New and Noteworthy Additions to US Spotify

http://open.spotify.com/user/spotifyusa/playlist/3dEjWfgB5jC6zn6tLoy9yy

Items I will give a try from today's batch:
Yes - Heaven and Earth
Common - Nobody's Smiling
Hyperdub 10.2 (only about half is cleared apparently)
Raveonettes - Pe'ahi
Biffy Clyro - Similarities

Items I will listen to to be aware of:
The new singles from Drake, Weezer, Diplo, Jason Aldean, Imogen Heap, Clinton Sparks and TI, Lil Jon and Tyga.

what else?

new allison weiss EP!

ooo, also will listen to Fozzy - Do You Wanna Start a War

Is the Yes album any good

Raveonettes - Pe'ahi

Probably the most sloppy and exciting album they've ever made.

The Yes album was okay for a single listen; don't think i would try it again.

Today's albums:
Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
Shawn Mendes - S/T
Sir Michael Rocks - Banco
The Kinks - Classics
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye

Today's singles:
Natalie Stovall and the Drive - Mason Jar
Shakey Graves - Dearly Departed
Jessie J / Ariana Grand / Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang

what else?

forks is not a jenny lewis fan?

forks is not really a jenny lewis fan. I will add it to my overflow-end-of-year pile tho.

the hyperdub album was okay but i can only still be excited about the DJ Rashad and Terror Danjah tracks.
I don't want to hear ANY of those singles again.

Common, Raveonettes and Biffy Clyro landed behind Justin Bieber, Marsha Ambrosius, A-Wax and a mixed helping of singles from ILX's best of the summer and hip hop threads.

Did you ever figure our how to subscribe to my 2014 hip hop spotify playlist?

I see the '13 stuff but the '14 doesn't appear to be public? Wanna repost it here and I'll try again?
The '13 stuff has been real rewarding btw!

and if anyone cares, this is my ongoing listening playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/1PV8eCqhTC6JsA5ewju6nQ

http://open.spotify.com/user/theshipment/playlist/3vHZAnvl134kijHL5Z0roN

http://open.spotify.com/user/theshipment/playlist/2Hkan09bsPFtNN39CsAyki

Try that I just made them non collaborative and public so if it works and you're in then I'll make them collaborative again

cool, thanks; i'm in on both!

too... much... music...

I trust the "+" are the tracks you like best?

Yah me and another dude mostly. But anyone can add to it. Not comprehensive still going through albums to throw gems in there.

Here's an early-stage experimental thing I'm working on to automatically cluster the week's new Spotify releases by genre. (And to actually list them all...)

http://everynoise.com/spotify_new_releases.html

Cool, that looks like it has a lot of potential. What do the numbers beside the release names mean?

The numbers are track-counts. Things our database thinks are "albums" are italicized, things we think are "singles" have their titles shown in quotes. But this can be fuzzy, so the track counts sometimes help clarify things.

If you hover over a thing you can also see the artist's popularity rank (which is also the sort key both within clusters and in the full list on the right).

that could be immensely helpful.

why aren't all the weeks new releases in the official "this week's releases" playlist?

All the releases aren't in the official playlist because there are ~3000 of them every week, and a very large number of them are of interest to approximately nobody.

That's cool. What does the yellow text mean? And could the full list be in alphabetical (or some kind of) order?

The full list is in descending artist-popularity order, so the idea is that at some point as you're going down it you can decide that you've hit your obscurity threshold.

The orange releases in the full list are the ones that my automatic categorizing didn't put into any of the clusters on the left.

i noticed you don't have

Les Ambassadeurs · Les Ambassadeurs Du Motel De Bamako, Vol. 1 9
Les Ambassadeurs · Les Ambassadeurs Du Motel De Bamako, Vol. 2 9

in a cluster - probably could go in the afrobeat · highlife · world ... cluster. not sure if that's helpful or not...

also, how come some of the links don't work? is it bc some of the albums aren't available regionally?

All the releases aren't in the official playlist because there are ~3000 of them every week, and a very large number of them are of interest to approximately nobody.

Yeah, I have Les Ambassadeurs genre-classified properly, but the clustering works at a lower level than that, so it thinks they don't have quite enough in common with the other artists in that cluster. Computers!

I'm still trying to track down why some of the links don't work. See above note about "experimental".

And yes, one of the reasons I'm working on this is to figure out how we could do a better job of surfacing more new stuff. But still, look at some of the stuff at the bottom of that list...

idk how feasible it is, but i'd love to be able to browse new releases by country

i would think regular curators would be able to make great hay with that "bottom of the list" stuff... i remember the site that played songs no one had ever played; a deep digital crate digging tab on the app or the official blog could turn out regular virals

Oh, and the story with the few where the links don't work is that those links ought to work soon. Everything on that list is slated for US availability, but in a few rare cases where we don't get stuff ahead of time, there can be a little lag before it actually becomes available to everybody.

AC Newman · What If (Original Soundtrack Album)
Eluveitie - Origins
Alestorm - Sunset on the Golden Age
The Dreamside · Sorrow Bearing Tree
Andy Kindler · I Wish I Was Bitter

New and Noteworthy Deletions to US Spotify: Larry Heard's sceneries not songs and alien albums :/

New singles from Nicki Minaj, The Weeknd, Big KRIT, Brad Paisley, Flosstradamus, Mary Lambert and The Chainsmokers

Cam'Ron - 1st of the Month v2
Spider Bags - Frozen Letter
Adebisi Shank - This Is the Third Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank

Is there a better "here's what's been added playlist than this one: http://open.spotify.com/user/spotifyusa/playlist/3dEjWfgB5jC6zn6tLoy9yy
I didn't see the AC Newman or Eluveitie albums on there and they are things I'll listen to.

i've been using the link glenn posted last week

ah, i'm a dope.
Glenn, is that thing sorted by popularity in any way?

The full list on the right is sorted by artist popularity. The clusters on the left are sorted within each one by artist popularity, and the clusters themselves are sorted by the popularity of the most popular artist in each.

For those of you who missed the link earlier, it's:

http://everynoise.com/spotify_new_releases.html

Thanks. That's a lot of work to explore but it's rewarding!

additions from that run:

singles from FKA Twigs, Boys Republic, Tensnake, Stevie Nicks, Busy Signal, Joey Bada$$, Sufjan Stevens, August Alsina with Nicki, Tim McGraw

Sunny Sweeney - Provoked
Billy Joe Shaver - Long In The Tooth
Malcolm Holcombe - Pitiful Blues
Count Bass D - The Count in Cologne
Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind

Glenn, thoughts on this?
http://gigaom.com/2014/08/05/how-spotify-is-working-on-deep-learning-to-improve-playlists/

We're constantly working on experiments like this.

thanks again for that wrap up site glenn; it's become a tremendous tool for exploration on the site

This week

Albums:
FKA Twigs - LP1
Eric Roberson - The Box
Laura Mvula with Metropole Orkest Live
Randy Travis - Influence V.2
Twista - The Dark Horse
Sinead O'Connor - I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss
A.R. Rahman - OST for The Hundred-Foot Journey
Dela - Daite Fantasia (this seems like fun electro/J-Pop)
Joker - National Anthem
FaltyDL - In The Wild
Henry Butler and Steve Bernstein - Viper's Drag
Ironing Board Sam - Ironing Board Sam and The Sticks

Plus new singles from E-40 with T-Pain and Kid Ink, Brad Paisley, Tim McGraw, Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J with Young Thug and Nicki, Kevin Gates, DJ Felli Fel with Cee Lo and Pitbull, Vince Staples, Lil Ray and Kirko Bangz, Hilary Duff, Gary Clark Jr., Busy Signal

kinda curious about Shania Twain · The Discovery Of Eilleen Twain which are recordings from the beginning of her career i think?

oh my god i turned on the sinead o'connor and got about 20 seconds into "i wanna make love like a real full woman every day" and was like - i cannot

FKA twigs · LP1
The Gaslight Anthem · Get Hurt
Mirel Wagner · When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day (totally forgot this was coming out!)
µ-Ziq · Rediffusion

Itzik Orlev איציק אורלב · "עם ישראל חי" 1 - lol frum-pop

there are some ridiculous sounding bands way down at the bottom of the right-hand list

i missed that mu-ziq album, good catch

okay, so the reason i missed it was because it is in the complete list of releases on the right, but not categorized on the left. what gives glenn?

also from the right:

Underachievers - Cellar Door

The unclustered ones are in orange, so after you go through the clustered ones you can scan the orange ones on the right until they start looking stupid. That's the idea.

(There are many reasons why an artist wouldn't get clustered, including that I suppress clusters that would have only a very small number of artists unless at least one of them is at least vaguely remotely notable (according to our data).)

glenn, how come older albums show up on the list? for example Majida El Roumi · Ebhath Aanni is from 1994. is it bc it's the first time on spotify, is it mislabeled, or is it a reissue or something?

(i should add, it's labeled as a 2014 release on the spotify app itself - only if you google it do you see it's really twenty years old.)

New Particles, 2016-04-29 has new songs by: tricot, Bankrupt, Fallujah, Orden Ogan, Lacuna Coil, Withem, Jorn, White Lung, Wussy, Owen Rabbit, Lisbon, Darkestrah, Dulce María, Kany Garcia, Pinkshinyultrablast, Nemesea, Ingrid Michaelson, Martina McBride, Frankie Ballard, Samantha Glass, Saosin, Abnormality, Mantus, Imatem, Tiny Moving Parts, Pity Sex, Thief Club, The Hotelier, Dowsing, Henrietta, Carnabells, Fejd, Muzzy, Schammasch, Gackt, Velvet Eden, ME THE TIGER, KMPFSPRT, Besserbitch, The Gospel Youth, Kyla La Grange, Lipgloss Twins, Aminata, Kerli, Dalshabet, Haken, Tinchy Stryder, Luca Brasi, Thegiornalisti. The Haken (experimental progressive metal), Tinchy Stryder (grime as pop) and Luca Brasi (big-hearted Tasmanian punk-pop-rock) albums seem like potential classics on initial impression.

A hurried round up for the rest of April cos life and work has been getting in the way. April is the countryest month apparently.

LPs and EPs

My album of the month was probably Margo Price's Midwest Farmer's Daughter. I was going to say this is too good to languish on just the Rolling Country thread but it seems to be getting plenty of traction anyway now.

Whoever had the idea of putting Iron & Wine and Jesca Hoop together has my undying gratitude. Love Letter For Fire is fire. And lovely.

By way of complete contrast, Japan's pop princess Kyary Pamyu Pamyu returns with a fantastic new EP and a typically extraordinary video for lead track Sai & Co. I'm impressed too that each track on the EP seems to be in a different language, judging just by the titles.

FiFi Rong started following me on Twitter ages ago. When she released the Forbidden Desire EP the other day, I thought I'd better finally check out her music. Glad I did; the slinky opener (and title cut) is one of the best pop songs of the year.

Still sore that PJ Harvey's album sucks? Scratch the itch with Cate le Bon's great new opus, Crab Day; love the stark arrangements on this. In a vaguely similar vein, Bristol's She Makes War, who I've mentioned before on this thread, now has a full album of her bruised confessionals to share.

Eastern European speed brass exponents Fanfare Ciocarlia return, but having conquered Earth are now bound for Mars.

Bronzerat Records offshoot imprint 'Series Aphonos' is dedicated to fake library music and soundtracks to non-existent films. This year's release, The Still allegedly features Chris Abrahams of The Necks. You can read more lies about the record here.

Tracks
Side 2 of Brian Eno's 'The Ship' is now finally on Spotify. "Fickle Sun" comes in three sections, and all are great. Here's part (i), here's (ii) The Hour Is Thin, and here's (iii) I'm Set Free.

If Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is the princess, then Perfume are the queens. The high points of their varied Cosmic Explorer LP are very high indeed. "Next Stage With You" is perhaps my favourite track.

Ellen Allien's new single is in a more "bangin' techno" vein than many of her releases of late. "Off" has the better beat, but the sampled vocals are slightly annoying, so I marginally prefer "Hoo".

Welcome back Ke$ha, even if that means having to play second fiddle to Zedd in terms of track credits.
Meanwhile, Sturgill Simpson welcomes his son to Earth with an epic opener to his latest LP.
Here's another album trailer from Brandy Clark. Calling it now: it's gonna be a classic…
… and this is the best so far of the songs that Laura Mvula has put her name to in 2016.
Dawn Richard is keeping things Honest…
…but Ane Brun knows that when her lover Swears That He Is Made of Truth, she knows he lies. An achingly beautiful take on Sonnet 138.

Arrgh. U&K post script - Let's Eat Grandma snuck out another track without me noticing: Eat Shiitake Mushrooms. The rap may be a deal breaker for some of you; they can do no wrong in my eyes.

Hey Glenn, this popped up in my Discover New Releases: http://open.spotify.com/album/4W8yxEf3vuabDM8kmkm8LK

"Elogram" by an artist named ELO, mistakenly attributed to Electric Light Orchestra

Will get it fixed, thanks!

Glenn, if you get a chance...

Every instance of Rod's version of this song is wrong. It's supposed to be "My Heart Can't Tell YOU No".

http://i.imgur.com/iOWgygK.jpg

Titles, unfortunately, have to be fixed by the labels who send us the stuff. I've requested this, but I can't just fix it myself.

Ah, figures.

New Particles, 2016-05-06 has new songs by: Анита Цой, The Howling Void, Rachael Sage, Midnight Eternal, Radiohead, WagakkiBand, Let's Eat Grandma, ELO, Julianna Barwick, Fear of Men, White Lung, Katatonia, So Hideous, Velnias, VÉRITÉ, Oyinda, Gallant, MUNA, Annabel Jones, Kerli, Lacuna Coil, 汪小敏, Veronica Maggio, Maja Gödicke, Alaric, Mitski, Kumikameli, Holy Esque, Rebaelliun, Blood Red Throne, Grave Miasma, Erik Ekholm, Sithu Aye, Chelsea Grin, Keith Urban, Kristy Lee Cook, Real Friends, Against The Current, Muzzy, Mr FijiWiji, Aurix, Scythia, Die/May, Skepta, Maniac, Blacks, IDIOTAPE, sund4ra Karma, Adult Jazz, Crystalyne, One Morning Left, LUH, ANOHNI, Kristin Kontrol, New Pharaohs, Ted Poley, Sunstorm, Sleeping At Last, The Away Days, Astrid S, Danny L Harle, Red Velvet, Kindbergs, The Hypothesis, Glorior Belli, Dead of Night, Candlemass, Kvelertak, Vektor. Especially Vektor.

Glen, any idea what's up with the disappearing notifications feature which let you know about new releases from followed artists? This is pretty much the most critical feature for me, and frankly I'm kind of baffled they would just up and kill it. Please let me know it's coming back better than ever.

I know there are technical issues, but I don't know what the resolution will be.

But if you go to Account, then Notification Settings, you can set those particular notifications to go to Email, instead of or in addition to "Push". This kind of makes more sense, and will make sure you don't miss a new-release notification due to other things piling up.

Weirdly, notifications has been intermittently telling me things in last two weeks, mostly about Prins Thomas records that were already on Spotify, but the odd new thing too.

New Particles, 2016-05-13 has new songs sentimental and unsentimental by Wreck and Reference, Thisquietarmy, Thränenkind, Kvelertak, Kayo Dot, Colleen Green, Speedy Ortiz, Eagulls, CHVRCHES, Tobacco, Jorn, Withem, We Are Magnetic, Dive In, Paperwhite, Allie X, The Staves, Cappa, Hayden Calnin, Delta Goodrem, Ayin Aleph, Tothem, Antonella Lo Coco, Perturbazione, Tides from nebula, Yahir, Bow To Each Other, Torn Hawk, Epic Score, death's dynamic shroud.wmv, The Hotelier, Half Hearted Hero, Holly Miranda, Maren Morris, Brad Paisley, Gorguts, Destruction, Lord Of The Lost, Weaves, See Through Dresses, Dalriada, Navi, Oscar, Migrant Kids, Chelsea Grin, Cezinando, Grand Magus, AMZY, Ted Poley, Sunstorm, LUNKHEAD and Blender.

Maybe this is the week you try to understand something the people who love it assume nobody else knows.

How do I make Spotify stop asking me to connect to Facebook?

Ask @SpotifyCares to fix your account.

Weeks ending 6th and 13th May. Still no Lemonade. No Coloring Book yet either. On the plus side, we've been spared most of A Moon Shaped Pool.

Taking full advantage (or, by default if you prefer), the second most enjoyable album of last week was Jean-Michel Jarre's Electronica 2 - The Heart of Noise. Pretty much everything that didn't work about last year's Electronica 1 is put right here, thanks to a more interesting list of collaborators who, while never straying far from their comfort zone, certainly make Jarre work hard outside of his.

He'll never be fun, though. For smiles, you need Glasgow's Sithu Aye. As his bandcamp page states: "my name is Sithu and I record happy proggressive metal tunes for the discerning listener". Any album entitled "Set Course for Andromeda!!" is going to pique my interest, but this manages to sustain it despite its too long running time (75 mins!). Thanks to glenn for tipping me off to this guy by putting this on his list.

This week, Corinne Bailey Rae was always likely to be top of the heap, cf. posts passim. But the album,The Heart Speaks In Whispers fully earns its place thanks to excellent sequencing: strong statements of intent upfront, a quartet of KING co-writes in the middle to keep you interested, and a final section packed with sheer loveliness. Not enough people are talking about the record on this thread.

The latest from vapourware outfit death's dynamic shroud.wmv Classroom Sextape is less busy than its bandcamp only predecessor I'll Try Living Like This and is reminiscent of The Field in its use of samples. One of these days, someone's going to create wholly original pop songs using these techniques. This'll do until then.

Tracks
May has so far mostly been about football-related songs and songs for movie soundtracks. Of the latter, you know about Eurovision-bothering Justin and Angry Bird-bothering Charli XCX already, but don't overlook Red Velvet's super cute effort. Of the latter, Super Furry Animals easily outsmart the Manics by exhuming Bing Bong from the archives and promoting it as a Euro 2016 song.

No one seems to be talking about the new song from Alicia Keys, which is odd as In Common has, um, plenty in common with this board's interests. Reminds me of Dawn Richard a little - who's also had a busy month so far: an EP, a single and a feature spot on this great posse cut by DJ Carisma.

The new Death Grips album is pretty good, but I kinda wish all the songs featured the girl on Giving Bad People Good Ideas.

Solarstone return and is keen to take us back to Y2K. I'm in.

I've not heard the combo of female vocalist + 100% electronica backing for what seems like quite a while now. So the new record from Ella On The Run stands out from the pack. I particularly like Too Much Heaven and there's also an interesting Ace Of Base cover straight after this one on the EP.

Finally, onwards and upwards for L.E.G. - a single edit of Eat Shiitake Mushrooms is now on Spotify; it's OK but I recommend sticking to the long version. More importantly, we have another track from the album in the form of Rapunzel and a full-page OTT review of said album by Simon Reynolds in The Wire, no less. June 17th can't come fast enough.

New Particles, 2016-05-20 has new songs about displacement and reconciliation from Sylvaine, Mesarthim, Kane Ikin, Adult Jazz, Beach Slang, Wolf Parade, Winterhorde, In Mourning, Evil Masquerade, Trick or Treat, Lonewolf, Broods, Yuna, Huntar, Babewatch, Charly Bliss, Sampha, Niki & The Dove, The Temper Trap, Paolo Simoni, Moseek, Gojira, Deadlock, Architects, Jasmine Cain, Q5, Anahí, Dani Martín, Adiam, Kent, King Melodies, Tiger Lou, Highasakite, XXX Rottweiler hundar, Ensími, Erik Ekholm, LOCASH, Whispered, Sympuls-E, Tiny Moving Parts, Real Friends, Short Stories, The Gospel Youth, Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties, Brand New, Anakin, Against The Current, Dawn Of Ashes, Mr FijiWiji, Rachael Sage, Brooke Candy, Leshak, Fatherson, Prides, Merely, Lisa Prank, Field Harmonics, Kate Jackson, AOA, Odonis Odonis, Tegan and Sara, Pastoratet, Sarah Jarosz, Helen Love, Sanzu, Weval, Ghosts of Pandora and Lonely The Brave

The week ending 20th May is all about two albums.

Gemma Ray's The Exodus Suite - the first to put the twang and shimmer of her Harmony Rocket guitar centre stage since her brilliant covers album It's A Shame About…, servicing a collection of beautiful, semi-political torch songs.

Ariana Grande finally gets everything right on Dangerous Woman. You find yourself thinking "YESSSSSSS" on up to half a dozen cuts. Even Lil Wayne and Future manage not to ruin things. Pop album of the year so far?

Honourable mentions go to tracks by T.I. & Marsha Ambrosius, Floating Points, Roisin Murphy and Hypnolove.

Even Lil Wayne and Future manage not to ruin things.

eh?

New Particles, 2016-05-27 has metal, weird quiet noises, beepiness, fuzziness, guitars, more metal, and shamless self-promotion as long as putting my new song at the end of a 4.5hr playlist counts as "shameless". New songs by: Elohim, Sipario Power Metal Act, Katatonia, Chashe, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Cymbals Eat Guitars, NINA, The Amazing, Behexen, Withered, Sektemtum, Eilera, Jorn, Withem, Эпидемия, Masters Of Disguise, Lacuna Coil, Be'lakor, HOLYCHILD, Kristin Kontrol, 兄弟本色, Periphery, Architects, The Browning, Celer, Nick Casciaro, Emis Killa, Yahir, Anahí, Carlos Vives, Russian Circles, Mira Craig, Frankie Ballard, Klara Lewis, Pye Corner Audio, Miracle Of Sound, Clinton Shorter, Dragonette, Biffy Clyro, Turmion Kätilöt, Raaka-Aine, Illdisposed, Fejd, Mistur, Real Friends, Half Hearted Hero, Dinosaur Jr., Tinchy Stryder, Riz MC, K Koke, Ngaiire, Isac Elliot, Tritonal, John O'Callaghan, Death Angel, Suicidal Angels, Ashbringer, Terra , NAO, Adriano Viterbini, Pur:Pur, Handsome Poets, Niki & The Dove, T-cophony, Sløtface, Aedliga.

Turns out the Cymbals Eat Guitars song is pretty good, though was never likely to top their name. Thumbs up too for the Nao, Unknown Mortal Orch., Ngaiire and Tinchy S/Example/Tempa T tracks.

My picks to follow if/when I stop listening to the new Belbury Poly album.

Catching up from last week, New Particles, 2016-06-03> has new songs from Stockholm and various other places by Roxette, Cantique Lépreux, Boisson Divine, The Beths, Marauder, Mondo Cozmo, Mira Luoti, Shura, Master's Hammer, Wayfarer, Tegan and Sara, Jorn, Trick or Treat, Withem, Tarja, Naomi Pilgrim, Betty Who, Last Japan, Q5, Tkacuk, Anahí, Matilda, Vuolla, Immanuel Casto, Giada, Candlemass, Break of Reality, Maren Morris, Elviaje, Tolidos, Only Shadows, Falling Awake, Ladyhawke, Jan Johansen, Cameron Sanderson, Boys of Fall, Liis Lemsalu, Avec Sans, Silent Crowd, NECRONOMIDOL and NateWantsToBattle.

Looks like The Traveling Wilburys just showed up to the Spotify party!!

Anybody know how that happened? Did Orbison's estate finally relent or what?

Here's a great playlist of songs that are disproportionally popular with groups of young females who use Spotify. I'm kind of bummed that Tidal doesn't have stuff like this.

https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/4ebW6Ob9ZR6eSnTjcqw2Lz

I assume that playlist is for Glenn's own personal use and not for Spotify research purposes.

New Particles, 2016-06-10 has new songs, many of them scary and many of them glorious and some of them both, by: Roxette, CHVRCHES, BRONCHO, School '94, Kylie Minogue, Jute Gyte, Virus, Sabaton, Broods, Shiffley, The Temper Trap, Augustines, Psideralica, Oyinda, HEALTH, The A.M. Experiment, Vatican Shadow, Ersatz, Trampstamp, Brödet, 滅火器, Tobacco, Sumac, Paolo Vallesi, Deadlock, Pariisin Kevät, Bassnectar, Noisia, SHXCXCHCXSH, Derek Piotr, Aerial, The Gotobeds, Revocation, Hammers of Misfortune, Despised Icon, San Holo, Ngaiire, DJ Shadow, Storm The Sky, Sylar, Aly & Fila, Andy Moor, Dorian, Maga, Elviira & Rake, Apnea, Mechanist, Xavier Boscher, Tobuscus and NateWantsToBattle.

As I recall, glenn hates Roxette, so glad to see that Particles doesn't reflect personal taste. Moderately interesting article in Salon about algorithms, which probably doesn't hold up to scrutiny (it strikes me as kind of half-assed and quickly written): http://www.salon.com/2016/06/10/spotify_is_making_you_boring_when_algorithms_shape_music_taste_human_curiosity_loses/.

New Radiohead album is up.

New Particles, 2016-06-17 has new songs by some bands that aren't Radiohead: Astronoid, Ivar Bjørnson, TeraBrite, Blut Aus Nord, Terra Tenebrosa, Inter Arma, Antwood, THE SxPLAY, Reniss, Legendury Beatz, BayouSagaTombo, Portkey, Paws, Stilla, Phantogram, Bright Light Bright Light, Jordan Gable, Bastille, Trick or Treat, Great Master, Palace, Gojira, LANY, MISSIO, Jarryd James, 八三夭, MonoInput, Nails, Finley, Chiara Grispo, Mietta, Raige, Apulanta, Dare, Sleeping At Last, Laura Mvula, Lymbyc Systym, Erik Ekholm, Antti Martikainen, Look Mexico, Landmarks, Schwarzer Engel, We The Kings, Winterhymn, DGM, Hayden Calnin, Racing Glaciers, The Animal In Me, Mahan Moin, Merely, Katohjärta, The Zen Circus, Skeletonwitch, Bosshafte Beats, Haley Bonar, Endless Melancholy, NateWantsToBattle, NECRONOMIDOL, Wayfarer.

So when did Glenn's particle lists start getting really weird and poetic?

Some weeks are like that.

This week is like that, too.

New Particles, 2016-06-24 has new songs by: Close Lobsters, Johnny Foreigner, Mitski, Look Mexico, Great Good Fine Ok, Dive In, Broods, Arkells, White Sea, Hotel Apache, Highlord, Nonpoint, Majesty, Svarttjern, The Flight of Sleipnir, Eilera, ANCIENT MYTH, Shura, Quirke, GENER8ION, Cecile, D3ndron, Earth Ship, Dust Moth, Heavenwood, Chase Rice, Moddi, Sigur Rós, Grumbling Fur, Hieroglyphic Being, Lisa Prank, Skinny Girl Diet, Anakin, Drowners, The Maine, Yellowcard, Puppet, Crywolf, Grimner, Uchuu, Why We Run, Clones of Clones, Sleeping At Last, Ex-Otago, Thegiornalisti, Sinsaenum, Korgonthurus and Gevurah.

Cripes. This is a good time for music.

New Particles, 2016-07-01 has stubbornly hopeful new songs by: Spector, Orpheum, Derya Uluğ, 羅小白, Bad Suns, Equilibrium, Fates Warning, Majesty Of Revival, Teodasia, Deadlock, Periphery, Chelsea Grin, Circle of Contempt, VOLA, While She Sleeps, Myka Relocate, Sink, Agnes Obel, Angel Olsen, Fyfe, Mapei, Stooshe, Young Summer, Little Jinder, Joanna Gruesome, 何潔, Meat Loaf, White Zoo, Arkasia, Maria Villalon, Division Minuscula, Label, Eluvium, Prins Póló, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Erik Ekholm, Imagine Music, Cloud District, Set It Off, Frances, Nadia Gattas, Mas Ysa, John Hancock III, Ghetts, Evelina Olsén, Afromikko, La Habitación Roja, Cosmic Gate, Rafael Frost, Thomas Godoj, Lindsey Stirling, Bosshafte Beats, Amber, Ceca, NateWantsToBattle, Joker, Olatunji, Dræmings and Kostume.

