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

[sjcorne]

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

Bob Clearmountain mix!

 

[himey]

Brittany Howard, What Now.

Thanks. Glad I didn't miss this one. Better late than never!

 

[olgitnorm]

 

[scooob]

 

[LennonCobain]

Atmos with the exception of the last track.

 

[IMachine]

This is a beautiful song with keyboard whirlwind at the end of the track.
The whole album is atmos, but wanted to share this special:

 

[DoctorO]

Can anyone here recommend a Lana del Rey track or two on Apple Music in Atmos? Planning a little demo for a couple of people who love her music and who have not heard surround music tracks...thanks!

 

[beerking]

Can anyone here recommend a Lana del Rey track or two on Apple Music in Atmos? Planning a little demo for a couple of people who love her music and who have not heard surround music tracks...thanks!

There are these from my library

 

[IMachine]

Sometimes I forget there are so many presents of giving us surround on classic albums like:

 

[IMachine]

Perfect!
I‘m in thankful mood!

 

[Franck]

Perfect!
I‘m in thankful mood!

Relax!

 

[DoctorO]

There are these from my library

Thanks for your guidance!

 

[FlavioRR]

Spanish classic

 

[SomethingAnything]

Thanks for your guidance!

They might also like The Weather Station's Humanhood. They won't know it as it's only just out, but it's in that vein (ish) and super cool with some nice Atmos moments.

 

[JoshBasswood]

Relax!

Is this supposed to be in Atmos? I'm not getting Atmos here in the Netherlands (yet)

 

[LennonCobain]

Is this supposed to be in Atmos? I'm not getting Atmos here in the Netherlands (yet)

Try this link. Works for me in USA.

 

[Franck]

Is this supposed to be in Atmos? I'm not getting Atmos here in the Netherlands (yet)

yes it is in Atmos in the USA

 

[humprof]

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.
(See the original post for the link.)
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.)

C - D:
I wasn't wowed by many of the albums with Atmos mixes in this segment of the alphabet: I'm not enough of a poptimist to make much time for Chappel Roan or Charli XCX; Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer's two-bass album is a worthy project but a one-and-done listen (and not well-suited to Atmos); Clairo's breathy indie-pop is pleasant but slight; and I never cared for The Cure and still don't. DIIV serves up generic doomy/downtempo indie rock, and while I liked Dua Saleh's acting in Sex Education, their music, more conventional than it's made out to be, doesn't grab me. As always: YMMV.

Carly Pearce's Hummingbird is smart, catchy "New Country" with a serviceable mix, more 5.1 than Atmos:

Octogenarian tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd's The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow is one of the year's most moving records, I think, though it's mixed in that minimalist-Atmos Blue Note house style:

And Doechii's Alligator Bites Never Heal is the one real knockout of this bunch.

Otherwise, the albums I'm gonna return to from this batch are stereo only: Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms's Gold In Your Pocket; Caroline Shaw & So Percussion's Rectangles & Circumstance; Cassandra Jenkins's My Light, My Destroyer; Chanel Beads' Your Day Will Come; Chris Potter's Eagle’s Point; Church Chords' elvis, he was Schlager; Clarissa Connelly's World of Work, the Devin Daniels Quintet's LesGo!, Dummy's Free Energy.

 

[JoshBasswood]

Try this link. Works for me in USA.

Thanks! Working now here too. So are these new Atmos mixes or have they been around for longer? Obviously the whole WTTPD album is touted to have a Steve Wilson mixed Atmos release this year...