Diario

This last wave of new editions to my library was a big one. I'm always (always!) on the look-out for new music, and the way that works is that, as futile as it may seem sometimes, when I'm away from home I spend a lot of time listening to new stuff on Spotify. It's the only way I know of to investigate new artists, because even thought Last.fm has a good online radio, Spotify does have a few advantages, the main one being that you can play straight through a whole album, or straight through a whole artist, without shuffling to other things. When I look for new music, I need to focus; just listening to one song usually isn't enough to get a feel for an artist.

Only one discovery comes to mind that I didn't really like, and that's Antaeus. I previously owned just one song by them: "Kyrie," which I do like. To get a hint of what I dislike, you just have to read the first line of the Antaeus Wikipedia page: "Antaeus is a French black metal band formed in 1993 offering eerie ambient and chaotic black metal. …