Today’s Random Album of the Day is Jane Doe Loves Me from Experimental Dental School. They are noise rock but get experimental at times. The closing song is quite experimental in fact. They can be quite genre bending actually.
I really like Experimental Dental School (aka XDS). Their sound is sometimes chaotic in a good way. Rock and roll at its heart though. With driving guitars and sometimes droning synths. Lots of shifting rhythms and melodies in songs. I love how every song shifts and meanders. Jen really liked what he heard though she couldn’t listen to the whole album.
Rating: 9.8
Favorite Track(s): “Jane Doe Loves Me” helps hook me right from the start with its shifting between chaos and melodies, “Obscene Back Porch Floating” because good, “Whale Drone” is so good with its high pitched noises balancing against the rhythms and melodies, “What Ghosts See” helps show off the keyoard, “Uh Huh – Na Uh” just floats along and has this nice tilting to it, “Lord’s Lap” adds some great heaviness to their sound, “Plant Plenty” is a great song with lots of things going on. I basically just listed most songs.
Keep or Trash: Keep. I love this album. And I discovered with this they have a newer album I have to check out.
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?
I have made the randomizer table I use for picking the album of the day available! What? It’s a simple table but uses some weird dice. If you are not familiar, if you say D30 that means a 30 sided die. These are the dice the randomizer table uses: D30, D4, D8, D10, D12, D14, and D20. The D14 and D30 are unique but you can buy cheap packs of dice with those in them off the internet.
The basic steps are to 1) roll the D30. That picks the starting letter or if it’s a number. 2) Then use the chart roll the die associated with the first letter to pick the second letter. If you get “Other” that means numbers or some other weird character. If none of those exist re-roll. 3) Once you have the second letter you can use that to roll for a third letter if needed. 4) That should get you down to a few artists and from there you pick dice based on the number of artists. 5) finally for the artist selected you roll a die for the number of albums listed. Then you have your Random Album to listen to….
Download the Random Album Selector Table here: