Dig into this week’s Saturday Alternative playlist! The Fitting Room album was MASSEDUCTION by St. Vincent, out now on Loma Vista.
St Vincent has released her fifth studio album, and though she may have taken a turn towards pop, it’s not what you think. For MASSEDUCTION, Annie teamed up with Jack Antonoff, the uber-pop producer, formerly of the band Fun., and more recently of Bleachers, and so she obviously had an idea of the kind of sound she was going for. That being said, while striving for a more easily digestible, synth-driven sound may for many result in a lacking ambition, this album is bursting with creativity, excitement and the kind of stylish absurdity that only a St. Vincent album could deliver. On top of that, it’s perhaps Annie’s most clearly personal album to date, opening up on love, sexuality and dependence in a less cryptic way then we might expect. In a press release Annie Clark said “every record I make has an archetype. Strange Mercy was Housewives on Pills. St Vincent was Near Future Cult Leader. MASSEDUCTION is different, its pretty first person. You can’t fact check it but if you want to know about my life, listen to this record.”
—hour 1—
Speak of the Devil – Black Pistol Fire – Deadbeat Graffiti
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Valley Boy – Wolf Parade – Cry Cry Cry
Bulls And Roosters – together PANGEA – Bulls and Roosters
Revolution Rock N Roll – Low Cut Connie
Dracula’s Blues – Bunny – Bunny
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Helen in the Woods – TORRES – Three Futures
Arabian Heights – The Afghan Whigs – In Spades
It’s a Trip – Joywave – Content
Dream State – Son Lux – Brighter Wounds
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Since You’ve Been Gone – The Allergies – Push On
Lower Worlds – Rainer Maria – S/T
Hologram – The Horrors – V
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#WarOnFalse – Dhani Harrison – IN///PARALLEL
Earth Not Above – Haelos – Full Circle
—hour 2—
Better Off – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – The Tourist
Second Nature – Neil Finn – Out of Silence
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Right Words – Cults – Offering
Asido – Purity Ring
Deflect the Light (feat. The Flaming Lips) – Vessels – The Great Distraction
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Tic Tac Toe – Django Django- Marble Skies
Last Time I Saw You – UNA
Mother Mother – Tracy Bonham – Modern Burdens
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Versions Of Us (feat. Corinne Bailey Rae) – Kele Okereke – Fatherland
The Alien – Manchester Orchestra – A Black Mile To The Surface
Another Century – The Church – man woman life death infinity
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Lock – Yo No Say – Inner EP
—hour 3—
Your Time – Nick Murphy – Missing Link
1982 – Liima
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Thin – AQUILO
I’m Becoming You – 5 Billion in Diamonds – 5 Billion in Diamonds
Fallen Leaves – The Deep Dark Woods – Yarrow
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——FITTING ROOM——
Masseduction – St. Vincent – MASSEDUCTION
Sugarboy – St. Vincent – MASSEDUCTION
Savior – St. Vincent – MASSEDUCTION
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God Save The Jungle – Benjamin Clementine – I Tell A Fly
Guilty Party – The National – Sleep Well Beast
Decay – Cymbals – Light In Your Mind
Dum Surfer – King Krule
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Friends – Matt Ellin – All Is Not Lost
From A Soon-To-Be Ghost Town – Fruit Bats – Absolute Loser
