New and Noteworthy Additions to US Spotify

ok it is called 77 so I guess I will

u should listen to budos band tho it's fantastic

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

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

more afrobeaty than heavy metal imo

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

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

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

Some stuff I flagged:

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

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

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

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

thanks, will do!

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

Javiera Mena - Otra Era

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

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

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

!!!

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

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

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

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

don't know about this new grouper

snoozer

yeah, seems that way

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

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

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

Dan Bodan - Soft

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

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

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

can it speak horse?

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

It has "your music", yayyy!

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

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

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

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

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

label: "Document" gets nothing?

oh, has it gotta be on the desktop version?

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

label:Document

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

well, if it were sortable.

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

heh, so of course i waited for it all to load and tried to create a playlist to futz with and spotify is not keen on creation of an 18,862 track playlist

spotify has lots of issues with big playlists, it's kind of annoying

A workaround I've used for huge playlists is to split the tracks into a few smaller playlists, then put those into a playlist folder. If you click on the playlist folder itself, it displays all the files and you can sort and search them together as though they were a single playlist.

That's also what I do except it backfired on me when I started to use Roku as my main spotify player as it doesn't allow you to play folders, only single playlists

the "issue" such as it is with the sorting hat is that i consistently find more music in a given two month period than I could comprehensively listen to in a year. I'm having to start back up to the back up playlists to hold stuff for the slow winter months.

that said:
Teyana Taylor - VII
Bauer - B
Tears or Fears - Songs from the Big Chair (Super Deluxe 59 track version of which most of the tracks are US unavailable)
Ski Beatz - 24 Horas Escuela de Karate
Emmylou Harris - The 70's Studio Album Collection (62 tracks!)
Excepter - Familiar
Beardyman - Distractions

plus new singles from Chvrches, Pink Floyd, Mary J, K Michelle, Elle Varner, Kacey Musgraves, Rick Ross, Culture Club, E-40, Sarkodie

And three new tracks from Wu Tang!

glenn! i just saw you in harper's magazine!!

Yeah, that was cool. I didn't think they picked the funniest genres, personally, but I suppose I'm by definition a bad judge of this.

Emmylou Harris - The 70's Studio Album Collection (62 tracks!)

^^nice long overdue for me to check out

wanted to check this out but the link isn't working atm:
Sali Sidibe · Musique traditionnelle du Mali