Dig into The Saturday Alternative playlist! The Fitting Room album was The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs by Wye Oak – out now on Merge Records.
Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack are no longer Baltimore residents, but the spirit of sonic adventure that resonates throughout Baltimore’s music scene is still resonant within them, perhaps more than ever before, as evident by the boundless creative energy that we hear on their new album, The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs. With Jenn now based in Durham, NC and Andy in Marfa, TX, the two worked on much of the album together from afar, and made the conscious decision to throw their own rules out the window and do what felt right for each of them in the moment, including bringing other musicians into the fold. The new album is bold, confident and bursting with life and emotion, and a sense that they’re still very much excited by the music they’re making together over a decade into their career.
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Jo Passed – Millennial Trash Blues – Their Prime
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Talking Straight – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs
Miss You – Born Ruffians – Uncle, Duke & The Chief
Running – Bully – Losing
Cracker Drool – Goat Girl – Goat Girl
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Tailor Made – The Lemon Twigs
Muted Beatings – Albert Hammond Jr. – Francis Trouble
Cry Cry Cry – Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin
Summertime – Field Report – Summertime Songs
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Villain – Speedy Ortiz – Twerp Verse
Hammer -Tune-Yards – I can feel you creep into my private life
Like a Stone, or Like a Rose – Robert Julian Fronzo – Fanboy Non-Fiction
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Heart Killer – Dr. Dog – Critical Equation
The Spider and Me (feat. Mild High Club) – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Sketches of Brunswick
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Rosebud – U.S. Girls – In A Poem Unlimited
All Wordz Are Made Up – The Voidz – Virtue
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Prior Things – Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog
I Bow Down – Pixx
Find Me – Porches – The House
Wide Awake – Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
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Dark Spring – Beach House – 7
Eschaton – Darlingside
Slow Down – Art Feynman – Blast Off Through the Wicker
Breathe In, Breathe Out – Melody’s Echo Chamber
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Alabama — Tracyanne & Danny – Tracyanne & Danny
My Smile Is Extinct – Kane Strang – Two Hearts and No Brain
Formidable Cool – Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life
Balla Balla – Brazilian Girls – Let’s Make Love
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Dream Song – Michael Rault – It’s A New Day Tonight
Cold As Ice – Bekon
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City of No Reply – Amber Coffman – City of No Reply
The Underdog – GUM – The Underdog
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Safe in the Car – Ament
I’ll Make You Sorry – Screaming Females – All At Once
Is It Real? – together PANGEA – Bulls and Roosters
Mary Anne – Triptides – Visitors
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The Instrument – Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
It Was Not Natural – Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
Symmetry – Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
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Take Tonight – The Family Crest – The War: Act 1
Dreams Tonite – Alvvays – Antisocialites
Agree – Polica – Music for the Long Emergency
Watch Fire (feat. Sufjan Stevens) – Laura Veirs – The Lookout
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Bad Luck – Neko Case – Hell-On