Today’s Random Album of the Day is the self-titled LP from Yona-Kit. This is an experimental noise rock band from Chicago dating back to the 1990s. I hadn’t discovered them back then but more recently. They are also considered to be in the Pigfuck genre which I’ve never heard of but that refers to “Sloppy, abrasive and feedback-laden riffing with vulgar and edgy lyricism, informed by Post-Hardcore’s aggression and Post-Punk’s rhythm section.” I guess it fits but what a weird genre name.
They are definitely an acquired taste. They are heavier and on the aggressive end of noise rock. That makes sense when you realize that noise rock is a pretty broad genre of music. Anyhow it’s a genre I love and there are still parts of the genre that I don’t love. But I do love this. So there…
Overall great use of repetition. Good heaviness without sounding metal (nothing wrong with metal – I just like when things are heavy like this). I even like the vocals – particularly on “Franken-Bitch”.
Rating: 9.3
Favorite Track(s): “Franken-Bitch” is great and seasonally appropriate! “Dancing Sumo Wrestlers” is a solid instrumental. I zoned out for a bit but “Skeleton King” is good. The repetitive riff in it is awesome. This album is solid all the way through “Slice of Life”
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: