Today’s random album of the day is PostMap 00°08 Light of the Moon single from Randolph’s Leap. The PostMap releases are postcard releases. You basically get a postcard with a digital code on it. It’s a neat system. But how is the music?
This is indie pop / indie folk and it’s pretty decent overall. On the first note I thought it was going to get experimental but it didn’t go there. The first song is a version of “Light of the Moon” and both my wife and I liked it. But the second song “Zombie” was underwhelming. The third song gives a fuller sound on “Mutiny” which carries over to “Light of the Moon (band version)”. The full band sound helps a lot. My wife and I both enjoyed the full band version of “Light of the Moon”.
Overall I think it was mostly enjoyable except that second song which I just didn’t like much. I create playlists for most of my albums. I do occasionally delete a song from them and I may do that here with that second song.
Rating: 7.8
Favorite Track(s): Light of the Moon (Clumsy Knot Version)
Keep or Trash: Keep. Most of the single is good and it’s enjoyable.
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: