Today’s Random Album of the Day is Spring St EP from City Center. I misread Rate Your Music and thought they classified one of the genres for City Center as “Indie Stuff”. That would be some vague bullshit right there. But I made that up.
Like many weird indie experimental stuff, this EP gets a few genre tags such as Hypnagogic Pop, Ambient Pop, Sound Collage, Slacker Rock, Noise, and Field Recording. I mean I can’t really argue with any of that except maybe pop. But it also sort of works as pop I guess in its own weird way.
Whatever this EP is, I like it. It’s got an eclectic indie melody going with intermittent samples and noise. At the same time, do I need more of their music? That is hard to say. I think I’d have to listen to see how their sound evolves. I do like this, but also am not sure how much more of this exact sound that I need. Jen also didn’t find it very exciting so there is that as well. It is absolutely an acquired taste. gotta like some weirdness to your music.
Rating: 8.8
Favorite Track(s): “Sky Flowers” is so ethereal and lovely while being slightly abrasive in a good way. Perhaps a bit long and repetitive. I like the haunting tilt to “How We Live”.
Keep or Trash: Keep. This won’t get a lot of listens but it does fit a certain mood.
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: