It also feels like these things are making me more musically illiterate.
You see enough Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Imaginal Discs and the twenty yearly Trhä albums as super highly praised and something every music nerd should listen to, and forget what kind of music most people actually like… which if you go by the spotify charts, is a lot of slop! And if you go by the radio, it’s mostly the same stuff since 1995.
idk about the spotify algo because i don’t let it autoplay shit, but i have found new bands by scrolling down to “fans also like” when i’m not starting from something so mainstream that it’s just a list of other mainstream acts.
Yeah, and if you like darkwave, it’ll recommend you more darkwave, which means you listen to more darkwave, so it’ll recommend you more darkwave
etc.