New and Noteworthy Additions to US Spotify

Also, the weird lyric lift from Radiohead in "Cherry" is unexpected and maybe a little awkward.

new prince albums are butt

new tape album is awes

"you can point fingers all you want. i don't care. i love you anyway."

glenn can you tell me if the canadian catalog is drastically different from the american like netflix?

No, the two are not drastically different. I just took a cursory look at some of the relatively few things that are technically available in one of the two countries but not the other, and all of the ones I checked were cases where a release is only available in one, but the same audio is available on another release in the other country. I'm sure there are actual differences, too, but I couldn't quickly find any.

thanks! i was using the US version via vpn (*slaps self on wrist*) but i really wanted to pay and couldn't—but was a bit worried about switching over.

I know this isn't the thread, but I have a tech Spotify question -- is there a way to easily/quickly see the full title of a track? Often classical music track titles are very, very long because they list composer, piece, orchestra, conductor, and only then the movement or sub-section and I can't actually see the last part.

late to the game but:
Tove Lo - Queen of the Clouds
Raul Midon - Don't Hesitate
Glenn Campbell - I'll Be Me Soundtrack EP
Prince - Art Official Age (very good where it's good, very mediocre where it's not)
Prince and 3rdIGirl - Plectrumelectrum
Meshuggah - I
Sam Amidon - Lily-O
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives - Saturday Night / Sunday Morning
The Toure-Raichel Collective - The Paris Session
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Gone Girl OST
Calvin and The Hobgoblins - Hookup Kulture
Yelle - Completement fou

new singles from Boyz II Men, jordin sparks, Tinashe with Dev Hynes, Chvrches, lorde, lee ann rimes ("i want a hippopotamus for christmas"! no idea why i care), Annie Lennox, Joey Badass, Wild Beasts, Royskopp, Wiley, Elephant Man

what is the calvin and the hobgoblins like?

Okay! A little weak on the production end but a single playthru is interesting.

The Calvin & the Hobgoblins EP sounds clearly like it was self-produced by somebody without a professional production background, but to me that's a significant part of its charm. Wild ambition mashed through the available filters and tools.

Any reason to listen to Yelle in 2014?

"Completement fou" (the title track) has been in my head for the last two days, so ... maybe?

"Any reason to listen to [ ] in [ ]?"

Sure, there are always reasons. I didn't even know what you were talking about, and it took me about 15 seconds to discover that I liked this: http://open.spotify.com/track/48qPo25VFExoldlr26LcxF

Weezer · Everything Will Be Alright In The End
Tokio Hotel · Kings Of Suburbia
New Found Glory · Resurrection
Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles · The Last Transmission
Orange Goblin · Back From The Abyss
Vashti Bunyan · Heartleap
Steve Gunn · Way Out Weather
Dan Mintz · The Stranger
Perfume · LEVEL3

interested in these too:
Ntombi Marhumbini · Jelani-Jelani
Ntombi Marhumbini · Miyela Switahela
Ntombi Marhumbini · Nuna Wanga

Do you like beepy pop with female singers? It's a good week: Charli XCX, Jessie J, Tinashe, Betty Who, Zola Jesus, Iamamiwhoami, Broods, Perfume, Sofie Winterson.

Oh, and Godflesh. And a new single by The Who.

Imagine... Importing a playlist from home and not having have some lame-ass John Lennon impersonator pop up when you least expect it. Happy birthday, bore is over.

late looks but i am literally a thousand tracks back on my listening list so this stuff will get exposure to my ears in 2015 or so.

Tinashe - Aquarius
Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait
SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land
Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
Floppy - I am Computer Music (this is fun!)
Shystie - Stop EP
Matias Aguayo - Legende (!!!)
Yemi Alade - King of Queens
Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn - S/T
Dot Hacker - How's Your Process (also fun)
Nina Persson - Tank Om... OST
The Dells - Complete Singles
Bill Frisell - Guitar in the Space Age
Red Foley - Complete Country Hits

Singles from Charli XCX, Sam Smith / ASAP, TI, Angaleena Presley, Nick Jonas and Angel Haze (so odd), Telepopmusik, Mary J, Estelle, Gackt, Junior Brown (the 'Better Call Saul' Theme!)

Matias Aguayo - Legende (!!!)

what is this?

new, quietly released EP by the look of it... you a fan?

no just curious

i'm a fan. it's pretty good so far. try "ay ay ay" sometime.

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

Some things I flagged this week:

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

i'll add

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

love that these guys are still making new albums:

Draco and the Malfoys · Cheat to Win

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

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

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

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

should I listen to nude beach

idk, i remember liking the last one

ok it is called 77 so I guess I will

u should listen to budos band tho it's fantastic

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

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

more afrobeaty than heavy metal imo

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

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

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

Some stuff I flagged:

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

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

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

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

thanks, will do!

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

Javiera Mena - Otra Era

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

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

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

!!!