Today’s Random Album of the Day is 7 From the Village from Fields. They are an Indie Rock band from the oughts and this is a compilation album of their material. This is an album I forgot I had. I had bought this back in 2008. Kind of a deep cut compared to some of the recent random albums. Rate Your Music also classifies Fields as Dream Pop and Shoegaze but I don’t see that with this album.
I tend to type as I listen. They start out with an almost psych pop sound. Very 1960s. But squarely Indie Rock too. Definitely not Dream Pop or Shoegaze to me. But then it turns a bit on “Sisters” and definitely sounds very indie rocky even more so – perhaps a bit indie pop. Then I feel the dream pop a bit on “Roll Down the Hill”. But really it sounds more 80s pop but not necessarily in a way that I like.
Rating: 7.0
Favorite Track(s): “Song for the fields” is interesting. It has a sort of 1960s psych rock sound. “Brittlesticks” is a catchy tune.
Keep or Trash: Trash. I kind of liked them but I don’t see me listening to them much if at all. I’m also really focused on getting rid of things I won’t listen to.
I couldn’t find this compilation streaming but I found their only full length album so here is that…
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: