“Algorithms have sort of turned every playlist into grocery store background music”: We speak to the maker of a game putting the humanity back into music discovery

Music League Game.

It’s an odd paradox in 2025, that with the sheer quantity of music at our disposal, the formerly magical process of music discovery has been quietly neutered.

Though algorithm and AI-driven suggestions might feel helpful for shunting us towards artists that our listening behaviour believes we should like, many of us have started to feel increasingly locked away in these personal silos.

It's especially isolating for those for whom music was always an inherently social passion.