With a panel-based UI like Spotify’s, with various layers stacking on top of ... and the ways to get songs into the playing bar. The basic gist is that tapping on a song won’t open a full-screen now ...

Now, Spotify has introduced a new basic plan in the US. It is essentially the old premium plan with the same old price.

The result is an elegant combination of modern Spotify UI conventions and gestures. The interface is mostly black, providing good contrast with colorful album artworks and white text; the Now Playing ...