Beyoncé posts two tracks from new album on Spotify

Two tracks from Beyoncé's new self-titled album are now streaming on Spotify, following its surprise release last week

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Two tracks from Beyoncé's self-titled new album are now available on Spotify: Drunk In Love with husband Jay Z, and XO.

The album was announced without any preamble last week, appearing for download on iTunes with videos accompanying each track, and now is being broadened out to the streaming service.

Universal launches Electrospective Spotify app for electro

Repackaged electronic music now has its own brand – and its own app, allowing users to browse through 550 albums

Spotify's music classifications just aren't niche enough, or at least that's the suggestion of the new Electrospective app, which says it is meeting the needs to ambient, breakbeat, synth pop, industrial … and every other sub-genre of electronic music.

The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Billy Bao – Urban Disease

So freeform it makes the phrase 'freeform' sound constrictive, this spellbinding band construct a maze of false starts, clicks, overdriven digital screams, furious silences and extreme noise



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This track by the Nigerian band Billy Bao is not really one track at all: it's many tracks run into one sequence. That deep-reverb womb ambience at 14:00 deconstructs itself completely, beckons in a long period of silence, before making you jump out of your skin with a catastrophically damaged blast of a painfully ruined snippet of what might, once, have been Afrobeat at 16:19. Then again, perhaps they're not "tracks", and perhaps there's no "sequence". Who of us can really say?