New and Noteworthy Additions to US Spotify

And you might be thinking "yeah, whatever, I don't have a favorite Slovenian singer". But I didn't, either, until I discovered Alya, who did one of my favorite songs of any kind ever, which is this soaring pop-rock thing:

http://open.spotify.com/track/0oeMp3IJJKggaPa4MfrOrb

The new album is this:

http://open.spotify.com/album/5sHG5G3ZDZvbukDMGyEaaX

I do indeed like this Alya's music, ty

New this week is, finally, the complete album by atmospheric Swedish-pop (one-woman) band Full of Keys! Somewhere in between Bat for Lashes and Tove Lo. http://open.spotify.com/album/5YqXjWkNBt2kbftjpuDq9h

added full of keys to the pile.

Also:
Mary J Blige - The London Sessions
Wu Tang Clan - A Better Tomorrow (shows up but is somehow not playable or transferrable to lists?)
Bonobo - Flashlight EP
Darq E Freaker - Minger
Omarion - Sex Playlist
Hiatus Kaiyote - By Fire
Willie Nelson - December Day
Mogwai - Music Industry 3. Fitness Industry 1.
Little Boots - Business Pleasure
The Chameleons - John Peel Sessions Remastered
Nobuo Uematsu - Symphonic Fantasies Tokyo Live (Final Fantasy music by the Tokyo Philharmonic)

Singles from Travis Scott/Rich Homie Quan/Young Thug, Theesatisfaction, sun kil moon, scissor sisters, neka, k-os, rachel Yamagata and John Medeski

Omarion - Sex Playlist

lol

you know you're curious

highly recommend Verckys & L'Orchestre Vévé · Verckys & L'Orchestre Vévé (Congolose Funk, Afrobeat & Psychedelic Rumba 1969-1978) which you might otherwise miss since it's not categorized

K Michelle - Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart
E-40 - Sharp on All 4 Corners
Ghostface - 36 Seasons

New this week: Charli XCX's Sucker and D'Angelo's Black Messiah.

Also new singles by Milo Greene, Dan Deacon, a collaboration between Lali Puna and Korean synthpop artist Trampauline, and the Waterboys.

Also power/symphonic/various metal by Sleeping Romance, Shadow Icon, Umbra et Imago, Witchbreed, VII ARC and Leah.

Also epic film-trailer-style bombast by Alexey Soloviev, and sputtery glitchstep by Igorrr + Ruby My Dear.

Also UK indie rock by A Plastic Rose and Whales in Cubicles, and a Canadian equivalent from Those Gulls. And the Swedish version, Garbo STHLM.

In the reissue department, deluxe editions of several HIM albums, an omnibus edition of a couple early My Favorite records, and Marilyn McCoo's awesome/hilarious Solid Gold album.

Bunch of Sun Kil Moon albums no longer on spotify for some reason

War on Drugs strikes again

What I'm listening to from the list:

James Brown - Grits & Soul - http://open.spotify.com/album/66bBWSWvO0zR4MJQpbcH49
Joe Bataan - Sweet Soul - http://open.spotify.com/album/2dNHnBHsDf18tIa7acRr2q
Contact Field Orchestra - Volume 2 - http://open.spotify.com/album/06FFJvdGO5ecIRW8mOzSPD

From the orange links:
Geva Alon - Tihi Iti - http://open.spotify.com/album/77PrzE6lTFslmXzaVaKhjg
Moon B - Lifeworld - http://open.spotify.com/album/24zh1XB6GCNJBytUhbKBhM
Janko Nilovic - Super America / Soul Impression / Pop Impressions - http://open.spotify.com/album/3kNsOrZbloHLQZS0gKxZzS
Only Me Mrslamatmakan - Together With Angels I Have Known - http://open.spotify.com/album/795iZyZjxLZs6PGtmHWnFs (can't work out whether I love it or hate it)

Quiet week this week, but:

- Deluxe edition of Shakira. with the 3 bonus tracks, including the magnificent synth-pop experiment "Chasing Shadows" - http://open.spotify.com/track/0dUHP7KmAPrcU7n7O4m5ZT
- A new EP by tyDi, one of my favorite trance producers - http://open.spotify.com/album/6nal4519IFS3cRjViHGggf
- A live album, slathered in crowd hysteria, by K-pop titans EXO - http://open.spotify.com/album/7K1ENiznRIHAcW7JoxRNuR
- A frantic new d&b collaboration song by Black Sun Empire and State of Mind - http://open.spotify.com/album/4JBiRbihvp8UT9L5dFpf3Q
- Throaty folk-metal by Incursed and Gorgon - http://open.spotify.com/album/5n5e4ctrgaJ78X0FfGS2MJ and http://open.spotify.com/album/5yeo9YeiZzGbjnInoAtpsP
- Four old albums by the great Australian band My Friend the Chocolate Cake (and I only just noticed that their previous band, Not Drowning, Waving, was already on Spotify) - http://open.spotify.com/artist/2i09vMNz2QuvFpldzhFdvA and http://open.spotify.com/artist/3yTRmO175hnQI9QwOiYCM9
- Some creepy harshambientnoise by Theologian - http://open.spotify.com/album/21WWInHTFjlRqaQn1J3bBT
- Metalcore cover of Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" by Sea Swallowed Us Whole - http://open.spotify.com/album/1bmjpTTJpaZ8I1jwCJA2t0
- Some churning instrumental post-metal by Tsima - http://open.spotify.com/album/7dbqpuSD5hbcMieZK5ZNTG
- Brittle astral-soul-ish synthpop by MADE IN HEIGHTS - http://open.spotify.com/album/3ACc1BimDkPdI3j9qAbPQO
- Surging alt-hard-rock by Italian band River of Saturn - http://open.spotify.com/album/3rQrMCicw9foEg3wI8JEeI
- My own new EP of awkwardly over-earnest indietronica! - http://open.spotify.com/album/2FBDwUYoG3t3h5dC5fy5oZ

i didn't know that a glenn made indietronica music!

adding it now

This is a slow week, but I flagged some indietronical stuff:

Milo Greene "Heartless" - http://open.spotify.com/track/76uBAUMXCg9qXyhxt8Z7HU
Kindness (ft. Robyn) "Who Do You Love?" - http://open.spotify.com/track/6HPZQWNcpelHeR5DSrpWT7
Viet Cong "Silhouettes" - http://open.spotify.com/track/3nZcGE8cxQJ5zYlBFSCxOE
La Bien Querida: Nocturnidad EP - http://open.spotify.com/album/7IFQhMuOFAtZwN6Ps0Xf3R

and one gothic symphonic metal thing:

Elessär: Dark Desires - http://open.spotify.com/album/1VmUkdZwx7ZFEARuPn1P7O

and I saw a bunch of old Sun Ra and Buckethead albums go by...

Saint Cava - Forget - http://open.spotify.com/track/7CgfLYNXmkKsOpI23Cjbkc

This was one of last things in the 2014 Shambhala thread, but now it's an official release. Icy Danish r&b-ish thing with a great heavy mood.

The newest Grumbling Fur album finally made it on there. It's really good, imo.

massive pile of Sun Ra and his Arkestra, maybe 18 albums
also a Ferlin Husky best of!

beginning of the year is always so slow but i'll check out

Infected Mushroom · Friends On Mushrooms (Deluxe Edition)

i guess that's it

ooo somehow missed Kassé Mady Diabaté · Kiriké - Ballaké Sissoko plays kora music on the album.

Still not a lot coming out, but that gives me time to dig a little more.

