Today’s Random Album of the Day is a split record with two artists: Hi Ho Silver Away! and Quick Attack. The album is titled Quick Silver Attack Away!
The first half of the album is Hi Ho Silver, Away! And it’s basically pop punk – but pop punk I basically like I guess. Somehow I worry the lyrics are cringe but I won’t catch most of them on the first listen. The music has an emo feel which works for me. The ‘sweetheart’ on “Fence Sitter” I could do without for reasons. But mostly I thought they had a lot of potential. They have a sort of leaning toward an anthemic sound that could really work but maybe here doesn’t quite get to where I want it to.
The second half of the album is Quick Attack. More straightforward and a bit more punk. I like their song-writing. The songs tend to evolve and grow as they go. Or at least some do. And they have a bit more punk in them.
On the whole I feel like Quick Attack helped carry this album though I think I found it through Hi Ho Silver Away! originally. I think maybe I liked their band name and that was enough to pull me in initially.
Rating: 8.0 overall. I’d probably 8.5 Quick Attack and 7.5 for Hi Ho Silver Away!
Favorite Track(s): Hi Ho Silver Away!: “You Know About Stag Beetles??” starts off the album well. Not sure about the lyrics. “Shred the Gnar” I liked. Feels a bit emo in a good way. “20 Miles Per Gallon” had a nice anthemic for the disillusioned feel. “Sand for Sandbags” actually had a nice Uncle Tupelo feel. Quick Attack: “Champion of Vines” is appealing but I can’t put my finger on why. But it isn’t static. It weaves and evolves as a song. “Smash the State Street” is an odd title but the song seems fun. Reminds me of Harry and the Potters without the book based lyrics. I just like the title of “Artistoked”. The music is solid too. I Like “Drench Refrains” for its simple punk thing. “Regina” sounds good. I like that they seem to be having a lot of fun.
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: