Dig into this week’s Saturday Alternative playlist! The Fitting Room album was “Gumboot Soup” by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, out now on ATO Records.
They did it! Not that we ever doubted them… King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard made good on their word to release five albums in 2017, something they had set out to do in the beginning of the year. Australian psych rock mastermind Stu Mackenzie is leader of pack, and has always made it a point to challenge himself and his bandmates, whether by setting a lofty goal like this one, or by concocting some kind of unique sonic album concept. For instance, 2015’s Paper Mache Dream Balloon was made using only acoustic instruments, 2016’s Nonagon Infinity could be played on an endless loop, and their first album of 2017, Flying Microtonal Banana, was made using modified microtuned instruments. Still, releasing five full length albums in a year is their biggest accomplishment to date, and the fact that these are all solid and unique albums is a testament to what a great band they are. Gumboot Soup was the fifth and final album of the year and it’s a psychedelic stew of mind-melting sounds, made, as always, with a fine sense of song-craft.
—hour 1—
Hey Heartbreaker – Dream Wife – Dream Wife
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The Wandering Star – Saintseneca
Dead crush – Alt-J – RELAXER
Can’t Do – Everything Everything – A Fever Dream
Everybody’s Coming To My House – David Byrne – American Utopia
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Over The Midnight – Jonathan Wilson – Rare Bird
Fish Fry – Slaughter Beach, Dog – Birdie
Wrong – Erik Phillips – One
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Cold As Ice – Bekon
A Lost Machine – Grandaddy – Last Place
No Captain feat. Polica – Lane 8
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Feel the Love Go – Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending
Standing in the Middle of the Field – Cut Copy – Haiku From Zero
—hour 2—
Fields – Spirit Award – Neverending
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Turn Twice – Trace Mountains – A Partner To Lean On
Vacation Town – The Front Bottoms – Going Grey
Happy Kid – Ron Gallo – Standing at the Gates: The Songs of Nada Surf’s Let Go
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Nervous Young Inhumans – Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy
Better Off – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – The Tourist
Point – The Districts – Popular Manipulations
I’ll Never Sing Your Name – Fruition – Watching It All Fall Apart
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Wait in the Car – The Breeders – All Nerve
Tic Tac Toe – Django Django
I Took Your Picture – Cults – Offering
Dunce – Ed Schrader’s Music Beat – Riddles
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Connected By Love – Jack White – Boarding House Reach
Hologram – The Horrors – V
—hour 3—
In the Midst – sir Was – Digging a Tunnel
Burnin’ Up – Sonny Smith – Rod for Your Love
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Every 1’s a Winner – Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin
Running – Bully – Losing
Into The Night – Death By Unga Bunga
Erasure (feat. Waxahatchee & Stephin Merritt) – Superchunk – What A Time To Be Alive
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——FITTING ROOM——
Greenhouse Heat Death — King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Gumboot Soup
Muddy Water — King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Gumboot Soup
Superposition — King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Gumboot Soup
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Rorschach – Typhoon – Offerings
Orthodox Man – Blaenavon – That’s Your Lot
Like a Motherless Child – Moby – Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt
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Game To Lose – I’m With Her
