Dig into this week’s Saturday Alternative playlist! The Fitting Room album was Hope Downs by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, out now on Sub Pop.

Over the past two years, Melbourne’s Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have built an impressive following with a couple EP’s of jangly, guitar-driven garage rock. On their debut full length, Hope Downs – out now on Sub Pop – the band’s sound is fully realized, and more energized then ever before, in part due to them recording the songs live in-studio. The album was very much inspired by current events happening around them while they were writing. “We were feeling like we were in a moment where the sands were shifting and the world was getting a lot weirder,” said singer/guitarist Tom Russo. “There was a general sense that things were coming apart at the seams and people around us were too.”


 

–hour 1—

Don’t Leave It In Our Hands – The Essex Green – Hardly Electronic

Cool – Soccer Mommy – Clean

California Family – La Luz – Floating Features

A Trick of the Light – Villagers – The Art of Pretending to Swim

Speaking Terms – Snail Mail – LUSH

Settle – Haulm

Electric – Clara Nova – The Golden Age EP

Family Tree – Priscilla Renea – Coloured

Getaway – Curtis Roush – Cosmic Campfire Music

Love’s Not All You Need – UNI

War Is Placebo – Blitzen Trapper

Watching From A Distance – David Ramirez – We’re Not Going Anywhere

–hour 2–

Oom Sha La La – Haley Heynderickx – I Need To Start A Garden

Hot Summer – Gurr

Fractured and Dazed – The Kooks

Erasure (feat. Waxahatchee & Stephin Merritt) – Superchunk – What a Time To Be Alive

The Underdog – GUM – The Underdog

May I Be the Light – LUMP – LUMP

The Rover – Interpol – Marauder

Can’t Hold On – The Black Lips – Satan’s Graffiti or God’s Art?

Every 1’s A Winner – Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin

Simplify – Young The Giant

Better alone – Lykke Li – so sad so sexy

Get Lost – Washed Out

Like a Motherless Child – Moby

Hunnybee – Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Sex & Food

A Perfect Miracle – Spiritualized

The Alien – Manchester Orchestra – A Black Mile To The Surface

–hour 3–

It Runs Through Me (feat. De La Soul) – Tom Misch

Cold War – Cautious Clay

Other Lover – Mikaela Davis

New Shapes of Life – Martin Carr – New Shapes of Life

Supergiant – Valley Queen – Supergiant

—-FITTING ROOM—-

Talking Straight – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs

Bellarine – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs

The Hammer – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs

Oh My – Natalie Prass – The Future and the Past

Rosebud – U.S. Girls – In A Poem Unlimited

Golden Spiral – Holly Miranda – Mutual Horse

Spring – Luluc

Slown Down – Ms. Sara – Popcorn