Listened Plaid :: Stem Sell (Touched Music) from igloomag.com

Given the amount of time they’ve been supporting Touched Music as a label and all the good stuff it stands for, it’s both exciting and surreal to finally have a Plaid release on the roster—not only that, it’s a collection of remixes and Stem Sell doesn’t disappoint. I’m always excited by the prospect of a new Plaid release but remixes and reworks so frequently appear on singles and B-sides, hard to find compilations or limited-runs, that it’s hard to get access to them all and those that you do you may have only ever heard at a gig, on a dodgy rip or in otherwise less-than-perfect circumstances.

Replied to Recall — Plaid (Duncan Stephen)

A surprising* new dimension to Plaid’s sound — glitchy and hard-hitting.

The publicity surrounding their forthcoming album, Polymer, says:

The problems and benefits of Polymers felt like good themes for this album, their repetitious strength, endurance and troubling persistence, the natural v

This definitely seems like a shift. I have always loved the thickness to Plaid’s music. Often feels like a soundtrack without a film. Other they have also created explicit soundtracks too.

On another matter, wondering what your workflow is for finding new music? Sadly, even though I have listened to Plaid in Google Music before, obviously the algorithm thought my tastes had changed or something. I wonder if New Releases is influenced by record companies?