Today’s Random Album of the Day is System from Prewn. They are considered Indie Rock, Slacker Rock, and/or Indie Folk. I think the Indie Rock label is most appropriate though the others do fit too.
One of the things with this album is how well it flows from the first to last song. Prewn has a very consistent sound throughout their music. This album always lifts my mood. It just somehow gets into my depths.
Which I find interesting. Abstractly I wouldn’t normally be into the overly modified vocals but they sound great here. The different instrumentations are great as well. It just overall works for me.
Rating: 9.8
Favorite Track(s): “Easy” is such a good intro song. Pulls me right in. “Commotion” just makes me want to cry. I don’t know it just pulls at me emotionally. “System” is their top rated song on Rate Your Music and it deserves it. It’s almost Anthemic. Every song gets me. “Don’t be Scared” closes it out and makes me feel feels.
Keep or Trash: Keep. I adore this album.
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: