Our critics’ best advice for how to discover new music

Life and Art from FT Weekend

Forhecz Topher

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Today, we explore how to discover new music. Despite having access to more music than ever before, many of us are still falling back on the same old stuff. The algorithms may be pushing us toward uniformity, but how do we break out of the echo chamber? FT pop critic Ludo Hunter-Tilney and music and culture writer Arwa Haider join Lilah to share advice for finding new artists, and recommend new music that they love.

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We love hearing from you. Lilah is on Instagram @lilahrap. We’re on X @lifeandartpod and on email at [email protected]. We are grateful for reviews on Apple and Spotify. And please share this episode with your friends!

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Links (all FT links get you past the paywall):

– You can find all of the artists mentioned today in this playlist we made for you here.

– Arwa Haider’s playlist is here.

– Ludo Hunter-Tilney’s latest review of the electronic music duo Xeno & Oaklander’s new album, Via Negativa, is here. We also love his interview with Irish-language hip-hop band Kneecap.

– Here’s Arwa’s interview with Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora.

– You can follow Ludo on X @ludohunter. Arwa is on Instagram @arwa.haider and X @ArwaHaider

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Original music by Metaphor Music. Music clips from Asylum, Abu Recordings and Felukah, Speedy Wunderground / PIAS, Defjam Recordings / Polydor

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0:00.0	Welcome to Life and Art from FT Weekend.
0:03.4	I'm Lila Raptopoulos and this is our Friday chat show.
0:07.4	This is a busy and stressful news week here on the US side of the Financial Times,
0:12.2	so we have decided to give listeners a culture reprieve today
0:16.0	by hosting a special conversation with two very talented critics
0:19.8	about how to discover new music.
0:22.7	As algorithms push us towards the middle, how do we break out of those echo chambers and find
0:27.4	new artists to love? Let's get into it. I'm Lila in New York, and I am stuck in the doom loop
0:32.7	of espresso and good luck, babe. Joining me from London, the band Blackpink once started beef with him on Twitter. That's a true story, but he's still listening to his K-pop Daily Mix. It's the FT's longtime pop critic, the great Ludovic Hunter Tilney. Welcome, Ludo. Lila, hello. Hi. That is true. That is true. Yeah, I got called a dirty pig by a black pink fan because of a somewhat slighting
0:55.1	review that I gave them. Yeah, that was a very direct, direct response. The algorithm didn't filter
0:59.7	it. I wasn't hidden from that. That's true. Also in London, rumor has it. She has the keys to
1:04.7	breaking Spotify's algorithm. It's music and culture writer and another great friend of the podcast,
1:09.9	Arwa Hayder. Hi, Arwa.
1:11.3	Hi, Lila.
1:12.1	Thanks for coming back.
1:13.0	Great.
1:13.9	Thank you both for joining.
1:15.2	I am thrilled about this episode.
1:17.9	I feel like hearing the two of you talk music is like hearing my two grandmothers talk about stuffed peppers.
1:25.8	Not because of your age, just because they were world-class pros at stuffed peppers.
1:31.4	Well, we've got our ear trumpets out so we can hear everything.
1:35.3	I mean, yeah, absolutely.
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