Today’s Random Album of the Day as The Blackest Eye, an EP from Aye Nako. They are queer punkers from New York City featuring a couple of California exports from Fleabag.
They were active from 2010 to 2017ish. This EP dates from 2015 and has very good, mature indie punk sounds. I suppose I feel more of a Indie Rock sound. Edgy without being overly noisy. And who doesn’t love a queer punk act? Besides loser bigots.
Their music is slightly aggressive without losing good melodies. The vocals are underemphasized in a good way. Over-emphasis on vocals can be a mistake unless you are making vocals-based pop or something like that. Though sometimes I also think the vocals are too buried so there is that.
They also use good stop and go techniques at times. Something that has always worked for me. Overall, love this album! Love their sound! It was also popular with my wife!
Rating: 9.4
Favorite Track(s): Killswitch or White Noise
Keep or Trash: Keep. Honestly I need more of their material in our collection. Will work on that when funds allow. In the meantime we do have this EP on vinyl which is nice.
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: