Today’s Random Album of the Day is Dying to Meet You from Vaz. Vaz is noise rock. But also I see Rate Your Music lists it as Math Rock which I didn’t think of for Vaz. But I could see how that fits at least a bit. Anyhow, Noise Rock is probably my favorite genre and Math Rock is pretty close.
I don’t listen to Vaz enough. They are quite good. I know I tend to listen to a lot of girl rock so there is that. And Riot Grrrl certainly competes with Noise Rock – though much Riot Grrrl is quite noisy in its own right. So overlap there is. Anyhow I’m off topic.
I really love this album. It’s quite good. Definitely a keeper. If I had a nitpick, the vocals are not my favorite style. They are fine. Just not my favorite style. Personal preference thing. While the guitar riffs are just phenomenal.
Rating: 9.8
Favorite Track(s): “They’ve won” opens the album nicely. I like the opening to “Blue Lip Special” and the song doesn’t disappoint. Those songs are fine but the intro to “Elastik-C” is phenomenal to me. And the song is quite good. I love the angular riffs. “White World of Death” has a great driving riff to it. By the time we get to “Headless Statue” I feel this album just gets better as it goes. “Give Us the Creeps” reminds me of early Sebadoh. That’s a good thing. “Drive-by Swordfight” is good. Really it’s just a good album…
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: