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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

Weird, Tinariwen links works for me. What happens for you?

― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 5 October 2015 18:42 (eight years ago) link

i just clicked on it and it worked. i think earlier i copy/pasted it into the spotify search bar (which i thought normally works?) and what happens in that case it says Your search did not match anything in our catalogue.

― Mordy, Monday, 5 October 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link

That usually works, too. But clicking is easier and less error-prone...

― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link

New Particles, 2015-10-09
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/01dqxU0wQxSK9lkp0zQZb8

Somber-joyous Finnish pop from Kristiina Wheeler - https://open.spotify.com/track/0Bv8WiUO8eBjZgfBd3AGLQ
Crashing black-metal catharsis from Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - http://open.spotify.com/album/48SVgcHGfBn91vAsPWwboX
Banda + disco + street-band jump = Kinky and Banda Furioza - http://open.spotify.com/album/2cpkNhSpPQDUBdKA2VO3NT
Grand Italian pop-melancholy from Bianca Atzei - https://open.spotify.com/track/1nTAqH9uk2zF7xwP7skbCU
... and yearningly more from Anna Tatangelo - https://open.spotify.com/track/4jvzwVSNGlpapJ3YsR08um
Fast, shouty Norwegian melodic punk from Ondt Blod - https://open.spotify.com/track/7HWi2MvitgGsJlJv8Miuly
A Christmas-carol-sounding muted anthem about Stockholm by Adam Chiapponi & Fabriken - https://open.spotify.com/track/3BshhvY42v50O21xIgH23N
Chirpy Swedish synth-pop from Ida Redig - https://open.spotify.com/track/2sbnTwl4R9WAEUBOBEXNf9
Erratic French progressive screamo-core by Novelists - http://open.spotify.com/album/2285H9tmYGEYXntiVvriyT
Boingy funk-new-wave gated-drum retro-synth from The Black Queen - https://open.spotify.com/track/4WMHzLnrZ5Jf6ViAbE6T19
Trad-minded female-vocal heavy metal by A Sound of Thunder - http://open.spotify.com/album/6TzR0apN3Favj4KrPOSNlx
Raw black speed metal from Tsjuder - http://open.spotify.com/album/7vZHusdNTUxwFRr2ISEdmP
and rawer, blastier black metal from Horna - http://open.spotify.com/album/78OyrT7gqedKx0iBN5N1Of
Beauty-and-the-beast gothic metal from Elarmir - http://open.spotify.com/album/64XxeOnmspikKtQlsTxek0
Elegant adventurous Dublin abstract-synth-emo-pop by Codes - http://open.spotify.com/album/0IPPWmKHIsbXSTkpAjEvxn
Gauzy evasive electro-space-pop by Midday Veil - http://open.spotify.com/album/63MMf66TcCy0Z3Nx30Ehdx
Experimental, bird-call-like violin/recorder instrumentals by Laura Cannell - http://open.spotify.com/album/0gMe7NCQr2HLwzgvQA8j0m
Dark minimalist electro-noise by Senking - http://open.spotify.com/album/4cGXgYPjMXZftMTBGuXDbA
Pastoral depressive black metal by Grift - http://open.spotify.com/album/7odpZfZWmVmCqKPborPfjo
Ritualistic Norwegian dark progressive metal by Mantric - http://open.spotify.com/album/1ENQrmwD6QZovURZ1RjFQf
Toronto hyperfuzzpop by Shmu - https://open.spotify.com/track/4rJxaxPF4gMVzgSlhLlmZY
Alexi Lalas keeps making earnest pop-rock records - https://open.spotify.com/track/1eEsYu7q8VsPDpvoBzSDxE
Remember when it seemed like all indie rock was going to sound like Pavement forever? Wild Moth make it seem like that might have been less horrible than I feared - http://open.spotify.com/album/0vgsZzFM9I4OIFW68yY8aK
Dense pagan black metal by Trials - http://open.spotify.com/album/6jgC8EG8mvqK5ZMKc7gXIH
Airy LA sibling-duo synth-rock by Blondfire - https://open.spotify.com/track/6wn7JRaWU2yfX7wUDjnRvF
Late-80s-style dance-pop way more Wendy-and-Lisa than anachronistic Max Martin from Brooklynn - http://open.spotify.com/album/0TVWBNfrhvOkdth3TTu9mw
Australian X-Factor ex-winner Reece Mastin does Hunter Hayes without the Nashville - http://open.spotify.com/album/20FoHpQ8k10yg3XfyEcWFw
Appealingly scruffy Veracruz alt-rock by Mark Horton - http://open.spotify.com/album/74Qlf9M9DFHkfYmtJLGpOF
Swoony Mexican synth-rock by Elviaje - https://open.spotify.com/track/3VO8VJQE0cEir2A02Wtmlu
Epic raw black metal by Heimdalls Wacht - http://open.spotify.com/album/7xIgp7nqy6mPgkRhG20DUv
Goofy (non-metal) noise-rock by Evil Blizzard - http://open.spotify.com/album/7LoEXNmuwThtAAtjCp6gbN
Post-CHVRCHES disco by Ellie Goulding - https://open.spotify.com/track/1zHW5fzog024qJa6K2U7KA
The less-ambient of two more albums of sound-collage electronica by The A.M. Experiment - http://open.spotify.com/album/75v6coSeHNLSEIbAGOvMZN

― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 10 October 2015 03:47 (eight years ago) link

(part 2)

― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 10 October 2015 03:48 (eight years ago) link

New Particles, 2015-10-16
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/6UpwmRJLWPHc5lDE7AipPg

3 versions each of 2 new goth-industrial stomps by Helalyn Flowers - http://open.spotify.com/album/30Jc7fCnFuQvXJIvg7Kc3H
TeraBrite crunching through their version of Demi Lovato's "Confident" - https://open.spotify.com/track/0VUySyhGkxTp8PrNbCTQKj
Still a tragic lack of Aube records on Spotify, but we did get another one - https://open.spotify.com/track/30gTc6JhJ888VX3DBHZ9YU
New album by wild one-man Hungarian avant-garde post-black metal band Thy Catafalque - http://open.spotify.com/album/23xJTVLJwQyO0aOfFhTISR
Epic melodic symphonic progressive black metal by So Hideous - http://open.spotify.com/album/698Mc1Dm1NhbP0qg9pr3in
Clicky, yearning indietronica from Small Black - http://open.spotify.com/album/6qSL3uKJ4x10OxoFpjgLQ5
Quick, tense, swoopy indie-pop by White Sea - https://open.spotify.com/track/739AaKJwVBRn5VSu4YkXNJ
Chairlift seem to have been listening to tUnE-yArDs - https://open.spotify.com/track/3Aavvmvuc36w25vxNG4VE7
Crisp pure-arena-pop relentlessness by One Direction - https://open.spotify.com/track/3DnzEB8Ffnp5sjnCbOugUX
Hyperquantized robotfunk by SOPHIE - https://open.spotify.com/track/2cGvUvoFSpczQL25DerV7T
Cheerfully ragged Norwegian riot-grrrl-esque punk-pop by Slutface - http://open.spotify.com/album/0y5Gll91J2Ni3cwAvgeTER
Roiling, shrieking, atmospherically cacophanous pagan black metal by Cosmic Church - http://open.spotify.com/album/2fi3XhYKLsHoJXdJtiHTsu
Fast Mexican half-pop throwback punk from De Uno En Uno - http://open.spotify.com/album/0jtYbeZUnUhNaC84aOn3Ba
New album by German gothic-rock masters ASP - http://open.spotify.com/album/6A3yr3FLXPkI9KfJK4jmbW
Crackling Finnish hard rock from Raaka-Aine - https://open.spotify.com/track/5qqpEBH9nZhhiy9S3ZW8ev
Lumbering, evasive Glasgow post-rock by Thula Borah - http://open.spotify.com/album/6g8eQAKSqRLr7xvUzU2VUU
Landa and Meg Birch turn Yaz's "Only You" into a spare piano duet - https://open.spotify.com/track/16knpiCAwBvhPyZltlWivO
Post-world arena-trap by Kwabs and Fetty Wap - http://open.spotify.com/album/5NugmMxKj8jXNOZRu2yq9G
Springy instrumental electro-post-rock by Lymbyc Systym - http://open.spotify.com/album/3w1fCVdSU1ILmRcZm31faH
Radiant pop-punk overdrive by State Champs - http://open.spotify.com/album/6e7qQNNJSaez58YoKRiBCn
Portentious, shredding epicore by Erik Ekholm - http://open.spotify.com/album/2QUMAOTEsy9AQBfBLUreUd
Galloping power-pop-punk from Gothenburg by Terra - https://open.spotify.com/track/38dPakXK7H2XyF23YAkN41
Dan Bull and Cammie Robinson try a nerd-grime version of "Read All About It" or "Written in the Stars" - https://open.spotify.com/track/2LE2q4MZz6UWWAXfRHz867
Varien and Laura Brehm take morning trance into epicore sunrise - https://open.spotify.com/track/0CSgDcTX6Q0uznUHt7mokF
Slot Machine push exuberant Thai indie-rock to the brink of visual kei - http://open.spotify.com/album/4JRl4YqeQrbyKVClX1uVg4
Sumptuous atmospheric indietronic reticence from Christine and the Queens - http://open.spotify.com/album/6icxSA6dVp16bBXaeAMSYG
Kaleidoscopic static by Cheatahs - https://open.spotify.com/track/09OXnDEtGUin9RabIQLJrZ
Bubbly synth-goth by Alice In Videoland - https://open.spotify.com/track/6buc62sIpaxyb7ViyBPsAw
The surging, twee punk band the Go-Go's never were are called Muncie Girls - http://open.spotify.com/album/04I3QhKCdD2afedJxxcGHY
朱俐靜 giving some Taiwanese TV show a glorious Garnet-Crow-ish theme song - https://open.spotify.com/track/6EHfrQUVeFQ7mpkSyyN3c8
The continuing adventures of Chilean twice-re-formed New Wave legends Electrodomésticos - http://open.spotify.com/album/7KDRLIq5YhbN3P3M1nkxvf
Head-crushing black SLC splatter-thrash from Cult Leader - http://open.spotify.com/album/5Oie3ShowFen1OGbfNkuFM
French electro-pop with occasional guitar squalls by Xavier Boscher - http://open.spotify.com/album/1rA3uEnyDFFejpIQ7y7DSC
Moody LA synthpop by MUNA - https://open.spotify.com/track/0hKbBE3RwBZQtsnkzBIxIR
Blaring, Hole-esque noise-pop by Skinny Girl Diet - http://open.spotify.com/album/64VLdTWO2iuGWDT9S6KPFz
Florid Austrian gothic circus metal by Lolita KompleX - http://open.spotify.com/album/1g6Dhiorimu9rxMgQL8BJU
Rousing Swedish pop-rock by Jonathan Fröberg - https://open.spotify.com/track/69ZT6WQ0UZgc5kuiC4EMji
Measured indietronic sparkle by Pr0files - https://open.spotify.com/track/6SSKR7x2un743k1L31c5bk
Shouty pop metalcore by Arcane Roots - http://open.spotify.com/album/3PAwu68vSqH7TQ0ssP1l0f
And oh, just a new album by Jean-Michel Jarre - http://open.spotify.com/album/2TeBcXsF6f0A6v0oxACUX5

― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 19 October 2015 03:15 (eight years ago) link

So I guess it's just me, now?

New Particles, 2015-10-23
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/6VCuUaMtYFiI2Za868fuVm

If Low can get with drum machines, Shearwater can go beepy - https://open.spotify.com/track/23UuoXMLnB5t7qm5oiXN62
Ominous substep rumble by Horizon - http://open.spotify.com/album/4C6bNpgYfV177kisMXyVm0
Gently bouncy uplift-pop by Ellie Goulding - https://open.spotify.com/track/7kD0Y5jtaX8zIsYHyxRNKW
Indie-er indietronic translucence by The Japanese House - http://open.spotify.com/album/4pi0uxZhvg9PuST6tqKeqQ
Remastered editions of 3 early a-ha albums, including the great Memorial Beach - http://open.spotify.com/album/6jeJqq4sspy54tXoeLwJNI
Killing Joke have done their venomous industrial-punk thing long enough that the industrial part now sounds nostalgic - http://open.spotify.com/album/3v5HVJCL7fDYQkiokMYpbA
Jazz-metal convolutions by Shining - http://open.spotify.com/album/426j1oU7HSWiUalEUDOYaf
Post-Cascadian avant-thrash metal by VHÖL - http://open.spotify.com/album/1VLJmlv618MDmw1fw9CqPp
Relentless aggrotech by Corrections House - http://open.spotify.com/album/7bxRU2cF45G3QCG4ZM0n1B
Crunching melodic anime-death metal by Halo - http://open.spotify.com/album/4yPhIyij3ZgnyGECW0es4m
Restless jumpcut geekstep by Pegboard Nerds - http://open.spotify.com/album/6RvVDpaJqXmKJPSTZtB8OD
Keith Urban reminds us that country can do melancholy - https://open.spotify.com/track/3W5GXbS3ugsYjx1X0xBNbL
Celtic-infused way-post-disco stomp-and-fiddle from Rod Stewart - http://open.spotify.com/album/09Yadl464p9NgLDXSrEDCx
Chirpy neo-synth-pop from St. Lucia - https://open.spotify.com/track/2khqMJ0UmmTCgiIjr8RhL3
Thickly atmospheric indie guitar rock by Racing Glaciers - https://open.spotify.com/track/3Qlw6thsSD1IqE6fNse2dn
Hypermelodic gothic symphonic metal by Amberian Dawn - http://open.spotify.com/album/0soguZBI4nR4VI3aFWtBMS
Visual sprint-kei by Matenrou Opera - http://open.spotify.com/album/1UlhNde7AYsDouAn8vPuLk
Alternately angelic and sludged epic hard-doom-rock by Avatarium - http://open.spotify.com/album/5874V0GDIm054Z6fOtwtN1
Near-subsonic d&b wobble by ARtroniks - http://open.spotify.com/album/3QCp2akCJpN6HAYpIqVFHl
Spectral-wash ambient noiseshaping by Philip Jeck - http://open.spotify.com/album/0jfqeNOKZzeG6BtMGbZ0qi
A one-song folk-death-metal primer by Månegarm - https://open.spotify.com/track/1AZPmRf04fprBNwkWD09yF
Into the Taylor Swift pop-country vaccuum with Leah Daniels - http://open.spotify.com/album/45OR4vxlWyBdgbZl8THuTa
If One Direction had been listening to Sparks albums while watching Beatles movies with the sound off, they might have came out sounding more like Marianas Trench. Can you have an experimental pop boyband? - http://open.spotify.com/album/6bHlJBmCWgRT8cOrpuXgaF
Shouty-fluttery Japanese post-hardcore rage by coldrain - http://open.spotify.com/album/0ipLiiXsOdeIrXdc0hfpr8
Obsessive noise-rock blur by Savages - https://open.spotify.com/track/3EkqGwaDQg4vkMHtcNZvpC
Croaky symphonic black cryptic-spasmodic metal from Upon Shadows - http://open.spotify.com/album/37ZmjDUjyFQ8j9hqkJrv4i

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 23 October 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link

i have honestly set myself up with enough music for the next two years!
plus i'm managing the ilx lists and listening to those. it's a full full world.

― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 October 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link

Should I be ashamed for really enjoying that Marianas Trench album?

― MarkoP, Friday, 23 October 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link

i have honestly set myself up with enough music for the next two years!
plus i'm managing the ilx lists and listening to those. it's a full full world.

Lol tell me about it, my "to listen" playlist is perpetually hovering around 9000 songs

― brimstead, Friday, 23 October 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link

it's kinda crazy how you take things for granted so quickly

but i've spent the last 2 work days listening to a playlist that is every Beethovan symphony performed by the London Symphony, all in chronological order

that's kinda fucking crazy to be able to dial up cultural knowledge like that

― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 October 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link

New Particles, 2015-10-30
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/75vpr77mdtCwwgf2JN2Aii

One-man Polish experimental ambient/acoustic/noise-metal style-shifting chaos from Stara Rzeka - http://open.spotify.com/album/2afS20wqthqm8hsr6054Mx
Coy but only ultrafaintly vaporwavy neo-synthpop by Computer Magic - http://open.spotify.com/album/0lGTK4Lp4fhli24PlzufdK
Another irrepressible advance single from the upcoming Little Mix album - https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZZyqF6CrepMTKAr0PlK9S
Geographer make Paul Simon's "I Know What I Know" into glittering metro-arena-pop - https://open.spotify.com/track/5jO2PJ9CRmEg7VRYa06FUa
A streamlined, pulsing, chirpy indietronic gem from Grimes - https://open.spotify.com/track/1JYtlIFdYms6nZNf2K7Yys
Blistering death/black/heavy/folk everything-metal from Savonian Finns Verjnuarmu - http://open.spotify.com/album/3XnscZPWmtMoZNEmS1vjhj
Gritty, croaky-voiced death-metal from Horrendous - http://open.spotify.com/album/6IorLrgnanjkghkhlc4aau
Simmery, measured, not-really-for-dancing slow-build pop from Ellie Goulding - https://open.spotify.com/track/19HURubNqIbV3VKqLcQp4y
Sparkly high-gloss r&b-pop from Pia Mia - https://open.spotify.com/track/26nqNagc6dINfNM2ZKmoa0
I've been lobbying Royal Teeth and Cut Ribbons to tour together, and if The Sam Willows can afford to get from Singapore to wherever the tour is, they should - http://open.spotify.com/album/0FEM3h1Bo8QHEb7V91Eurb
Swirly gauze-pop from GEMS - http://open.spotify.com/album/3l5Ao1wM83DeLAX20zqX00
Dua Lipa - https://open.spotify.com/track/1ixphys4A3NEXp6MDScfih
Taiwanese once-folk-singer 韋禮安 wanders into shred-rock - https://open.spotify.com/track/61myeQaClSPNzyRxKxeulI
CHVRCHES + Fun. gets you somewhere near TeamMate - https://open.spotify.com/track/3Xj266LmCjN81UkbfcTgdf
Shiny French gothic symphonic metal from Kerion (whose name, in French, presumably means something other than a fungal abscess) - http://open.spotify.com/album/0J0aUn0STm7wlqv0qsgLEp
Surging techno-post-metal from Maserati - http://open.spotify.com/album/0CuJtTXWt5wYzTGCVBkc2E
Glorious Spanish pop-rock by Amaral - http://open.spotify.com/album/0gY2l4ZTW39oBoS7y85T3v
Twangy Latin-pop destined for TV themes from Tamara - http://open.spotify.com/album/6hMS5FR5KPp65zr9gXjMkI
Atmospheric post-metal from With Our Arms to the Sun - http://open.spotify.com/album/5wnD92WsGpGjyz9YsRuv2t
Blistering very-hard rock from Kobra And The Lotus - http://open.spotify.com/album/33orcRPjBjeuVtdrXLmvWy
Oblique, meditative Latin alt-pop by Carla Morrison - https://open.spotify.com/track/1B7nJpjCgL9dKOwPQIK4tI
Unprecious Texas-country revialism from the Josh Abbott Band - https://open.spotify.com/track/2dryb9mq04iP7zHLwTwUdD
Slow, obsessive, Crowded-House-ish serentity from Bright Light Bright Light - https://open.spotify.com/track/2Wnbk0cm2x1QqkZf5PxGFK
Methodical gothic grandeur from Draconian - http://open.spotify.com/album/5lRRVJBHyQQa3vXfU3Ihcp
Glorious Basque pop-rock by Ken Zazpi - https://open.spotify.com/track/0JC0GRznwM7iXsS3SdTt7n
Scritchy twee-punk by the Ohio one of the various bands called Sports - http://open.spotify.com/album/3wTUgU8DhAh32313L3WfPD
New neo-shoegaze album by Cheatahs - http://open.spotify.com/album/7KDSjt2oYx6cYJ0OGkW9L7
Chattering mechano-techno by Kangding Ray - http://open.spotify.com/album/4Z1tzDVZayP1BGceNPYAUk
Fuzz-shrouded power-noise-pop by Shmu - http://open.spotify.com/album/78wXoICuFNL8ImY8r1kMyo
Abstracted post-math-rock by Ahleuchatistas - http://open.spotify.com/album/18fG22f3c3OVdbBWy7G63K

And my two picks of the week, both long-awaited:

The emphatically, empathically ragged new indie-country-rock album by Laura Stevenson - http://open.spotify.com/album/4y28GYK4zDNqMkuN6k7Aue
The sweeping kudzu-gothic black-epic new album by the great Appalachian-metal band Panopticon - http://open.spotify.com/album/32lW13bcC2gaiS7Zke8rVw

― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 2 November 2015 03:13 (eight years ago) link

http://i68.tinypic.com/zj8e48.png

― Mordy, Thursday, 5 November 2015 00:54 (eight years ago) link

deep. Also, 540 tracks on that Eugene Mirman thing!

― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 5 November 2015 03:47 (eight years ago) link

12 are from his comedy special
8 are from a meditation tape
198 of them are his sound effects library
4 are of him crying for 40 minutes
195 are various sounds of orgasm
98 are ringtones (I am considering switching mine out to him chanting "SPICY FISH SPICY FISH SPICY FISH"
5 are weird extended MIDI funk sex jams
9 tracks are a nonsensical Russian audio phrasebook
11 are "digital drugs to administer via audio"

― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 November 2015 06:22 (eight years ago) link

Is that some way to boost play counts?

― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Friday, 6 November 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link

like, 100 people listen to Mirman's album and he gets paid for 54,000 tracks played?

― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Friday, 6 November 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link

Under current rules, a track only counts as played if the user plays at least :30 of it, so tracks shorter than that can't generate royalties on Spotify at all.

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 6 November 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link

Wow is this a week.

New Particles, 2015-11-06
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/0YwwymILE0jnJ5ROtPpLb0

Justin Bieber can keep writing all the songs he wants as long as TeraBrite covers them - https://open.spotify.com/track/0bE6738llYcdOQevTQhqu9
My co-worker Brendan made a great ambient electronica album about Iceland as Toss Power Traps - http://open.spotify.com/album/5saW45zhQBcMmUWuShmYE3
Little Mix are (even) better than One Direction - http://open.spotify.com/album/4bzVI1FElc13HQagFR7S1W
Grimes finds her indietronic-pop calling - http://open.spotify.com/album/5hB4jVN4ZHpubyiMmW81K1
Spanish hard-rock power-metal by Dark Moor - http://open.spotify.com/album/5KE2gFbT6e0uqX6boKxiIY
Eldritch remind us that we used to call it Heavy Metal - http://open.spotify.com/album/1PvP3bQYyFtXvBlpoAkJeE
Reverence didn't need to be reminded - http://open.spotify.com/album/2SL2KSSzrmIabTILlmQr4r
Brittle meditations from The Japanese House - http://open.spotify.com/album/4T1o6BUMpITeK7DfE5qZqp
Splintery electro-chatter EP from Blanck Mass - http://open.spotify.com/album/34AMu7NIASbp6DY2xqqjAn
Finally finally, a whole album of metropercussive Kate Boy songs - http://open.spotify.com/album/4KaggIGXRqmK4YiHlCBp1r
Cacophonic black thrash-rasp by Vastum - http://open.spotify.com/album/1TUhE6KUL6DPjlGbJU5jig
Experimental (Latin-alternative) pop in the wandering tradition of Kate Bush and St. Vincent by Carla Morrison - http://open.spotify.com/album/0KmjN7MinQwCNGRkwjAAj2
Gloriously unglorified red-dirt Texas country from the Josh Abbott Band - http://open.spotify.com/album/6CHcH6BB0SRRXrOGUuJ0kj
Shimmery big-synth-pop flutters from Chelsea Lankes - https://open.spotify.com/track/77MMfd2H8x9HZcy41KRJFO
The new Ellie Goulding album - http://open.spotify.com/album/2GcDjXQtCguM4PHtgO7gxA
Sia is halfway between Ellie Goulding and Adele, more or less - https://open.spotify.com/track/5ocP1cIe1dOc9A0q1MDNl2
Malrun is the Danish Queensrÿche (and I think the legal situation with Queensrÿche is that every country gets their own...) - https://open.spotify.com/track/5WVcW1BcUHBQ14uQ5LQHNd
Ebullient, mechano-organic sonic texturalism from Murlo - http://open.spotify.com/album/0WyqnCbZUotDywRlnoQtNh
Warm, crunchy indie guitar-rock by sund4ra Karma - http://open.spotify.com/album/0Jwb23esTxQb81vFHJPOVy
Sizzy Rocket imagines what PC Music might sound like if it weren't coy or conceptual - https://open.spotify.com/track/50edCDIGEUxm8OF4T1e2sU
Chiming Chilean indie rock from We Are The Grand - https://open.spotify.com/track/2wCGtmgtrhZOOoYnXjJKmq
They have their own Bieber in Spain, and he is called Abraham Mateo, and he's pretty good - https://open.spotify.com/track/0NTmF861UoX8IykWrEbSxW
Robo-symphonics, as sharp as Murlo is sinuous but similarly inventive, by Giant Claw - http://open.spotify.com/album/7rb8NLl9lWCXazllkLA4ap
Big Hungarian dance-pop by Radics Gigi - https://open.spotify.com/track/2rtKUwEVUIctTsSM4lB5JB
SOPHIE takes the PC Music thing into weirdly Zoolook-ish machine-whine - https://open.spotify.com/track/2GEgwCw7AUdCPoS6soCl9q
New EP by German synth-pop purists CLAIRE - http://open.spotify.com/album/7GDltVDEKO58M7GFtl7yvF
Thoughtfully bitter folk-pop by Maria Mena - https://open.spotify.com/track/1gs1wX1reGRMb775gtQNCs
Epic post-goth neo-post-punk from City Calm Down - http://open.spotify.com/album/4RyD9v28fo16YPs3GhHgJT

― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 8 November 2015 03:20 (eight years ago) link

New Particles, 2015-11-13
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/2K0chEhwXbtZsW9X2v2elA

Icelandic 15-woman electro-hop from Reykjavíkurdætur - http://open.spotify.com/album/0peYLBYriQSDRGEKPP2VGn
Heavy metal traditionalism in all senses from Satan - http://open.spotify.com/album/6vpVIhWYctSWLSnfIj1TEr
Hyper-earnest new-emo-pop by SayWeCanFly - http://open.spotify.com/album/5VzIMyaJ0yFCpKqaHXL95E
Glistening epicstep by Brainstorm - https://open.spotify.com/track/3h1tWruiXaKX2SLAJT71lS
School Of Seven Bells continues - https://open.spotify.com/track/5hB7qpilDSr2TG33ghsETX
Spare, spiky twee-along by The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - https://open.spotify.com/track/5v5mtHXcxydzbVCqBqOFui
Swoony star-aspirant electro-pop by Rilan - http://open.spotify.com/album/2JDMnm3JYoxdan3lxp7o8B
Grimly epic pagan black metal by Kampfar - http://open.spotify.com/album/6TqJQVo8fGTPYS0FG2iskr
Berzerk, distended panic-metal by Revenge - http://open.spotify.com/album/3zcRhYS75gb63PPz4VEwyM
A collaboration between Dragged Into Sunlight and Gnaw Their Tongues that is exactly as terrifying as that sounds - http://open.spotify.com/album/4V7MGxRSLtzXRk9q9UfZV1
Bright new-wave-throwback pop by Scavenger Hunt - https://open.spotify.com/track/3lIL5udx9hATCkPTv48Fva
Edie Brickell crossed with Ellie Goulding gets you somewhere near Noonie Bao - http://open.spotify.com/album/4dFair7dAR9Ns3KhxTPU6N
Snarly old-old-school punk by Dolores Haze - http://open.spotify.com/album/3JW4ihM4CDx5ksY0XfqxKV
Avant-garde ambient drone-metal art music by Anna Von Hausswolff - http://open.spotify.com/album/5mDdfu5xrHAvikuJlbv0Ot
A cappella "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", really - https://open.spotify.com/track/42YcnM5VcjYBwfQCOWRPCa
Future bass from the future where we ponder our natures and mechanisms but don't dance, by Rustie - http://open.spotify.com/album/49Iya42dgyQlHiImgCcvJt
Future bass from the future that's like that but more colorful, by Arca - https://open.spotify.com/track/0i9FKvfUJYYEtKRHR9f0LZ
Genial, bouncy latin pop from Jesse & Joy - https://open.spotify.com/track/7ANWiP2P5UPxMEbh5fAsBt
Abraham Mateo is the Justin Bieber you might like if you like One Direction - http://open.spotify.com/album/57WzHBJGngVVWhd1V3pXMM
One Direction is the One Direction you might like even if you don't think you do - http://open.spotify.com/album/1gMxiQQSg5zeu4htBosASY
Headchewing thrash-metal by Revocation - http://open.spotify.com/album/1hyMYUfzJAWXAOAVKGpB1a
A new Giorgio Moroder pop album - http://open.spotify.com/album/2rfzwF4EGbNdzOcRzbcVl1
Brash, bashing indie guitar-rock by Gnarwolves - http://open.spotify.com/album/65D2N2uFy2xH3pykOm4omI
Glassy trancestep from Au5 and Fractal - http://open.spotify.com/album/1IMyH8n9nu9IwwKJI9nW3W
Throaty, battering Bavarian melodic metalcore from Memento - http://open.spotify.com/album/6i6PMtkpGBcrPvVA1kdxc4
Joyously unsteady Melbourne electroconfessional indieventurousness from Owen Rabbit - https://open.spotify.com/track/3FfpzdGI438McH0Q5Lum1d
Dear new epic British powergaze band Rain, your lives will be better if you change your name (and not to Rain Sounds or Rain Noises for Sleep) - https://open.spotify.com/track/1d3OMJKwwaKiPivsHC0zr4
Redemptive Casiotronic yearning from Astropol - https://open.spotify.com/track/23bjEgBAbxC3E2vJxDIYjY
Sineuous Serbian turbo-folk from Cvija - https://open.spotify.com/track/588NcGOxwv4d18TfCtzIFY
Tranquil German indie-pop-rock from Silbermond - https://open.spotify.com/track/29OsTlhuQCSNnFSXy2WeC9
Expansive German arena-pop from LaFee - https://open.spotify.com/track/2HK0PB6wxj0GcoKoNgpksR
Muted gauzegazy tenacity from Racing Glaciers - https://open.spotify.com/track/3v45hpNw9MXk9U0oBQlZDb
Anthemic Greek pop-rock from Despina Vandi - https://open.spotify.com/track/44uRRnbB3IEjNuV9GlxLSQ
The majestic new single from the greatest-ever band from Skye, Runrig - https://open.spotify.com/track/29f4KE80Km2mhJCzHASxuS
Giant-hearted piano-rock from A Great Big World - http://open.spotify.com/album/6SQWwNCTTPmS1DaXQNRDOy
The hiptronics-redefining debut album by Le1f - http://open.spotify.com/album/3NkP3FZHkJktEhMIf4DKyc
A new chance to listen to the underrated 2004 farewell album by Scottish indie-pop band Astrid - http://open.spotify.com/album/1A0M5i4z6qj8TBk1slPqOS
Ambient-epicore world-fusion serenity from Saint Of Sin - https://open.spotify.com/track/1D6iVKEltmttMjqUEYWQzU
Another melancholy piano-and-duet deconstruction of Yaz's "Only You"? Yes, that will be just fine. - https://open.spotify.com/track/1eftIypOTzVCDPv9xLZPDN

― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 14 November 2015 15:55 (eight years ago) link

Weather Report · The Legendary Live Tapes 1978-1981
Arca · Mutant

― Mordy, Friday, 20 November 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link

love these updates Glenn - this Rain band is good...borderline ungoogleable as Studio - West Coast was

― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link

thx for the heads up on Arca, mordy

― brimstead, Saturday, 21 November 2015 00:16 (eight years ago) link

New Particles, 2015-11-20
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/43Qye3F3z2CbX83GLhHj1X

And my two picks of the week:

Yes! The new album by the great great Japanese rock/metal band Head Phones President is availabe in the US! - http://open.spotify.com/album/4ylxGESsBLNTmwtpkSkHaf
The return of one of my very favorite melodic gothic symphonic metal bands, Imperia - http://open.spotify.com/album/09uCod9N8BZn3nWlXAMcUO

― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 21 November 2015 03:24 (eight years ago) link

The release-year is winding down, but not without a few thousand extra releases, just in case.

New Particles, 2015-11-27
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/3tWv9wMyjV3RAEq6YJqlGK

Contrarian are not going to win over many death-doom skeptics with this raspy croaking. I'm not sure "win over many death-doom skeptics" is actually a thing, anyway, but this is a really interesting death-doom record. - http://open.spotify.com/album/2SW0iOzvjTGpL1hs5sC4Vj
Kompakt Records has a "Pop Ambient" compilation with Stephan Mathieu and 11 other artists (none of them "pop") - http://open.spotify.com/album/3SHcMuMQdtPhOGdPnG9kx3
Bersarin Quartett is not a quartet, but this is another really good atmospheric-ambient non-pop album - http://open.spotify.com/album/4UvoN0FYp3HOg5qiKP33ug
Extravagant faux-string flourishes from Foxes - https://open.spotify.com/track/0bcUGhhI0f0Fhre7O5JwR7
Big, blustery Taiwanese arena-pop from 黃鴻升 - http://open.spotify.com/album/33Fvum3OzoJj4IzyUWTOIj
Thundering death-crush by Horrendous - http://open.spotify.com/album/4MS5KRYloZtsxuJ77ObXPa
Swoopy, Spanish pop-rock by Malú - http://open.spotify.com/album/3MTbVUt5nBj7Gmm6j1Oaaz
Tense, j-rock-like Thai indie-rock by Bedroom Audio - https://open.spotify.com/track/0hxnqPN6lTQdx3nP6FdC9v
Muted German indie-pop by the great Silbermond - http://open.spotify.com/album/36DXaVV4UtydMVTAGYmZXg
Squalling punk melancholy by Muncie Girls - https://open.spotify.com/track/1uAU00GOjbUMk9S2qU27ej
Future-trance epicore from TitanSlayer - http://open.spotify.com/album/5hNdAvC1xbHFvsgg6Vglyv

and my pick for the week, the new album by j-rock guitar-goddess Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - http://open.spotify.com/album/2KcYuJ2URvqGwyvxrSgZ1p

― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 29 November 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link

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