New and Noteworthy Additions to US Spotify

When will glenn be released from prison so that he can resume posting to ilm?

Sorry, pretty slammed right now working on the Branding Concept documents for the big New Particles relaunch.

#FreeGlenn

has someone investigated forksclovetofu's role in this conspiracy #conspiracy #tcot

forks is hosting spotify on his own private server

Now that you mention it, has anyone ever seen glenn and Yolandi Visser in the same room at the same time?

re: Branding Concept documents for the big New Particles relaunch.

apparently Glenn is on secondment to Promotions in Mid-March that involves a jolly to Austin for SXSW for the big relaunch.

Spotify Announces 2016 SXSW Line-Up
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/spotify-announces-2016-sxsw-line-up-300223580.html

However this was mentioned on the official press release, today:

Musical Map: NYC-based artist Shantell Martin will create a beautiful mural inspired by everynoise.com, an intricate music-genre map, designed to bring Spotify's rich data to life for attendees.

Keep up with new particles and posting new release info on this thread Glenn, it is appreciated. One of the 13 current subscribers of New Particles.

My new thing for New Particles seems to be basically working now: http://furia.com/newparticles/. You can still just follow the playlists on Spotify if you don't care about the notes...

awesome, thanks for setting this up. i will bookmark

ditto. please bump here with updates if you wanna.

Beautiful design.
Skim button ideal for Generation Z.
10/10.

New Particles, 2016-02-26 includes new songs by: HKE, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Tritonal, The Qemists, King Melodies, Pinkshinyultrablast, School Of Seven Bells, Tsjuder, Ektomorf, Pvris, Up for Nothing, Louna, Bendik, Río Roma, Dulce María, Holy Esque, Magnum, Martina McBride, Chuck Wicks, Omnium Gatherum, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Epic North, Project Pitchfork, Niña , I Love Your Lifestyle, Tut Tut Child, Silvana Imam, The Sun Days, Meridian Dan, HEARTWATCH, NateWantsToBattle, Santigold, Eagulls, Paws, Car Seat Headrest, Charli XCX, Yuck, Circus Maximus, BABYMETAL, Savoir Adore, Little Green Cars, Hailee Steinfeld, Besatt, Ula Ruth, Coffins, Red 7, Voivod, Johndoe, Miss Caffeina, INHEAVEN, Joey Hyde, Elizabeth Lyons, Natalie Stovall and The Drive, Divine Realm, Rotersand, Can't Swim, The Rocket Summer, The Downtown Fiction, Femme, 4TEN, DaVinChe, Lonely The Brave, Gates, The Unguided, Massendefekt, Madeline Juno, Estiva, Daniel Kandi, Daniel Haaksman, A Cámara Lenta, Naela, Husman, TitanSlayer and Algodón Egipcio.

By popular demand (well, one poster), here's my pick of the new additions to UK Spotify in the week 20-26 February.

Album of the week by a million miles is Giorgio Tuma's This Life Denied Me Your Love, although a streaming service hardly does justice to the record's lush feel and the attention to detail in the arrangements. I find myself mentally reaching for the deluxe digipak or gatefold sleeve as the music plays.

Tracks
K. Michelle continues to drip feed cuts from her forthcoming LP and Time is a classy counterweight to last week's more in-your-face "Mindful".
How do BABYMETAL follow their debut album? If I were them, I wouldn't have bothered. Karate understandably plays it safe, but the slight EDM tinge to the rhythms may be a fruitful direction for the next album.
Brroklyn's Computer Magic was on Glenn's New Particles playlist earlier in the week but seems not have made the final cut. But I like the off-kilter electro pop of this new song a lot, as may Johnny Fever.
Zara Larsson's excellent Lush Life probably didn't need a Tinie Tempah guest spot but he doesn't ruin it…
…and Larsson returns the favour on Tinie's Girls Like and nearly steals the track.
Weekend colour supplement favourite Lapsley gets the stuttery remix treatment. There's a four-song album taster on Spotify now too, but I haven't got to that yet.
However, 'single' of the week is Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's epic taster from her new LP.

R&B and neo-soul comeback corner
Mýa, I'd forgotten all about you. I'm sorry. New album Smoove Jones is a belter.
All Saints return and with new song One Strike comfortably surpass my (in this case, low) expectations.
Tweet's album Charleneshows Ms Hummingbird's voice is still a thing of beauty; backed here with lots of close-miked jazzy guitar if you like that kind of thing. The oddly titled "Dadada…Struggle" is a highlight.
Corinne Bailey Rae used to own the territory Tweet's now in but is seemingly moving in a more expansive direction if the last minute of this song is any guide.

(I probably f*cked up the BB code somewhere in this post)

liking that giorgio tuma record, thanks!

New Particles, 2016-03-04 has new songs by: Molly Sandén, IG88, NateWantsToBattle, Tonight Alive, Frightened Rabbit, Little Green Cars, Fatima Al Qadiri, Anna Meredith, Muncie Girls, Kneebody, La Gale, Amore Ad Lunam, The Great Line, Lions and Tigers, Eissturm, Now or Never, Kristin Kontrol, Mitski, Mary Lattimore, Beseech, Jennifer O'Connor, Lera Lynn, Sorcier des Glaces, Panopticon, Oyinda, Natalie McCool, MICappella, Wolvserpent, Inverloch, COIN, Paperwhite, Hammock, Howl, Min Stora Sorg, Love of Lesbian, All Tvvins, Reckless Love, Hacktivist, Anup Sastry, Lumisokea, Gondwana, Mortiis, The Qemists, Momoiro Clover Z, Shishamo, Avec Sans, Lethal Bizzle, Tinchy Stryder, Jon Henrik Fjällgren, Prince Rama, Ruben Samama, Matthew Bourne, GENER8ION, Donots, KMPFSPRT, Sue the Night, Alpine Universe, Kitten, AURORA, Bars and Melody, Mechanist, Bedårande Barn and two preview fragments of Colin Stetson's upcoming complete re-orchestration of Gorecki's masterpiece!

Since I was already listening to a lot of the stuff Jeff W listed, I decided to check the Giorgio Tuma album and I must say I like it a lot. Nice find - and a perfect example of stuff I probably wouldn't have found on my own. Please keep doing these, Jeff W!

Also, new Kendrick! New Wussy!

Week ending 4th March: another busy one, and I'm also still discovering new things that were added the previous week (please go and buy the Let's Eat Grandma single!)

Album of the week - it's hard to look past Esperanza Spalding, really. No longer enough to mention the jazz influences, I'm hearing prog, indie and Sesame Street in her new LP, as well as nods to The Hissing Of Summer Lawns - and who hasn't secretly wished for more in that vein? She's got her own thread here that more people should be waxing lyrical on.

In other (over?) ambitious solo record news:
- after a few EPs, a mixtape and a smattering of guest spots including on Vince Staples' Summertime '06, Kilo Kish self-releases her debut LP. I haven't yet worked out if this is conceptual art or should be taken at face value;

- I was really looking forward to a whole album of Anna Meredith's minimalist-compositions-go-clubbing. I think the decision to include vocals on some cuts was on the whole a mistake, but the instrumentals are great. Many of these have been available previously, but Shill is new and a proper banger;

- Fopp was right to advise on twitter to set aside past knowledge and give Ray LaMontagne's Ouroboros a chance. It channels the dreamier side of late 60s/mid 70s Pink Floyd (or at least the David Gilmour-penned songs) and is worth at least one wallow in.

Tracks
Were M83 always fans of house piano? If not, I'm glad they tried it;
Keke Palmer + Jeremih = pop song of the week. More like this, please;
Supergroup case/lang/veirs offer a taster from their forthcoming album. Not exactly Pistol Annies, but it'll do to be going on with;
New York-based singer Vérité's latest song is rawer (and swearier) than the ones on her 2015 EPs. Oddly, she may have lost a little bit of what made her stand out previously in the process, but this is still a keeper;
And finally, 0PN's ruthless edit of Four Tet's Evening Side makes you wonder why the original wasn't a 7" single rather than an LP.

Just got to the Algodón Egipcio album that was Glenn's pick of the week from the week before last. Caetano Veloso meets Six Cups of Rebel? Wonderfully wonky, anyway.

New Particles, 2016-03-11 has Tolkien metal, synthesizers, Eurodelirium and Tasmanian punk rock. New songs by: June 1974, The Algorithm, Eagulls, BRONCHO, The KVB, The Joy Formidable, Blondfire, Lucius, Glint, Linney, Sizzy Rocket, Skeletonwitch, Harakiri for the Sky, Uruk-Hai, Northless, Auroch, Kerri Watt, 黃明志, Cardiknox, Bob Mould, Information Society, Julianna Barwick, Ethernet, Fovea Hex, Caliban, Fear Of Domination, Killswitch Engage, Belanova, Susanna, Johndoe, Sie Gubba, Fiordaliso, Jonathan Johansson, Adiam, Moiré, Graze, Donato Dozzy, ASP, Unzucht, Erik Ekholm, Pegboard Nerds, San Holo, All Or Nothing, Ereb Altor, Obsidian Kingdom, New Arcades, Ladyhawke, Lonely The Brave, Gazelle Twin, ANOHNI, Dream Wife, Kristallbarn, Timoteij, Marathonmann, Normandie, Do, A Cámara Lenta, AURORA, Kirsten Adamson, Rooxx and Luca Brasi.

I'd say The KVB are more first wave (post-Numan) gloomy Manc synth band than shoegaze. Dindisc would have signed them like a shot in 1980.

Week ending 11th March. For many, the most important development of the week is the belated arrival on Spotify of the new album by The 1975. The title track and "Paris" aside, however, I can't abide it.

A more welcome late arrival is the complete version of Alessia Cara's Know-It-All. Previously, Brits had to make do with just the first half of the record as an EP. A remarkably assured debut.

By way of a complete contrast, Rook to TN34 by eMMplekz finds Ekoplekz's lo-fi electronic pulses being used as grist to the Mordant Music lyrical mill. A stream of pop culture references spew forth. A sort of 'state of the (British) nation' address, it's often hilarious but 48 minutes worth may be too much to take in one go.

So my album of the week is Aurora's debut. This Norwegian singer and synth-pop purveyor was plucked from obscurity to perform an Oasis cover for the last John Lewis christmas ad. She seems determined to leave that behind her though, as the song is not even on the regular CD (it is a bonus cut on the deluxe edition) and the overall sound and LP imagery is defiantly gothic. The way her piping soprano slides up to notes and gives a vaguely Irish accent to the words brings to mind The Cranberries at times. But the similarities end there. "Warrior" and "Conqueror" are great pop songs and bonus track "Wisdom Cries" is an intriguing vocal experiment.

Singles/EPs/Tracks
She Makes War - Drown Me Out: indie in a PJ Harvey vein and better than the new song that Polly Jean offered this week;
Only Girl - Young Blood: gospel-tinged Brit soul;
Zayn - iT's YoU: a beautiful ballad from the ex 1D man's imminent solo album. This isn't the new single, that's "Like I Would", also out this week. But this is better. Not sure why he's gone all tUnE-yArDs with the title though;
Speaking of Merrill Garbus, she recognisably produces/mixes this disturbing tune by Thao & The Get Down Stay Down…
…although ANOHNI trumps that with a spectacular wish to be drone bombed! The romantic poets would have been proud. That said, it is the best thing (s)he's done to date;
After all that, back to Norway for a welcome closing shot from Lindstrøm. Business as usual but the synth stabs near the end lift it into the Special bracket.

New Particles, 2016-03-18 has new songs in various beepy and blasty modes by: Kent, Mithridatic, Protou, Brightr, Charm Designer, The Alliance, Templars, Safe so Simple, Distrito Rojo, DJ Marfox, Amon Amarth, Mob Rules, Circus Maximus, Frightened Rabbit, Grant-Lee Phillips, Ten Fé, White Sea, Stepdad, Irreversible, Wyrd, Ihsahn, 原子邦妮, Simone, Nemesea, September Mourning, Huecco, Deftones, Ital Tek, Memotone, Celer, Hammock, Stam1na, Scamp, Haken, Save Us from the Archon, Astropol, Cheops' Cave, Welle: Erdball, Sound Remedy, Really Slow Motion, Clint Mansell, Echos, Circadian Eyes, Billions and Billions, Windsor Airlift, exist†trace, Tiny Little Houses, Dalshabet, Johan Baeckström, Mimikry, The Comet Is Coming, ESDLCP, K-X-P, Eliza Shaddad, Takahiro Kido, La Femme, The Body, Helalyn Flowers, Paola, Evrydiki, Lumen, Gai Barone, George Dorn Screams, Michael Angelo Batio, Maya Berovic, Jenny Woo, Sunstorm and Ted Poley. One of those people plays a four-neck guitar. And it's not anybody in Frightened Rabbit.

w/e 18th March. An avalanche of new things made it onto UK Spotify this week. Haven't finished wading through all the contenders yet, but…

Top of your listening list ought to be the welcome return of Larry Heard in the guise of Mr. Fingers, with his Outer Acid EP.

The Apple Tree by Hintermass is the latest release on Ghost Box records. A collaboration between Jon Brooks (The Advisory Circle) and Tim Felton (Seeland, Broadcast), this is a fine psych-folk meets radiophonics record though I tend to prefer the instrumental tracks.

I love that Shura did this little experiment and released it ahead of the album.

Another week, another appallingly spelled album preview by Zayn. This is getting the thumbs down elsewhere on ILM, but give me this over the last 1D record any time.

Speaking of warm-ups, The Pet Shop Boys trail their new LP with this EP. "In Bits" is the keeper, as Neil sounds more evil than droll for once.

There are two new tracks entitled "Run" this week, one by Tourist and one by Eliza Shaddad, as if we didn't already have enough. Both are pretty good though.

Modular, Argentina's leading Stereolab imitators, have added classic 70s disco flavours to the mix on their new album, Fuga Al Paraíso. Otherwise, this is business as usual, uneven but the best bits certainly hit the spot.

Finally, have some great a cappella renditions of Beyoncé, Frank Ocean and, especially Regina Spektor on the new EP by Semi-Toned. Their already legendary take on "If I Were A Rich Man" is on there too.

New Particles, 2016-03-25 has new songs by June 1974, Therion, Amon Amarth, Cobalt, Dive In, Caliban, Ex-Otago, Silvana Imam, The Sun Days, Navet, Julie Christmas, Ylvis, Luis Fonsi, Mogwai, Clairity, Grimner, BRIDEAR, Bob Mould, Dominanz, Sara, Miss Montreal, The Gospel Youth, Astrid S, Weval, Jillian Jacqueline, HANA, Rotten Sound and Simone. The Ylvis song, in particular, is a throwback to Ylvis' most successful gimmick. As, in a sense, is the Bob Mould song.

But where is the Joy Formidable?

Yeah, not sure what the issue is with that. Definitely not yet available on Spotify anywhere. I sent some internal email...

k. michelle album is finally up:
https://open.spotify.com/album/307Vo39bAFM833KEs9Op54

You shouldn't be listening to anything else really.

Ambience! Grime! Hyperpop!

New Particles, 2016-04-01 has new songs by: Ohlayindigo, Follin, Chiral, White Lung, Salt Cathedral, Katatonia, Doro, Tacocat, The Chap, Dark Funeral, Schammasch, Broods, Frightened Rabbit, Lera Lynn, Kangding Ray, Hammock, Tim Hecker, Tombs, Bossk, Graves at Sea, 韋禮安, I Am King, Sløtface, BABYMETAL, The Field, Simonetta Spiri, Marta Sui Tubi, David DeMaría, Liima, Nemesea, Chase & Status, Meridian Dan, Mr Traumatik, PANTyRAiD, Marit Larsen, Sweden, Thomas Dybdahl, Raindear, Erik Ekholm, Keith Urban, Martina McBride, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Interment, Mourn, Seratones, The Summer Set, Black Honey, LUH, Horse Party, ASP, Nachtmahr, The Algorithm, Fallujah, Merely, Terra , Vessels, Asylums, Boys Republic, Lucianblomkamp, Ribongia, Erio, COH, Teksti-TV 666, GFOTY, RABBII, Ola Gjeilo, Sixx:A.M., Wildlife Control, La Habitación Roja, Novembre and the mighty Moonsorrow. Phew.

w/e 1st April. After a quiet week in the run up to Easter, enough new things to close a landfill site this week, which TBH is where most of it belongs. Biggest news of April Fools Day was that TLOP finally made it to Spotify, though reportedly it's a "Work In Progress" now. Tweet me when you've finished it, Kanye.

Much anticipated by me and doesn't disappoint album of the week: a gift of EARS for your ears. A dedicated thread for Kaitlyn has now been started for you to add to the hyperbole.

Surprise half-an-album of the week: Brian Eno releases Side 1 of his Titanic-inspired new record, The Ship. Side 2 sounds even more intriguing, and includes a Velvet Underground cover.

I'm still working my way through the new LP by post-rockers Explosions In The Sky, but liking it a lot so far. Full of unexpected twists - and bonus points for recognising that drums can bring the noise better than guitars sometimes.

Marit Larsen has described her new EP, Joni Was Right as folk music. Well, it has a banjo on it. 'Acoustic' would have done, Marit. But this is her strongest collection of songs in years, every track hits the spot for me.

Tracks
A second taster from Neko, k.d. and Laura's collaborative project emerged this week, much popper than the first.
Thom Yorke manages not to ruin Mark Pritchard's Beautiful People. Like the Eno, this is from a new record on Warp, but would sound just as at home on Ghost Box, I think. Good that he's still using the vintage drum boxes too (another Eno connection there)…
…but in an otherwise grey or beige week, it was Cassius, joining forces with Cat Power of all people, that finally managed to put a smile on my face, with Action.

So, at some point -- how I know not -- my old band was added to Spotify. I still think this record is pretty good tbh (alt-countryish):

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4pwvXe2xVKojhsAcDwdlXS

Anthology 1, 2 and 3 by Beatles Band just added.

Just to help you with the everynoise sorting hat page, Glenn, Basmo Fam - Alene hjemme should sort under "Norwegian hip hop" There's one track on it by ATL r&b artist K-Major though so when that one drops as a single it should probably sort under r&b.

New Particles, 2016-04-08 has a new Roxette song and new albums by The Joy Formidable and Frightened Rabbit. Oh, and DJ Rashad, Tim Hecker, Ihsahn, Lacuna Coil, Julianna Barwick, Plaitum, Era Istrefi, Nocaden, Suuns, Yumi Zouma, Chelsea Lankes, Sizzy Rocket, A.O.S.O.O.N, Moving Units, Digitalism, September Girls, Kidsmoke, Kate Jackson, Cult Of Luna, Ovum, Sweden, Susanna, Ted Poley, Seratones, Erik Ekholm, Petri Alanko, Martina McBride, Jason Blaine, Tiny Moving Parts, Two O'clock Courage, Happoradio, Irina, Only Shadows, Draper, Summer Was Fun, Fenrir, Silhouette from the Skylit, Laakso, Flotsam & Jetsam, Max Giesinger, AS IT IS, Kontra K, Tegan and Sara, Jeroen Van Der Boom, Fantasia, NateWantsToBattle, Lost Tapes and Shiraz Lane!

My picks for w/e 8 April delayed as I can't stop listening to the LP by The Comet Is Coming on The Leaf Label that came out the week before. Dubby psychedelic space jazz ahoy!

But do check out the comeback album by All Saints - it's far better than it has any right to be.

The EMP Pop Conference commemorative edition of New Particles, 2016-04-15> comes with new songs by: Geryon, Sinistro, Uada, Zhrine, Violenta Josefina, Skating Polly, Fear of Men, Haken, Sparzanza, Shiraz Lane, Kivimetsän Druidi, Schammasch, JoyLess, P!nk, Lera Lynn, My Bubba, Horse Latitudes, Primitive Weapons, GLOWINTHEDARK, 謝安琪, Black Swan, Bruno Sanfilippo, Annalisa, Gianluca Corrao, Västerbron, Hurula, Bellman, Long Distance Calling, Whispered, Car Seat Headrest, Weaves, TitanSlayer, Troker, Torn Hawk, We Will Fail, Interiors, Rydell, Izegrim, Red Cell, Blaqk Audio, Sig:Ar:Tyr, Jonne, Lauris Reiniks, Oscar, Vanessa Falk, Bass Sultan Hengzt, KMPFSPRT, Mimikry, Sunstorm, Prophet, Nira K, Kristin Kontrol and Jon Hopkins. Lots of those are metal. Plus one by me that is not.

New Particles, 2016-04-22 has new songs by: Lacuna Coil, Human Fortress, Sorcier des Glaces, TeamMate, October Tide, Orphan, Qulinez, G.E.M., Marco Carta, Pvris, Wire, Raindear, Postiljonen, King Melodies, Susanna, MythFox, Celestial Trax, Nepentes, Northlane, Niki & The Dove, White Sea, Garbage, Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties, Half Hearted Hero, Ayria, Skold, Aborted, Programm, Hudson Scott, Alexandros, NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST, San Mei, Andrius Pojavis, Lonely The Brave, Gates, Laakso, Maniac, Sola, Seka Aleksic, Miss Montreal, Ted Poley, Dan Bull, Green Light Theory, Gojira, Tonci Huljic, Morphinist, Marsicans and Blender.

The Raindear and Susanna songs are from albums just out that I've been eagerly anticipating based on the singles.

New Particles, 2016-04-29 has new songs by: tricot, Bankrupt, Fallujah, Orden Ogan, Lacuna Coil, Withem, Jorn, White Lung, Wussy, Owen Rabbit, Lisbon, Darkestrah, Dulce María, Kany Garcia, Pinkshinyultrablast, Nemesea, Ingrid Michaelson, Martina McBride, Frankie Ballard, Samantha Glass, Saosin, Abnormality, Mantus, Imatem, Tiny Moving Parts, Pity Sex, Thief Club, The Hotelier, Dowsing, Henrietta, Carnabells, Fejd, Muzzy, Schammasch, Gackt, Velvet Eden, ME THE TIGER, KMPFSPRT, Besserbitch, The Gospel Youth, Kyla La Grange, Lipgloss Twins, Aminata, Kerli, Dalshabet, Haken, Tinchy Stryder, Luca Brasi, Thegiornalisti. The Haken (experimental progressive metal), Tinchy Stryder (grime as pop) and Luca Brasi (big-hearted Tasmanian punk-pop-rock) albums seem like potential classics on initial impression.

A hurried round up for the rest of April cos life and work has been getting in the way. April is the countryest month apparently.

LPs and EPs

My album of the month was probably Margo Price's Midwest Farmer's Daughter. I was going to say this is too good to languish on just the Rolling Country thread but it seems to be getting plenty of traction anyway now.

Whoever had the idea of putting Iron & Wine and Jesca Hoop together has my undying gratitude. Love Letter For Fire is fire. And lovely.

By way of complete contrast, Japan's pop princess Kyary Pamyu Pamyu returns with a fantastic new EP and a typically extraordinary video for lead track Sai & Co. I'm impressed too that each track on the EP seems to be in a different language, judging just by the titles.

FiFi Rong started following me on Twitter ages ago. When she released the Forbidden Desire EP the other day, I thought I'd better finally check out her music. Glad I did; the slinky opener (and title cut) is one of the best pop songs of the year.

Still sore that PJ Harvey's album sucks? Scratch the itch with Cate le Bon's great new opus, Crab Day; love the stark arrangements on this. In a vaguely similar vein, Bristol's She Makes War, who I've mentioned before on this thread, now has a full album of her bruised confessionals to share.

Eastern European speed brass exponents Fanfare Ciocarlia return, but having conquered Earth are now bound for Mars.

Bronzerat Records offshoot imprint 'Series Aphonos' is dedicated to fake library music and soundtracks to non-existent films. This year's release, The Still allegedly features Chris Abrahams of The Necks. You can read more lies about the record here.

Tracks
Side 2 of Brian Eno's 'The Ship' is now finally on Spotify. "Fickle Sun" comes in three sections, and all are great. Here's part (i), here's (ii) The Hour Is Thin, and here's (iii) I'm Set Free.

If Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is the princess, then Perfume are the queens. The high points of their varied Cosmic Explorer LP are very high indeed. "Next Stage With You" is perhaps my favourite track.

Ellen Allien's new single is in a more "bangin' techno" vein than many of her releases of late. "Off" has the better beat, but the sampled vocals are slightly annoying, so I marginally prefer "Hoo".

Welcome back Ke$ha, even if that means having to play second fiddle to Zedd in terms of track credits.
Meanwhile, Sturgill Simpson welcomes his son to Earth with an epic opener to his latest LP.
Here's another album trailer from Brandy Clark. Calling it now: it's gonna be a classic…
… and this is the best so far of the songs that Laura Mvula has put her name to in 2016.
Dawn Richard is keeping things Honest…
…but Ane Brun knows that when her lover Swears That He Is Made of Truth, she knows he lies. An achingly beautiful take on Sonnet 138.

Arrgh. U&K post script - Let's Eat Grandma snuck out another track without me noticing: Eat Shiitake Mushrooms. The rap may be a deal breaker for some of you; they can do no wrong in my eyes.

Hey Glenn, this popped up in my Discover New Releases: http://open.spotify.com/album/4W8yxEf3vuabDM8kmkm8LK

"Elogram" by an artist named ELO, mistakenly attributed to Electric Light Orchestra

Will get it fixed, thanks!

Glenn, if you get a chance...

Every instance of Rod's version of this song is wrong. It's supposed to be "My Heart Can't Tell YOU No".

http://i.imgur.com/iOWgygK.jpg

Titles, unfortunately, have to be fixed by the labels who send us the stuff. I've requested this, but I can't just fix it myself.

Ah, figures.

New Particles, 2016-05-06 has new songs by: Анита Цой, The Howling Void, Rachael Sage, Midnight Eternal, Radiohead, WagakkiBand, Let's Eat Grandma, ELO, Julianna Barwick, Fear of Men, White Lung, Katatonia, So Hideous, Velnias, VÉRITÉ, Oyinda, Gallant, MUNA, Annabel Jones, Kerli, Lacuna Coil, 汪小敏, Veronica Maggio, Maja Gödicke, Alaric, Mitski, Kumikameli, Holy Esque, Rebaelliun, Blood Red Throne, Grave Miasma, Erik Ekholm, Sithu Aye, Chelsea Grin, Keith Urban, Kristy Lee Cook, Real Friends, Against The Current, Muzzy, Mr FijiWiji, Aurix, Scythia, Die/May, Skepta, Maniac, Blacks, IDIOTAPE, sund4ra Karma, Adult Jazz, Crystalyne, One Morning Left, LUH, ANOHNI, Kristin Kontrol, New Pharaohs, Ted Poley, Sunstorm, Sleeping At Last, The Away Days, Astrid S, Danny L Harle, Red Velvet, Kindbergs, The Hypothesis, Glorior Belli, Dead of Night, Candlemass, Kvelertak, Vektor. Especially Vektor.

Glen, any idea what's up with the disappearing notifications feature which let you know about new releases from followed artists? This is pretty much the most critical feature for me, and frankly I'm kind of baffled they would just up and kill it. Please let me know it's coming back better than ever.

I know there are technical issues, but I don't know what the resolution will be.

But if you go to Account, then Notification Settings, you can set those particular notifications to go to Email, instead of or in addition to "Push". This kind of makes more sense, and will make sure you don't miss a new-release notification due to other things piling up.

Weirdly, notifications has been intermittently telling me things in last two weeks, mostly about Prins Thomas records that were already on Spotify, but the odd new thing too.

New Particles, 2016-05-13 has new songs sentimental and unsentimental by Wreck and Reference, Thisquietarmy, Thränenkind, Kvelertak, Kayo Dot, Colleen Green, Speedy Ortiz, Eagulls, CHVRCHES, Tobacco, Jorn, Withem, We Are Magnetic, Dive In, Paperwhite, Allie X, The Staves, Cappa, Hayden Calnin, Delta Goodrem, Ayin Aleph, Tothem, Antonella Lo Coco, Perturbazione, Tides from nebula, Yahir, Bow To Each Other, Torn Hawk, Epic Score, death's dynamic shroud.wmv, The Hotelier, Half Hearted Hero, Holly Miranda, Maren Morris, Brad Paisley, Gorguts, Destruction, Lord Of The Lost, Weaves, See Through Dresses, Dalriada, Navi, Oscar, Migrant Kids, Chelsea Grin, Cezinando, Grand Magus, AMZY, Ted Poley, Sunstorm, LUNKHEAD and Blender.

Maybe this is the week you try to understand something the people who love it assume nobody else knows.