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

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 

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 

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

I Left My Body – They Might Be Giants – I Like Fun 

Enter Entirely – Cloud Nothings – Life Without Sound 

—hour 2—

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

—20

Heartbreak Junky – Kyle Craft – Full Circle Nightmare

Orchids – The Shacks

Uh Huh – Julia Michaels

Black Moon – Screaming Females – All At Once 

Real Thing – Turnstile

It’s A Trip! – Joywave – Content 

Into the Night – Death By Unga Bunga

Warm and Low – Quicksand – Interiors

Baby – Sad Baxter

Turtleneck – The National – Sleep Well Beast

Bulls and Roosters – together PANGEA – Bulls and Roosters 

—hour 3—

Vacation Town – The Front Bottoms – Going Grey

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

——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)

Fish Fry – Slaughter Beach, Dog – Birdie 

Matters – Twinsmith – Stay Cool 

Shake Your Heel (feat. Tristen) – Steelism – ism 

My Lady’s On Fire – Ty Segall

No Wrong – Bahamas – Earthtones 

Humpty Dumpty – Acid Tongue – Babies