Kelly Clarkson's Jimmy Eat World impression: http://open.spotify.com/track/53b7YqVw2Vc1oRrYeOm7z7
Bombastic cartoon power-metal album from Battle Beast hides this retro-80s gem: http://open.spotify.com/track/6NbGBFIVeMlKYeWksCyMwS
New Susanne Sundfør song: http://open.spotify.com/track/2NlsPciPsZFh9EIVUXW7Kd
Airy pop song by Satellite Stories: http://open.spotify.com/track/0sh437yi45X3s53Yyk4TK6
New EP of weird vibes-and-stuff from Fatima Al Qadiri: http://open.spotify.com/album/15MfIAm3A7U0W1myJaXye2
Swoony synth-post-rock from Lights & Motion: http://open.spotify.com/album/0VIxw6zt84N7sWxGzgXEOU
Ice-glittery ambient noise from Northaunt: http://open.spotify.com/album/3maPOzoeZcseDi8N1svy5r
Bizarre circus-metal by 6:33: http://open.spotify.com/album/5cSxE267WHScEwgIwYF4bN
More dark ambient noise by Baleyyg: http://open.spotify.com/album/1AIRvTTGAr7V4dxNpwMjOn
Twittery synth/r&b by Pennybirdrabbit: http://open.spotify.com/track/6gaolJaReuXswnAuHHvAcb
Bouncy goth-rock by Victories at Sea: http://open.spotify.com/track/49R3nImYRmdaQOeZ3aIdPq
4 more nearly-hour-long drone-minimalist installments of Earlyguard's ongoing endlessness: http://open.spotify.com/album/43qv4EYhiSYSyFK68dTKk0
Djent + Tubular Bells = Omni Dimensional: http://open.spotify.com/album/2v7yR6l2l8DgMtulxJqGul

Another large pile of Gallo Record Company compilations from South Africa: http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/3qo5bhgYoNYRFkrTxFXP61

Oh, the Fatima Al Qadiri EP is actually from 2011. But new to me...

there's a ton of kenyan stuff that i'm unfamiliar w/ but mostly sounds folk-pop and all bizarrely sorted under the letter 'E' - i'd be curious to know the story about them (i assume spotify just got access to a particular kenyan label?):
Eddy M Kihia · Ahiki a Banana
Edee Mwangi M · Kiiraniro Giaku
Edith Murithi · Tazama
Edith Wambani · God's Angel
etc

i'll check out the panda bear even tho i'm sure it'll be terrible and the battle beast album bc of Noora Louhimo vocals

oh and i'll definitely listen to the new gallo playlist

I compensated for the lack of interesting/known-to-me new releases this week by listening to the new Jazmine Sullivan album twice: https://play.spotify.com/album/682dnvSPZ6lwCNodfMVcbh

hm!

21 × kwaito · south african jazz ...
Oliver Mtukudzi · Greatest Moments Of 12
Steve Kekana · Greatest Moments Of 13
Mango Groove · Greatest Moments Of 13
Soul Brothers · Greatest Moments Of 13
Stimela · Greatest Moments Of 13
Sipho Gumede · Greatest Moments Of 12
African Jazz Pioneers · Greatest Moments Of 12
Jabu Khanyile · Greatest Moments Of 13
Sechaba · Greatest Moments Of 12
Bhekumuzi Luthuli · Greatest Moments Of 14
Lundi · Greatest Moments Of 11
Thokozani Langa · Greatest Moments Of 10
Zim Ngqawana · Greatest Moments Of 12
Tananas · Greatest Moments Of 12
Paul Hanmer · Greatest Moments Of 12
Patricia Majalisa · Greatest Moments Of 12
Sipho Hotstix Mabuse · Greatest Moments Of 11
Mfaz'omnyama · Greatest Moments Of 12
Kholeka · Greatest Moments Of 12
Shwi No Mtekhala · Greatest Moments Of 10
David Owens · Honey Moon 11

that jazmine album is def my fave new album of january

Some things this week:

