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
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Cool – Soccer Mommy – Clean
California Family – La Luz – Floating Features
A Trick of the Light – Villagers – The Art of Pretending to Swim
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Speaking Terms – Snail Mail – LUSH
Settle – Haulm
Electric – Clara Nova – The Golden Age EP
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Family Tree – Priscilla Renea – Coloured
Getaway – Curtis Roush – Cosmic Campfire Music
Love’s Not All You Need – UNI
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War Is Placebo – Blitzen Trapper
Watching From A Distance – David Ramirez – We’re Not Going Anywhere
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Oom Sha La La – Haley Heynderickx – I Need To Start A Garden
Hot Summer – Gurr
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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
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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
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Better alone – Lykke Li – so sad so sexy
Get Lost – Washed Out
Like a Motherless Child – Moby
Hunnybee – Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Sex & Food
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A Perfect Miracle – Spiritualized
The Alien – Manchester Orchestra – A Black Mile To The Surface
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It Runs Through Me (feat. De La Soul) – Tom Misch
Cold War – Cautious Clay
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Other Lover – Mikaela Davis
New Shapes of Life – Martin Carr – New Shapes of Life
Supergiant – Valley Queen – Supergiant
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—-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
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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
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Slown Down – Ms. Sara – Popcorn
