Today’s Random Album of the Day is Long Hair in Three Stages from U.S. Maple. They are a experimental noise rock band out of Chicago.
U.S Maple is well considered when it comes to noisy math rock bands from the 1990s. And I like them. Not my favorite per se but they are good.
Rating: 9.4
Favorite Track(s): I honestly zoned out through the first couple of songs. “You Know What… Will Get You You…” is excellent. “Aplomado” has some cool guitar riffs. “The State is Bad” is an accurate description of current events and it’s a solid song! “Magic Job” might be a favorite on the album. The album is pretty consistently good.
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: