Dig into this week’s Saturday Alternative playlist! The Fitting Room album was I Wasn’t Only Thinking About You by Oh Pep!, out now on ATO Records.
Singer-guitarist Olivia Hally and fiddle-mandolinist Pepi Emmerichs make up the Melbourne duo Oh Pep! The exclamation point at the end of their name seems appropriate given the excitement the two of them share for songwriting and making music together. I Wasn’t Only Thinking About You follows their critically acclaimed 2016 debut album Stadium Cake, but they’ve been making music much longer than that, having met in high school over a decade ago, and the chemistry between them is evident in both their studio work and their presence on stage. While Oh Pep! have become known for a more upbeat kind of folk pop, their albums are wide ranging in sound, and there is plenty to dig into – both lyrically and sonically – in this new collection.
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Anxious – Holy Ghost!
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Hercules – Tokyo Police Club – TPC
American Guilt – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
I Bow Down – Pixx
What You Don’t Know – Matthew Dear – Bunny
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Alien – Beach House
Ultimatum (feat. Fatoumata Diawara) – Disclosure
Freelance – Toro Y Moi – Outer Peace
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That Sound – Sam Fender
Sober Motel – Dilly Dally – Heaven
The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra – Anna von Hausswolff – Dead Magic
Freakin’ U Out – Antarctigo Vespucci – Love In The Time of E-Mail
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Blood And Rockets: Movement I, Saga Of Jack Parsons – The Claypool Lennon Delirium – South of Reality
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Feel Good (feat. Khruangbin) – Maribou State – Kingdoms In Colour
Debbie – Your Smith – Bad Habit EP
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Hiding – Ian Sweet – Crush Crusher
No Expectations – Bahamas – Earthtones
Break-Thru – Dirty Projectors
Preppy Boy – John Grant – Love Is Magic
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Mad in the Night – Telemonster – Introspector (Part 1)
Shake Your Heel (feat. Tristen) – Steelism – ism
Giant Feelings (Feat. Patrice Quinn & Techdizzle) – Brandon Coleman – Resistance
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Gut Feeling – Peter Bjorn and John – Darker Days
Serve The Rich – PINS
The Rover – Interpol
The Freaks – The Menzingers
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Hollow Days – Twin Shadow
Voyage Libre – Thievery Corporation
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Buried in the Sand – Haelos
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New Moon – Steve Gunn – The Unseen In Between
It Keeps Us Dancing – The Family Crest – The War: Act 1
Gallipoli – Beirut
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— FITTING ROOM—
25 – Oh Pep! – I Wasn’t Only Thinking About You
Hurt Nobody – Oh Pep! – I Wasn’t Only Thinking About You
Your Nail and Your Hammer – Oh Pep! – I Wasn’t Only Thinking About You
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New Compassion – Haerts – New Compassion
No Going Back – Yuno
Superposition – Young The Giant
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Merrie Land – The Good, the Bad & the Queen – Merrie Land