Today’s Random Album of the Day is Numerals from Disco Doom. Disco Doom is considered Noise Pop or Indie Rock. On Rate Your Music it also gets tagged with Experimental Music and Alternative Rock. I’m not sure how experimental this album is though…
I thought I recalled liking this album. But I didn’t particularly care for it until half way through. It’s fine music at the start, just not music that I love. Things get interesting though when it gets louder. I swear I’m not just addicted to loudness. Honestly they are at their best when they engage their amps. Things are ok outside of that but it seems like they save the most interesting riffs and melodies for those moments.
Those are my opinions on it after one listen (the first in years) for what it is worth. It is possible I’m totally misjudging this album so maybe it needs more listens to fully assess. My mood can affect how I receive music so much.
Rating: 7.5
Favorite Track(s): “Rock Yeah” picks things up a bit. But “Love 77” gets better and then “Zonk” even better. “Dead Eye” is solid too. And “Shannon” is an example of slow excellence. I genuinely like “Rice & Bones”.
Keep or Trash: Keep. For now. It’s borderline honestly but we do have on vinyl so I figure give it more listens and see if my wife likes it more than I do. But if she doesn’t love it I may unload both the digital and vinyl.
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: