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

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

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

Since You’ve Been Gone – The Allergies – Push On

Lower Worlds – Rainer Maria – S/T

Hologram – The Horrors – V

#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

Right Words – Cults – Offering

Asido – Purity Ring

Deflect the Light (feat. The Flaming Lips) – Vessels – The Great Distraction

Tic Tac Toe – Django Django- Marble Skies

Last Time I Saw You – UNA

Mother Mother – Tracy Bonham – Modern Burdens

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

Lock – Yo No Say – Inner EP

—hour 3—

Your Time – Nick Murphy – Missing Link

1982 – Liima

Thin – AQUILO

I’m Becoming You – 5 Billion in Diamonds – 5 Billion in Diamonds

Fallen Leaves – The Deep Dark Woods – Yarrow

——FITTING ROOM——

Masseduction – St. Vincent – MASSEDUCTION

Sugarboy – St. Vincent – MASSEDUCTION

Savior – St. Vincent – MASSEDUCTION

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

Friends – Matt Ellin – All Is Not Lost

From A Soon-To-Be Ghost Town – Fruit Bats – Absolute Loser