- New Airborne Toxic Event single - http://open.spotify.com/track/2VZ5IYkLShSdoulZ2hY8TK
- new Nothing But Thieves single - http://open.spotify.com/track/2WBSdRYPXqGOZ8mk9iBQBN
- Sleater-Kinney album - http://open.spotify.com/album/1l7gMbzE7RRAdYddJSfM5B
- new album of quiet Icelandic folk-pop from Ásgeir - http://open.spotify.com/album/1WbUJMTvFdfsbfdtinWO9J
- new album of stentorian German gothica from Umbra et Imago - http://open.spotify.com/album/4R2puk7jmkjnHU3bk6h5cK
- new song from Ibeyi, who you should probably know if you like singing - http://open.spotify.com/track/2bqx1nbXAI6ciOxzl2JbVC
- shimmery new song from Keep Shelly in Athens - http://open.spotify.com/track/3F3N06E6uzwQnSUHsIXmOC
- shoegazey EP from Pinkshinyultrablast - http://open.spotify.com/album/6FhcWPX1QKqvqQpdFWP7sh
- pre-acclaimed noise-pop debut from Viet Cong - http://open.spotify.com/album/63GwqLuSzZnAQpd1JBQKLT
- advance single from new (!) album by T'Pau (!) - http://open.spotify.com/track/2yumFCWGLBbzG7YT1HUONg
- buzzy ambientnoise from In Aeternam Vale - http://open.spotify.com/album/4Mv6jIbN1pkfRZKUu5JQgF
- noisy noisecorenoisecoreblastnoise from Merzbow - http://open.spotify.com/album/5mV81JJfbF9rqXJLgQA8fb
- new melodic hardrockmetal single from Malrum - http://open.spotify.com/track/7Ka1MGEg4dZURA9ekGQjVK
- more melodic hardrockmetal from Screaming for Silence - http://open.spotify.com/album/1DKzOYdGNggrQKNRdaSm0K
- gothic symphonic metal from Against Myself - http://open.spotify.com/album/7zjEnT4bMIMHM2UM6IePRm
- dramatic/melodic poststep single by Ki:Theory - http://open.spotify.com/track/3yKRmlHD3hB9nDirw4t6OQ

Viet Cong is one of the best post punk revival dealios I've heard in a hot tick

http://open.spotify.com/album/63GwqLuSzZnAQpd1JBQKLT

oops sorry you had that

Fall Out Boy · American Beauty/American Psycho - duh
Lupe Fiasco · Tetsuo & Youth
Red Baraat · Gaadi of Truth - North Indian Wedding Funk band
David Krakauer · Dreams and Prayers - hello! super clarinetist (tho i believe this actually came out last year so maybe just new to spotify)
Ari Shaffir · Paid Regular - comedy

T'Pau?!

Eew, I don't like this.

Other than that new S-K, the other two new releases this week that I'm very cautiously optimistic about are:

Belle and Sebastian: https://play.spotify.com/album/3Gy0FCDIx9MoliXd3YcTBt
Ryan Bingham: https://play.spotify.com/album/6mf8iFx30NUcwRQ9TB0KO1

I was a big T'Pau fan, and remain a big fan of their first three albums. This new song doesn't recapture much of their dramatic essence, though, at least for me, so I don't have high expectations for the whole album.

Oh, and the Ásgeir album is actually his original 2012 Icelandic debut, which was subsequently translated and re-recorded in English as In the Silence.

I seem to frequently run into issue with desktop spotify where I click an artist's song under 'Albums', and spotify plays another song from that artist instead. However, if I click a song under 'Popular' for that artist, the correct song plays.

Didn't notice, and therefore mention, Universal Togetherness Band, the latest unearthing from Numero: https://play.spotify.com/album/6zoUkhMlcPMEsvd7sPSfue

Still no Bjork, though.

Noveller · Fantastic Planet
Natalie Prass · Natalie Prass

^ i've already heard these two and they're both great

Kyle Kinane · "I Liked His Old Stuff Better" - comedy, no idea re quality
Dengue Fever · The Deepest Lake - band from Los Angeles who combine Cambodian pop music and lyrics with psychedelic rock, very psyched {lol get it?} to hear this
Noura · Chansons populaires d'Algérie - greatest hits comp of algerian singer that passed away last year
Osayomore Joseph · Waka Waka - Nigerian 1982 Highlife
Warsaw Afrobeat Orchestra · Wëndelu - only 2 tracks showing up at the moment
Doomtree · All Hands - Minnesota hip-hop
Msoke - Free Motion - new tanzanian afro-soul
Zongo · Akwaaba Live EP - new accra afrobeat

buried at the very bottom of the list but gorgeous w/ a great backstory:

Zomba Prison Project · "I Have No Everything Here"

have u not heard Dengue Fever before? they are on tour! I think you will like them

i had not before that post - i have since and they're really fantastic. loving the album.

mordy assuming you were a booster of noura mint seymali in the albums poll? holy heck what an amazing record

This week I've been busy catching up on a bunch of grim black metal I missed from last year (including the last Blut Aus Nord album finally on Spotify - http://open.spotify.com/album/7oo5w94txl1DJhJ2ObAgud), but I also flagged:

- new Swedish pop singles by Molly Sandén (http://open.spotify.com/track/6J15jdfupYQUgE5ElAjK2U) and Tove Styrke (http://open.spotify.com/track/253V91l7DxehjkHyvxLPNN)
- shoegazey albums by Pinkshinyultrablast (http://open.spotify.com/album/5i4chaWK0h50pbc3WJNXhL) and maimaiscripting (http://open.spotify.com/album/6DMuL7NBDaY1Gp1ouVYvdV)
- swoony new Mew song - http://open.spotify.com/track/2k6OJi7py6gMwJgUhGb6Ff
- full album by Milo Greene, whose synthpoppy advance singles I've been enjoying - http://open.spotify.com/album/7MbZT5JzECttBUY8qJvPXh
- punk-pop cover of "Blank Space" by Fast Forward Music - http://open.spotify.com/track/6rV5IbmwyGChgOpbTEzupE
- new song by Romanian progressive/experimental black-folk-metal band Negra Bunget - http://open.spotify.com/track/5e478qxoDZ7RnSa2nadIAu
- new glossy pop-trance album by Chicane - http://open.spotify.com/album/6zix3r9UNQGlGR3rBLwmX6

Yes great album! Thrilled it took off w ilm xp

full album by Milo Greene

Oh good, FINALLY

Some things I flagged this week:

Phantogram remix of Charli XCX - http://open.spotify.com/track/2L02OMP8UeVfOqPdML5D8L
new Fifth Harmony album - http://open.spotify.com/album/0zAsh6hObeNmFgFPrUiFcP
trance-poppy new Mia Martina single - http://open.spotify.com/track/3flQpVPvUcvQlmwhJmHAvW
The Airborne Toxic Event continuing to go synth in advance of new album - http://open.spotify.com/track/4SwGrwMJQEH0jAWzRJ5E5U
new song by blaring hard-rock trio Dead Sara - http://open.spotify.com/track/1lwu7YHGTBs1otNYMtbVMw
new power-metal by genre titans Blind Guardian - http://open.spotify.com/album/5zFOq9WFIC1WTzlgoUi1d8
new album by (nominally) T'Pau - http://open.spotify.com/album/1LnIZlwivZCueLo0AmTVuk
funny new spazz-rock song by Courtney Barnett - http://open.spotify.com/track/7kGXaFUi09CYndPllORUXb
epic new gothic metal song by Moonspell - http://open.spotify.com/track/7wKW5dIMkeVrMbbouefUHR
wolfy new wolf-metal wolfing by Wolfheart - http://open.spotify.com/album/7tr5vCysDOlCxbisE3rmoz
new album by blurry Norwegian indie band Green Sky Accident - http://open.spotify.com/album/1p713qaBV4qtcw0EtO7sM7
a couple new versions of a song from last year by Hungarian progressive-metal band Leander Rising - http://open.spotify.com/album/2IkVn5v9iZwNspCWRZ6ChV
intriguing 3rd record by shoegazey San Diego "alternative space-rock" band Anakin - http://open.spotify.com/album/15vUZ5MXMCtsSXmjRDMoN8
new EP by cheerfully Nightwish-esque German gothic symphony metal band Elvellon - http://open.spotify.com/album/1No9wCp88CGcPcFjklCV6w
big, earnest Italian indie rock by Daniele Celona - http://open.spotify.com/album/5kKWOSHgdiH4PDz9oxIhNZ
swoony Vaults song from a movie soundtrack - http://open.spotify.com/track/0i0gvaWBgGbizetjcUvEMR
fast, chunky Swedish folk-punk from Lastkaj 14 - http://open.spotify.com/album/1ghMoNrTsownVwGQ0OaKKn

But no John Carpenter :-(

Oh, and more South African comps for this list:

http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/3qo5bhgYoNYRFkrTxFXP61