If ever at some points Spotify on Linux refuses to start or start with fucked up graphics, there is a high probability that it's due to hardware acceleration and a pesky update.
Spotify isn't that much of a GUI CPU hog, so you can start it with hardware acceleration OFF and make it work again, like this:
spotify --disable-gpu
Some users reported that they needed to use --no-zygote too, but it made it instable for me.
Some had to also use --disable-software-rasterizer. I saw no changes when using it.
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