Today’s Random Album of the Day is Shake the Pounce from Gaze. This is twee pop, which is a genre I adore. At least I adore this album. Always have.
It’s basically light indie pop. Twee that is. Good catchy little ditties on this album. I could chill to this all day. I wish I knew more of the words to sing along though.
My wife and I discussed how we like the vocals. They are nice sounding but don’t come across as a traditional singing style. But they really work for me.
Trying to pinpoint why I love this so much. But head isn’t working well this morning due to 2.5 week migraine courtesy of Lyme disease. Which reminds me, sidetone: podcasts are all on delay or being skipper this week due to illness.
Rating: 9.5
Favorite Track(s): So Early To Tell, From the Inside, Tea or Coffee, Nine Lives to Rigel Five, Static, and especially In The Midst
Keep or Trash: Keep. I just love this album. In fact I realized I don’t have their other album so it’ll be purchased when the money is there.
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: