Today’s Random Album of the Day is a Daytrotter Session from Places recorded on September 4, 2013. I thought that this would be The Places featuring Amy Annelle. It is not them. This is a sort of vocal driven folk pop band.
Honestly I feel like this is a folk pop boy band. That’s a weird descriptor but it seems apt. And that’s not a thing I like. Jen liked it some. It’s not really her wheelhouse either but she thought it was decent.
They are not without skill. They have singing talent and instrumental talent. So if a folk pop boy band sounds like your thing this may work for you.
Rating: 4.0
Favorite Track(s): Love Someone
Keep or Trash: Delete. Jen liked it a bit but we’re never going to listen to this.
I managed to find them on Spotify. Not the Daytrotter Session but this album has several of the songs from the Daytrotter Session.
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: