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Ratatat -Magnifique
MIA - Matahdatah Scroll 01 (This is sorta a surprise, no?)
Future - Dirty Sprite 2
Sevyn Streeter - Shoulda Been There pt. 1
Kutiman - Space Cassava
Sly and The Family Stone - Live at the Fillmore East, 1968

Plus new singles from Young Thug, YG, BJ the Chicago Kid, Dej Loaf / Big Sean, Method and Red and FINALLY "My Way"

― you are extreme, Patti LuPone. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 July 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link

We didn't necessarily need a 2015 remake of "The Look", but in the same way that we don't need bacon on donuts. Roxette - https://open.spotify.com/track/5HFymzZfjsA59La1LOpJoV
Beepy electrosonics (60 songs in 90 minutes!) by Koji - http://open.spotify.com/album/1Rn7BoGZuyAxbyeyGUviem
Screamocore by Worthwhile - http://open.spotify.com/album/4srKG0Gj5FP5Q92Z65Edlp
Soaring pop-punk by State Champs - https://open.spotify.com/track/3Hfhcw6ghFMWyoWJxZKqGI
Earnest semi-emo anthems by The Gospel Youth - http://open.spotify.com/album/69RglW8zC66U3qiZQK31Bj
Stiff, leathery rock by 1 Echo 1 - http://open.spotify.com/album/1S9PWHCdyKLBBffM2YsFw6
Thumpy indie rock by Atlas Genius - https://open.spotify.com/track/3EB5N4DHgM7Ktk8yy1EgYY
Cheerfully poppish punk (not pop-punk) by New Politics - https://open.spotify.com/track/2A7Mq821hI0xGzHNKYwUAx
Vitamin String Quartet doing the Replacements' "Bastards of Young" - https://open.spotify.com/track/6feIEqoD55cN1s6c0XUkNW
Indie r&b in which the r&b is replaced by bluegrass/chanson or something, by L'Anarchiste - http://open.spotify.com/album/5tvXVeykmOi0BILZvhcm0F
Everybody-sing punk glee by Action Plan - https://open.spotify.com/track/30AGtdIuNg91tTBlCgw1Ir
Reverb and refrains by Jr. Jr. - https://open.spotify.com/track/0BAbtnMn0zW7ODOxq25VAm
Goth-industrial churn by InAeona - https://open.spotify.com/track/4YWaKz32f8wFTcbRpulFtp
Sunny morning trance by BT, Super8 and Tab - https://open.spotify.com/track/0emjud23bP9IspHmipuUOV
Mallety soul-house by Lane 8 - https://open.spotify.com/track/6hnJz1jBw37dyODGgrmV6E
Battering epic catstep by 2methyl - http://open.spotify.com/album/5YU6ot2HZEz5Kdx9zf8Bwm
Scaped soundtrackstep by Kickhat - https://open.spotify.com/track/5Jq7acBK8BWFlzba4G4qKY
A disarmingly accurate Nero impression by Delta Heavy - http://open.spotify.com/album/17r5SXgBfFjN7F630SXjeV
NYC indie rock that sounds like British indie rock by Imaginary People - http://open.spotify.com/album/1kEJhO88DFVIPxyZWQzn4X
Oh man if you are starting a band you shouldn't call it Maya (this one is power metal) - http://open.spotify.com/album/1Gd5YpbvBvOkfFcl48n2Y7
Glorious Hong Kong stadium-pop by G.E.M. - https://open.spotify.com/track/3HlPMwhT7OL3B67oAF2jqx
Russian power-metal by Almanac, which is another name you shouldn't use - http://open.spotify.com/album/30DiebrG1MVb4eEvrTHOnq
Do not confuse Civil Unrest (dark d&b) with the Civil Wars or Civil War or Civil Twilight or Unrest - http://open.spotify.com/album/2WElnobHzqUHwhkpIILtI9
Chirpy twitchiness by Skrux - https://open.spotify.com/track/1XoMhaVxtcVukieSHOpBtn
Crunchy pop-punk by Go Primitive - http://open.spotify.com/album/4ji43MKvAgUE4RA2JpuFim
Muted, Ellie Gouldingish new song by Carly Rae Jepsen - https://open.spotify.com/track/109zTcJZq088RiXANFRC7j
And maybe the Call Me Maybe-ish thing done better by Linney - https://open.spotify.com/track/0t6cV2CmN1D3KIhCicG2G1
Leather-trouser strut by Pop Evil - https://open.spotify.com/track/1sm0gDoW3JslyGj36DAT6O
Peter Hollens sings a cappella versions of Lord of the Rings soundtrack music and Minecraft parodies and this gorgeous textural choral thing - https://open.spotify.com/track/2PuSdecNQXiGMPXmZi3L3C
Finnish boyband-with-instruments Kostume - https://open.spotify.com/track/1pgNszGIc0quMwHyWKbT9z
Trailercore crashing and smashing by TitanSlayer - https://open.spotify.com/track/7H69kJuco0owlKlca6C0o1
Broken beat hip hop more lurch than hop by Young Thug - https://open.spotify.com/track/718RLkg7DT1sekn1Xwm1WY
Slide-guitar melancholic uplift by Ashley Monroe - https://open.spotify.com/track/1UvGxcxpaKXTzNdjSajZl1
Estonian euro-art-pop by Elina Born - http://open.spotify.com/album/3TyVO7nZqiAT0GX4HFl1x9
Neo-synthpop by Dark En Ciel - https://open.spotify.com/track/2aqif3m0Gs8xcSieuiUltV

And surely the date-coincidence of their new albums augurs a joint world tour by the great and not-dead-yet:

Public Enemy - http://open.spotify.com/album/1pmsTgxfLMkCw7C5LuSHFD
Bunnygrunt - http://open.spotify.com/album/0wMcK8SRKXEAjRZE6uEiyd

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 17 July 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link

Wouldn't it be easier to just have a playlist of these? Yes it would.

https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/1qpUztenBkwYVJthHWUPuw

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 17 July 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link

Nice!

― you are extreme, Patti LuPone. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 July 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link

Really enjoy these sentence long summaries. Thanks Glenn

― calstars, Friday, 17 July 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link

Oh, the Buckethead album was one of 8 recent ones just added to Spotify this week. The wikipedia Buckethead Discography lists 54 "albums" from 2015 alone, each about half an hour long. Interesting.

― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 18 July 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link

a third party developer have recently redesigned their website, you can also select your country preference

Albums added this Week
http://www.spotifynewmusic.com/thisweeksalbums.php

Highly recommended, dark synth pop:

Evvol - Eternalism
http://www.spotifynewmusic.com/albumpage.php?album=12129

― djmartian, Friday, 24 July 2015 12:22 (eight years ago) link

ugly looking website - not sure that i prefer it to the sorting hat. anyway:

Omar Souleyman · Bahdeni Nami

― Mordy, Friday, 24 July 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link

More thingzzzzz. Part 1.

Crypto-metal muttering by Reverorum ib Malacht - http://open.spotify.com/album/2WPK485NMHzvJCB88euqaX
Endearing pop-punk by my favorite Filipino band, Save Me Hollywood - http://open.spotify.com/album/5V6Tn8ZsoYdIgusd2xOpB3
Nobody does high-production Korean boy-group swoon better than INFINITE - http://open.spotify.com/album/20PZB0hwwPkTIlWn11dmiy
Post-rock noodling under beat-synched space-program audio sounds terrible but I find it actually kind of emotional, aka Public Service Broadcasting - http://open.spotify.com/album/65KwtzkJXw7oT819NFWmEP
The late Stuart Adamson's daughter Kirsten has an EP - http://open.spotify.com/album/64QaZfxPIlStMBTrDg61o4
Colombian love-everyone-in-this-arena rock by The Mills - http://open.spotify.com/album/0NAEHIE2dHd1Ysul1kmLFW
PC Music-esque bubble-trap by LIZ - https://open.spotify.com/track/7nu0Lc0jJltztDxsGeoPiG
Towering visual-kei by Screw - http://open.spotify.com/album/3rcWWe40ffkAOuP5nac06y
Glitter-snap new EP by The Glitch Mob - http://open.spotify.com/album/5fzxCS7Vyf0PFuB1lnDsRL
More sturdy Colombian rock by Don Tetto - https://open.spotify.com/track/5x06HaowHiUe0vPGxrc33X
The Colombians also do pop-punk! V for Volume - http://open.spotify.com/album/1eBjTiaruV3CqMrtDQbVMf
Massive cyber-grime-trap multi-guest "mixtape" by iSHi - http://open.spotify.com/album/6jupZpnGFjxFXRg1ZOUllf
Whirry loud-atmosphere post-something by The KVB - http://open.spotify.com/album/1lScDZvKZS0eJNQiXWBsHJ
Goth-flavored version by The KVB and Flaamingos - http://open.spotify.com/album/06LCBRrGhNtML9hDGOstSt
Throwback purist indietronica by Ms. John Soda - https://open.spotify.com/track/12IM3AjmoHKkg1qWK00icM
Lurching stoner post-dub by Carlton Melton - http://open.spotify.com/album/2KWiNEbQnlSiV05nPpMebM
Gothic sternness by A:S:Örchestra - https://open.spotify.com/track/2QcvGzpfNBwYuaw28zcroP
Beepy dream-pop by Miynt - https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZIl6ttHzDoLYh7CHahtKp
Lush metropopolia by Flor - https://open.spotify.com/track/0S4FCQMcUkTAidn5CjzM6j
Crisp indie-pop lilt by Priory - http://open.spotify.com/album/1nuqHLK1IX49aXqjVudawR
Synth-slab deconstruction by Empress Of - https://open.spotify.com/track/4biCamVcj7I3lRlp0w45oi
Sultry synth-pop anti-anthem by White Sea - https://open.spotify.com/track/7aIxRx04Sb5kJMrYKOtGLf
Definitively symphonic symphonic-metal by Symphony X - http://open.spotify.com/album/3TAorTKRjLQKJMSxtsnVde
The second advance track from the next Agent Fresco album, which I suspect is going to be astonishing no matter how much of it I hear in advance - http://open.spotify.com/album/0hy9Acvx51esNMaigo5a1L
Smash-drone euphoric cacophony from Locrian - http://open.spotify.com/album/7sJzVKKgyTfdhwpLLJuv0A
Fluttery soul-disco-house-pop by Sharon Doorson - https://open.spotify.com/track/4tAScWM5G2v5qHl4ICbYtb

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 24 July 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link

Part 2.

Which, strung together, make up

New Particles, 2015-07-24
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/5Xdpwx4N4ei04XVLUnjvk4

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 24 July 2015 17:51 (eight years ago) link

68 gucci mane mixtapes, lol

― you are extreme, Patti LuPone. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 25 July 2015 00:38 (eight years ago) link

Dej Loaf EP and Ashley Monroe album

― you are extreme, Patti LuPone. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 25 July 2015 00:46 (eight years ago) link

Titus Andronicus · The Most Lamentable Tragedy

― Mordy, Friday, 31 July 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link

New Particles, 2015-07-31
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/3DR15GNrU3xo2KXqNpBVuZ

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 31 July 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link

(part 2)

Nautical doom by Ahab - https://open.spotify.com/track/3Iv5tshvLFhkGTot9f2o58
Big Room on tilt by John Dahlbäck - https://open.spotify.com/track/6a7o7RzJXu9D2FsGVMI2O9
Involuted anti-dance EDM by Scuba - http://open.spotify.com/album/3jyEdMAZIXh4M2JaKlDf9A
Ambient trance by Anima - http://open.spotify.com/album/5H74hY5xQINA7CyyPQyKf7
Drum and rave and bass by Drumsound & Bassline Smith - http://open.spotify.com/album/4Ud6dlYT2sb9QOq0oIAFLG
Size-wave disco by Shobokshy - https://open.spotify.com/track/41IQqWfg8ycCeB8K2mPtTU
Warm blood is better than bad blood, proves Carly Rae Jepsen - https://open.spotify.com/track/0VGbAzr6HfFp0ew9gFUvQh
Sinister indie-r&b-trance swoon by Crywolf and Skrux - https://open.spotify.com/track/1cNzpLUwsWzcHkAvniwWad
When you're done fighting with "Fight Song", Jody Direen would like to talk to you about love - https://open.spotify.com/track/7d9liM3G67NTxUxmAaCWnP
Instrument-rules electronica by Wen - http://open.spotify.com/album/14vj8ULnrdwUf6exeXvQt3
Advance single from the upcoming 21st (!) album by Saxon - https://open.spotify.com/track/6Jvref5mE6WciOFrwAn2fy
Escape from the trap and take it apart and build a machine with obscure purpose, with Dej Loaf - http://open.spotify.com/album/06KRobP4coZ4I6Kfgxb1FV
Remember when Guided by Voices were great? Titus Andronicus - http://open.spotify.com/album/6tcFu0TqSurn0s4unYDXSO
Love is the new self-pity, with Mayday Parade - https://open.spotify.com/track/5jaDjvnAj5XgBcjePt5EZk
A few months of pop-punk-cover-mastery catchup with TeraBrite - https://open.spotify.com/track/23QLPOT94gkNwWLPmueywA
Pop punk + piano rock = And That's the News - http://open.spotify.com/album/21CQ4l1xq909XeCViZMLKN
Lego Friends go off-message, and take the name Maddie Wilson - http://open.spotify.com/album/7jg35Y4YBKMmuNHJQREquQ
I think my collab with Jean-Michel Jarre is in 3 or 4 weeks, but this week it's Armin Van Buuren - https://open.spotify.com/track/1XEy5hPMYzpjpQ6Ib5GEnM
Thrashing pop-electronicore by The Animal In Me - http://open.spotify.com/album/0hUCB73kkuIOHYTRfcov5b
Germano-Celto-Euro-folk-rock by Versengold - http://open.spotify.com/album/458jTAZbpaSJRVBSrZDbIM
A pair of quiet, haunted pleas by Kathryn Joseph - http://open.spotify.com/album/0VvXo7dQWudX5sYwh0TqgI
Reissue of two early Månegarm black-folk-metal demos - http://open.spotify.com/album/601oXfBA7phHX6WJegEN0V
Stompy folk-death by Fimbultyr - https://open.spotify.com/track/0EiYk76S24zobIV3EowXOE
Shiny, airy Icelandic pulse-rock by Land og synir - https://open.spotify.com/track/77hf769EfIuxT2uyicklPz
Fluttery stomp pop by Awake or Sleeping - http://open.spotify.com/album/1gj62u1St9Jcpm5rNjJXjB
Melodic machismo by Saint Asonia - http://open.spotify.com/album/70PgbB3WDDwNW9NRi35C7N
And a rare whole "album" of solipsist sequencer twitter by June 1974 - http://open.spotify.com/album/3tcWdsq1tERg8TAewHlTjC

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 31 July 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link

New Particles, 2015-08-07

Not new but I've accidentally come around to thinking that Twenty One Pilots are kind of interesting - http://open.spotify.com/album/3cQO7jp5S9qLBoIVtbkSM1
Crazed concept-album metal from Arcturus - http://open.spotify.com/album/5yJ9F1Md1I14N0r1LcIF58
Abrasive, nerve-slicing synth-crush from Alice Glass (of Crystal Castles fame) - https://open.spotify.com/track/3PaBcVPaSor8hsYJrYbVTl
Impish, halting, French/Finnish indie synthpop by The Dø - http://open.spotify.com/album/3ef6cT86avQci2qY3BsSwc
Soundtracky atmospheric IDM by K-X-P - http://open.spotify.com/album/6aFQf69Q02BbVhox2ro8NE
Sighing/threatening indie not-really-r&b by Hurts - https://open.spotify.com/track/3r6LCOKeOnR68ZaqkZn93y
Stuttering band-style EDM-core by Zombi - http://open.spotify.com/album/4h9l2wVogaxc3iv0qEvSGg
Hyperbeep dance-pop by Germany singer Nina (not Nena) - http://open.spotify.com/album/6fhIXPDzzRz8Hs7hsEFRXJ
Epic Zola-Jesus-esque Latvian Eurovision pop from Aminata - https://open.spotify.com/track/6w0LeIgIaWXbQ5VzshVLwI
Chattering machine fugues from Koreless - http://open.spotify.com/album/4ny2OeJnMLvdTt3cmwdW0R
Soulful trance-groove EDM by Sigma - https://open.spotify.com/track/63uVYBr0NJxRjsZSAyELbi
Soulful catstep-groove EDM by Calyx & TeeBee - http://open.spotify.com/album/2uvxSIB4m0DWBg0xncpodq
Halting Smashing-Pumpkins-ish post-rock by Kagoule - https://open.spotify.com/track/3DbV1fYTu1EKZcz3EyloW4
Startling spastic/elegant experimental math-roar from Brighton UK by Black Peaks - https://open.spotify.com/track/1FWzZJu2GnTcrNDqDwYfC7
Loudly earnest Pinoy alt-rock by Jejaview - http://open.spotify.com/album/3MxCoYVVF9re4ZGixuyEbr
Cheerfully four-square hard rock by the Von Hertzen Brothers - http://open.spotify.com/album/2YNUYh1RX7I7eH01XGKaPw
Heartbursting Italian pop-rock by Gianluca Capozzi - https://open.spotify.com/track/6kS54a6UDcr7qNLLNFo7Qc
Sawtooth synth-ethereality by IAMTHEKIDYOUKNOWWHATIMEAN - http://open.spotify.com/album/6hs2kdye4SZpAUbPmUcUmA
Dreamy dance-trap by Polarheart - https://open.spotify.com/track/6meOp3olLoRAw6rq56ncRJ
Keening black death by Vanum - http://open.spotify.com/album/1L5y7p14kYSPQ4telcNhxW
Braying post-punk indie rock by Blank Realm - https://open.spotify.com/track/1k6lDYIHN5cFybRWqFb9ov
Warm wet drone from Ancient Ocean - http://open.spotify.com/album/5LlOY9yOeu35h8w2m4imzm
Stomp-stomp-drop robostep by Aero Chord - https://open.spotify.com/track/4XB0xu7PoC5rj8YpHzvo3y
Low plus drum machine sounds like a terrible idea but I kind of like it - https://open.spotify.com/track/3fcdYmbD6ypvC9rs7naGKM
Oh, something strange has happened to Autre Ne Veut - https://open.spotify.com/track/1BJ3nnzKRR1SdpfBl6aBua

(continued...)

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 7 August 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link

and the two things I was most anticipating this week:

Post-vaporwave small-room ambient-epic-pop darkwave by Health - http://open.spotify.com/album/2a5KZ4rwrXIm28LvcyjYz5
And the full new album, finally, by Icelandic what-if-Sigur-Ros-were-a-progressive-semi-metal-band spirit-animals Agent Fresco - http://open.spotify.com/album/2rfDasQiLjhZ1mWXJft2NJ

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 7 August 2015 20:24 (eight years ago) link

Catching up after a vacation week:

New Particles, 2015-08-14
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/4O4aKzW6SmR1b1WbcuR5ox

― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 17 August 2015 13:12 (eight years ago) link

(and part 2...)

― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 17 August 2015 13:13 (eight years ago) link

Wall-of-shimmer noise-pop by Dum Dum Girls - http://open.spotify.com/album/7G6zafrnA99W5rlnvmN3Yh

Weird that "Coming Down" (from 2011's Only in Dreams) is getting a single release now. Decent enough b-side, though.

― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Monday, 17 August 2015 13:36 (eight years ago) link

"Coming Down" was used on Orange is the New Black recently, not sure if that's why.

― Chris L, Monday, 17 August 2015 13:45 (eight years ago) link

i wanna thank glenn for not using "PBR&B" in his genre listings.

Young Buck - The Rehab
CRJ - Emotion
Method Man - Meth Lab
more or less everything The Isley Brothers every recorded
Low's new single "Lies"
BJ The Chicago Kid and Chance the Rapper "Church" and Gary Clark Jr "Church"
Mick Jenkins - Wave[s]
Girls Generation - Lion Heart
Panda Bear - Crosswords EP
Sinkane - Mean Dub EP
Say Lou Lou - "Blue on Blue"
Laura Mvula - "You Work for Me"
The Sword - High Country
Bela Fleck and Abby Washburn - Banjo Banjo
Dâm Funk - Glyde 2nyte

― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 22 August 2015 00:06 (eight years ago) link

The name for that was a subject of much discussion. I originally had gone with "r-neg-b", but nobody ever knew what that meant, and the most common reaction turned out to be "I thought it was an encoding error". "Hipster r&b" and "pbr&b" are both kind of dismissive, and I try very hard to not use dismissive names for things somebody really does like. (Although I have failed a couple times.) "Alternative r&b" had some backing, but "alternative" is kind of a period term at this point. I liked "astral soul", but apparently nobody else did. So "indie r&b" it is, at least for now.

― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 23 August 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link

iirc r-neg-b came from this http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_music_club/features/2011/music_club_2011/best_music_2011_bon_iver_is_unlistenable_.html and caught on due to wikipedia editors looking for secondary sources

― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Sunday, 23 August 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link

"indie r&B" is somewhat imperfect i suppose but there's a paucity of non-horrible options. I suppose labeling it "afrocentric" is oversimplifying the music and unnecessarily narrowing the label. i've thought "R&Bourgie" but never said it out loud or typed it until now.

― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 23 August 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link

New Particles, 2015-08-21
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/09glQE9Ia7b1jQUp3ke0Zx

― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 24 August 2015 09:32 (eight years ago) link

(part 2)

Soaring progressive folk melodic post-adjectival death metal by Amorphis - https://open.spotify.com/track/17uK2CTqfGtDuO8Wsc7L6g
Screachy Finnish goth-industrial metal by Turmion Kätilöt - https://open.spotify.com/track/5C6IFJtr6Qe1on23rC7Pci
Cacophonous black-death by Wolfheart - http://open.spotify.com/album/3Wf5BiGGpyEmw88IiNGK7U
Twinkly tempo-shifting prog-metal by Kaledon - http://open.spotify.com/album/0WHg3apXKCGCoxMtMtEaUy
Blastic hipster-entrapment post-metal by Deafheaven - https://open.spotify.com/track/48sOuol9Wo73V1M6R3OcxG
Monumental double-live album by Greek symphonic metal icons Rotting Christ - http://open.spotify.com/album/3MhPSP0jvJmelmUSIhmlHW
Horror-movie ambient black metal by Lychgate - https://open.spotify.com/track/5DLvdVEqvtCr5HmaOCPvIu
Avant garde black-prog metal by Aetherius Obscuritas - http://open.spotify.com/album/2BMgwhIrP5pFurzdVSEPP9
Tidal grey-black howl by So Hideous - https://open.spotify.com/track/43Y3ZJ1E5FFVXuwpWD3KvN
Percussive, murmuring indiepoptronica by Grace Mitchell - https://open.spotify.com/track/69JDpzsHZ2PNEB1TBEHQmS
The followup album by Carly Rae Jepsen - https://open.spotify.com/album/6UjZgFbK6CQptu8aOobzPV
Insistent grime rant by Little Simz - https://open.spotify.com/track/4ByvdzTqsERfLuChjzaDRn
Haunting new ballad in Sleeping At Last's Atlas series - https://open.spotify.com/track/7I2JI29wWoxinz1ubgdGPJ
Low sounding a little like the Bee Gees - https://open.spotify.com/track/1h16qDsxPeomBKU6iytgmk
Meixcan electropop magic by Moenia - https://open.spotify.com/track/2uQgHRQV8mypl4VDGUTeMJ
Awkward indie-pop soul-rave by Foxes - https://open.spotify.com/track/0FrnIOPbBSDz9m1ZieXhmA
Djent-disco by DON BROCO - https://open.spotify.com/track/1d9tfy9Efledw0G7NbKfHR
Gauzy shoe-gaze from Cheatahs - https://open.spotify.com/track/5v9qJpqsbZpr2PWU5FottO
Throw-back and -sideways and -wherever metalic prog-rock by Ghost B.C. - http://open.spotify.com/album/74QTwjBLo1eLqpjL320rXX
There is a post-rock band called Vessels, and these are 3 engaging and wildly overearnest CCM songs by somebody else - http://open.spotify.com/album/7sJvdzu8vGJdIDQQPKk74F
If you never heard the 2007 album Home Improvements, by My Friend The Chocolate Cake, listen now - http://open.spotify.com/album/2C3POVtomdwVolylLSFGb9
Finnish hip pop by Aurora - https://open.spotify.com/track/30Gl1fViCSmppqIKLEFqZu
Fallen angel flourish by The Murder of My Sweet - http://open.spotify.com/album/30AmQxtw2iF7dxQP2aBylk
Snarly melodic symphonic black metal by Wallachia, who are actually from Norway - http://open.spotify.com/album/0IgePbrRRsueXGnBmh32wY

and my two picks of the week:

New strata of atmosphere in atmospheric black metal by Myrkur - http://open.spotify.com/album/6rJfbMmi86eK8MSXNBUW9s
And maybe the beginning of the first native generation of indie r&b with Tunde Olaniran - http://open.spotify.com/album/57uo4jwBc428S0JiQru6LQ

― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 24 August 2015 09:33 (eight years ago) link

re: Alternative r&b" had some backing

the content dept at Spotify created this playlist:

Alternative R&B
https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/3IWEp81rnAsLo5Z4DferTi
over 300, 000 followers

― djmartian, Monday, 24 August 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link

Catching up from Friday...

New Particles, 2015-08-28
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/3yZcw8u0hypZqOge0wPZ9z

― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 31 August 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link

(part 2)

And in the department of things you don't need me to tell you about, unless you deliberately avoid things most people wouldn't need me to tell them about:

Warm boyband yearning by 5 Seconds of Summer - https://open.spotify.com/track/2jIqJpQbrMHPLE4EUFgFr0
Oh my god, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis may be the best there has ever been at the thing they do. This is basically "Thrift Shop" crossed with "Paradise By the Dashboard Light" without losing the humor OR the drama, and every bit the equal of "Uptown Funk" in both-timeless-and-state-of-the-art no-gimmicks-barred pop-hit craft. - https://open.spotify.com/track/0lLDaAdXcjOQ7Mf2NXzXay

But if you can't take that, maybe this is the week to listen again, as I bet you haven't for a while, to the greatgreatgreat Jean Michel Jarre's greatgreatgreat synth-wizard-gets-a-sampler masterwork Zoolook.

http://open.spotify.com/album/5AWvWkGvVtkZy9JfPYnLeS

― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 31 August 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link

I like yr style glenn

― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 16:22 (eight years ago) link

The awesome new FIDLAR album: https://play.spotify.com/album/1l5TLk1sGe9w25S9OfaOSM

― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Friday, 4 September 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link

And a new Tommy Keene record!: https://play.spotify.com/album/6ghvKWH3u5Wmxgk1UJudgs

― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Friday, 4 September 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link

New Particles, 2015-09-04
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/3vC7davAgJkvX2rr7xmHYV

Glorious Finnish gothic symphonic metal stomp from Crimson Sun - http://open.spotify.com/album/4vTpHsSXxbmJoZS941STdy
Giddy metropopolis sparkle from Cape Lion - http://open.spotify.com/album/08EDP4z7NSwOyfvbYs8MOf
Anthmic djent swoons from Skyharbor - https://open.spotify.com/track/70CNLesXdTClyzVQ4Tp5Mz
Simmery deconstructed soul self-assembling into gauzestep by Arma Del Amor - http://open.spotify.com/album/0eTFLAMKcUvTv59NQFal1p
Lilty, vaguely Twin-Shadow-ish big-screen electropop by Boo Seeka - https://open.spotify.com/track/0YOZP4bdbohmzyHt5TVgUK
Turkey should stage a triumphant return to Eurovision with this majestic trance-pop flourish by Merve Özbey - http://open.spotify.com/album/5eq3H5KnYcr0uU8VjDe32W
Publicist UK taking post-punk past the post into a new lumbering noise - http://open.spotify.com/album/62EkCtVq3TtJh4TeQGg6dK
Breathythumpy meditative dance-pop from Olivera - https://open.spotify.com/track/4UXQa8uTLzARfnQqVSg78i
Loopy, ghosty minimalist indietronica by Astropol - https://open.spotify.com/track/4KDibBHjeXvIII4bERueFO
Clackety post-world monologues by Grace Acladna - http://open.spotify.com/album/6gjEV3UQh4242hPt7P1s6t
Cardiknox would like the attention of Lorde and Charli XCX fans please - https://open.spotify.com/track/3Dv0MJL4Wa5RR2y3dP0xta
Screamo angularity by Jack Dalton - http://open.spotify.com/album/5azZhXalYDRpHx85rj4kPW
Arena indietronica by Kid Cadaver - http://open.spotify.com/album/1nheAUpbE8rFPK6jMX2jtE
Ambient epicore by Druid Cloak - http://open.spotify.com/album/547nVPqzBBAwhWp4x5mSJT
Oblique introspective crashing tUnE-yArDs percussive ethereality by MALKA - http://open.spotify.com/album/794rcow51M9077GJ8M9VtH
Old-school synth-goth by Soviet Soviet - http://open.spotify.com/album/0BvuFgT0tuGOJNA0OlrCh5
Alt-throwback popgaze by Potty Mouth - http://open.spotify.com/album/4SF4UUpKWY5CYtmYcgfFSs
Little Mix are still the best talent-show band - https://open.spotify.com/track/69keRsiDtpRpOZdYUkYISh
Joseph Arthur think you need a chillwave version of Keep on Rockin' in the Free World and I think he is right - https://open.spotify.com/track/0J2qpkrdh1qFGoLmu30mW3
Over-rhymed but razorsharply-timed grime flow by Lady Leshurr - https://open.spotify.com/track/1wL77LT1fvg8rPnvK7Vxuy
...and the more frantic, headlong version by Wiley - https://open.spotify.com/track/4A0UL1tgs9VLERB9bRyZ7F
Slow noises by The A.M. Experiment - http://open.spotify.com/album/2H2aAJcIxKOvntLmGQzxx6
Joe Jackson recaptures the essence of a Joe Jackson song - https://open.spotify.com/track/60uRQF8ayswd5A8kbpeTL4
Amorphis goes full epic progressive gothic melodic folk death everything - http://open.spotify.com/album/0rDSF5cI1DIUQA0GMPhhmM
Methodical MDM crush by Omnium Gatherum - https://open.spotify.com/track/7nXIBQrAbQSlqb9ZB2UK7i
Swoopy ABBA-as-trance-catharsis dance-strut by Sharon Doorson - https://open.spotify.com/track/77a6ny1DhhpLGjUOKLK6dO
Atmospheric post-emo by Halo Tora - http://open.spotify.com/album/79uOUnwH24NKFIyr5dqgVN
Wei Wei demonstrates the simple power of adding huge booming kettle drums to a soft pop song - https://open.spotify.com/track/5DiBvOH2EYp2fVEjcIOaTf
Expansive post-folk-metal rock by Cronometrobudú - http://open.spotify.com/album/50CelnT0wPZdXrvKnmsVN8

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 4 September 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link

(part 2)

Drum and bass and circuitry by Venetian Snares - http://open.spotify.com/album/70q1krqtlXIQ931QK1FY8F
J-gothic j-rock by lynch. - http://open.spotify.com/album/53rCCYNsC8rKLpTP6Q5uaP
Progressive symphonic power metal by Divine Ascension - http://open.spotify.com/album/3vq6kotcP5cIKw8mWTwDpc
Yes, of course Symphonic Destiny are a gothic symphonic metal band - http://open.spotify.com/album/7hbofcTqFsI8YfzBGkJ6Tw
Darkyra Black play up the gothic and down the symphonic - http://open.spotify.com/album/7Hm7AwGvUsrZGqjQ9OhnBS
Gultskra Artikler's album is called Destroy Music, and each song N is titled the first N letters of "Destroy Music", so it's the opposite of nihilistic - http://open.spotify.com/album/0y29fvTjaHRZx1LPAya9Zu
Wild black power metal by Nechochwen - http://open.spotify.com/album/2IdlszcBmAoyBCVr2CsQfU
Big Chamber by Fleurie - http://open.spotify.com/album/2gqsmX8F8QiCH7RngqH9GL
Progressive blues-rock power-metal by The Winery Dogs - https://open.spotify.com/track/6mZ3yDu0A8zu24EvKsiXpx
Whirry synth-hum by Superhumanoids - https://open.spotify.com/track/1arr3emrSUyYiAmxV8mjt2
Quick, eager popgaze by Coasts - https://open.spotify.com/track/42bvMA2K3eeU840lMpierv
Slow-motion mechanist reverie by EZA - https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZpsPBTWRpInri5TBXo6Sh
What if Enya were starting over as an indietronica band? Dresses - https://open.spotify.com/track/18mpb3U7q4qqehGPhclKm4
Coiled-tension movie-trailer-march swwop-pop by Michelle O Faith - http://open.spotify.com/album/2Sxf6AZwT4YmMGynMiXxjp
But of course there is metropopolisticity in Mexico City, say Rey Pila - https://open.spotify.com/track/2PbApk2Ndu4TByCt8OonLn
Tristam takes whatevestep into progressive uplifting air - https://open.spotify.com/track/5Ym19YSvxpcLhtlC2g605d
Etherwood takes twitchy drum and bass into soaring shimmer - http://open.spotify.com/album/1QcB9fU1IsCRVkeHKTP1U0
Epicore + vocals + a LOT of reverb from Erik Ekholm - https://open.spotify.com/track/62BSfsLwbkXkPVy2rKSAW1
Big drums, vocoders, vocal dramatics and Leona Lewis - https://open.spotify.com/track/4m8g6e6e11iF1V9KNS5qMX
Deep indie r&b as vaporwave-exile muster-point by San Holo - https://open.spotify.com/track/4csv5dGlZ7svAgdQq21ZxU
Kathryn Calder makes pop-punk where the punk was riot grrrl, not Green Day - https://open.spotify.com/track/3rCqymaT7EnLFDwLm1ck2M

And my three picks of the week:

In the universe I imagine into being, it's Sivik on magazine covers instead of the Weeknd.
http://open.spotify.com/album/2ECQebplMnzPCO3PrjsFCT

What if you had a band that could play anything in the world, and they chose to imagine what you'd get if you combined Pere Ubu, Oingo Boingo, Meat Loaf and a lot more Meat Loaf? They are called The Protomen, and they are not new, but this song is, and holy crap, and I have been woefully underinformed but I will listen to this until I stop feeling guilty.
http://open.spotify.com/album/0BqmmOgEQvsN64kaSUZCI9

Tommy Keene is one of the greatest power-pop songwriters to ever live, and he wrote some more songs.
https://open.spotify.com/album/6ghvKWH3u5Wmxgk1UJudgs

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 4 September 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link

New Particles, 2015-09-11
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/6SYDPefyqAPQkxGDBIbIi4

Grim, infernal Norwegian blast by Vreid - https://open.spotify.com/track/1tiwsKBfFczPVTIUGF01Tz
Warm, galloping Norwegian pop by Vidar Vang - https://open.spotify.com/track/5v01QMGvfJ6tiZnPBKRLos
Shimmery, open-toed Norwegian shoegaze from Jadudah - https://open.spotify.com/track/5LUUFNTffFFsay4JmqY1RR
Chiming Colombian arena-pop duet by Siam - https://open.spotify.com/track/6HelYHsBgA2NxCX7O6Z3YE
Kwamie Liv and Angel Haze demonstrate the opposite of Taylor Swift relationship song - https://open.spotify.com/track/4ap1DBvsYJFhiD62qKl05k
Spiky, nervous post-punk by Vita Bergen - https://open.spotify.com/track/1xmU7x6PK8KAJW9QqdJRWS
Joker and Ayben showing how to lay it down in Turkish - https://open.spotify.com/track/4C3PyfKOx1NOr3x0qzstVR
The kind of metal where it sounds like the guitars are solid blocks of iron that you play by bending them with overwhelming force, by Black Tongue - http://open.spotify.com/album/5y8DoOVScZEy3nmkF3AxgX
Nashville pop emo by Better Off - http://open.spotify.com/album/1a5An1IWpeG5D9EQMvbGAP
Chapel Hill's I Was Totally Destroying It channeling 90s Boston alt-rock - https://open.spotify.com/track/53PCFDHWmYh4eId4U0jTGQ
Springy electropop by RABBII (which is nominally an acronym, but sadly they don't sound anything like JEW) - https://open.spotify.com/track/4gWHNo2WIgCSqm0bXMcA30
Squeaky, kaleidoscopic J-pop by passepied - http://open.spotify.com/album/1RZ1du6gZq3R9AF029IVuU
Crashing J-pop-folk-metal by BiSH (and I'll be perfectly happy if we eventually get hybrids of J-pop and every other metal subgenre) - http://open.spotify.com/album/6fD9d4fm7ibNNeLmCe4E6Y
Ambient/avant-garde post-post-metal by Lethe - https://open.spotify.com/track/2CAWfdQylMK0Y4ew4Q6wuw
Not that many indietronicists get CHVRCHES' combination of airy pingingness and simmering drive, but Lilly Wolf does - https://open.spotify.com/track/4UWJQXXFkeLYnZFA7rXUZT
Twee-punk-pop by Sports - https://open.spotify.com/track/0nCBNosUbRNOrTheHB8nVn
The sounds of slow monsters sniffing at self-tuning instruments by Erland Dahlen - http://open.spotify.com/album/3x2ddU72YHNoQckLXPf75o
Snarly lo-fi power-pop by The Kickback - https://open.spotify.com/track/49c5EZsvjBIIJUJTBUEBZh
Clattering, blurring post-punk stomp by Fake Palms - http://open.spotify.com/album/1NwNjcdbdXwzHeIqIgPehj
Abstracted indie r&b by Kacy Hill - https://open.spotify.com/track/7e2lRhdJQ6vH4EwOrIMb4g
Blaring anti-social cheerleader-punk by Mereki and Kitten - https://open.spotify.com/track/3RaLmi7AwgH19cSE1a1Xx0
AUTOBAHN remember what Bauhaus and the Sound sounded like - http://open.spotify.com/album/2vwhv7ICHqJUIlS4cxrvVx
So, dreamily, do Lowtide - http://open.spotify.com/album/2GGmYW3gllzIbBH79p44bd
Static Daydream may have The Three Johns more in mind - http://open.spotify.com/album/4KEowhsdc86Rg6af4i8LG8
Tempers are closer to Lush and Curve - https://open.spotify.com/track/1w0enXfaCGdmZQkj7tW8yU
Decidedly unnurturing punishment by Wombbath - http://open.spotify.com/album/0PHZWHpFNQgT0E7ozF7Y81
If I ever get a comforting, well-lit daytime talk show, P!nk can do my theme, too - https://open.spotify.com/track/00iCRJ7pk3onHablkLyVH1
If you miss Taylor Swift's country songs, maybe you'd like to listen to Hulk Hogan's daughter Brooke - http://open.spotify.com/album/63rAj17hIL5XlUDYXaxLg7
Sunny, beepy blur by Small Black - https://open.spotify.com/track/09H1EYzNvB2HyobUHhikNg
Slayer - http://open.spotify.com/album/5pf1PjeTAMWmXVQjcn3Jc8
Methodical ticking and soft humming by Christine and the Queens - https://open.spotify.com/track/57VxswziRqsPHCWT7H89ey
Synth-pop effervescence by Pure Bathing Culture - https://open.spotify.com/track/21zLslEuX8TgLcZuDYiCdo
J-goth-thrash-metal by Synk;yet - http://open.spotify.com/album/1KWL2ROVYMcgBKrYZKERWH
Post-world indie-rock by Petite Noir - http://open.spotify.com/album/5xkGx66FLcCgXB74fzcfWD
Ethereal machinery by Empress Of - http://open.spotify.com/album/6Gr9l3W2dr8YZ1SzJwRRKE
Robo-reggae by Calyx, Teebee and Doctor - http://open.spotify.com/album/6V34VB9RMjbAKSPiSmCcPa

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 11 September 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link

(part 2)

Cacophonous driving menace by Killing Joke - https://open.spotify.com/track/0xn7OTfL3MZCQiiXKCdeQn
Anthemic stadium indie-rock by Cazadores - https://open.spotify.com/track/32rrBAYnDfWqw73vXBMWYu
Uplifting hypertrance by Venom One - http://open.spotify.com/album/7ulpaK9oCtQaJxoCpvwfb7
Finnish glam-punk from Tyrävyö - http://open.spotify.com/album/3aJ5rcNzrhn5mbjacPDXWA
Etherpop smoke-filigree by Iiris - https://open.spotify.com/track/10ozjxFSCKvb5vYwPBuTrl
One-woman (?), maybe-Christian maybe-Norwegian repatriation (rematriation?) of Japanese reintrepretation of Norwegian metal. I don't really understand what's going on here, but it's called Norwegian Metal Resistance - https://open.spotify.com/track/1YzCps0s9tHQmEqh3M91Cu
Berzerker noise-punk by Fucking Werewolf Asso - http://open.spotify.com/album/6sBioVA395DP0zi1DBOXfP
Murmuring vocoder electronica by Metavari - http://open.spotify.com/album/7ih5cnk30spor5ztYtJUaj
Laptop Vangelisisms from June 1974 - https://open.spotify.com/track/140wprTVoSfXjCvKbal1Qd
Dark metropopolis from LEVV - http://open.spotify.com/album/32DkwfjTDWsaVMD5EBHuFp
The closest thing to a new Too Much Joy album from Wonderlick - http://open.spotify.com/album/6kJI0WoJ0jons3gtkhTDQY
Glorious pop-punk-core from Skies Collide - http://open.spotify.com/album/2ozdkktEihdAO5zL7w7MkQ
What if The National were way noisier and called Slow Riot - https://open.spotify.com/track/7fxa0NiAHy25yp3nM7lM7Q
Norwegian indie-rock by Bendik - https://open.spotify.com/track/5mGj8Se73MVdP7ff4eCbbY
High-gloss Romanian Europop by Gabriella - https://open.spotify.com/track/1Cyac4gkCKJ9sfwslKaD6A
Maniccomic grimestep by Timmy Trumpet that you may not need to listen to more than once, but - https://open.spotify.com/track/28LeQABFaY3Yx8pnBikchI
Sugarproduction everything-overloaded first-full-album K-pop histrionics by Red Velvet - http://open.spotify.com/album/56L226pRT1sHo2vgoJy5IB
Meditative world-fusion sinuosity from Charanpal - http://open.spotify.com/album/7bilIeDrzoh5vepaXjGO2E
Superhumanoids are like CHVRCHES but a bit darker and sparer - http://open.spotify.com/album/0F9jNrJCJjJX4k36loee9F
Fumewave is what little is left of vaporwave, and there's a band called The Japanese House - https://open.spotify.com/track/3fFhrNpVUqGY6FXRsGEB7e
GEMS also kind of sound like CHVRCHES, but the CHVRCHES album isn't out yet - https://open.spotify.com/track/4DcFE43h3hxMxR3FqCWEKI
Silversun Pickups don't sound as much like Smashing Pumpkins as they once did, which for me is good - https://open.spotify.com/track/6JTxtpBrIBFZF9bnpvzJEa
Youtube acoustic-cover-version star Allison Weiss goes electro-original - https://open.spotify.com/track/29kqT0COzfgi8kvNFtpQOj
Indie r&b of the r&b-going-indie kind from Angel Haze - https://open.spotify.com/track/4qsQX6WRu3N2g9rzg0FzIH
Jumpy indie-dance-pop by Ohlayindigo - https://open.spotify.com/track/2oLSTXX75VUrPufy6nHiA0
Saintseneca keep the stomp in stomp and holler - https://open.spotify.com/track/5s4XsCbPBA3BTRUGsssE8k
Celldweller go muted-soundtrack-gloom - https://open.spotify.com/track/6IZL4zDTEhEFbx3AixEI0J
Cheerfully understated punk-power-pop from Pjrox - https://open.spotify.com/track/01HbyyFILJBPyFZgrYIJCh
Pulsing latintronic rock by She's A Tease - https://open.spotify.com/track/2DTQFhpOLOOrRgU3sMHOG0
Maybe a new single by Alanis Morissette or maybe an illicit recording of her singing in a hallway somewhere over a leftover backing loop, it's hard to tell exactly - https://open.spotify.com/track/2PNePbGXlzc3qxIPHaIru4
This new Jewel album seems subdued nearly to the point of collapse as I skim though it, but maybe when I listen to it all the way through it'll make more sense - http://open.spotify.com/album/3SEQ1GH0EtUwHnWC4AtgZl
If I had 98 more artists like Brannon (and Dappy) I'd have a new genre of heedlessly rock-positive hip hop - http://open.spotify.com/album/4ZPi869ckhOa8SruUGlm7n
Post-rock focus ambience by Helios - http://open.spotify.com/album/34CpMn9yU8iDcXDaSkrqXu
The kind of folk-rock where the folk is the folk from folk-metal, by Engelsglut - http://open.spotify.com/album/5gyMvNYD85J9cIQbyJ5A8p

and my four (4) picks of a surprisingly solid week for a week when the new CHVRCHES record doesn't come out:

The new album by my favorite whateverstep producer, because the sonics are reliably attached to songs, NERO - http://open.spotify.com/album/0UrFZ93iRqEnJwIuhzhlEy
The new album by my favorite exuberantly florid Hungarian folk-metal band, Dalriada - http://open.spotify.com/album/6xcz5gX6lIFuO8eRcWlR0k
The new Low album, which finds them discovering that studio equipment can be used to do other things than strictly amplifying terrifying near-silence - http://open.spotify.com/album/55uQXRIwm0WeJX8g7f5aCf
And, to commemorate the not-released-yet-ness of the new CHVRCHES album, a new CHVRCHES song, which if you play it 12 times in a row is like a new CHVRCHES album - https://open.spotify.com/track/6tAPD6ENgfEY3DKfDaoz1S

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 11 September 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link

Oh, the Alanis track is an unreleased outtake from the Jagged Little Pill sessions. That makes more sense.

― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 02:04 (eight years ago) link

New Particles, 2015-09-18
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/2VS0h56l6Ol1Og7zqXfAca

Sturdy, twangy, anthemic bro-country by Dallas Smith - http://open.spotify.com/album/0H4Nrf3GiTuj0yyLsNCVCF
Finnish screamy progressive Faith-No-More-core from Tuoni - http://open.spotify.com/album/2aKtk8iQAEJAFynUFPfXKp
Simmery indie r&trap by Kelela - https://open.spotify.com/track/2adF8MLoBFPSh1mxXYgK9T
Australian indie that verges on CHVRCHES-as-rock from Atlas Genius - http://open.spotify.com/album/3jQxdLlKciB0WQncSVhM39
Glittery who-needs-Max-Martin dance-pop by Frankie - http://open.spotify.com/album/0zBX5KAC507xrq99XqEz68

and then I kind of wandered into a big arena-pop-rock labyrinth and didn't make my way out for a while:

But I eventually escaped again!

Big, humming twitch-trance by Loadstar - http://open.spotify.com/album/5wFEpqCQG7H3978cBxymfc
Reverby post-punk grace by Desperate Journalist - http://open.spotify.com/album/2hleV816qKYkCEDevWBFLQ
Atmospheric indie post-punk by Farewell Dear Ghost - http://open.spotify.com/album/71DmislLTl2APFTFzk0E3W
Gauzy synth-pop by Goldroom - http://open.spotify.com/album/1rdg3seIhUW6inb1tyrh0n
Grinding, NIN/Godflesh-ish industro-pop by Crown - http://open.spotify.com/album/7wZ1iPk5Gect7RaJSDHidj
Twee synthpop by Ms. John Soda - https://open.spotify.com/track/74omZhWjwMzt1btvJYvpKT
Evasive post-rock by Midas Fall - http://open.spotify.com/album/72q4NMDbRBzyhdZSHE6yy1
Some Fei-Fei remixes to remind me how much I want new Fei-Fei songs - http://open.spotify.com/album/5W0qDFM86a1YheIqY7W0DY
The swoony, chiming Welsh indie-pop band Cut Ribbons should go on tour with Royal Teeth - http://open.spotify.com/album/3PP9nfeL5OaJzgzUZAOuwX
Helium shoegaze by Get Inuit - https://open.spotify.com/track/66SpFXJi1AHSZebJyN4BBc
Self-explanatorily riff-centric riff-metal by Rifftera - http://open.spotify.com/album/0KaQ5mE1KujRGtoLyhE0g7
Superbouncy throwback synthpop by Patternist - https://open.spotify.com/track/69xo7ehs6lsF2BT9zQXkfQ
Furious post-math thrash by Cavern - http://open.spotify.com/album/4XCBhkwc1oF5KtLJhpIO2r
Glass laptoppery by June 1974 - https://open.spotify.com/track/73KGROt6FNhC3kLkzRdMGz
Post-chillwave abstractro-pop by Zola Jesus - http://open.spotify.com/album/1Rn2uXSoEveIiaD7LqMoG8
Meticulously recorded new-timelessness by Joe Jackson - https://open.spotify.com/track/36YVSR5ayIyadHdHrsNSyB
Glitchy hushtronica by The Japanese House - https://open.spotify.com/track/3wgkb7vVeqn7ZjC1da5Fvj
Slow-motion deconstructed-dubstep soft-rock by GEMS - https://open.spotify.com/track/6iu7JKZPHs4OqdcbB94UnI
Rattly disco-ball indietronic pop by Huntar - https://open.spotify.com/track/3OKbPe1hJAtPa9clbA2unS
A scratchy, measured-pace introspection monologue by Mapei - https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZblAMsIE078GoPVIZHmZt
K's Choice plug in the electric guitars again - http://open.spotify.com/album/28vKX7Qbm3odQgsBuEFyoI
Hyuna is back with an EP where you can basically hear the dance routines even with no video - http://open.spotify.com/album/6eomyKPmQTcpdPxVt4LTGt
CNBLUE doing K-rock, not K-pop, although still with a little bit of K-pop in it. Or rather a lot, really. - http://open.spotify.com/album/5RwZUOtsc6hgaCie5SBZaH
All-production-stops-out Taiwanese T-pop from 溫嵐 - https://open.spotify.com/track/4uKWfm4EkhsbhICGORUx7E

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 18 September 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link

(part 2)

Yes, I still like power metal. Yes, Stratovarius are still masters. - http://open.spotify.com/album/6gjZK5oL6Cc9rVcTuF3KcH
Unapologetic middle-of-the-Finnish-road modern rock by Apulanta - https://open.spotify.com/track/3y8tNv0c8CCjr6U3bkAn27
Scale The Summit trading some djent thud for jazz-metal obliqueness - http://open.spotify.com/album/0rYN3gN9xKNmjiZR7ckyzJ
Little Simz might be grime's crossover-star in waiting - http://open.spotify.com/album/5SvOOtR6GVcDawzPj5SwsM
State-of-the-"post" post-metal by Deafheaven - https://open.spotify.com/track/3lRlDtNzyIgoXLXDThMo5O
Imagine Norwegian dragons. Call them Cazadores. - http://open.spotify.com/album/38Iu4dG94myg4wtKwVFLAM
Intimately atmospheric dark jazz by Girls in Airports - http://open.spotify.com/album/4uXNFc8uwf85sPQj7YfcRt
Reissue of the sumptuous No Song No Spell No Madrigal by The Apartments - http://open.spotify.com/album/337PPptbP7UgB9QloGrwwf
Sprawling gated-drum jangle-pop restrospective from Close Lobsters - http://open.spotify.com/album/5Q0JzboHjdZCwfTX4SO3Lc
Dense Bathorial viking black metal by Besatt - http://open.spotify.com/album/0v19CxjJohfPeLvwfu6NOA
You know a band takes their prog-metal concept-career seriously when their new album is just called Episodes 40-52, and their name is The Black Codex - http://open.spotify.com/album/5B49f4sQhOKAci4xTqRQ0x
You know a gothic symphonic metal band doesn't take themselves too serious when their name is Elferya, but actually this is one of my favorite grandly-not-quite-overblown fallen-angel records of the year - http://open.spotify.com/album/0XrpuyqOUkJPv20Asb0xC1
Raspy cyber-emo by Xxi - http://open.spotify.com/album/5uWqsBukvP6JMHqeI7F0ME
Post-wordly indietronic pop by Willow - https://open.spotify.com/track/6fd77f0XCxxfvfWdjMqU1k
5 Seconds of Summer - https://open.spotify.com/track/1rkqeV961erKBwNb0cuvgN
Gothic Mexico City dark-pop from Rey Pila - https://open.spotify.com/track/2f2YyPXcOJkDRbx7yA4a4x
Gauzy Mexican indie rock by Reyno - https://open.spotify.com/track/5Gdxt790XoNm4Id1gPTjIK
Trilling Spanish-heartland rock by Vetusta Morla - http://open.spotify.com/album/4T0PFSo6B3zBzcb6oQi9Sj
Jubillant Finnish electro-rock that should really have been called something less ambiguous than Sara - http://open.spotify.com/album/4ku7rRMd11lR4GCiih5Gr2
A new, Operation: Mindcrime-ish song by the version of Queensrÿche that is now called Queensrÿche instead of Operation: Mindcrime - https://open.spotify.com/track/3A1ez9mclmiBOloywnU6zR
Spiky French collage-electronica by Flawd - http://open.spotify.com/album/4qHMahVnLoGVeYg3nL53GV
Garbled satellite transmissions of power-pop by Tower - https://open.spotify.com/track/6Pn2RmY25VeItb6n5sarSW
The second album by the arresting Angel Haze, who I mentally transpose into most portentous acolades I read about Kanye or Kendrick Lamar - http://open.spotify.com/album/1MxoNDGYqAgNg3Y7zlaxGi
Gothic metalcore by Dust in Mind - http://open.spotify.com/album/7bUJ231TSuorSR97TnUCJv
Blasting post-metal blur by Caspian - https://open.spotify.com/track/0wO1zzriIBDHAiQKC8xG6F
Swooping gothic power-metal by Teramaze - https://open.spotify.com/track/13LieaCVEM2WJGAia1HncM
Quick, alive pop emo by Hidden Skies - https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZdXx01ymYm6xbCQ1406yo
Recombinatory fragments of The Future Sound Of London - http://open.spotify.com/album/6B442OLQjsh4uyd35wCaoq
Amaral are the Spanish power-pop-punk Roxette - https://open.spotify.com/track/3J0OBBBG0ZgvJMIq65yOrQ
"As heard on the Doctor Who season 9 trailer" by Gargantuan Music - http://open.spotify.com/album/2phwuDu3I3l1dbOui2wuM6
Five Seconds of Canadian Summer are actually called Marianas Trench - https://open.spotify.com/track/0Y6FV4hbvArpy9qab0rG2b
All "focus" playlists should be immediately revved to include something from the new Ludovico Einaudi album - https://open.spotify.com/track/2h1z8mPDCRFLGhxbRwK5Dp
Giant metal monsters playing tiny Italian flutes (and giant guitars) are called Vallorch - https://open.spotify.com/album/41YMSQKMyGXjc1AuTH1Ilg

and my five (5) picks of the week because it'll take me the week to narrow it down any further:

Breathtaking experimental atmospheric post-black one-man-band metal from Azerbaijan called Violet Cold - http://open.spotify.com/album/1MSVxWH4n79HpygsgBG8wj
Laura Stevenson picking up where Weeping Tile and Lone Justice and Jennifer Trynin were maybe one day going to leave off - https://open.spotify.com/track/2XqN8YAzch6JuRArvjo6OM
Kyla La Grange finding where Kate Bush's auteurialism might have crossed paths with Cyndi Lauper's new-wave-pop strut - https://open.spotify.com/track/0vMsIMOCtMdiEm4CiYiSqJ
TeraBrite demonstrating the complete mastery of their peculiar craft by turning Justin Bieber's dumbfoundingly half-decent new song into roaring, coiled-catharsis pop-punk glory - https://open.spotify.com/track/5v1kRvkErg2pIfRuWIBWGL
The new funeral-doom album by Skepticism, recorded live during the actual end of the world - http://open.spotify.com/album/3SwYW6dITViuQlniRn2OV1

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 18 September 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link

Did 'Followers' just get usurped by 'Monthly Listeners?'

― calstars, Friday, 18 September 2015 19:10 (eight years ago) link

Can't we have both stats? : )

― calstars, Friday, 18 September 2015 19:10 (eight years ago) link

You can see both on the new About tab, plus the band's top cities and the top playlists from which people listen to them.

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 18 September 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link

incredibly happy to see Bruce Haack's Haackula finally on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5z3JPsBjGXaIUzerAjQSEW

― welltris (crüt), Friday, 25 September 2015 11:10 (eight years ago) link

coooooooool

― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 September 2015 14:13 (eight years ago) link

New Particles, 2015-09-25
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/2ElXzv54F1LqgTrUp35cJM

Oh, did you know there's a new album by this Scottish synth-pop band called CHVRCHES? - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUls
Kaylee Johnston combining basically every mainstream genre into one glossy pop song - https://open.spotify.com/track/6ISorijSFZLyMrGtR0zFXB
Strutting Italian rock from Negrita - http://open.spotify.com/album/1b6sHCqa0HfVeiT1u4Xj8w
Swoony Swedish electropop from Lissi Dancefloor Disaster - https://open.spotify.com/track/5zk52kWBKlU7PpDGmhrDcm
I hope this fantastic Turkish hip-hop from Joker and Defkhan isn't using its mesmerizing warp-speed flow to espouse something horrific - https://open.spotify.com/track/7jR0FZBWOFadzp5rdeOxa3
Warm, string-lined German pop-rock from Robert Redweik - http://open.spotify.com/album/2VrSNBtxvos8e3HHMVFcfc
The way Lauren's small, clear voice, swoops vp out of the beepy textvres - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUls
Pretenders + UFO = Christian Mistress - http://open.spotify.com/album/5RS2o6xXi2yebUrDPRET2C
Hoarse black-occult mania from Dark Sermon - http://open.spotify.com/album/4w8weBmUL1vqK82aMrVwx6
Ryan Adams remakes 1989 as if it were Nebraska and it's kind of amazing - http://open.spotify.com/album/0MVK1j7wrUkBZ09ZuMURJA
Sparkling arena-piano-pop by MY RED + BLUE - https://open.spotify.com/track/2xAVxKWCsB5v0m55pWBnCk
Shattered, relentless textural electronica from Tenebre - http://open.spotify.com/album/1yWv07oGPvklKYn4QbL5St
I'm not svre hvmanity has fvlly vnderstood the transposition of drvm-heads into controller-bvttons before now - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUls
Heroic Dutch gothic symphonic metal from End of the Dream - http://open.spotify.com/album/2mnQoOtTOkpz6vyuSY8X1v
Airy big-German-sky arena-rock by Captain Disko - https://open.spotify.com/track/0MSQBkdFX7V3Ta8WaJiaxc
Ambient waves from Bruised Skies - http://open.spotify.com/album/1Gx6B0Ul77dlw3V3gACQsH
Crushing pop-punk-core by The Haunting - http://open.spotify.com/album/7sIuNJ1oXztPWncsMn1jUJ
Post-punk goth-gaze by Cold Showers - http://open.spotify.com/album/5o86NPsgX7lMA8KvY8x4h6
Part of it is to have absolvtely no fear of pop - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUls
A beepy, reticent song called "Shake It Off" that is not a Taylor Swift cover by Navelin - http://open.spotify.com/album/1p6xJ8GWzRZY9e73DDaHtp
Fluttery, epic modern-classical ensemble puzzle-boxes by Bryce Dessner and eighth blackbird - http://open.spotify.com/album/0UpwD6FzrgfFwvgFK0XVqb
Emm Gryner steps back out of her new-Scandal costume to just play and sing - http://open.spotify.com/album/1e0Cf5E2PLsnPeTsz4CC2z
Activate all production systems for a new song by Sia - https://open.spotify.com/track/05cXQMJcrM9msUYu11mOrs
Little Mix channel the Supremes and pull it off - https://open.spotify.com/track/2fykwqa2RQzI6nBCwhTfqD
Or maybe it's the way these songs seem to be svbmerged in some translvcent svbstance that gradvally tvrns out to be air - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUls
If this weren't CHVRCHES week, my album of the week would be the return of post-world electropop oracle V V Brown - http://open.spotify.com/album/1CVz0OisrktotrVAEZBC8r
There are too many artists called "Willow", but one of them is a German folk-metal-hip-hop-ish thing - https://open.spotify.com/track/6HwsVfCbnJIJEOvHXpahtt
If you don't have time for a whole-album remake of 1989, Peter Hollens does it in a cappella in 4 minutes - https://open.spotify.com/track/6cnEM8ovJ3fsURvCPn7KrL
My prediction of wild commercial stardom for LP hasn't come true yet, but I've lost no confidence in it - https://open.spotify.com/track/2omkYkDtepbdy0XnSwgqhi
Rock-solid uplifting trance by BT, Ilan Bluestone and Stef Lang - http://open.spotify.com/album/3Xcj96AJgFqf1qiYjtfflE
Every once in a while they let their love of New Wave show throvgh vnrefractedly - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUls

― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 27 September 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link

(part 2)

Rey Pila launches the Mexican electro-pop invasion in earnest - http://open.spotify.com/album/3ww0rgAjZcjS43i7I9lZIa
Wiley packs grime full of words - https://open.spotify.com/track/1DiiqCzEiNPP1qHBvXXWxw
Pensive atmospheric post-rock by Caspian - http://open.spotify.com/album/1aZqgTPYSxx2ISuigQkgjD
Gleefully menacing Finnish industrial rock by Turmion Kätilöt - http://open.spotify.com/album/4KdDMlS0XJxbSog1JvbGPL
Darksunny synth-sludge fog-gaze from Anakin - http://open.spotify.com/album/5MUDfvzNqUMcmTF9duZZ0x
This is like my six Scottish favorite-band-in-the-world, and maybe possibility's gift to anybody who likes covnting - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUls
Finnish gothic symphonic metal with a twirly emphasis on the theatrical-floridity sense of "gothic" from Amberian Dawn - https://open.spotify.com/track/5BVxTkpAVFDGNL2x5YQ4Qp
Warlock + Megadeth = Huntress - http://open.spotify.com/album/1BUy1djZOQKqWJi2mxDtjd
Wet Nurse, who are not Wetnurse, play sharp-ragged-edge garage power-pop - http://open.spotify.com/album/6S0hPPzKDn7sibUZDVzn2s
The brothers of the sisters of mercy are Still Patient? - http://open.spotify.com/album/6EhhQDUlwv3dXUrCX7cn5k
Cradle of Filth recombined with the March Violets might get you Exit To Eden - http://open.spotify.com/album/6UQhafwxi1MNDAjkAjNESG
I svspect the thing I have always responded to most strongly in electronic pop is the way mechanism emphasizes the hvmanity of any bit that deviates from the grid - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUls
Another beepic from my personal electro-theme producer June 1974 - https://open.spotify.com/track/4yGUh8RM6AEUVbLEcf75n7
Gloryhammer are almost certainly the best power-metal band to ever include at least one song about Inverness on every album - http://open.spotify.com/album/3fpspMTkc6HAF9flYAiFJZ
Black thrash-death-rock from Black Breath - http://open.spotify.com/album/19Rb9gNBaDwS8A0k5C3STV
There's this pop-production thing that sounds like bombs wrapped in superballs set into bounce-patterns in anti-gravity cathedrals, and Carla Morrison's is in Mexico somewhere - https://open.spotify.com/track/7LTJ3FlcB9PPh4P7v2xYBe
Reyno suggest that you can make soaring alt-rock in Mexican cathedrals, too - http://open.spotify.com/album/4Dj3RsVvxpyh9V1yQv9fhS
Part of the magic, I think, is that they are willing to set the machines on covrses and stand back and let the patterns emerge and convvlse - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUls
sund4ra Karma take the Vegas out of the Killers - https://open.spotify.com/track/00S3KATTdqNryOTSk1Wc0I
Breathy jangle-gaze from Night Flowers - http://open.spotify.com/album/1O3aULJUqZubmqr3xp3JoL
The Colombian Roxette is called Siam, which I'm just going to take as an obscure Rush joke - http://open.spotify.com/album/3iIlmKtYyRf9bYFCBT5Yhj
Dense, blurry Spanish electro-punk from Hungry Butterfly - http://open.spotify.com/album/2djzxiTUGW4d3ivaxKm3so
Blaring Italian alt-rock by Il corso delle cose - http://open.spotify.com/album/3SGrZpLdHVQhZU64ZaJUZF
Part of me thinks that, honestly, Lauren covld sing over appliance hvm and I wovld still melt, but another part of me also believes that they have infiltrated the power grid and tvned the hvm to my heart - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUls
I swore off Robert Pollard in 2001. I probably had good reasons, and I probably wrote them down, and thus I could probably look them up. And whatever they were, 14 years is probably far more than they were ever worth. His new band, Ricked Wicky, sounds more like Tommy Keene rehearsals than Guided by Voices outtakes - http://open.spotify.com/album/1ci9r4BGxTYTjcgOJSh043
Burbling New Order restraint erupting fitfully into brit-guitar-rock expansiveness by The Crookes - http://open.spotify.com/album/4rPDyVFyjZqKo0HpdAzHdk
There is enough bass in this pounding German hip-hop album by Olexesh to blast out of car windows and disperse emissions fumes, if that happens to be a thing you suddenly find you need - http://open.spotify.com/album/4OFnzgTLpP6THvTpVtKNpS
Perfect-formula uplifting trance by Lush & Simon - https://open.spotify.com/track/7ceRA3dEpo2lAaVywJ1Ciq
I would like a joint tour from Agent Fresco and British prog-math-power-trio Arcane Roots - https://open.spotify.com/track/0lLdbZMhk6sH8pTJgMl7fJ
The drvm machines even have an Off switch. But my love does not. - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qRpXui3PWubskblkUNUls

― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 27 September 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link

New Particles, 2015-10-02
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/3uCRb7tFnAKlomZDW2T090

Somehow I missed or forgot about an Envy album a while back - http://open.spotify.com/album/7lINgT6Z15Y1QQQLKcZkbC
Epic cryptic black metal from Mephorash - http://open.spotify.com/album/0re6nodMKgLhXEA2GYrj7g
Dark electronic ambient post-rock by Master Musicians Of Bukkake - http://open.spotify.com/album/4vksbxIS4j5szmqALBSMPv
Sparkly Taiwanese indie rock by 小男孩樂團 (Men.Envy.Children) - http://open.spotify.com/album/5QvOcQXGOQOtftNeU3niz5
Mutedly anthemic Italian indie pop by Paola Turci - https://open.spotify.com/track/2LYBGQZOO56UdvBAePJ6po
Unmutedly anthetmic Italian arena-pop-rock by Gianluca Capozzi - https://open.spotify.com/track/6kS54a6UDcr7qNLLNFo7Qc
Progressive comedy-rock in a language that allows me to ignore the comedy by Elio E Le Storie Tese - https://open.spotify.com/track/650MdkmeEP7igIaH5ebP34
Twittery trap-pop by Ada Reina - http://open.spotify.com/album/1Nwl2z0j5s2QuCE2OXRL6g
Ringing, Kent-esque Norwegian post-post-punk by Hanne Kolstø - https://open.spotify.com/track/2kSD9ibQMc7ryUf9TYHsRT
Melodic djent by TesseracT - http://open.spotify.com/album/3MCDAc15cQpsRPoBaHRXQN
Another Jagged Little Pill outtake by Alanis Morissette - https://open.spotify.com/track/6FGUBhNLfPlPSvCV8gLyF6
Fractured chaotic-ambient solipsynthm by The A.M. Experiment - http://open.spotify.com/album/6yGFN4u5U6GUwh84T3sBQA
Truanslucid gauze-pop by Christine and the Queens - https://open.spotify.com/track/0kB8ajGpkm1VZU8tgqo1lN
The album that makes me start to wonder if Editors have a Talk Talk in them - http://open.spotify.com/album/5cpnh6jaDulg2Yk3BkR0CR
Nerdgrime by the king of nerdgrime, Dan Bull - https://open.spotify.com/track/24foMOtNXARWdJ3Y8Jgf5x
Joe Jackson takes a stand for adulthood as a musical concept - http://open.spotify.com/album/4NuFs6VmNx2r11RArurD3w
Killing Joke takes a stand for sounding like you always did - https://open.spotify.com/track/1OwJiaRNkWmsVRjU21dDdB
I'm not sure the "stoner" in stoner metal still means what it used to mean, and there's a new Kylesa album - http://open.spotify.com/album/5FLIlg8fdg6BU0BHrN1bqB
Syncopated dessert drone by Tinariwen - https://open.spotify.com/track/4pAjhe0ziaLX41MsG7nHOG
Precision-blasting death metal by Revocation - https://open.spotify.com/track/7dynddYcmuLrYzLBy5M6aj
Soaring Spanish folk-metal by Saurom - http://open.spotify.com/album/7wFxbQOlWExcVzpDbWySd7
Pinkshinyultrablast extrapolate a dreamgaze future the Smashing Pumpkins never quite had - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qi5CnFwU7XfaQcq76SHTR
There is a brutal death-metal band called Recursion, but this Recursion is a careful Austrian jazz-pop band - http://open.spotify.com/album/12LHXuKp0rbu5RY7PgzUOR
Deafheaven are still a metal band - http://open.spotify.com/album/2e4xOasRFhJn4x2MBM5pdu
Cfit are like a messy cross between the Frames and Xiu Xiu - http://open.spotify.com/album/2vTlwH4Q0IgI1EQOR4UBip
Stentorian Hungarian throwback synth-rock from Ákos - http://open.spotify.com/album/3yQQuNAptFjdwiIrOAvfMq
Blaring Hungarian hard rock by Mátyás Attila - http://open.spotify.com/album/5tQkKJjkUeGRErgI372R7k
Gloriously massive new gothic metal by Draconian - https://open.spotify.com/track/3VXfcs76zHFsIh1wCNDQCT

― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 5 October 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link

(part 2)

And similarly textbook non-symphonic gothic metal by Entwine - http://open.spotify.com/album/57G6MMphlhFV8C2KdGDV5l
September Mourning take more of an In This Moment-ish view of gothic metal - http://open.spotify.com/album/4a4MdZuJo0d0pmcEGxg8lS
Warmly dissonant Basque post-punk by Zura - http://open.spotify.com/album/3NweL7XVDu1N9dmGrOa8tz
Melodic Basque punk/rock by Larregi - http://open.spotify.com/album/1nx4TuQCdRfKyQjEXCvxKu
Bubbly indie guitar-rock by Secret Someones - http://open.spotify.com/album/2qEwpgL6fkvO6YpSRYpMV1
Pooh remake their 1971 Italian proto-prog hit "Pensiero" - https://open.spotify.com/track/0MUoeqQwtAwczApC45ISzZ
Springy progressive uplifting trance by Inukshuk - https://open.spotify.com/track/7Hz4WGtoUfXemzSUA1Jh6C
Noisy post-rock by A Violet Pine - http://open.spotify.com/album/6rYuVCTgAs3lgOK6Lxt10d
Echoey para-retro French electro-industrial post-punk by Balladur - http://open.spotify.com/album/2nEOO4ubCq09TUikaFSku6
If Ben Folds were young again (and from Northern Ireland), he might sound like Best Boy Grip - http://open.spotify.com/album/3JRjtP9d2alAvmCArS2m5y
If REM were young again (and from Ohio via LA), they might sound like Line & Circle - http://open.spotify.com/album/5FNKo6LK2zA0I0XwNHprYX
Guantlet-dropping instrumental-grime FABRICLIVE DJ set by Logan Sama - http://open.spotify.com/album/5RdKusmbHzWIYlNl3pgL79
Aube-esque noise rituals from Tuonela - http://open.spotify.com/album/1dWfN2cycEc0pzjtYcP0vA
Warm ambient drone by Wolf Maps - http://open.spotify.com/album/2c2D83YZnhwKzwE3x2FeL3
Shimmery vaporwave by 회사AUTO - http://open.spotify.com/album/7jgZa5fQDyQDapiATlzACG
Jangly Norwegian folk-rock by Plumbo - https://open.spotify.com/track/2aBk6d5VLOZGQSueMAkGMh
Soaring experimental progressive post-metal ambition from Digression Assassins - http://open.spotify.com/album/2ozWKAzYRaVfuwFLyFsZYw
I've been waiting for the wave of bands inspired by Kvelertak and Man The Machetes could be the beginning of it - http://open.spotify.com/album/23YcRwKAWNvcyXKo8aKDBf
Blistering female-fronted (but I only know that from reading about them) power-metalcore from For I Am King - https://open.spotify.com/track/39ERl23Ngthd0ukzZhPIsl
Earnest pop-djent upliftingcore from Liam Espinosa - http://open.spotify.com/album/4bFZz9qvPVCSxi3XNlXw4m
Ticks and sighs, but less energy-drink sugariness, by SOPHIE - https://open.spotify.com/track/3Jdg6ScqHUFc4QYY9O6kUk
Shiny epicstep by Fractal and Syrin - https://open.spotify.com/track/3zlZDnMdFsRaCjuPgS6anu
Quick, catchy d&b by SICKorWELL - https://open.spotify.com/track/32E90z0ZvbtyiIYJogVVfo
Airy trance-hop by Day One and Isabel Higuero - http://open.spotify.com/album/7hxLCSUC4HCH1r3DSThG2v
Ragged indie noise-pop by Pity Sex - https://open.spotify.com/track/70LtnsMfmRdTV1IpGXLI2m
If OneRepublic is the Empire, Marianas Trench are the rebels - https://open.spotify.com/track/4DffOGuyj2xXB5Jj6ToLb2
Harrowing Grand Rapids post-hardcore band La Dispute remind me of what it felt like to hear the Pixies or Fugazi for the first time - http://open.spotify.com/album/19NRrJFEhkCC1tbFPDMkzA

But my song of the week is this astounding thing called "Pain of Dancers" by Daisy Victoria, which might be the dark neo-New Wave pop that Charli XCX feinted towards with "Nuclear Seasons" - https://open.spotify.com/track/5aFP9eUIQKaQboADbusdGE

― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 5 October 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link

new allison weiss album :D http://open.spotify.com/album/65xojYRYNfapGmRo4uut40

glenn that tinariwen link u posted doesn't work

― Mordy, Monday, 5 October 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link

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