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

[SomethingAnything]

DeLaurentis - Musicalism

Thanks. Loving it so far.

 

[haikubass]

Billy F Gibbons - Livin' It Up Down In Texas
EZ ZZ

 

[fredblue]

hey hey QQ it's funky Friday with ol' freddie mc blue

starting with Jazz crossover stalwarts Yellowjackets with their new album "Fasten Up" coming out next month, buckle up for the lead Single; "Comin' Home Baby"

 

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next up, Folky Christian crossover artist Josiah Queen with the jaunty "Can't Steal My Joy", a spirited duet with Christian Rocker Brandon Lake whose own 2023 album "Coat Of Many Colors" is also in Atmos

 

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Chinese artist Xin Liu's sultry and Surround-y "Take A Sip" with a very apt reference to "Freaky Friday" (they have a number of other tracks in Atmos but i haven't shared them as they're not in English)

 

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another track from the upcoming album "Mixtape" by Jann Arden (one of Canada's most respected Singer-Songwriters, although this one is written by prolific hitmaker Max Martin) has popped up in Atmos

 

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"Brainwashed", nice immersive Dance track from the end of last year by SF Bay Area Electronic Rock outfit Great Highway

 

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a chunk of punky funk with a little bit of skunk from 90's Britrock darlings Skunk Anansie, with their new Single "An Artist Is An Artist"

it may not be everyone's cup of tea, it's certainly more vitriol than jelly roll but it's Surround-y enough

 

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kinda sticking with a 90's theme but zooming over from London to California with a couple of "oldies" from catchy Rockers Sugar Ray

"Floored" from 1997

and "Someday" from 1999

 

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another track's just been added to the preview of the upcoming album "LOVE.JONES" by LA experimental producer-singer R&B/Hip-Hop duo THEY.

 

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one to watch for as new tracks get added to upcoming album "Open Wide" from the Irish Indie band Inhaler fronted by Bono's Son, all in glorious Atmos

 

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a bit of doof-doofy Dance to get the ol' dicky ticker a-pumpin'

"2 Hearts" by 'enigmatic' Dj-producer project Glockenbach with Switch Disco featuring vocals by Jem Cooke

 

[fredblue]

whoever mixes Ruel and grentperez in Atmos does a pretty solid job with those artists' respective solo work i reckon as they both have their own Surround winners which i've shared here before in this wee QQ thread and now here's a nifty lil' mix of the two of these Popsters together in the very short but sweet duet "Dandelion" from the forthcoming album by Alt Aussie grentperez entitled "Backflips in a Restaurant"

 

[alek2702]

I'm heartbroken that tidal doesn't have these

Was hoping today was going to be the day they land on Tidal, but seems this is an Apple exclusive for now?

Wasn't there also a Björk DJ set in Atmos that never found its way to Tidal either?

 

[fredblue]

"A Stone Only Rolls Downhill", slinky Indie Pop couched in a fabulous Surround mix from Chicago quartet OK Go

 

[haikubass]

Wasn't there also a Björk DJ set in Atmos that never found its way to Tidal either?

OTOH, Tidal got the recent Chicago live set: https://tidal.com/album/399652679?u

 

[fredblue]

Chet Baker reimagined by Ornithology

 

[austinsignal]

Nathan Boddy mixed this album--in stereo, anyway. Do we know if he also did the Atmos mix?

Gotta say, I love this record. Stereo in the car, in the house w Sonos surround, and in the studio in 7.1.4.

 

[Franck]

"Brainwashed", nice immersive Dance track from the end of last year by SF Bay Area Electronic Rock outfit Great Highway

It is their first Atmos release and they love the experience Atmos provides, I hope they make more records like this.

 

[humprof]

Okay: I've just finished my final(?) additions to my obsessive four-part spreadsheet that begins above. (And I've added links to the other three installments of the spreadsheet to that post.) The Guardian took forever to reveal its top five choices--that's mainly what I was waiting on--and in the meantime Paste and Jazzwise and some other outlets also published entirely new lists, which I've incorporated (selectively, maybe even capriciously) into the master list.

Turns out there are also quite a few critical darlings from 2024--e.g., Adrianne Lenker's Bright Future; Beyonce's Cowboy Carter; Cassandra Jenkins's My Light, My Destroyer; Cindy Lee's Diamond Jubilee; claire rousay's sentiment; David Murray's Francesca; Gillian Welch & David Rawlings's Woodland; Helado Negro's Phasor; Hurray for the Riff Raff's The Past Is Still Alive; Jessica Pratt's Here In the Pitch; Johnny Blue Skies' Passage du Desir; Ka's The Thief Next to Jesus; Kim Deal's Nobody Loves You More; Kim Gordon's The Collective; Mabe Fratti's Sentir que no sabes; Madi Diaz's Weird Faith; Magdalena Bey's Imaginal Disk, Mannequin Pussy's I Got Heaven; Mary Halvorson's Cloudward; MJ Lenderman's Manning Fireworks; Mk.gee's Two Star & The Dream Police; Mount Eerie's Night Palace; Nala Sinephro's Endlessness; Patricia Brennan's Breaking Stretch; Still House Plants' If I don't make it, I love u; This Is Loralei's Box for Buddy, Box for Star; Tyler, the Creator's Chromomakopia; the Vijay Iyer Trio's Compassion; Willi Carlisle's Critterland; and Yasmin Williams's Acadia--that did NOT get Atmos mixes.

But if, like me, you're interested in checking out some new music and you prioritize listening to things with mixes that are least nominally immersive, then maybe you'll find my spreadsheet useful.

So I've made my way through the first two letters of the alphabet (this is gonna take a while--hoping to be finished by Valentine's Day!), and to my tastes, the standouts with Atmos mixes so far are:

Les Amazones d'Afrique, Musow Dance. The latest iteration of a decade-old supergroup, doing a nice mix of old- (which is to say: classic Afro-Parisian '80s & '90s) and new-school West African beats. Immaculate production and a fine 5.1 mix, though the overheads are underused.

Baby Rose with BADBADNOTGOOD, Slow Burn EP. Torchy retro neo-soul, with Nina Simone-ish vocals drenched in reverb. Atmos mix is OKOKNOTBAD.

Brittany Howard, What Now. Holy cats: musically speaking, this is all-over-the-place adventurous, and the mix isn't meek.

Honorable mention to Billie Eilish's Hit Me Hard and Soft, which doesn't hit me nearly as hard as her previous efforts. Album I Most Want To See In Atmos (from this batch): Bey's Cowboy Carter, which is a WILD ride. (Other exceptional non-Atmos albums, IMO, include Agalisiga's Inage Nidayulenvi (It Started In the Woods), Being Dead's Eels, Ben Allison's Tell the Birds I Said Hello, and Ben Wolfe's The Understated.)