I don’t really discover new music, I just fall into it, but I also have a small circle of music I listen to. As a younger person, I’d look at the liner notes on CDs and see when a bands name would come up multiple times across different bands and then I’d assume they were safe to check out.
I also have a problem that I need to enjoy a bands entire catalog before I can “love” them, and when something goes bad, I drop the whole band.
It’s a problem.