This looks like a really great idea and I’m very tempted to give this a go next year for fufilling my new music fix.
This year I’ve made an effort to listen to the Line of Best Fit’s New Music Discovery playlist every week (other years I’ve listened more sporadically) to discover new artists. And using that in combination with other sources (e.g. Radio) has meant I’ve listened to a fair few albums. But I have two issues with this:
- I am finding this hard to keep up with - I have a huge backlog of albums I want to get through before the end of the year. And because it’s not enough to listen to an album once to really get a feel for it this does take some time and means I don’t have a lot of time for re-listening to the albums I have really enjoyed (Heartworms, for starters).
- Spotify is a pretty shit business. Unfortunately I can’t get rid of Spotify easily because I pay for a family plan so the decision doesn’t just affect me.
Maybe with Cantilever I can alleviate these? I could have a more considered listening experience - still listening to new music, but a bit less in terms of overall volume of artists with more listens given to each album? It also means I’d start getting more money in the pockets of artists instead of in the pockets of Spotify.