Tidal streaming needle-drops?

Sorry, you are not hearing an LP. The effect is on all versions of this song (I'm listening to the CD now). This track is actually recorded and performed using a looper (a short digital recording box) and Vienna has chosen to encode and make these distortions part of the rhythm of the song. The live version on "The Moment Always Vanishing" really shows how this track is put together.

As far as I am aware the only one of Vienna's albums available on LP is her first, "Warm Strangers"

I'm not going to get drawn into an analog vs digital discussion (if you check my rig you can see I have quite a decent setup for both) but in discussion of surface noise any decent resolving LP system will push any noise out of the plane of the recording such that i rarely if ever find it objectionable. 

On listening to the Teng track the OP referenced (last snowfall) I had a chance to listen to it on my main rig and it's neat how she and Alex place the distortion very carefully in the mix layered just in front of the backing vocals. It's a nice test of resolution in your system if you can clearly separate all of the parts, the distortion rhythms and the vocals and instruments.  Thanks for making me dig this disc out, Vienna has a habit of overloading recordings and hoping you can work out everything that's going on, then often dropping back to a whisper the next moment

Excellent video, good story and quite believable 😀

The similar effect I've recently found myself becoming very conscious of is the noise of a piano action (the soft clacking of the felts playing along with the music) for some reason I notice it a lot on Angela Hewitt's recordings - she plays a Fazioli so maybe it's a "feature" of this manufacturer of Pianos?

Who's for a thread on the best unexpected background noises on recordings (Kingsway hall tube rumbles etc)?