At this rate, two random albums per day may become the norm. Until I crash from my chronic illness. Anyhow, this selection is a compilation from Polyvinyl Records called Winston’s Essentials. I’m fairly positive that Winston is the office dog.
Polyvinyl is an Indie Rock label pretty much. I generally like their stuff. Compilations are tough though. One really bad song can ruin the mix. Fortunately there aren’t a lot of duds on this mix. It’s quite good. Winston has good taste!
Rating: 9.2
Favorite Track(s): Unshockingly the Of Montreal tune “Coquet Coquette” is excellent. Similarly, “Dust” from Love is All is good. “Sink / Let It Sway” from Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin isn’t great but it is solid. I haven’t listened to much Japandroids but “Younger Us” is a good song. I like the song from Aloha (“Waterwheel”). A good song from Asobi Seksu in “Celeste”. “Fear of Missing Out” from Love of Everything is really good. “Take My Hand” from Loney Dear is good. “Secrets” from Headlights is one of the better songs on the mix for sure. Saturday Looks Good To Me is a good band so no surprise that “Parking Lot Blues” is decent.
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: