New and Noteworthy Additions to US Spotify

Don't know if it was literally just added, but I noticed Spotify has a few Gelbart releases that I had not previously seen on there.

Some things I flagged this week:

- The full Kira Isabella (of "Quarterback" notoriety) album.
- A beepycrunchy bleakrobot new album by Neosignal.
- A subdued/sublime new Kleerup EP with appearances by Susanne Sundfor, Jenny Wilson, Niki & the Dove and Maja Ivarsson.
- The two pre-Climax EPs by Beastmilk.
- A cathartic new album by German metal band Bethlehem (with a uselessly long album-title, but one of the songs is called "Nazi Zombies mit Tourette-Syndrom"), plus their 20-year-old debut album Dark Metal.
- A new broken-power-adapter-and-caterwauling album by Pharmakon (not to be confused with Phantogram).
- A new French pop-punk band called The Garlics.
- A 4-part, 5-hour thing by The A.M. Experiment called Canonization of Talk Talk that appears to consist of 10:00-15:00 process-blurrings of each song from four Talk Talk/Mark Hollis records.

i'll add

Stars · No One Is Lost
Melvins · Hold It In
Amir Gelman · Shade of Summer
Pauline Oliveros · Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970
Hailu Mergia · Tche Belew (dude who did and his classical instrument that was so great)
Imhotep · Kheper Dub
Kasba · Rwina
Tsigunz Fanfara Avantura · Turbo Balkan Groove

love that these guys are still making new albums:

Draco and the Malfoys · Cheat to Win

glenn: t/f you listened to judy garland sing over the rainbow at least 4 times tnite

Hah! I was trying to play it just once for my daughter as her going-to-bed song, but I kept finding versions that were mastered so quietly that we could barely hear them. After a while I finally realized that I was accidentally playing the music out of a laptop near the speakers I thought I was playing it through, and it wasn't a mastering problem at all.

There are a few Mahmoud Ahmed albums that just got added. Stoked!

Jessie Ware · Tough Love
Scott Walker · Soused
The Budos Band · Burnt Offering
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead · IX
Nude Beach · 77
Kofi Sammy · Okukuseku Explosion 80 (not linking up atm)
Bolonyen orchestra of the village of Lataha · Côte D'ivoire: A Senufo-Fodonon - Funerary Vigil

should I listen to nude beach

idk, i remember liking the last one

ok it is called 77 so I guess I will

u should listen to budos band tho it's fantastic

really? i was a little skeptical i heard they were going "heavy metal funk" or something

yeah I also saw recent performance videos of them and found them kind of thuddy. curious though.

more afrobeaty than heavy metal imo

i'll check it out, though in general I kinda always thought Nomo was way better for that sort of thing, tho do like the Budos as well

so far this sounds like less of a departure than I expected

If anything I feel like it's too much like all the Desco/Daptone stuff that I'm already tired of

Some stuff I flagged:

Jessie Ware - oblique r&b
Wilkinson - twitchy somethingstep
Amaranthe - popgoth metal
New Politics - bouncy new blarepop single
Jukebox the Ghost - mild piano pop but I like them
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - post the non-dense parts of rock
Scott Walker + Sunn O))) - holy crap
Sleater-Kinney - return single
Racing Glaciers - so aptly named
Tides From Nebula - more post-rock
SubtractiveLAD, Millimetrik, Oyaarss - soundscape block
Tiger Milk - gauzy synthpop
Big Data + White Sea - oh wow. "The Business of Emotion". RIYL Betty Who.
Leander Rising - Hungarian (?) dark power metal
Fei-Fei - another spectral single
The Slow Revolt - astral soul
Saint of Sin - ambient trance
Elin Fflur - Welsh indie pop
Cygnets - old-school goth
Martin Sternhufvud - sturdy rock
Ecthelion - anime metal
Symphonic Destiny - gothic symphonic destiny
Tauron - ambtronica

glenn, are earlier week's collections of new releases catalogued? If I missed the prior week, is there a way to go back and explore it?

also, i'm repping this Budos Band record release show in Bushwick this Saturday and encouraging people to get out
http://www.thewicknyc.com/event/618459-budos-band-record-release-brooklyn/

No, I haven't hooked up a live archive yet, but send me your email and I'll send you last week's page.

thanks, will do!

Grouper · Ruins
Run The Jewels · Run the Jewels 2
Rancid · ...Honor Is All We Know
Tisziji Munoz & Lam-Sobo John Medeski · The Heart Is the Universe

Javiera Mena - Otra Era

Yikes, there's a ton of new metal in the Sorting Hat this week. I picked out Obituary, At the Gates, Vesania, Abysmal Dawn, Nero Di Marte, Anaal Nathrakh, Beyond Creation, Tantal, Unearth, Sister Sin, Haken, Astral Doors, Atriarch and Giant Squid.

Also:
- "Out of the Woods" covers from Terabrite and Anthem Lights, to hold you during the 1989 holdback
- The Colourist remix EP
- New EP from Amanda Kravat, once of Marry Me Jane
- new Airborne Toxic Event song that sounds less limp than the last album
- new Twilight Sad album
- expanded reissue of Edyta Bartosiewicz's old album Love
- ambientish things by Arms & Sleepers, Muir, Asura and tonikom
- indieish things by East India Youth, In-Flight Safety, Have Mercy and the Lavender Faction
- glossy pop by Full of Keys and Fei-Fei

- New EP from Amanda Kravat, once of Marry Me Jane

!!!

Apparently this Martin Carr LP has been on Spotify since September, but I can't listen to anything else right now. Every track has something good going on.

Leppelin IV and Houses of the Holy reissues just popped up this morning.

Various albums I've recently put into my "to listen" playlist:

Grouper - Ruins
Bell Gardens - Slow Dawn for Lost Conclusions (Brian McBride of Stars of the Lid doing something more songwritery)
Kiasmos - s/t (Olafur Arnauld's electronic side project)
Karen Gwyer - Kiki the Wormhole (new EP that I like more than the other EP she released earlier in the year; she keeps getting better)
Off Land - Quinarian

don't know about this new grouper

snoozer

yeah, seems that way

you didn't even know about it half an hour ago

true true. i've not given up on it.

(though that isn't really true. i saw the pfork review at ~1 am 'last night' and listened first thing this morning bc i like grouper.)

Dan Bodan - Soft

http://open.spotify.com/album/75hStVuzBkV8rRf7b2zqQ0

Riot on Sunset Strip! Haven't seen this one since the last time I looked for 60's punk albums. Working on a playlist of new stuff.

The new iPad version is out now, by the way.

can it speak horse?

No, but I think we've established that if you meet a friendly horse, you can communicate by Morse.

It has "your music", yayyy!

One thing I would like is multiple "folders" of albums. Like here's my folder of albums to check out, here's my folder of string quartets, here's my folder of minimal techno mixes, etc

Wish one could search for releases by label too, oh wish i had a river too

You can use playlists to make collections of albums. You can also use Playlist Folders to make multiple levels, but you have to create and manage them in the desktop client.

On the desktop client you can also type label:"Sarah Records" or whatever in the search box to find stuff from a given label.

right on. Yeah i know you can use playlists to make collections of albums but scrolling through them song-by-song is a pain.
did not know about Playlist folders or the label search, awesome

label: "Document" gets nothing?

oh, has it gotta be on the desktop version?

Yes, and no space between the colon and the quotation mark (but you only need quotes for multi-word label names).

label:Document

ah, thanks.
damn, i would pay for spotify if it were just the complete document quite frankly

well, if it were sortable.

goddamn if that isn't exciting the hell outta me tho'