Dig into this week’s Saturday Alternative playlist! The Fitting Room album was Before the Applause by Re-TROS, out now on Modern Sky Entertainment.
Beijing’s Re-TROS is a trio, but if you didn’t know that, you might assume there were more people involved in creating this complex and genre-defying sound. Their album, Before the Applause, blends elements of post-punk and new-wave, industrial electronica and progressive psychedelia, and does so in a way that keeps you utterly entertained and enthralled, even on songs that stretch out over nine, ten, twelve minutes long. Part of the fun comes from their playfulness when it comes to rhythm and syncopation. They enjoy shaking things up by messing with quirky polyrhythms, which add even more energy and excitement to these songs, and while they like to keep it moving, they aren’t opposed to breaking it down into something darker and sleazier, à la Tom Waits or Nick Cave. Before the Applause is full of surprises all the way through.
—bour 1—
Blushing – Hater – Red Blinders
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Little Dark Age – MGMT – Little Dark Age
Black Rainbows – Cut Copy
Mystic – Cindy Wilson – Change
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June – Tiger’s Jaw – Spin
Beautifully Unconventional – Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life
See Through – Splashh – Waiting a Lifetime
Don’t Go – Moaning
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What’s So Entertaining – The Orwells
Last Kiss – Minus The Bear – Voids
Find Me – Porches – The House
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Count To Five – Rhye – Blood
Private Party – She, Sir – Rival Island
—hour 2—
Decay – Cymbals – Light in Your Mind
Settle – Haulm
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Throw Down – Peter Oren – Anthropocene
God Save The Jungle – Benjamin Clementine – I Tell A Fly
Relay Runner – Loma – Loma
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Pink Squirrel – Creep Show – My Dynamite
The One 2 – !!! – Shake the Shudder
Ti Amo – Phoenix – Ti Amo
Misbehaving – LABRINTH
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Cut Yr Teeth – Kississippi
Anymore – The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – The Echo of Pleasure
Trouble – Frankie Rose – Cage Tropical
Fuel to the Fire – Rationale
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Falling – Graham Coxon
Lil Dead Eye-d – Richard Edwards – Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset
—hour 3—
Stranger’s Kiss (feat. Angel Olsen) – Alex Cameron – Forced Witness
Thin – AQUILO
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Closest to Me – Liza Anne – Fine But Dying
Boyfriend – Marika Hackman – I’m Not Your Man
Wolfbite – Bat Fangs – Bat Fangs
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Hailing Drums – Re-TROS – Before the Applause
Red Rum Aviv – Re-TROS – Before the Applause
Pigs in the River – Re-TROS – Before the Applause
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Mustn’t Hurry – Fever Ray – Plunge
December – Yumi Zouma – Willowbank
Prince of Tears – Baxter Dury – Prince of Tears
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All is Known — King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard