Idle Warship Partners with Spotify To Premiere New Album Today

[Carla Senft]

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Idle Warship Partners with Spotify to Premiere New Album Habits of The Heart Today

Marks the first time Spotify U.S. has debuted an album weeks ahead of release date

Album out November 1st via Blacksmith/Element 9/Fontana

Idle Warship has announced that the award-winning, on-demand digital music service Spotify will exclusively premiere their forthcoming album Habits of the Heart today, October 11th, 2011. The 12-track album, Idle Warship's first official collection of songs, is now streaming in its entirety on Spotify here<http://open.spotify.com/album/415CUPKdOfjnWwhn0Q5bsA>. This partnership marks the first time that Spotify U.S. has debuted an album weeks ahead of its release date; Habits of the Heart is due out November 1st, 2011, via Blacksmith/Element 9/Fontana. The premiere also solidifies Idle Warship even further as not only a group that embraces the music industry's ever-evolving digital and social media landscape, but is helping to push it forward - they approached Spotify with the unconventional idea of debuting their album a full three weeks ahead of release date.

A collaboration between hip-hop luminary Talib Kweli and critically acclaimed soulful singer and songwriter Res, Idle Warship is a genre-bending musical project born out of sheer experimentation and unbridled creative expression. Idle Warship's free-thinking approach has always crossed over from the studio to the other end of the process - the delivery of the music. After releasing free music across the web for the past four years, Idle Warship unveiled "System Addict," a track off Habits of the Heart, on the now wildly-popular social music site Turntable.fm just weeks after its launch. Talib Kweli even received Turntable.fm's very first verified account.

Now with the Spotify album premiere, it's clear that Idle Warship has become an early adopter of exciting new social distribution channels that allow them to make their music available to their loyal fans and new audiences in entirely news ways. Spotify has become the largest and most successful music service of its kind since its 2008 launch in Sweden. With its unrivaled free service and its recent integration with Facebook, Spotify meets Idle Warship at a time when both are on the cusp of their own boundless new frontiers.

Be sure to head over to Spotify to check out Habits of the Heart today! The album offers a thrilling hybrid of influences - flashes of soul, hip-hop, rock, alternative and electronic - and features guest spots from Jean Grae, Jay Knocka, Chester French, Michelle Williams & John Forte.

About Spotify:
Spotify<http://www.spotify.com/> is an award-winning digital music service that offers on-demand access to over 15 million tracks*. Their dream is to make all the world's music available instantly to everyone, wherever and whenever they want it. Spotify makes it easier than ever to discover, manage and share music with your friends, while making sure that artists get a fair deal. Spotify is available in eight countries: USA, UK, Sweden, Finland, Norway, France, The Netherlands and Spain. Spotify is the fastest-growing and most successful music service of its kind globally, with an unrivaled 10 million registered users and growing, and more than 2 million paying subscribers. www.spotify.com<http://www.spotify.com>
*Number of tracks licensed globally. Catalogue size varies in each country.

www.idlewarship.com<http://www.idlewarship.com>
Upcoming Idle Warship Live Dates:
October 28th Pittsburgh, PA @ Shadow Lounge Outdoor Music Series
October 30th Ann Arbor, MI @ The Blind Pig

For more information on Idle Warship, please contact:
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For more information on Spotify, please contact:
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