The notes this week are not about the songs, but New Particles, 2016-07-08 has new songs by: Murdryck, serpentwithfeet, Sahg, Saint Clair, Rebel and a Basketcase, Hypersonic, Thy Worshiper, Paola Iezzi, Monolithe, Nocte Obducta, Body Language, Freedom Call, Trick or Treat, Johnny Foreigner, Kacy Hill, Allie X, Shura, Myzica, Cloud, Goblin Cock, The Naked And Famous, The Last Royals, Vinyl Thief, Bad Veins, Rothko, Russian Circles, Slow Meadow, Twilight Force, September Mourning, Linnea Olsson, Bright Light Bright Light, Darkstar, Guy Andrews, Nadia, Nanobii, Ekhymosis, Beglomeg, Nonpoint, Deadlock, Guy-Roger Duvert, Spellcaster, Konx-Om-Pax, James Ferraro, L'âme Immortelle, Ignis Fatuu, Drakwald, Bleak, Ville Valo, Crystalyne, Nina Las Vegas, Brolin, Biffy Clyro, Renate, Jon Henrik Fjällgren, Not Profane, Mira Luoti, Nina Nesbitt, Mauro Scocco, Aeges, Satán, Blender, Odio París, From States Away, Standing Egg, Isac Elliot and Secular Ghost.

Glenn, is there any way of accessing past weeks' Every Noise updates or are they gone forever when Friday arrives?

You mean the Sorting Hat? No, there's no accessible archive of those.

:(

The past, bah. Who needs it?

New Particles, 2016-07-15 has new songs by: MGT, Cazadores, Kitten, Jon Prezant, Pain, Kroon & Lunde, Ghoulgotha, Sianvar, ColdWorld, Caïna, Sabaton, Bright Light Bright Light, Salt Ashes, ERIEL INDIGO, Crystal Castles, Polarheart, Ryli, Kaya Stewart, Tinashe, King Creosote, Envinya, Dust Moth, Preoccupations, Night Flowers, These Hidden Hands, RaeLynn, El Ten Eleven, Benni Hemm Hemm, Erik Ekholm, Jo Blankenburg, Patryk Scelina, Beach Slang, The Weekend Classic, 18th & Addison, Girugamesh, Misaruka, Dave Days, Revocation, Letzte Instanz, Schwarzer Engel, Asenblut, Asylums, SKIES, Storms, Twin Atlantic, Lonely The Brave, Natives, Old, To the Rats and Wolves, Exotype, Phoebe Ray, Still in Search, Laith Al-Deen, Black Violin, Snow Ghosts, Bosshafte Beats, Sponge Cola, NateWantsToBattle and Paola.

People who went on vacation without bringing their computers need the past. Unfortunately.

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New Particles strikes again: Sonderlust by Kishi Bashi - all over the freakin' pop shop in all the right ways, and a great story arc to boot

Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina

Is there anywhere that lists all new additions to Spotify as they go up? The New Releases and Release Radar are far from comprehensive.

http://everynoise.com/spotify_new_releases.html

Thanks glenn! I'll have to settle for once-a-week updates it would seem.

ecm

IDK if this is "new" or not but there are a bunch of good Soul Jazz Records comps up now--nowhere close to the full catalogue but enough good stuff that I want to just hole up with my headphones and do nothing for a while.

Particularly enjoying Dancehall and Venezuela 70. Note that not all of them come up under the "artist" name "Soul Jazz Records Presents," you just have to do a search for "soul jazz" and then "see all albums."

Also try this in the search bar:

label:"soul jazz"

Much more than the last time I ran that!

I noticed the History Of Our World: Breakbeat & Jungle mix by DJ DB appeared recently (or has it been on for ages?). Shame it's not some kind of deluxe edition with all tracks also available unmixed but hey.