as can be. Benjamin Clementine demands your attention, surely a skill that he developed during his years as a Parisian street busker.
—hour 1—
Serve The Rich – PINS
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Spent The Day In Bed – Morrissey – Low In High School
Last Time I Saw You – UNA
Modafinil Blues – Matthew Dear
Chasin’ – Cub Sport – BATS
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You Know Me Better – J. Roddy Walston & The Business – Destroyers of the Soft Life
Furnaces – Ed Harcourt – Furnaces
Shadows and Reflections – Marc Almond – Shadows and Reflections
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Tinseltown Swimming In Blood – Destroyer – ken
Bulletproof – Me Not You
Creature Comfort – Arcade Fire – Everything Now
Bofou Safou – Amadou & Mariam – La Confusion
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Hologram – The Horrors – V
Slip Away – Perfume Genius – No Shape
—hour2—
Bad Baby – Sarah Jaffe
Illusionist – Clara Nova – Iron Age
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Deviant – Decent Criminal – Bloom
I’m In Love – Umm – Double Worshipper
Rites of Investiture – Circa Survive – The Amulet
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Alta – Ty Segall
Finally – Cymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years
My Smile Is Extinct – Kane Strang – Two Hearts and No Brain
Baseball – Hippo Campus
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Beautifully Unconventional – Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life
Shake Your Heel (feat. Tristen) – Steelism – ism
Pleasure – Feist – Pleasure
Fallen Leaves – The Deep Dark Woods – Yarrow
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Wonderful Wonderful – The Killers – Wonderful Wonderful
Charger (feat. Grace Jones) – Gorillaz – Humanz
—hour 3—
Standing In The Middle of the Field – Cut Copy – Haiku From Zero
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Jumbo Jet – Shout Out Louds – Ease My Mind
Nothing Left To Say – Hajk
The Weather – Pond – The Weather
Something For Your M.I.N.D. – Superorganism
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——FITTING ROOM——
God Save The Jungle – Benjamin Clementine – I Tell A Fly
Better Sorry Than A Safe – Benjamin Clementine – I Tell A Fly
Phantom Of Alleppoville – Benjamin Clementine – I Tell A Fly
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Another Weekend – Ariel Pink – Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
Streets Been Talkin’ – Kele Okereke – Fatherland
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Hurts To Liv – liv
