Today’s Random Album of the Day is a Demos tape from Sweet Talk. This is a very short album coming in with 10 songs at 11 minutes. They are basically hardcore.
Songs range from 10 seconds to 90 seconds long. The Demo quality helps to blur the songs together a little. But overall it seems a solid demo tape to me. I’m no hardcore expert. But I enjoy it enough. The album never lets up until like the 8th song and that’s for three seconds. It drives hard and intense the whole way.
Rating: 8.0. Maybe higher with better sound quality.
Favorite Track(s): “Old Habits” really rocks. “All-Overs” kind of sounds the same but it’s good so that’s good? “June/July” is a solid tune. I imagine “Greenhouse” being lyrically interesting. Something about “Growing Down” really works for me as things slow down a little. I like the chaos of “Acid Reflux” and dare I say it’s appropriate?
Keep or Trash: Keep. It works for me.
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: