Today’s Random Album of the Day is Haw from Hiss Golden Messenger. They are listed as Folk Rock, Americana, and Country Soul. Country Soul is a new genre to me. But I guess it sounds like this…
I always confuse this band with another band that is more abstract noise so I get a little shock when I hit play and it’s not that haha. But I do like their music overall.
With that said, some of the songs fall flat for me too. Which makes it tough, How much do I like this album?
Rating: 8.5
Favorite Track(s): “Sufferer” caught my attention. “Hat of Rain” is good. It was my #71 rain song of all time!
Keep or Trash: Trash. It’s a solid album but it won’t break into my rotation much at all. I am TRYING to pare down our collection so it’s a victim of that.
The embedded album below is the “remastered” version. That’s not what I have but it should do…
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: