Dig into this week’s Saturday Alternative playlist! The Fitting Room album was Mount Qaf (Divine Love) by Peter Matthew Bauer, out now on Fortune Tellers Music.
When The Walkmen went on hiatus in 2014 it was sad news for their fans, but in those three years the individual members have put out more than enough music on their own to hold us over until a potential reunion, which may or may not even happen. Frontman Hamilton Leithauser has been prolific, releasing a few albums, including one with Rostam Batmanlij last year, Walter Martin has released three albums, and Peter Matthew Bauer has just released his second album, Mount Qaf (Divine Love) – the followup to his great 2014 solo debut, Liberation! He’s described the new album as one of esoteric love songs, and on it we hear a real sense of positive urgency, a sound that is often immediate, propulsive, anthemic and in many ways, motivational.
—hour 1—
Graveyard Luck – Sparta
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Dream Beam – Airpark – Early Works Volume 2
You’re Dreaming – Wolf Parade
Every Day’s The Weekend – Alex Lahey – I Love You Like a Brother
Passenger – Attic Salt – Passenger
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Diamond Rings – Tennis – We Can Die Happy EP
Illusionist – Clara Nova
Masseduction – St. Vincent – MASSEDUCTION
Look at Your Hands – Tune-Yards – I can feel you creep into my private life
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Ain’t No Doubt About It (feat. Jeff Tweedy) – Mavis Staples – If All I Was Was Black
Girlfriend – repeat repeat
Shark Smile – Big Thief – Capacity
Sometimes I Can’t – Ladygod – Rock N Roll Kaliphate
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I Left My Body – They Might Be Giants – I Like Fun
Enter Entirely – Cloud Nothings – Life Without Sound
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I’ll Be Around – The Growlers
Rainmaker – Sleigh Bells – Kid Kruschev
What If I Go (feat. Bonzai) – Mura Masa – Mura Masa
Crawl – Gabriel Garzon-Montano – Jardin
God Save The Jungle – Benjamin Clementine – I Tell A Fly
Maria También – Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo
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Heartbreak Junky – Kyle Craft – Full Circle Nightmare
Orchids – The Shacks
Uh Huh – Julia Michaels
Black Moon – Screaming Females – All At Once
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Real Thing – Turnstile
It’s A Trip! – Joywave – Content
Into the Night – Death By Unga Bunga
Warm and Low – Quicksand – Interiors
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Baby – Sad Baxter
Turtleneck – The National – Sleep Well Beast
Bulls and Roosters – together PANGEA – Bulls and Roosters
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Vacation Town – The Front Bottoms – Going Grey
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Intrepid – Pinegrove
Watching From a Distance – David Ramirez – We’re Not Going Anywhere
From A Soon-To-Be Ghost Town – Fruit Bats – Absolute Loser
Zone on Nine – BONZIE – Zone on Nine
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——FITTING ROOM——
Wild Light – Peter Matthew Bauer – Mount Qaf (Divine Love)
Full Moon in the Sky – Peter Matthew Bauer – Mount Qaf (Divine Love)
See You in the Streets (Desolate Town) – Peter Matthew Bauer – Mount Qaf (Divine Love)
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Fish Fry – Slaughter Beach, Dog – Birdie
Matters – Twinsmith – Stay Cool
Shake Your Heel (feat. Tristen) – Steelism – ism
My Lady’s On Fire – Ty Segall
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No Wrong – Bahamas – Earthtones
Humpty Dumpty – Acid Tongue – Babies