http://open.spotify.com/user/spotifyusa/playlist/3dEjWfgB5jC6zn6tLoy9yy
Items I will give a try from today's batch:Yes - Heaven and EarthCommon - Nobody's SmilingHyperdub 10.2 (only about half is cleared apparently)Raveonettes - Pe'ahiBiffy Clyro - Similarities
Items I will listen to to be aware of:The new singles from Drake, Weezer, Diplo, Jason Aldean, Imogen Heap, Clinton Sparks and TI, Lil Jon and Tyga.
what else?
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 04:20 (nine years ago) link
new allison weiss EP!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 04:23 (nine years ago) link
ooo, also will listen to Fozzy - Do You Wanna Start a War
― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 04:24 (nine years ago) link
Is the Yes album any good
― brimstead, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 04:35 (nine years ago) link
Raveonettes - Pe'ahi
Probably the most sloppy and exciting album they've ever made.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 04:54 (nine years ago) link
The Yes album was okay for a single listen; don't think i would try it again.
Today's albums:Shabazz Palaces - Lese MajestyShawn Mendes - S/TSir Michael Rocks - BancoThe Kinks - ClassicsTom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye
Today's singles:Natalie Stovall and the Drive - Mason JarShakey Graves - Dearly DepartedJessie J / Ariana Grand / Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 04:43 (nine years ago) link
forks is not a jenny lewis fan?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 04:44 (nine years ago) link
forks is not really a jenny lewis fan. I will add it to my overflow-end-of-year pile tho.
the hyperdub album was okay but i can only still be excited about the DJ Rashad and Terror Danjah tracks.I don't want to hear ANY of those singles again.
Common, Raveonettes and Biffy Clyro landed behind Justin Bieber, Marsha Ambrosius, A-Wax and a mixed helping of singles from ILX's best of the summer and hip hop threads.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 04:47 (nine years ago) link
Did you ever figure our how to subscribe to my 2014 hip hop spotify playlist?
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 05:40 (nine years ago) link
I see the '13 stuff but the '14 doesn't appear to be public? Wanna repost it here and I'll try again?The '13 stuff has been real rewarding btw!
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 05:41 (nine years ago) link
and if anyone cares, this is my ongoing listening playlisthttp://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/1PV8eCqhTC6JsA5ewju6nQ
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 05:42 (nine years ago) link
http://open.spotify.com/user/theshipment/playlist/3vHZAnvl134kijHL5Z0roN
http://open.spotify.com/user/theshipment/playlist/2Hkan09bsPFtNN39CsAyki
Try that I just made them non collaborative and public so if it works and you're in then I'll make them collaborative again
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 05:51 (nine years ago) link
cool, thanks; i'm in on both!
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 06:02 (nine years ago) link
too... much... music...
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 06:03 (nine years ago) link
I trust the "+" are the tracks you like best?
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 06:04 (nine years ago) link
Yah me and another dude mostly. But anyone can add to it. Not comprehensive still going through albums to throw gems in there.
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 06:15 (nine years ago) link
Here's an early-stage experimental thing I'm working on to automatically cluster the week's new Spotify releases by genre. (And to actually list them all...)
http://everynoise.com/spotify_new_releases.html
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link
Cool, that looks like it has a lot of potential. What do the numbers beside the release names mean?
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
The numbers are track-counts. Things our database thinks are "albums" are italicized, things we think are "singles" have their titles shown in quotes. But this can be fuzzy, so the track counts sometimes help clarify things.
If you hover over a thing you can also see the artist's popularity rank (which is also the sort key both within clusters and in the full list on the right).
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
that could be immensely helpful.
why aren't all the weeks new releases in the official "this week's releases" playlist?
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
All the releases aren't in the official playlist because there are ~3000 of them every week, and a very large number of them are of interest to approximately nobody.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
That's cool. What does the yellow text mean? And could the full list be in alphabetical (or some kind of) order?
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 14:49 (nine years ago) link
The full list is in descending artist-popularity order, so the idea is that at some point as you're going down it you can decide that you've hit your obscurity threshold.
The orange releases in the full list are the ones that my automatic categorizing didn't put into any of the clusters on the left.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
i noticed you don't have
Les Ambassadeurs · Les Ambassadeurs Du Motel De Bamako, Vol. 1 9Les Ambassadeurs · Les Ambassadeurs Du Motel De Bamako, Vol. 2 9
in a cluster - probably could go in the afrobeat · highlife · world ... cluster. not sure if that's helpful or not...
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
also, how come some of the links don't work? is it bc some of the albums aren't available regionally?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I have Les Ambassadeurs genre-classified properly, but the clustering works at a lower level than that, so it thinks they don't have quite enough in common with the other artists in that cluster. Computers!
I'm still trying to track down why some of the links don't work. See above note about "experimental".
And yes, one of the reasons I'm working on this is to figure out how we could do a better job of surfacing more new stuff. But still, look at some of the stuff at the bottom of that list...
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
idk how feasible it is, but i'd love to be able to browse new releases by country
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
i would think regular curators would be able to make great hay with that "bottom of the list" stuff... i remember the site that played songs no one had ever played; a deep digital crate digging tab on the app or the official blog could turn out regular virals
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
Oh, and the story with the few where the links don't work is that those links ought to work soon. Everything on that list is slated for US availability, but in a few rare cases where we don't get stuff ahead of time, there can be a little lag before it actually becomes available to everybody.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
AC Newman · What If (Original Soundtrack Album)Eluveitie - OriginsAlestorm - Sunset on the Golden AgeThe Dreamside · Sorrow Bearing TreeAndy Kindler · I Wish I Was Bitter
― Mordy, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
New and Noteworthy Deletions to US Spotify: Larry Heard's sceneries not songs and alien albums :/
― brimstead, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
New singles from Nicki Minaj, The Weeknd, Big KRIT, Brad Paisley, Flosstradamus, Mary Lambert and The Chainsmokers
Cam'Ron - 1st of the Month v2Spider Bags - Frozen LetterAdebisi Shank - This Is the Third Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank
Is there a better "here's what's been added playlist than this one: http://open.spotify.com/user/spotifyusa/playlist/3dEjWfgB5jC6zn6tLoy9yyI didn't see the AC Newman or Eluveitie albums on there and they are things I'll listen to.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
i've been using the link glenn posted last week
― Mordy, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
ah, i'm a dope.Glenn, is that thing sorted by popularity in any way?
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
The full list on the right is sorted by artist popularity. The clusters on the left are sorted within each one by artist popularity, and the clusters themselves are sorted by the popularity of the most popular artist in each.
For those of you who missed the link earlier, it's:
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
Thanks. That's a lot of work to explore but it's rewarding!
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 02:56 (nine years ago) link
additions from that run:
singles from FKA Twigs, Boys Republic, Tensnake, Stevie Nicks, Busy Signal, Joey Bada$$, Sufjan Stevens, August Alsina with Nicki, Tim McGraw
Sunny Sweeney - ProvokedBilly Joe Shaver - Long In The ToothMalcolm Holcombe - Pitiful BluesCount Bass D - The Count in CologneNachtmystium - The World We Left Behind
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 04:04 (nine years ago) link
Glenn, thoughts on this?http://gigaom.com/2014/08/05/how-spotify-is-working-on-deep-learning-to-improve-playlists/
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
We're constantly working on experiments like this.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
thanks again for that wrap up site glenn; it's become a tremendous tool for exploration on the site
This week
Albums:FKA Twigs - LP1Eric Roberson - The BoxLaura Mvula with Metropole Orkest LiveRandy Travis - Influence V.2Twista - The Dark HorseSinead O'Connor - I'm Not Bossy, I'm the BossA.R. Rahman - OST for The Hundred-Foot JourneyDela - Daite Fantasia (this seems like fun electro/J-Pop)Joker - National AnthemFaltyDL - In The WildHenry Butler and Steve Bernstein - Viper's DragIroning Board Sam - Ironing Board Sam and The Sticks
Plus new singles from E-40 with T-Pain and Kid Ink, Brad Paisley, Tim McGraw, Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J with Young Thug and Nicki, Kevin Gates, DJ Felli Fel with Cee Lo and Pitbull, Vince Staples, Lil Ray and Kirko Bangz, Hilary Duff, Gary Clark Jr., Busy Signal
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
kinda curious about Shania Twain · The Discovery Of Eilleen Twain which are recordings from the beginning of her career i think?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
oh my god i turned on the sinead o'connor and got about 20 seconds into "i wanna make love like a real full woman every day" and was like - i cannot
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
FKA twigs · LP1The Gaslight Anthem · Get Hurt Mirel Wagner · When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day (totally forgot this was coming out!)µ-Ziq · Rediffusion
Itzik Orlev איציק אורלב · "עם ישראל חי" 1 - lol frum-pop
there are some ridiculous sounding bands way down at the bottom of the right-hand list
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 01:07 (nine years ago) link
i missed that mu-ziq album, good catch
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 01:46 (nine years ago) link
okay, so the reason i missed it was because it is in the complete list of releases on the right, but not categorized on the left. what gives glenn?
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
also from the right:
Underachievers - Cellar Door
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 01:56 (nine years ago) link
The unclustered ones are in orange, so after you go through the clustered ones you can scan the orange ones on the right until they start looking stupid. That's the idea.
(There are many reasons why an artist wouldn't get clustered, including that I suppress clusters that would have only a very small number of artists unless at least one of them is at least vaguely remotely notable (according to our data).)
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 02:56 (nine years ago) link
glenn, how come older albums show up on the list? for example Majida El Roumi · Ebhath Aanni is from 1994. is it bc it's the first time on spotify, is it mislabeled, or is it a reissue or something?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
(i should add, it's labeled as a 2014 release on the spotify app itself - only if you google it do you see it's really twenty years old.)
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 03:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 30 April 2016 04:13 (seven years ago) link
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.
TracksSide 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.
― Jeff W, Monday, 2 May 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
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
― ejemplo (crüt), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
Will get it fixed, thanks!
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
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
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link
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.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
Ah, figures.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 21:14 (seven years ago) link
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.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 6 May 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
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.
― westofrome, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 13:13 (seven years ago) link
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.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
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.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 13 May 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
How do I make Spotify stop asking me to connect to Facebook?
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 13 May 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
Ask @SpotifyCares to fix your account.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 13 May 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
Weeks ending 6th and 13th May. Still no Lemonade. No Coloring Book yet either. On the plus side, we've been spared most of A Moon Shaped Pool.
Taking full advantage (or, by default if you prefer), the second most enjoyable album of last week was Jean-Michel Jarre's Electronica 2 - The Heart of Noise. Pretty much everything that didn't work about last year's Electronica 1 is put right here, thanks to a more interesting list of collaborators who, while never straying far from their comfort zone, certainly make Jarre work hard outside of his.
He'll never be fun, though. For smiles, you need Glasgow's Sithu Aye. As his bandcamp page states: "my name is Sithu and I record happy proggressive metal tunes for the discerning listener". Any album entitled "Set Course for Andromeda!!" is going to pique my interest, but this manages to sustain it despite its too long running time (75 mins!). Thanks to glenn for tipping me off to this guy by putting this on his list.
This week, Corinne Bailey Rae was always likely to be top of the heap, cf. posts passim. But the album,The Heart Speaks In Whispers fully earns its place thanks to excellent sequencing: strong statements of intent upfront, a quartet of KING co-writes in the middle to keep you interested, and a final section packed with sheer loveliness. Not enough people are talking about the record on this thread.
The latest from vapourware outfit death's dynamic shroud.wmv Classroom Sextape is less busy than its bandcamp only predecessor I'll Try Living Like This and is reminiscent of The Field in its use of samples. One of these days, someone's going to create wholly original pop songs using these techniques. This'll do until then.
TracksMay has so far mostly been about football-related songs and songs for movie soundtracks. Of the latter, you know about Eurovision-bothering Justin and Angry Bird-bothering Charli XCX already, but don't overlook Red Velvet's super cute effort. Of the latter, Super Furry Animals easily outsmart the Manics by exhuming Bing Bong from the archives and promoting it as a Euro 2016 song.
No one seems to be talking about the new song from Alicia Keys, which is odd as In Common has, um, plenty in common with this board's interests. Reminds me of Dawn Richard a little - who's also had a busy month so far: an EP, a single and a feature spot on this great posse cut by DJ Carisma.
The new Death Grips album is pretty good, but I kinda wish all the songs featured the girl on Giving Bad People Good Ideas.
Solarstone return and is keen to take us back to Y2K. I'm in.
I've not heard the combo of female vocalist + 100% electronica backing for what seems like quite a while now. So the new record from Ella On The Run stands out from the pack. I particularly like Too Much Heaven and there's also an interesting Ace Of Base cover straight after this one on the EP.
Finally, onwards and upwards for L.E.G. - a single edit of Eat Shiitake Mushrooms is now on Spotify; it's OK but I recommend sticking to the long version. More importantly, we have another track from the album in the form of Rapunzel and a full-page OTT review of said album by Simon Reynolds in The Wire, no less. June 17th can't come fast enough.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 15 May 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link
New Particles, 2016-05-20 has new songs about displacement and reconciliation from Sylvaine, Mesarthim, Kane Ikin, Adult Jazz, Beach Slang, Wolf Parade, Winterhorde, In Mourning, Evil Masquerade, Trick or Treat, Lonewolf, Broods, Yuna, Huntar, Babewatch, Charly Bliss, Sampha, Niki & The Dove, The Temper Trap, Paolo Simoni, Moseek, Gojira, Deadlock, Architects, Jasmine Cain, Q5, Anahí, Dani Martín, Adiam, Kent, King Melodies, Tiger Lou, Highasakite, XXX Rottweiler hundar, Ensími, Erik Ekholm, LOCASH, Whispered, Sympuls-E, Tiny Moving Parts, Real Friends, Short Stories, The Gospel Youth, Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties, Brand New, Anakin, Against The Current, Dawn Of Ashes, Mr FijiWiji, Rachael Sage, Brooke Candy, Leshak, Fatherson, Prides, Merely, Lisa Prank, Field Harmonics, Kate Jackson, AOA, Odonis Odonis, Tegan and Sara, Pastoratet, Sarah Jarosz, Helen Love, Sanzu, Weval, Ghosts of Pandora and Lonely The Brave
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 20 May 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
The week ending 20th May is all about two albums.
Gemma Ray's The Exodus Suite - the first to put the twang and shimmer of her Harmony Rocket guitar centre stage since her brilliant covers album It's A Shame About…, servicing a collection of beautiful, semi-political torch songs.
Ariana Grande finally gets everything right on Dangerous Woman. You find yourself thinking "YESSSSSSS" on up to half a dozen cuts. Even Lil Wayne and Future manage not to ruin things. Pop album of the year so far?
Honourable mentions go to tracks by T.I. & Marsha Ambrosius, Floating Points, Roisin Murphy and Hypnolove.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 22 May 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
Even Lil Wayne and Future manage not to ruin things.
eh?
― hot doug stamper (||||||||), Sunday, 22 May 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
New Particles, 2016-05-27 has metal, weird quiet noises, beepiness, fuzziness, guitars, more metal, and shamless self-promotion as long as putting my new song at the end of a 4.5hr playlist counts as "shameless". New songs by: Elohim, Sipario Power Metal Act, Katatonia, Chashe, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Cymbals Eat Guitars, NINA, The Amazing, Behexen, Withered, Sektemtum, Eilera, Jorn, Withem, Эпидемия, Masters Of Disguise, Lacuna Coil, Be'lakor, HOLYCHILD, Kristin Kontrol, 兄弟本色, Periphery, Architects, The Browning, Celer, Nick Casciaro, Emis Killa, Yahir, Anahí, Carlos Vives, Russian Circles, Mira Craig, Frankie Ballard, Klara Lewis, Pye Corner Audio, Miracle Of Sound, Clinton Shorter, Dragonette, Biffy Clyro, Turmion Kätilöt, Raaka-Aine, Illdisposed, Fejd, Mistur, Real Friends, Half Hearted Hero, Dinosaur Jr., Tinchy Stryder, Riz MC, K Koke, Ngaiire, Isac Elliot, Tritonal, John O'Callaghan, Death Angel, Suicidal Angels, Ashbringer, Terra , NAO, Adriano Viterbini, Pur:Pur, Handsome Poets, Niki & The Dove, T-cophony, Sløtface, Aedliga.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 27 May 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
Turns out the Cymbals Eat Guitars song is pretty good, though was never likely to top their name. Thumbs up too for the Nao, Unknown Mortal Orch., Ngaiire and Tinchy S/Example/Tempa T tracks.
My picks to follow if/when I stop listening to the new Belbury Poly album.
― Jeff W, Friday, 27 May 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
Catching up from last week, New Particles, 2016-06-03> has new songs from Stockholm and various other places by Roxette, Cantique Lépreux, Boisson Divine, The Beths, Marauder, Mondo Cozmo, Mira Luoti, Shura, Master's Hammer, Wayfarer, Tegan and Sara, Jorn, Trick or Treat, Withem, Tarja, Naomi Pilgrim, Betty Who, Last Japan, Q5, Tkacuk, Anahí, Matilda, Vuolla, Immanuel Casto, Giada, Candlemass, Break of Reality, Maren Morris, Elviaje, Tolidos, Only Shadows, Falling Awake, Ladyhawke, Jan Johansen, Cameron Sanderson, Boys of Fall, Liis Lemsalu, Avec Sans, Silent Crowd, NECRONOMIDOL and NateWantsToBattle.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 02:04 (seven years ago) link
Looks like The Traveling Wilburys just showed up to the Spotify party!!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
Anybody know how that happened? Did Orbison's estate finally relent or what?
Here's a great playlist of songs that are disproportionally popular with groups of young females who use Spotify. I'm kind of bummed that Tidal doesn't have stuff like this.
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/4ebW6Ob9ZR6eSnTjcqw2Lz
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
I assume that playlist is for Glenn's own personal use and not for Spotify research purposes.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
New Particles, 2016-06-10 has new songs, many of them scary and many of them glorious and some of them both, by: Roxette, CHVRCHES, BRONCHO, School '94, Kylie Minogue, Jute Gyte, Virus, Sabaton, Broods, Shiffley, The Temper Trap, Augustines, Psideralica, Oyinda, HEALTH, The A.M. Experiment, Vatican Shadow, Ersatz, Trampstamp, Brödet, 滅火器, Tobacco, Sumac, Paolo Vallesi, Deadlock, Pariisin Kevät, Bassnectar, Noisia, SHXCXCHCXSH, Derek Piotr, Aerial, The Gotobeds, Revocation, Hammers of Misfortune, Despised Icon, San Holo, Ngaiire, DJ Shadow, Storm The Sky, Sylar, Aly & Fila, Andy Moor, Dorian, Maga, Elviira & Rake, Apnea, Mechanist, Xavier Boscher, Tobuscus and NateWantsToBattle.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 10 June 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
As I recall, glenn hates Roxette, so glad to see that Particles doesn't reflect personal taste. Moderately interesting article in Salon about algorithms, which probably doesn't hold up to scrutiny (it strikes me as kind of half-assed and quickly written): http://www.salon.com/2016/06/10/spotify_is_making_you_boring_when_algorithms_shape_music_taste_human_curiosity_loses/.
― dlp9001, Friday, 10 June 2016 22:13 (seven years ago) link
New Radiohead album is up.
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Friday, 17 June 2016 12:50 (seven years ago) link
New Particles, 2016-06-17 has new songs by some bands that aren't Radiohead: Astronoid, Ivar Bjørnson, TeraBrite, Blut Aus Nord, Terra Tenebrosa, Inter Arma, Antwood, THE SxPLAY, Reniss, Legendury Beatz, BayouSagaTombo, Portkey, Paws, Stilla, Phantogram, Bright Light Bright Light, Jordan Gable, Bastille, Trick or Treat, Great Master, Palace, Gojira, LANY, MISSIO, Jarryd James, 八三夭, MonoInput, Nails, Finley, Chiara Grispo, Mietta, Raige, Apulanta, Dare, Sleeping At Last, Laura Mvula, Lymbyc Systym, Erik Ekholm, Antti Martikainen, Look Mexico, Landmarks, Schwarzer Engel, We The Kings, Winterhymn, DGM, Hayden Calnin, Racing Glaciers, The Animal In Me, Mahan Moin, Merely, Katohjärta, The Zen Circus, Skeletonwitch, Bosshafte Beats, Haley Bonar, Endless Melancholy, NateWantsToBattle, NECRONOMIDOL, Wayfarer.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 17 June 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
So when did Glenn's particle lists start getting really weird and poetic?
― MarkoP, Friday, 17 June 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link
Some weeks are like that.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 17 June 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
This week is like that, too.
New Particles, 2016-06-24 has new songs by: Close Lobsters, Johnny Foreigner, Mitski, Look Mexico, Great Good Fine Ok, Dive In, Broods, Arkells, White Sea, Hotel Apache, Highlord, Nonpoint, Majesty, Svarttjern, The Flight of Sleipnir, Eilera, ANCIENT MYTH, Shura, Quirke, GENER8ION, Cecile, D3ndron, Earth Ship, Dust Moth, Heavenwood, Chase Rice, Moddi, Sigur Rós, Grumbling Fur, Hieroglyphic Being, Lisa Prank, Skinny Girl Diet, Anakin, Drowners, The Maine, Yellowcard, Puppet, Crywolf, Grimner, Uchuu, Why We Run, Clones of Clones, Sleeping At Last, Ex-Otago, Thegiornalisti, Sinsaenum, Korgonthurus and Gevurah.
Cripes. This is a good time for music.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 24 June 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
New Particles, 2016-07-01 has stubbornly hopeful new songs by: Spector, Orpheum, Derya Uluğ, 羅小白, Bad Suns, Equilibrium, Fates Warning, Majesty Of Revival, Teodasia, Deadlock, Periphery, Chelsea Grin, Circle of Contempt, VOLA, While She Sleeps, Myka Relocate, Sink, Agnes Obel, Angel Olsen, Fyfe, Mapei, Stooshe, Young Summer, Little Jinder, Joanna Gruesome, 何潔, Meat Loaf, White Zoo, Arkasia, Maria Villalon, Division Minuscula, Label, Eluvium, Prins Póló, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Erik Ekholm, Imagine Music, Cloud District, Set It Off, Frances, Nadia Gattas, Mas Ysa, John Hancock III, Ghetts, Evelina Olsén, Afromikko, La Habitación Roja, Cosmic Gate, Rafael Frost, Thomas Godoj, Lindsey Stirling, Bosshafte Beats, Amber, Ceca, NateWantsToBattle, Joker, Olatunji, Dræmings and Kostume.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 1 July 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
The notes this week are not about the songs, but New Particles, 2016-07-08 has new songs by: Murdryck, serpentwithfeet, Sahg, Saint Clair, Rebel and a Basketcase, Hypersonic, Thy Worshiper, Paola Iezzi, Monolithe, Nocte Obducta, Body Language, Freedom Call, Trick or Treat, Johnny Foreigner, Kacy Hill, Allie X, Shura, Myzica, Cloud, Goblin Cock, The Naked And Famous, The Last Royals, Vinyl Thief, Bad Veins, Rothko, Russian Circles, Slow Meadow, Twilight Force, September Mourning, Linnea Olsson, Bright Light Bright Light, Darkstar, Guy Andrews, Nadia, Nanobii, Ekhymosis, Beglomeg, Nonpoint, Deadlock, Guy-Roger Duvert, Spellcaster, Konx-Om-Pax, James Ferraro, L'âme Immortelle, Ignis Fatuu, Drakwald, Bleak, Ville Valo, Crystalyne, Nina Las Vegas, Brolin, Biffy Clyro, Renate, Jon Henrik Fjällgren, Not Profane, Mira Luoti, Nina Nesbitt, Mauro Scocco, Aeges, Satán, Blender, Odio París, From States Away, Standing Egg, Isac Elliot and Secular Ghost.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 11 July 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
Glenn, is there any way of accessing past weeks' Every Noise updates or are they gone forever when Friday arrives?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 15 July 2016 12:11 (seven years ago) link
You mean the Sorting Hat? No, there's no accessible archive of those.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 15 July 2016 13:40 (seven years ago) link
:(
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 15 July 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
The past, bah. Who needs it?
New Particles, 2016-07-15 has new songs by: MGT, Cazadores, Kitten, Jon Prezant, Pain, Kroon & Lunde, Ghoulgotha, Sianvar, ColdWorld, Caïna, Sabaton, Bright Light Bright Light, Salt Ashes, ERIEL INDIGO, Crystal Castles, Polarheart, Ryli, Kaya Stewart, Tinashe, King Creosote, Envinya, Dust Moth, Preoccupations, Night Flowers, These Hidden Hands, RaeLynn, El Ten Eleven, Benni Hemm Hemm, Erik Ekholm, Jo Blankenburg, Patryk Scelina, Beach Slang, The Weekend Classic, 18th & Addison, Girugamesh, Misaruka, Dave Days, Revocation, Letzte Instanz, Schwarzer Engel, Asenblut, Asylums, SKIES, Storms, Twin Atlantic, Lonely The Brave, Natives, Old, To the Rats and Wolves, Exotype, Phoebe Ray, Still in Search, Laith Al-Deen, Black Violin, Snow Ghosts, Bosshafte Beats, Sponge Cola, NateWantsToBattle and Paola.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 15 July 2016 22:51 (seven years ago) link
People who went on vacation without bringing their computers need the past. Unfortunately.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 16 July 2016 09:01 (seven years ago) link
Your story has touched my heart. Check the bottom of the page.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 17 July 2016 03:55 (seven years ago) link
New Particles strikes again: Sonderlust by Kishi Bashi - all over the freakin' pop shop in all the right ways, and a great story arc to boot
― Jeff W, Friday, 16 September 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina
― Mordy, Sunday, 18 September 2016 06:09 (seven years ago) link
Is there anywhere that lists all new additions to Spotify as they go up? The New Releases and Release Radar are far from comprehensive.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 13:27 (seven years ago) link
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link
Thanks glenn! I'll have to settle for once-a-week updates it would seem.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 16:28 (seven years ago) link
ecm
― treeship: a year in the life (wins), Sunday, 19 November 2017 18:06 (six years ago) link
IDK if this is "new" or not but there are a bunch of good Soul Jazz Records comps up now--nowhere close to the full catalogue but enough good stuff that I want to just hole up with my headphones and do nothing for a while.
Particularly enjoying Dancehall and Venezuela 70. Note that not all of them come up under the "artist" name "Soul Jazz Records Presents," you just have to do a search for "soul jazz" and then "see all albums."
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
Also try this in the search bar:
label:"soul jazz"
Much more than the last time I ran that!
― bendy, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
I noticed the History Of Our World: Breakbeat & Jungle mix by DJ DB appeared recently (or has it been on for ages?). Shame it's not some kind of deluxe edition with all tracks also available unmixed but hey.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link