Dig into this week’s Saturday Alternative playlist! The Fitting Room album was Parts by Ohmme, out now on Joyful Noise.
What happens when two classically trained pianists with an urge to experiment ditch the keys and pick up electric guitars? Well, when you’re Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart, the chemical reaction that takes place is one to behold. Together, they are Ohmme, and their new album, Parts, is a fresh and exciting burst of hypnotic riffs, monstrous guitars, wild grooves and dual vocals that can be at once calming and chaotic. Having collaborated in the past with fellow Chicago acts like Chance the Rapper, Jeff Tweedy and Whitney, these are two world class musicians and songwriters who’ve made a conscious decision to step outside their comfort zone and try something entirely new, and while there’s a lot to take in for the listener, they know just when to bring it back down to Earth.
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It Comes Down Hard – The Eyebrows – Volume
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Do You Love Your Company? – Ron Gallo – Stardust Birthday Party
Bellarine – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs
Cool (Clean) – Soccer Mommy
Zero Day – Nothing – Dance on the Blacktop
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Touch – Sweet Spirit
Cracker Drool – Goat Girl – Goat Girl
Plastic Skeletons – Jealous of the Birds
American Guilt – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Moonstone – Black Mirrors – Look Into The Black Mirror
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Bite The Hand – Boygenius
Over The Midnight – Jonathan Wilson – Rare Birds
Hotel Delmano – MUNYA – Hotel Delmano
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See You At The Movies – J Mascis
Moonshine Freeze – This Is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze
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The Gift – Wand – Perfume
True Dark – Murder By Death – The Other Shore
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ABOP – Tunng – Songs You Make At Night
Hold Your Head Up High – Darlingside – Extralife
Annihilation Song – Rubblebucket – Sun Machine
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He’s Got His Mother’s Hips – John Grant – Love Is Magic
Something For Your M.I.N.D. – Superorganism – Superorganism
Agree – Polica – Music for the Long Emergency
Touchscreen (feat. Meredith Graves) – House of Feelings – New Lows
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I’m Desperate – BC Camplight – Deportation Blues
Stick – Ovlov – Tru
Hey – Alvvays – Antisocialites
Johnny – Basement Revolver – Heavy Eyes
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Rear View – Gabby’s World – Beast on Beast
You’re Dreaming – Wolf Parade
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The Club – Hinds
Happiness Reigns – Cullen Omori – The Diet
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Fine Slime – White Denim – Performance
Into the Night – Death By Unga Bunga
Pain Killer – Iceage
Who’s Been Talkin’ – Whitehorse
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—-FITTING ROOM—-
Icon – Ohmme – Parts
Water – Ohmme – Parts
Left Handed – Ohmme – Parts
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A Pearl – Mitski – Be The Cowboy
Sober Motel – Dilly Dally – Heaven
Disaster (Is What We’re After) – Death Valley Girls – Darkness Rains
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Apocalypse Now (& Later) – Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers – Bought to Rot