Today’s Random Album of the Day is a Daytrotter session from Mountain Man – a trio from Vermont who I think is now in North Carolina? I’m not totally sure. I just had come across this trio in a music league round and I liked what I heard. I had forgotten I had the Daytrotter session in my collection. Funny when you discover something you’ve already “discovered”.
Honestly, I know I like some of their music but this particular Daytrotter Session didn’t blow me away on the first listen. I turned it up a bit and re-listened and that helped. Sometimes music benefits from some volume so you can fully experience it. Though this is not the style of music they had in mind when they said to turn it up to 11.
So yeah what is this? It’s folk music basically. Rate Your Music calls it “Contemporary Folk” which ok. It’s pretty and chill. They do good music, though this was early content for them and I think based on what I’ve heard their later stuff might be better. I sound Luke-warm and I guess I am. I thought I’d like this more than I did and expectations might have hurt my reception of it. But it is good folk music so give it a listen yourself. You may like it a bunch if that’s your thing.
Rating: 8.0
Favorite Track(s): Mouthwings
Keep or Trash: Keep. I’ve been wanting to listen to more of their stuff so I think I’ll do that.
This Daytrotter Session is from 2010 which is when they released their album Made the Harbor.
Background
Every day, or nearly every day anyhow, I will randomly select an album from my collection of digital music, listen to it, and share it here. – Jayne
My wife and I are board gamers and we gamify nearly everything in life. This includes our music listening. We use a dice catapult to roll dice and then use the dice results to pick our vinyl listens. So why not do something similar for the blog?
