New and Noteworthy Additions to US Spotify

thanks again for that wrap up site glenn; it's become a tremendous tool for exploration on the site

This week

Albums:
FKA Twigs - LP1
Eric Roberson - The Box
Laura Mvula with Metropole Orkest Live
Randy Travis - Influence V.2
Twista - The Dark Horse
Sinead O'Connor - I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss
A.R. Rahman - OST for The Hundred-Foot Journey
Dela - Daite Fantasia (this seems like fun electro/J-Pop)
Joker - National Anthem
FaltyDL - In The Wild
Henry Butler and Steve Bernstein - Viper's Drag
Ironing 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

kinda curious about Shania Twain · The Discovery Of Eilleen Twain which are recordings from the beginning of her career i think?

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

FKA twigs · LP1
The 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

i missed that mu-ziq album, good catch

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?

also from the right:

Underachievers - Cellar Door

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, 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?

(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.)

that makes sense glenn

Labels routinely tell us their old albums are new, precisely so they'll show up at the top of date-sorted lists. We fix 'em as we find 'em.

what time does the sorting hat get bumped?

it's up!

Wiz Khalifa · Blacc Hollywood
Imogen Heap · Sparks (Deluxe Version)
JJ · V
Leonard Cohen · "Almost Like the Blues"
Pallbearer · Foundations of Burden
Botanist · Vi: Flora

As of next week this should finally be totally automated on my end. Which is good, because I'll be on vacation. (So if the automation breaks and there's no update at all next week, I apologize in advance...)

Bebel Gilbert - Tudo
Underworld - 1992 / 2012
Mohd Rafi - "Best of His Evergreen Bollywood Hit Songs"
Royskopp / Robyn - Monument Remixes
Cliff Martinez - The Knick Original Soundtrack
Liam Bailey - Definitely Now
Smokey Robinson - Smokey and Friends (on a cursory listen, this is gonna be terrible)
Sly Stone - Yellow Moon and More (collection of Sly's early '60's gospel and pop rarities; more a curiosity than a serious listen but i'm into it)
Chuck Brown - Beautiful Life
William Shatner - Live http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner_Live
Wire - Document and Eyewitness 1979 / 1980
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Statik Selektah - What Goes Around
Boris Karloff and The Vienna State Opera Orchestra - Peter and the Wolf and Lieutenant Kije Suite
Oscar Peterson - The Maharaja of the Keyboard

new singles from Lizzo, Jennifer Hudson, Caribou, Hot Chip, Brad Paisley, Basement Jaxx, Kate Boy, Ledisi, Blake Shelton, MC Galaxy, Duncan Mighty, Ruggedman, Odesza, Vybz Cartel, Konshens, Gregory Isaacs

additional re-release "new on spotify" stuff: Kurupt, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sarah Vaughn, Bessie Smith, Ennio Morricone

I'm not sure how long ago they were added, but all three Screaming Blue Messiahs albums are there now (they weren't in the past).

the spotify official new release playlist got changed to be only single songs >:(

welcome to the sorting hat

man this new lizzo single sucks :/

Yeah, it's garbage. That's too bad.

caroline smith is terrible, she was one of those ipod commerical type folkie artists until last year and she did this "oh i'm R&B now and so wiiild man" move, she's kinda big in mpls

Is she ever going to do a second Chalice album or was that a one-off thing?

i dunno, they seemed to get a lot buzz at first but then lizzobangers came out and she was scooped up by totally gross national product records and feels like she's just going on to bigger and better things...she was clearly the most talented in that group imo

haha i thought at first you were saying this label called national product records was 'totally gross'

Literature "Chorus" is up now and is pretty good if you're into twee-indie-jangle revival.

again glenn: thanks for this. Really revolutionizing the way i listen to spotify and find new music for the past few weeks.

otm, and if this thread is any indication so far, it opens up a great way to talk about some new music on ilx (that can be hard to find a good place for otherwise)

ok just checked out sorting hat, that's really cool glenn

My preliminary list of things to check out this week: Children of Technology, Pallbearer, The Moon and the Nightspirit, Troye Sivan, Imogen Heap (!), Kate Boy, Twin Atlantic, In Flames, DragonForce, The Copyrights, Empire Auriga, Polarsets, Natasa Djordjevic, Colory, Sebastian Komor, Rumour Cubes, Lussuria, Ryn Weaver, Zella Day, Racing Glaciers, Mochipet, Pure Gold. My data says we're supposed to be getting the new Charli XCX song, but it doesn't appear to be up yet, so it's Youtube for that and the Taylor Swift thing.

Not that I listened to everything from last week yet.

yeah the pile is getting a lot bigger.
Also the lemonade and ciroc gucci song (which i am curious in solely to see if it's a sequel to lemonade and it's not is it) is not up either

That doggone hat has quickly become a high point of my tuesdays

me2

the spotify official new release playlist got changed to be only single songs >:(

― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, August 19, 2014 2:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Super dumb.

as long as we're making this the g.mcd. cheering thread, here's a somewhat older piece from Wired:
http://oi57.tinypic.com/2ljgbv7.jpg

Fun, but that graph is nigh unreadable.

I should clarify that I had nothing whatsoever to do with the visual treatment of that hip-hop thing, and until I opened up the magazine myself I totally thought there was going to be a map with various-thickness arrows arching back and forth. I just had the original diaspora idea and generated the data for it.

well if the core message was that east coast and trap has longer legs in terms of how far the listening influence extends over bounce and west coast rap, it conveys that well

glenn u wanna talk to this guy?
https://medium.com/@bg/spotify-we-need-to-talk-about-your-data-f6cbe2473992

Even if you gave us stupid badges, something great would happen on your platform.

i'm such a sucker for stupid badges

lol if you're trying to make yourself seem invaluable, don't use a photo of yourself wearing google glass.

https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/1440/1*xLk4h68x-3RrqiFzd1neJg.png

"Especially for the hipsters among us, the competitive pressures of being known as a music expert would drive us to more actively and exclusively use the platform. "

Does that guy know about last.fm?

haha

last.fm needs more badges

imagine

http://i58.tinypic.com/33y3m9t.png

but for the number of britpop albums you've listened to

omg it would take my music listening OCD to brand new as-of-yet unheard of levels. it would probably be dangerous to my health

"album not found"

All day long.

Ariana Grande · My Everything
haha i will listen to Trapt · "Headstrong (Acoustic)"
Basement Jaxx · Junto
The New Pornographers · Brill Bruisers
Real Estate · "Had To Hear"
The Bug · Angels & Devils
Augustus Pablo · Born To Dub You
The Bad Plus · Inevitable Western
Jessie Ware · "Say You Love Me"
Diwon · Pre-Game (buddy of mine - didn't realize he had a new album out)

what is ectofolk?
and why is israeli rock and mizrachi in the same category as lilith, folk pop?

also oh my gosh every jackie mason album now available lol

Your story has touched my heart. Check the bottom of the page.

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

Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina

Is there anywhere that lists all new additions to Spotify as they go up? The New Releases and Release Radar are far from comprehensive.

http://everynoise.com/spotify_new_releases.html

Thanks glenn! I'll have to settle for once-a-week updates it would seem.

ecm

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."

Also try this in the search bar:

label:"soul jazz"

Much more than the last time I ran that!

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.