You know that rare experience of being out—at a friend’s place, shopping, grabbing dinner—and loving every single song you hear? It’s uncommon, but it happens. It’s the reason we bust out our phones and fire up Shazam, or frantically Google search any of the lyrics you manage to catch. But we’ve been having that sensation every Monday morning, courtesy of Spotify’s Discover Weekly feature. Since it launched last June, the personalized algorithm has been scary-good at pulling in songs and remixes from bands you don’t know but oddly are exactly your thing. It’s one of Spotify’s most successful features, and last week, it was announced that there are more than 40 million listeners. You can hear the most-listened-to tracks from all Discover playlists here or you can get a peek into what we got served this Monday: dreamwave, glo-fi pop that—shocker—we can’t stop streaming.
Who she is: A 21-year-old English singer-songwriter, discovered at an open mic.
Play when: You want a female version of The Weeknd—Spotify knowingly served us up a heavy, pulsing remix of her typically jazzy vocals set against simple piano.
Who she is: An artist recently signed to the same label as Florence, Charli XCX, and the curator of a series of club parties in Glasgow, so, basically living the life she sings about in her teen-dream dark-dance ballads.
Play when: The party’s winding down. She owes some of her sound to trop house, but this is more low-key.
Who she is: A feminist, GGG, Las Vegas native making sexy indie pop, first noticed by many for her bi-curious anthem ‘Bestie’ based on a real-life experience with her bff.
Play when: Your dinner party devolves into a midnight dance party.
Who he is: Nick Scapa, a Miami-born musical mystery, perfecting a weird blend of California surf rock, glittery synth (Killers vibes) and lyrics like, “Do you want to have dinner tonight?” He hit the scene with a 5-song mixtape a while back, and he sounds like a different dude on each song.
Play when: You’re up at sunrise heading to the beach. Or, if that’s an absurd premise, when you’re taking an early morning run.
Who they are: A sparkly, alt-rock foursome that feels just the right side of ’90s indie, led by Ellie’s sweet vocals (with musical backing from Joff, Theo and Joel). If those names and that idea sounds like the set up for a ’90s coming-of-age movie, that’s sort of the band’s genesis. They were originally a duo, founded around a love of fairytales, and now the band’s Instagram feed seems like a private photo album of a supertight clique—the one you wish you were a part of in high school.
Play when: You’re grilling in a backyard at sundown.