Listening to in Dolby Atmos Streaming, via Tidal/Apple/Amazon

[haikubass]

Lauren Mayberry - Vicious Creature
Solo effort outside Chvrches, out today. Very nice overall, perfectly tailored (indie) pop all around - easy going, yet never boring. With more than a little help from Atmos mix by Dave Emery.
https://tidal.com/album/402588831?u

 

[LennonCobain]

 

[Infomas]

Doechii! Best New Artist Grammy Nominee. Amazing performance on last night's Colbert:

I was left speechless by that performance. We were watching Colbert when I saw your post. My wife left the room, so I watched it on my phone and then said, "Dear, we need to see this performance". It isn't really within my musical tastes, but is sure was fun to watch. Thanks for posting.

 

[scooob]

I was left speechless by that performance. We were watching Colbert when I saw your post. My wife left the room, so I watched it on my phone and then said, "Dear, we need to see this performance". It isn't really within my musical tastes, but is sure was fun to watch. Thanks for posting.

That was enough to prompt me to watch the video. Really striking performance from someone that would normally never be on my radar.

 

[humprof]

I was left speechless by that performance. We were watching Colbert when I saw your post. My wife left the room, so I watched it on my phone and then said, "Dear, we need to see this performance". It isn't really within my musical tastes, but is sure was fun to watch. Thanks for posting.

That was enough to prompt me to watch the video. Really striking performance from someone that would normally never be on my radar.

And now there's a Tiny Desk Concert! (Guess she's got a good publicist. Plus, she's just effing a-may-zing--and is she ever having a moment!)
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/06/g-s1-35734/doechii-tiny-desk-concert

 

[mrcond]

Better than average for an Atmos mix of a live show. I so wish there was a live video blu-ray, she is long overdue.

 

[mkt]

I'm not a big fan of soundtracks but this one from Hauschka seems interesting. Check out the first track at a healthy volume.

 

[GilWave]

Enjoying Rush's self titled debut in Dolby Atmos on Apple Music. One of my favorites by them. I really like the mix.

Just saw that they released this, 2112 and A Farewell To Kings in Atmos on Apple Music. No news, not notice, no credits. Rush's website is silent on it.

Are they Richard Chycki mixes? Was there any kind of press release about these releases?

 

[humprof]

In @fredblue's absence this week (maybe he's just saving up for Sunday morning?), I'm gonna sneak in and do a linkdump of my own. Every year around this time, I compile a master file of a whole bunch of Top 10 lists (or 20, or 100, or whatever), specifically:

Independent Music Writers:

• Will Hermes: https://newmusicoldmusic.substack.com/p/best-albums-of-2024-early-bird-chat (“rough draft”)
• Fred Kaplan: https://slate.com/culture/2024/12/best-jazz-albums-2024.html
• Gene Seymour: https://geneseymour.com/?p=3931

“Old” Media:

• The Guardian (Gdn): https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/dec/09/the-50-best-albums-of-2024
• The Independent (Ind): https://www.the-independent.com/art...-2024-taylor-swift-fontaines-dc-b2653867.html
• The New Yorker (Petrusich): https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2024-in-review/the-best-albums-of-2024 (Amanda Petrusich)
• The New York Times (Caramanica, Pareles, Zoladz): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/arts/music/best-albums-2024.html (Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica, Lindsay Zoladz - Top 10-15s + hms)
• NPR Music (NPR): https://www.npr.org/2024/12/02/g-s1-34684/best-albums-2024

“New” Media/Music Websites:

• Bandcamp (BC): https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2024/the-best-albums-of-2024-a-f
• and https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2024/the-best-albums-of-2024-essential-releases (Plus: watch for individual lists: jazz, folk, ambient, club, electronic, hip-hop, etc…)
• Pitchfork (PF): https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-albums-2024/
• Popmatters (PM) (Individual Genre Lists: Americana, Folk, Global, Ambient, Metal, Rock, Jazz): https://www.popmatters.com/category/the-best-music-of-2024
• The Quietus (Q): https://thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...-of-the-year-best-albums-2024-norman-records/
• Slate (Wilson): https://slate.com/culture/2024/12/best-albums-2024-aoty-songs-music-kendrick-sabrina.html (Carl Wilson)
• Stereogum (SG): https://www.stereogum.com/2288841/best-albums-2024/lists/album-list/

I'm still waiting on a couple of my usual sources--Nate Chinen, the Francis Davis jazz critics' poll, more from Popmatters--but so far my list is running to around 275 titles. Below is a table covering all albums on that list with known Atmos mixes (with album titles linked to Apple Music US). The first installment covers A-F (individual artists are alphabetized by first name, not last name); I'll add G-M, N-S, and T-Z in the coming days.

hm = Honorable Mention; no # = unranked (or below a given list's Top 20); * = ranked as "outstanding"

Artist	Album	Lists
Adeem the Artist	Anniversary	Wilson hm
Amazones d'Afriques, Les	Musow Dance	Pareles hm; BC; PM Global #3
Angelica Garcia	Gemelo	Pareles hm; BC
Ariana Grande	Eternal Sunshine	Zoladz hm; Gdn #24
Arooj Aftab	Night Reign	Hermes; Pareles hm; PF#17; Q #31; Wilson hm; Gdn #19
Asake	Lungu Boy	Caramanica hm
Baby Rose	Slow Burn	BC
Benny the Butcher	Everybody Can't Go	Caramanica hm
BigXthaPlug	Take Care	NPR
Billie Eilish	Hit Me Hard and Soft	Ind #14; Pareles #4; Caramanica #12; Petrusich #10
Blood Incantation	Absolute Elsewhere	NPR; PF; SG; BCR; Q #65
Bon Iver	Sable	Petrusich #4
BossMan Dlow	Mr Beat the Road	Caramanica #9
Brittany Howard	What Now	Hermes; Pareles #2; Petrusich #14
Carly Pearce	Hummingbird	Wilson hm
Charles Lloyd	The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow	Pareles hm; Kaplan; Seymour #1
Charli XCX	Brat and Brat And It's Completely Different But Also Still Brat	Hermes; Ind #2; NPR; Pareles #1; Caramanica hm; Zoladz #3; Petrusich #7; PF #2; SG #1; Q #15
Clairo	Charm	Petrusich #18; PF; Q #17; Wilson hm
Cure, The	Songs of a Lost World	Ind #8; NPR; Pareles #9; SG; Q #62; Gdn #11
DIIV	Frog In Boiling Water	SG
Doechii	Alligator Bites Never Heal	NPR* SG #9; Gdn; Wilson hm
Dua Saleh	I Should Call Them	BC
Ella Langley	Still Hungover	Caramanica #4
Emily D'Angelo	Freezing	NPR
English Teacher	This Could Be Texas	Ind #13; Pareles hm; BC
Ethan Iverson	Technically Acceptable	Kaplan
Ezra Collective	Dance, No One's Watching	BC
Fabiana Palladino	Fabiana Palladino	NPR; Gdn #17
Father John Misty	Mahashmashana	Petrusich #20; SG #16
Flo	Access All Areas	Caramanica #10
Fontaines DC	Romance	Ind #1; SG; Gdn #7
Future and Metro Boomin	We Don't Trust You	Caramanica #6

 

[SomethingAnything]

An Atmos version of Tull's Christmas Album is up on Tidal. I'm surprised, as I'd thought it was only 5.1 on the Blu-ray disc?

Anyway, I'm playing it right now and it's a beautiful Atmos mix. Just search Jethro Tull and it pops right up.

 

[DuncanS]

An Atmos version of Tull's Christmas Album is up on Tidal. I'm surprised, as I'd thought it was only 5.1 on the Blu-ray disc?

Anyway, I'm playing it right now and it's a beautiful Atmos mix. Just search Jethro Tull and it pops right up.

It's in Atmos on the disc - mind you it's stuck on the to-listen-to mountain

 

[SomethingAnything]

It's in Atmos on the disc - mind you it's stuck on the to-listen-to mountain

Oh I'm very glad to hear that. I knew it was a Blu-ray, but had not realised also Atmos, as that's not always the case.

 

[SHB]

Just saw that they released this, 2112 and A Farewell To Kings in Atmos on Apple Music. No news, not notice, no credits. Rush's website is silent on it.

Are they Richard Chycki mixes? Was there any kind of press release about these releases?

I really don't know. I stumbled across them one evening. I am hoping Rhino issues them as stand alone Blu Rays or Paul at SDE. I'm sure they would sell quite well.

 

[theCharm]

Jethro Tull Christmas Album in Atmos is on Apple was mentioned but nobody cared to post the link. It’s my favorite Christmas album, so there

 

[theCharm]

Hozier’s Unreal Unearth: Unending deluxe release popped up with no big announcements, stream release only in Atmos. Added songs are very good so far.

 

[mrcond]

Just saw that they released this, 2112 and A Farewell To Kings in Atmos on Apple Music. No news, not notice, no credits. Rush's website is silent on it.

Are they Richard Chycki mixes? Was there any kind of press release about these releases?

Yes, Richard Chycki mixes. A major improvement for him from what I hear. No press that I have seen.

 

[Thonolan]

Just saw that they released this, 2112 and A Farewell To Kings in Atmos on Apple Music. No news, not notice, no credits. Rush's website is silent on it.

Are they Richard Chycki mixes? Was there any kind of press release about these releases?

Check out the many comments about them in recent pages of this thread (Search - "Rush" - this thread) if you're curious about it. Lots of opinions, mostly positive, some not so much. Also your questions had already been answered there.

Like most, I'm baffled about the lack of any sort of press release/announcement anywhere. They just appeared there on November 22th, and I'd have never noticed without this thread.

 

[LennonCobain]

Check out the many comments about them in recent pages of this thread (Search - "Rush" - this thread) if you're curious about it. Lots of opinions, mostly positive, some not so much. Also your questions had already been answered there.

Like most, I'm baffled about the lack of any sort of press release/announcement anywhere. They just appeared there on November 22th, and I'd have never noticed without this thread.

I think Rush was briefly a “featured artist” on Apple Music, but otherwise these were released without fanfare.

 

[humprof]

In @fredblue's absence this week (maybe he's just saving up for Sunday morning?), I'm gonna sneak in and do a linkdump of my own. Every year around this time, I compile a master file of a whole bunch of Top 10 lists (or 20, or 100, or whatever), specifically:

Independent Music Writers:

• Will Hermes: https://newmusicoldmusic.substack.com/p/best-albums-of-2024-early-bird-chat (“rough draft”)
• Fred Kaplan: https://slate.com/culture/2024/12/best-jazz-albums-2024.html
• Gene Seymour: https://geneseymour.com/?p=3931

“Old” Media:

• The Independent (Ind): https://www.the-independent.com/art...-2024-taylor-swift-fontaines-dc-b2653867.html
• The New Yorker (Petrusich): https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2024-in-review/the-best-albums-of-2024 (Amanda Petrusich)
• The New York Times (Caramanica, Pareles, Zoladz): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/arts/music/best-albums-2024.html (Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica, Lindsay Zoladz - Top 10-15s + hms)
• NPR Music (NPR): https://www.npr.org/2024/12/02/g-s1-34684/best-albums-2024

“New” Media/Music Websites:

• Bandcamp (BC): https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2024/the-best-albums-of-2024-a-f
• and https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2024/the-best-albums-of-2024-essential-releases (Plus: watch for individual lists: jazz, folk, ambient, club, electronic, hip-hop, etc…)
• Pitchfork (PF): https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-albums-2024/
• Popmatters (PM) (Individual Genre Lists: Americana, Folk, Global, Ambient, Metal): https://www.popmatters.com/category/the-best-music-of-2024
• The Quietus (Q): https://thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...-of-the-year-best-albums-2024-norman-records/
• Stereogum (SG): https://www.stereogum.com/2288841/best-albums-2024/lists/album-list/

I'm still waiting on a few of my usual sources--The Guardian, Nate Chinen, the Francis Davis jazz critics' poll, more from Popmatters--but so far my list is running to around 250 titles. Below is a table covering all albums on that list with known Atmos mixes (with album titles linked to Apple Music US). The first installment covers A-F (individual artists are alphabetized by first name, not last name); I'll add G-M, N-S, and T-Z in the coming days.

hm = Honorable Mention; no # = unranked (or below a given list's Top 20); * = ranked as "outstanding"

Artist	Album	Lists
Amazones d'Afriques, Les	Musow Dance	Pareles hm; BC; PM Global #3
Angelica Garcia	Gemelo	Pareles hm; BC
Ariana Grande	Eternal Sunshine	Zoladz hm
Arooj Aftab	Night Reign	Hermes; Pareles hm; PF#17; Q #31
Asake	Lungu Boy	Caramanica hm
Baby Rose	Slow Burn	BC
Benny the Butcher	Everybody Can't Go	Caramanica hm
BigXthaPlug	Take Care	NPR
Billie Eilish	Hit Me Hard and Soft	Ind #14; Pareles #4; Caramanica #12; Petrusich #10
Blood Incantation	Absolute Elsewhere	NPR; PF; SG; BCR; Q #65
Bon Iver	Sable	Petrusich #4
BossMan Dlow	Mr Beat the Road	Caramanica #9
Brittany Howard	What Now	Hermes; Pareles #2; Petrusich #14
Charles Lloyd	The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow	Pareles hm; Kaplan; Seymour #1
Charli XCX	Brat and Brat And It's Completely Different But Also Still Brat	Hermes; Ind #2; NPR; Pareles #1; Caramanica hm; Zoladz #3; Petrusich #7; PF #2; SG #1; Q #15
Clairo	Charm	Petrusich #18; PF; Q #17
Cure, The	Songs of a Lost World	Ind #8; NPR; Pareles #9; SG; Q #62
DIIV	Frog In Boiling Water	SG
Doechii	Alligator Bites Never Heal	NPR* SG #9
Dua Saleh	I Should Call Them	BC
Ella Langley	Still Hungover	Caramanica #4
Emily D'Angelo	Freezing	NPR
English Teacher	This Could Be Texas	Ind #13; Pareles hm; BC
Ethan Iverson	Technically Acceptable	Kaplan
Ezra Collective	Dance, No One's Watching	BC
Fabiana Palladino	Fabiana Palladino	NPR
Father John Misty	Mahashmashana	Petrusich #20; SG #16
Flo	Access All Areas	Caramanica #10
Fontaines DC	Romance	Ind #1; SG
Future and Metro Boomin	We Don't Trust You	Caramanica #6

Here's part two--covering G through M--of 2024 critics' picks in Atmos. Overview and legend in my previous post. N-S and T-Z in the next couple of days.

Gabriela Ortiz	Revolución Diamantina	NPR*
GloRilla	Glorious	NPR
Hard Quartet, The	The Hard Quartet	Wilson hm
Hermanos Gutiérrez	Sonido Cósmico	PM Global #4
Hinds	Viva Hinds	Ind #15
Immanuel Wilkins	Blues Blood	NPR*; Seymour #5
Ivan Cornejo	Mirada	Caramanica #5
Jamie xx	In Waves	Gdn
Joy Oladokun	Observations from a Crowded Room	PM Americana #7
Julia Holter	Something in the Room She Moves	Zoladz hm
Kacey Musgraves	Deeper Well	Zoladz hm; Gdn #26
Kali Uchis	Orchideas	NPR; Pareles #5; PF; Gdn #22
Kamasi Washington	Fearless Movement	BC*
Kaytranada	Timeless	NPR
Kelly Lee Owens	Dreamstate	BC
Kendrick Lamar	GNX	Ind #18; NPR; Pareles hm; SG #3; Q #43
Khruangbin	A La Sala	Hermes
Klô Pelgag	Abracadabra	BC
Last Dinner Party, The	Prelude to Ecstasy	Ind #20
Laura Marling	Patterns In Repeat	Ind #9; Pareles hm; Zoladz #5; PM Folk #3; PF; Gdn #25
Lava La Rue	Starface	BC
LL Cool J	The Force	SG
Mdou Moctar	Funeral for Justice	Hermes; Zoladz hm; Petrusich #8; PM Global #2; PF; Q #69; Gdn; Wilson hm
Megan Moroney	Am I Okay?	Caramanica hm
Meshell Ndegeocello	No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin	NPR
Messthetics, The and James Brandon Lewis	The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis	Wilson
Michael Kiwanuka	Small Changes	Pareles hm
Mustafa	Dunya	NPR; Caramanica hm; Zoladz hm; PM Folk #2

 

[LennonCobain]