New and Noteworthy Additions to US Spotify

we need more unusual threads on ILM, obviously

"New and Noteworthy additions to the iTunes store."

Well sure. I'd check that.

HOWEVER... streaming and subscriptions are changing people's listening habits and this thread reflects that in a way that an itunes thread in 2016 wouldn't. I believe there's also a comparable Bandcamp thread that's been happening for a while? So yeah.

Does the bandcamp thread contain mostly posts from someone who works for Bandcamp? If that's the new ILM, then that's the way things are. I'd never want to fight progress.

I wish Glenn posted hip hop albums is my only complaint.

Damn, I was going to post a Spotify link to this illuminating and relevant track, but the album isn't on Spotify. Nobody's ever heard of the band, so not really a big deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skqESfiv0Js

I guess I just see it as a quirkier "new releases" page of Spotify, like the main one is just really big releases and the Discover one is really based on what I've listened to so I guess I find this helpful, I church it out.

Check it out

I definitely think that a lot of services that corporations provide are helpful. I think you'd have to be insane to argue otherwise.

One thing I do wonder: why aren't glenn's lists simply a part of Spotify. We're talking about the guy in charge of the software that enables them to provide music recommendations to their customers. There are about a billion playlists on Spotify last time I checked, including smooth indie, smoothish indie, chill indie, smooth chill indie, and Julianna-Hatfield-Influenced-Death-Metal. How is it that this particular list can't exist on Spotify rather than here.

I like and appreciate Glenn's posts in this thread. I hope he keeps doing them.

I don't think that anyone has asked him to stop. This really is an odd thread.

My lists are on Spotify, too. We don't currently have a way to annotate playlists track-by-track within Spotify, though. Some day we probably will. In fact, for this reason as well as this weirdness, I think I may move mine to a different venue where I can experiment more easily...

Where is your list? The funny thing is that I follow your stuff. I do think, however, that the way it's appeared here, aka "this weirdness" is kind of weird. I'd strongly encourage, however, the posting of a link to your lists on Spotify. And if Spotify could include annotations, that would be wonderful. I'm still recovering from the loss of apps (e.g. Pitchfork et al).

Glenn's new releases list updated weekly:

New Particles
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/4KFgvtilFRbRUzEdER8lFQ

And we have a happy ending. Thanks to all!

sourced from this: Spotify New-Album Sorting Hat
http://everynoise.com/spotify_new_albums.html

Sweet 3 ppl thought a thread was weird and now it's gone?

It's a thread that was making up for a shortcoming that Spotify has. Spotify will fix it, which will be great for Spotify users. There'll be one less thread here to compete with others that don't have alternate forums, which is good for ilm. It's win/win.

Well, now it's a thread of self-referential offense-taking, which certainly makes it more normal in ILM terms.

Sweet 3 ppl thought a thread was weird and now it's gone?

seriously this whole "dude with THE REAL DEAL INSIGHTS comes in and blows the thread's mind" derail has been really dumb imo

Please keep doing this, glenn. The idea of this thread "competing with others that don't have alternate forums" is mindblowingly dumb. I will not click the jute gyte thread more if this one disappears.

I will remain unlikely to click on the jute gyte thread even if every other thread goes the way of this one and gets filibustered to death.

1. Probably Glenn was attracted to, and got a job at Spotify because he was passionate about music. That is probably also the main reason he posts here. He does not work for the PR side of the company. If he did he would be fired for spending. His time recommending black metal albums on a niche message board that looks like it had its last design update in 1998.

2. Glenn is not the only person in this forum who receives income from some part of the music industry. There are likely people here who have written PR for artists, who are involved in other websites, etc. Glenn should be praised for his best practices.

3. As someone who uses Spotify for roughly 99.9% of my listening consumption, I appreciate this thread *in addition* to all the other threads for music recommendations. My only complaint is that fewer and fewer others post here, especially since my tastes don't align with Glenn's very often. This thread used to be more robust. Perhaps that's just a testament to how thoroughly Spotify has taken over, that this thread may have outgrown its relevance.

preach

As someone who uses Spotify for roughly 99.9% of my listening consumption, I appreciate this thread *in addition* to all the other threads for music recommendations.

^Co-sign. Please don't stop, glenn.

The only reason I don't contribute is because of the specific "US Spotify" qualifier in the thread title. If we can agree it's OK to add things that might only be available on UK Spotify, I will.

please do

i wouldn't be averse to making this a more generalized 'new releases on streaming services' thread since that's basically what i use it as

Good grief, people. Put a halt to this "glenn is an industry shill" bullshit.

when will Glenn release the transcripts of his paid speeches to the RIAA?

When will glenn be released from prison so that he can resume posting to ilm?

