Today’s Random Album of the Day is Sea Stacks and Sleestacks from The Jade Shader. Rate Your Music lists this as Indie Rock and Post-Hardore. The Indie Rock I see but not the Post-Hardcore. I don’t really see that at all.
I really wanted to like this but I didn’t really get into it. It’s kind of plain rock and roll to me. Which is disappointing because they even self-tag it as experimental rock. but I didn’t get the experimental part. It did get better as the album progressed but it never reached me.
Rating: 6.0
Favorite Track(s): “The Sky is a Sea” is okay. “Metamorphosis 1” is actually good. Unfortunately that’s all I got.
Keep or Trash: Trash. I just didn’t like it enough to keep it.
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: