Dig into this week’s Saturday Alternative playlist! The Fitting Room album was the self-titled debut album by Foxwarren, out now on ANTI- Records.
A couple years ago, Canadian singer-songwriter Andy Shauf released an album called The Party – a concept album of sorts, remarking on life as an introvert – making clear his gift for captivating the listener with such purpose in melody, and subtlety in delivery and production. He’s now returned, not as a solo artist, but with a band whom he’s been with for over a decade. Still, the new self-titled album from Foxwarren acts a debut.
The band is made up of Shauf, and his childhood friends Dallas Bryson and brothers Avery and Darryl Kissick. They take their name from the brothers’ family home in Foxwarren, Manitoba. Fortunately for fans of Andy’s The Party, this album floats in that same kind of understated beauty, making this as sweet and intimate a listen as his last.
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Into the Fire – These New Puritans
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Head Alone – Julia Jacklin – Crushing
Cool – Soccer Mommy
Trip With Lola – The Bright Light Social Hour
Used to You – Foreign Air
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Symmetry & Black Tar – Thomas Abban – A Sheik’s Legacy
Oh My – Natalie Prass – The Future and the Past
Fine Slime – White Denim – Performance
Tank Top – Starcrawler
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What Do You Want Me To Do – Bob Mould – Sunshine Rock
Nearer My God – Foxing – Nearer My God
Bloodless – Andrew Bird
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Only Water – TEEN – Good Fruit
Rosebud – U.S. Girls – In A Poem Unlimited
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Hold Your Head Up High – Darlingside – Extralife
Broken (Feat. Jessie Reyez) – THEY. – Fireside EP
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Cherry Glazerr – Daddi
Bodys – Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy
Stick – Ovlov – Tru
Born In Black – Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers – Bought to Rot
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Mirror Mirror (feat. Jana Hunter) – Chaunter – Dream Dynamics
Oh Bear Brother – Howard
Centerline – Ava Luna – Moon 2
Forgive (feat. Washed Out) – Roosevelt – Young Romance
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Troubled Mind – Dan Mangan – More Or Less
Don’t Leave It In Our Hands – The Essex Green – Hardly Electronic
It’s Me on the Dance Floor – My Brightest Diamond – A Million and One
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Anyway – Arctic Monkeys
It Was Not Natural – Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
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Dark Heart – Tunng
Freelance – Toro y Moi
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Starstruck – Sorry
MDM – Jo Passed
Better Off – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – The Tourist
Perfect for You – Sloucher – Be True
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—-FITTING ROOM—-
To Be – Foxwarren – Foxwarren
Everything Apart – Foxwarren – Foxwarren
In Another Life – Foxwarren – Foxwarren
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The Truce of Twilight – The Good, the Bad & The Queen – Merrie Land
A Trick of the Light – Villagers – The Art of Pretending to Swim
Weight In Gold – Gallant
Lover Chanting – Little Dragon – Lover Chanting EP
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I Know What It’s Like – Jeff Tweedy – WARM
