Dig intro this week’s Saturday Alternative playlist! The Fitting Room album was C’est La Vie by Phosphorescent, out now on Dead Oceans.
It’s been five years since we heard from Matthew Houck, the singer-songwriter behind Phosphorescent, and a lot has happened in that time. After 2013’s Muchacho, he married his musical partner, Jo Schornikow, and they had two children together. They moved from New York to Nashville where he built out a studio in a warehouse – a sort of home base where he could settle down, relatively speaking – and when it was completed, really focus on the music that would make up C’est La Vie.
On the album, Matthew Houck harnesses the thoughts, anxieties and emotions of these major changes and life events and wraps them up in the uniquely beautiful, lush, and dreamy sound that he’s so masterfully developed in the decade and half he’s been releasing music. He captures the warm and satisfied ups as well as the existential downs of his new life. “These significant moments in life can really make you feel your insignificance,” Houck said in a press release. “It’s a paradox I guess, that these wildly profound events simultaneously highlight that maybe none of this matters at all…”
–hour 1—
Big Dogs – Seasaw
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Ride – Brett Newski – Life Upside Down
Under the Wheels – Dr. Dog – Critical Equation
Get Back to the City – Juanita Stein – Until the Lights Fade
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Doubt – Hippo Campus – Bambi
Oh My – Natalie Prass – The Future and the Past
Dark Heart – Tunng
Wherever You Sleep – Bay Ledges
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Wayfaring Stranger – Dean Wareham & Cheval Sombre – Dean Warham vs. Cheval Sombre
Home Away Form Home (ft. Laura Darlington – Cut Chemist – Die Cut
Nobody – Mitski – Be The Cowboy
Symbol – Adrianne Lenker
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The Wrong Side – The Joy Formidable – AAARTH
Six Wave Hold-Down – Hot Snakes – Jericho Sirens
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Sober Motel – Dilly Dally – Heaven
Always Elsewhere – Ron Gallo – Stardust Birthday Party
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Candy – Thyla
Side Tracked – Born Ruffians
Break Me – DMA’s – For Now
Street Justice – Death Valley Girls – Darkness Rains
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Hospital – Art Brut – Hospital!
American Guilt – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Born in the Right Country – River Whyless
Voyage Libre – Thievery Corporation – Treasures from the Temple
Toy – Young Fathers
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The Way – HAERTS – New Compassion
Magic City – Gorillaz – The Now Now
Phoenix – Rhye – Blood
Marry Me – Farao – Pure-O
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One Trick Ponies – Kurt Vile
I’ll Be There – Michael Rault – It’s a New Day Tonight
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Things to Keep up With – Hater – Siesta
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Get in My Car – BRONCHO – Get in My Car
Siren – Wilderado – Favors EP
Workhorse – All Them Witches – Atw
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—-FITTING ROOM—-
There From Here – Phosphorescent – C’est La Vie
Around The Horn – Phosphorescent – C’est La Vie
Christmas Down Under – Phosphorescent – C’est La Vie
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Again – Villagers – The Art of Pretending to Swim
Light on the Ground – Valley Maker – Rhododendron
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Comeback Kid – Sharon Van Etten
