The way I used to find new music was to read reviews in magazines, then buy the album. Later, it was blogs and torrents, but the principle is the same. Using a

The way I used to find new music was to read reviews in magazines, then buy the album. Later, it was blogs and torrents, but the principle is the same. Using algorithms to discover music works for a lot of people, but I'm not sure that, for me, it ever outperformed just reading what other people said and then listening to the album if it sounded intriguing. It is more labor intensive, but the results were higher quality. Finding one artist I really, really like is worth sifting through a hundred mediocre ones, so whatever process gets me there is the best. I like Spotify for other reasons, like being able to really deep dive into some artist (or some song: just listening to 20 different cover versions obsessively to see who did it best), but even before it was supposedly ruined, I was never blown away by their recommendations to me.