The Random Album of the Day is On The Goddam Radio from Squinch Owl. This is really good indie folk if not straight up folk.
I really like Squinch Owl even if the recording quality on this isn’t super. The singer’s voice is awesome. This is recorded on a radio show which might explain the sound quality to some degree.
I suppose the songs blur together some but in a good way. Like it’s so consistent. Anyhow this is enjoyable music if you’re into this kind of folk music. The album also has a good flow to it. And the lyrics are really good.
For what its worth, their Homeware Bound album has a more normal recording.
Rating: 9.5
Favorite Track(s): “Think No Worse of Me” breaks out and you immediately notice her voice. “What We’re Going To Be For the Rest Of Our Lives” feels very anthemic. “We Will Do Great Things” is really great and well let’s hope we do! “Going Home”‘s stops and starts are great.
Keep or Trash: Keep. I love this.
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: