Today’s Random Album of the Day is I’m Going Away from The Fiery Furnaces. I think that the best genre description for them might be Progressive Pop. Progressie because of their creative music construction and Pop because of their approachable style.
Their music is so good. They do a sort of bent on indie pop with various musical structures and vocal harmonies. Songs tend to shift and meander in a way that is contradictory at times, but overall interesting to follow.
Rating: 9.6
Favorite Track(s): “I’m Going Away” is intense but excellent. “Drive to Dallas” has that sort of musical feel with an Indie Rock touch. “The End is Near” is lovely. The whole album picks up and down as needed. Very excellent! “Even in the Rain” is probably my favorite.
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: