The Random Album of the Day is The Eye from K.U.K.L.. This is a 1980s Icelandic punk or perhaps more post-punk band featuring Bjork. And her presence is obvious on this record. And the sound should feel overall familiar since 4 of 5 members are also in the Sugarcubes. So there is a lot of familiarity in fact.
This is a good post-punk record. It has an experimental edge to it which really works for me. This is almost more experimental rock really. Which is not surprising given those involved. It is good to know these folks were making good and weird music before the Sugarcubes.
Rating: 9.5
Favorite Track(s): “Let Us Get Rid of the Bomb” because we should get rid of all the bombs honestly. “Blackeye” for good use of the flute followed by a good haunting tone, “Assassin” for its New Wave sounds, “Spire” is just a good tune, “Dismembered” has a good tilting thing going on. Honestly I would have expected less good tracks but this is a good record.
Keep or Trash: Keep.
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: