New Releases: part two

Good evening. There is thunder in the air, but nothing can stop this Spotinews post. As promised, here is the second and last part with new releases, all picked from yesterdays Spotify update. Enjoy!

Chickenfoot – Chickenfoot
John Zorn – Alhambra Love Songs
Spoon – Got Nuffin’ (Single)
Tim Sparks – Little Princess
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra – Palpatine’s Dream (Single)

Two Early Black Sabbath Albums

Howdy folks. It’s time to move back almost 40 years in time. Two early Black Sabbath albums have very recently been added to Spotify. Classic stuff. Enjoy!

(Note: These are the remastered deluxe editions!)

Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath – Master Of Reality

New Releases: part one

Hi there. Here are some of the new releases from yesterdays Spotify update. I think most of you are familiar with these artists and their genres. Also note that there will be a part two published later today. Enjoy!

(There is a new playlist – available in the Playlists section – with samples starting from this post.)

(And as usual a couple of these releases are a few weeks old, but they should be new in Spotify!)

Major Lazer – Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do
Mew – No More Stories EP
Mr. Scruff – Keep It Unreal (10th Anniversary Analogue Remaster Edition)
Tom Brosseau – Posthumous Success
Various Artists – Reggae Gold 2009
We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices (Single)

B! Machine

Hello. It’s time for a rare post in the middle of the night. Four albums by synthpop artist B! Machine were added in yesterdays Spotify update. If you’re a fan of Depeche Mode, this will sound familiar. Enjoy!

B! Machine – Aftermath
B! Machine – Alternates And Remixes
B! Machine – The Evening Bell
B! Machine – The Falling Star

Bob Dylan – Hard Rain

Howdy. As you may already know by now, todays Spotify update was huge. I was happy to find this excellent live album by Bob Dylan among the fresh releases. Enjoy!

Bob Dylan – Hard Rain

Wilco – Wilco [the album]

Hey again. Todays Spotify update was a real monster with close to 150.000 tracks (for me in Sweden). Actually it’s so much music I fear my head is going to explode. I’ll be back later when I’ve figured out how to present some of my finds. Until then, please enjoy the new Wilco album!

(Note: if this album version is unavailable, there should be another version for your region in Spotify.)

Wilco – Wilco [the album]

La Roux – La Roux

Extra! Extra! There has just been a monster Spotify update. Almost 150.000 tracks for me in Sweden. This is the brand new La Roux album. Enjoy!

(Not available in the UK it seems, which is strange.)

La Roux – La Roux

Danny Cohen x2

Good evening. These two albums by singer-songwriter Danny Cohen were added to Spotify a couple of weeks ago. He isn’t very well known (only 16,902 plays on last.fm) so check him out and enjoy!

Danny Cohen – Dannyland
Danny Cohen – We’re All Gunna Die

CD Baby: nine

Hello there. It’s time for another episode of my ongoing CD Baby series. All albums were picked from the Spotify update 13 days ago. Enjoy!

So, what genres do we have here? Well, there is some ska (The Toasters), surf rock (The Spy Surfs), electronic (Tokyo507), jazz (Tom McMahon) and finally some world music/jazz (Tom Toomey).

The Toasters – Enemy Of The System
This Spy Surfs – This Spy Surfs 525
Tokyo507 – Tokyo507
Tom McMahon – Small Talk
Tom Toomey – Monfi Cat

James Newton Howard – Duplicity

Good evening. This soundtrack was recently added to Spotify. Enjoy!

James Newton Howard – Duplicity

Tim Fite – Fair Ain’t Fair

Hello there. Since this weeks Spotify updates have been fairly small, I’m now going into backup mode. I will pick the next four or five updates from a playlist with all the good music that just didn’t make it into a blog post here. First up is an album that was recommended to me by CaveatCavebat. Interesting stuff. Enjoy!

Tim Fite – Fair Ain’t Fair

Korpiklaani – Karkelo

Hi. Here is another release from todays micro Spotify update: the new album by Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani. Enjoy!

(If this isn’t available in your country today, you may have to wait until Monday for it to become activated. Official release date is June 29 in most places.)

Korpiklaani – Karkelo

Jamie T – Sticks ‘n’ Stones EP

Howdy. There has been another small Spotify update today and since it was just short of 400 tracks there won’t be a Google Doc published. Anyway, this is the great new Jamie T EP. Enjoy!

Edit: This release is not available in the UK.
Edit 2: Fixed the typo in the title.

Jamie T – Sticks ‘n’ Stones EP

Tift Merritt – Buckingham Solo

Hey there. This live album was recorded in November last year, released on CD in late April and added to Spotify earlier this week (digital release date June 23). Tift Merritt has a delicate voice and is also a talentened songwriter. Enjoy!

Tift Merritt – Buckingham Solo

Fleet Foxes – Your Protector (Single)

Howdy. Here you have another very recent addition to the Spotify library. The new thing here is the B-side, Silver Dagger. Enjoy Fleet Foxes!

Fleet Foxes – Your Protector (Single)

Van Halen – 5150

Hello there. This Van Halen album was recently added to Spotify. Enjoy some hard rock!

(Oh, and isn’t it obvious that this album is from 1986 when you look at the cover?)

Van Halen – 5150

Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal

Good evening. This release with selections from Island Records (1967-72) was added to Spotify earlier this week. Some of the artists featured are: Traffic, Jethro Tull, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake and Cat Stevens. Enjoy!

Various Artists – Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal – An Island Records Anthology

Miles Davis – Live In Poland ‘83

Hello. There has been another Spotify update. With the exception for some jazz releases, there wasn’t much interesting for me this time. Anyway, this is 1980s Miles Davis, a fact which may scare some people away. However, I do like it and the album cover is pretty as well. Enjoy!

Miles Davis – Live In Poland ‘83

autoKratz – Animal

Hi there. This brand new autoKratz album was added to Spotify a couple of days ago. Enjoy!

(Actually, it’s their debut album. I made it sound like they had many albums out.)

autoKratz – Animal

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Out In L.A.

Good evening. This collection of alternate versions (live tracks, demos and remixes) was released in 1994. Now it’s available for listen in Spotify. Enjoy Red Hot Chili Peppers!

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Out In L.A.

And Six More New Releases…

Hello. Here are six more new albums. Most of these were added in yesterdays Spotify update. Enjoy!

Bat For Lashes – Pearl’s Dream (Single)
The Wooden Birds – Magnolia
Montt Mardié – Skaizerkite
Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings (Special Edition)
Various Artists – The Hangover: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists – Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

Gossip – Music For Men

Morning. The sun is shining madly outside my bedroom window and I’m on my way out. But before I go, here you have one of the best albums of the year so far: The brand new Gossip album. It’s simply great and was made available to all Spotify users yesterday. Enjoy!

Gossip – Music For Men

Six More New Releases

Good evening. These six releases were all part of todays Spotify update. Thanks to Yngve for finding the new Sunset Rubdown album. Enjoy!

(And as usual a couple of the releases below were released earlier this year.)

(Do you think some new release is missing here? Well, you could be correct. There will be another post like this one up tomorrow.)

Edguy – Fucking With Fire – Live
Milow – Milow
Perry & The Travellers – Other Side Of The Bridge
Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
The Kid – Transient Blood
“Weird Al” Yankovic – Craigslist (Single)

Den Svenska Sommaren

Hello. This release, picked from todays Spotify update, is mainly for my Swedish readers. What you get here are 75 tracks to celebrate the summer – the Swedish summer. Enjoy!

(There is also a new playlist available in the Playlists section.)

Various Artists – Den Svenska Sommaren

New Albums (June 22)

Howdy. From todays Spotify update I’ve found some new albums. I’ll be back a bit later with more finds. Enjoy!

(Please note that Jack Peñate is Jack Penate in Spotify, which is wrong.)

Edit: Official blog finally updated.

Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
God Help The Girl – God Help The Girl
Jack Peñate – Everything Is New
The Mars Volta – Octahedron

Regina Spektor – Far

Extra! The Spotify library has just been updated. Enjoy the new Regina Spektor album!

Regina Spektor – Far

320kb/s Ogg Vorbis For Spotify Premium

Extra! I’ve just found out that this week Spotify will offer high quality streaming to premium users. From the support forum:

This is a new feature that we will be rolling out later this week. We will offer premium subscribers the option to stream in 320 kb/s using Ogg Vorbis q9 codec.

Will this help boost Spotify premium sales? I think so. The sound quality in Spotify is very good as it is, but who can say no to 320kb/s Ogg Vorbis?

Note: Not every song will be available as a higher quality stream immediately – initially the most popular tracks will be, while the rest of Spotify’s catalogue is converted over the coming weeks.

Jonathan Johansson!

Extra! No there hasn’t been a Spotify update at midnight, but I just found an album that I’ve been waiting for since it was released a couple of months. How on earth could this one have slipped under my radar? Well, I have a theory. There was a really really small extra update this past Tuesday, but I just didn’t make much out of it. Jonathan Johansson may have been part of that extra micro update. If my theory is correct this album will show up in the next google doc. Anyway, enjoy!

Jonathan Johansson – En hand i himlen

CD Baby: eight

Howdy. This is part eight in this ongoing series of selections from CD Baby. All these releases were included in this weeks first Spotify update. Enjoy!

Genres here: classic rock (Too Tall Tom), singer-songwriter (Tracey Jane Comer), folk (Tracy Smith), electronic (Trancient Dreams, Tranxgo) and progressive rock (Trettioåriga Kriget).

Too Tall Tom – Armageddon Drive-In
Tracey Jane Comer – Quietly There
Tracy Smith – Taverns and Tall Ships (Songs of the American Colonial)
Trancient Dreams – Into The Ether
Tranxgo – Arravaltronics I
Trettioåriga Kriget – Elden av år

Almedal

Morning. This is another album from my reserves list. It was added to Spotify a couple of weeks ago. Almedal is a Swedish indie pop duo and they sing in Swedish. Enjoy!

Almedal – Från och med nu och 20 dagar framåt