Dig into this week’s Saturday Alternative playlist! The Fitting Room album was Plunge by Fever Ray, out now on Mute.
Fever Ray is the solo project of Karin Dreijer, one half of the influential electronic pop duo The Knife, which she’s in with her brother Olof. The Stockholm siblings have been relatively quiet since their last album, Shaking the Habitual, which came out in 2013, but Karin has broken that silence with a powerful and ambitious new album called Plunge. Arriving 9 years after her solo debut, Plunge finds Karin experimenting even more with energy and sound – a bright and spirited burst of synths, rhythms and textures – that make this an exciting and intensely urgent collection of songs.
—hour 1—
Little Thing Gone Wild – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Wrong Creatures
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Charisma – Pianos Become The Teeth – Wait For Love
Hologram – The Horrors – V
Red Rum Aviv – Re-TROS – Before the Applause
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Settle – Haulm
Leave You – Midnight Sister – Saturn Over Sunset
Thanks for Listening – Chris Thile – Thanks for Listening
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Fireworks – First Aid Kit – Ruins
The Bus Song – Jay Som – Everybody Works
Moonshine Freeze – This Is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze
Passing Out – Strand of Oaks – Harder Love
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Way With Words – Bahamas – Earthtones
Way We Won’t – Grandaddy – Last Place
—hour 2—
Epic (feat. Lera Lynn) – Shovels & Rope – Busted Jukebox Vol. 2
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List of People (To Try and Forget About – Tame Impala – Currents B-Sides & Remixes EP
How Does It Make You Feel? – Once and Future Band – Once and Future Band
The Way is Read – The Staves & yMusic – The Way Is Read
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Asking 4 a Friend – Anna Burch – Quit the Curse
Beat Down – Mister Heavenly
Valley Boy – Wolf Parade
Diver – Vundabar – Smell Smoke
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Every 1’s a Winner – Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin
other voices – LCD Soundsystem – american dream
Count It Up – Field Music – Open Here
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Mystic – Cindy Wilson – Change
Watching From A Distance – David Ramirez – We’re Not Going Anywhere
—hour 3—
Last Time I Saw You – UNA
Voices in the Field – Calexico – The Thread That Keeps Us
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Warning Bell – Joan As Police Woman – Damned Devotion
Death of a Football Manager – Little Cub – Still Life
Hey – Alvvays – Antisocialites
Rock Bottom – Ruby Rose Fox
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——FITTING ROOM——
Musn’t Hurry – Fever Ray – Plunge
To The Moon and Back – Fever Ray – Plunge
Mama’s Hand – Fever Ray – Plunge
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Deserted Dunes Welcome Weary Feet – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Polygondwanaland
I Bow Down – Pixx
I’m In Love – Umm – Double Worshipper
Wolfbite – Bat Fangs – Bat Fangs
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Midnight Train To Memphis – Chris Stapleton – From A Room: Vol. 2