Sorry, pretty slammed right now working on the Branding Concept documents for the big New Particles relaunch.

#FreeGlenn

has someone investigated forksclovetofu's role in this conspiracy #conspiracy #tcot

forks is hosting spotify on his own private server

Now that you mention it, has anyone ever seen glenn and Yolandi Visser in the same room at the same time?

re: Branding Concept documents for the big New Particles relaunch.

apparently Glenn is on secondment to Promotions in Mid-March that involves a jolly to Austin for SXSW for the big relaunch.

Spotify Announces 2016 SXSW Line-Up
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/spotify-announces-2016-sxsw-line-up-300223580.html

However this was mentioned on the official press release, today:

Musical Map: NYC-based artist Shantell Martin will create a beautiful mural inspired by everynoise.com, an intricate music-genre map, designed to bring Spotify's rich data to life for attendees.

Keep up with new particles and posting new release info on this thread Glenn, it is appreciated. One of the 13 current subscribers of New Particles.

My new thing for New Particles seems to be basically working now: http://furia.com/newparticles/. You can still just follow the playlists on Spotify if you don't care about the notes...

awesome, thanks for setting this up. i will bookmark

ditto. please bump here with updates if you wanna.

Beautiful design.
Skim button ideal for Generation Z.
10/10.

New Particles, 2016-02-26 includes new songs by: HKE, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Tritonal, The Qemists, King Melodies, Pinkshinyultrablast, School Of Seven Bells, Tsjuder, Ektomorf, Pvris, Up for Nothing, Louna, Bendik, Río Roma, Dulce María, Holy Esque, Magnum, Martina McBride, Chuck Wicks, Omnium Gatherum, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Epic North, Project Pitchfork, Niña , I Love Your Lifestyle, Tut Tut Child, Silvana Imam, The Sun Days, Meridian Dan, HEARTWATCH, NateWantsToBattle, Santigold, Eagulls, Paws, Car Seat Headrest, Charli XCX, Yuck, Circus Maximus, BABYMETAL, Savoir Adore, Little Green Cars, Hailee Steinfeld, Besatt, Ula Ruth, Coffins, Red 7, Voivod, Johndoe, Miss Caffeina, INHEAVEN, Joey Hyde, Elizabeth Lyons, Natalie Stovall and The Drive, Divine Realm, Rotersand, Can't Swim, The Rocket Summer, The Downtown Fiction, Femme, 4TEN, DaVinChe, Lonely The Brave, Gates, The Unguided, Massendefekt, Madeline Juno, Estiva, Daniel Kandi, Daniel Haaksman, A Cámara Lenta, Naela, Husman, TitanSlayer and Algodón Egipcio.

By popular demand (well, one poster), here's my pick of the new additions to UK Spotify in the week 20-26 February.

Album of the week by a million miles is Giorgio Tuma's This Life Denied Me Your Love, although a streaming service hardly does justice to the record's lush feel and the attention to detail in the arrangements. I find myself mentally reaching for the deluxe digipak or gatefold sleeve as the music plays.

Tracks
K. Michelle continues to drip feed cuts from her forthcoming LP and Time is a classy counterweight to last week's more in-your-face "Mindful".
How do BABYMETAL follow their debut album? If I were them, I wouldn't have bothered. Karate understandably plays it safe, but the slight EDM tinge to the rhythms may be a fruitful direction for the next album.
Brroklyn's Computer Magic was on Glenn's New Particles playlist earlier in the week but seems not have made the final cut. But I like the off-kilter electro pop of this new song a lot, as may Johnny Fever.
Zara Larsson's excellent Lush Life probably didn't need a Tinie Tempah guest spot but he doesn't ruin it…
…and Larsson returns the favour on Tinie's Girls Like and nearly steals the track.
Weekend colour supplement favourite Lapsley gets the stuttery remix treatment. There's a four-song album taster on Spotify now too, but I haven't got to that yet.
However, 'single' of the week is Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's epic taster from her new LP.

R&B and neo-soul comeback corner
Mýa, I'd forgotten all about you. I'm sorry. New album Smoove Jones is a belter.
All Saints return and with new song One Strike comfortably surpass my (in this case, low) expectations.
Tweet's album Charleneshows Ms Hummingbird's voice is still a thing of beauty; backed here with lots of close-miked jazzy guitar if you like that kind of thing. The oddly titled "Dadada…Struggle" is a highlight.
Corinne Bailey Rae used to own the territory Tweet's now in but is seemingly moving in a more expansive direction if the last minute of this song is any guide.

(I probably f*cked up the BB code somewhere in this post)

liking that giorgio tuma record, thanks!

New Particles, 2016-03-04 has new songs by: Molly Sandén, IG88, NateWantsToBattle, Tonight Alive, Frightened Rabbit, Little Green Cars, Fatima Al Qadiri, Anna Meredith, Muncie Girls, Kneebody, La Gale, Amore Ad Lunam, The Great Line, Lions and Tigers, Eissturm, Now or Never, Kristin Kontrol, Mitski, Mary Lattimore, Beseech, Jennifer O'Connor, Lera Lynn, Sorcier des Glaces, Panopticon, Oyinda, Natalie McCool, MICappella, Wolvserpent, Inverloch, COIN, Paperwhite, Hammock, Howl, Min Stora Sorg, Love of Lesbian, All Tvvins, Reckless Love, Hacktivist, Anup Sastry, Lumisokea, Gondwana, Mortiis, The Qemists, Momoiro Clover Z, Shishamo, Avec Sans, Lethal Bizzle, Tinchy Stryder, Jon Henrik Fjällgren, Prince Rama, Ruben Samama, Matthew Bourne, GENER8ION, Donots, KMPFSPRT, Sue the Night, Alpine Universe, Kitten, AURORA, Bars and Melody, Mechanist, Bedårande Barn and two preview fragments of Colin Stetson's upcoming complete re-orchestration of Gorecki's masterpiece!

Since I was already listening to a lot of the stuff Jeff W listed, I decided to check the Giorgio Tuma album and I must say I like it a lot. Nice find - and a perfect example of stuff I probably wouldn't have found on my own. Please keep doing these, Jeff W!

Also, new Kendrick! New Wussy!

Week ending 4th March: another busy one, and I'm also still discovering new things that were added the previous week (please go and buy the Let's Eat Grandma single!)

Album of the week - it's hard to look past Esperanza Spalding, really. No longer enough to mention the jazz influences, I'm hearing prog, indie and Sesame Street in her new LP, as well as nods to The Hissing Of Summer Lawns - and who hasn't secretly wished for more in that vein? She's got her own thread here that more people should be waxing lyrical on.

In other (over?) ambitious solo record news:
- after a few EPs, a mixtape and a smattering of guest spots including on Vince Staples' Summertime '06, Kilo Kish self-releases her debut LP. I haven't yet worked out if this is conceptual art or should be taken at face value;

- I was really looking forward to a whole album of Anna Meredith's minimalist-compositions-go-clubbing. I think the decision to include vocals on some cuts was on the whole a mistake, but the instrumentals are great. Many of these have been available previously, but Shill is new and a proper banger;

- Fopp was right to advise on twitter to set aside past knowledge and give Ray LaMontagne's Ouroboros a chance. It channels the dreamier side of late 60s/mid 70s Pink Floyd (or at least the David Gilmour-penned songs) and is worth at least one wallow in.

Tracks
Were M83 always fans of house piano? If not, I'm glad they tried it;
Keke Palmer + Jeremih = pop song of the week. More like this, please;
Supergroup case/lang/veirs offer a taster from their forthcoming album. Not exactly Pistol Annies, but it'll do to be going on with;
New York-based singer Vérité's latest song is rawer (and swearier) than the ones on her 2015 EPs. Oddly, she may have lost a little bit of what made her stand out previously in the process, but this is still a keeper;
And finally, 0PN's ruthless edit of Four Tet's Evening Side makes you wonder why the original wasn't a 7" single rather than an LP.

Just got to the Algodón Egipcio album that was Glenn's pick of the week from the week before last. Caetano Veloso meets Six Cups of Rebel? Wonderfully wonky, anyway.

New Particles, 2016-03-11 has Tolkien metal, synthesizers, Eurodelirium and Tasmanian punk rock. New songs by: June 1974, The Algorithm, Eagulls, BRONCHO, The KVB, The Joy Formidable, Blondfire, Lucius, Glint, Linney, Sizzy Rocket, Skeletonwitch, Harakiri for the Sky, Uruk-Hai, Northless, Auroch, Kerri Watt, 黃明志, Cardiknox, Bob Mould, Information Society, Julianna Barwick, Ethernet, Fovea Hex, Caliban, Fear Of Domination, Killswitch Engage, Belanova, Susanna, Johndoe, Sie Gubba, Fiordaliso, Jonathan Johansson, Adiam, Moiré, Graze, Donato Dozzy, ASP, Unzucht, Erik Ekholm, Pegboard Nerds, San Holo, All Or Nothing, Ereb Altor, Obsidian Kingdom, New Arcades, Ladyhawke, Lonely The Brave, Gazelle Twin, ANOHNI, Dream Wife, Kristallbarn, Timoteij, Marathonmann, Normandie, Do, A Cámara Lenta, AURORA, Kirsten Adamson, Rooxx and Luca Brasi.