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Random Album of the Day – Monday, June 8, 2026

Posted by jayne k on June 8, 2026
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Today’s Random Album of the Day is Shake the Pounce from Gaze. This is twee pop, which is a genre I adore. At least I adore this album. Always have.

It’s basically light indie pop. Twee that is. Good catchy little ditties on this album. I could chill to this all day. I wish I knew more of the words to sing along though.

My wife and I discussed how we like the vocals. They are nice sounding but don’t come across as a traditional singing style. But they really work for me.

Trying to pinpoint why I love this so much. But head isn’t working well this morning due to 2.5 week migraine courtesy of Lyme disease. Which reminds me, sidetone: podcasts are all on delay or being skipper this week due to illness.

Rating: 9.5

Favorite Track(s): So Early To Tell, From the Inside, Tea or Coffee, Nine Lives to Rigel Five, Static, and especially In The Midst

Keep or Trash: Keep. I just love this album. In fact I realized I don’t have their other album so it’ll be purchased when the money is there.

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Random Album of the Day – Sunday, June 7, 2026

Posted by jayne k on June 7, 2026
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Today’s Random Album of the Day is Crocus from The Ophelias. The Ophelias are definitely indie music – some indie folk, some indie pop, and some indie rock. Rate Your Music includes Chamber Pop which seems apt I suppose. They formed in 2015 and Crocus (2021) is their third full length album. They also have a newer album released last year so they remain active.

The violin really helps give their sound this consistent ambiance. So much so that the songs can blend together sometimes. This can be good or bad I suppose. But I think it all works overall. The Ophelias have a very pretty sound. They are sometimes catchy, sometimes solemn, and sometimes passionate. It all works for me on a certain level but also sometimes feels like background music. I guess I want it to be bolder somehow. But it is quite good.

Rating: 8.0

Favorite Track(s): Spirit Sent or Mastermind or Neil Young on High

Keep or Trash: Keep. It is very pretty and enjoyable.

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Random Album of the Day – Saturday, June 6, 2026

Posted by jayne k on June 6, 2026
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Today’s Random Album of the Day as The Blackest Eye, an EP from Aye Nako. They are queer punkers from New York City featuring a couple of California exports from Fleabag.

They were active from 2010 to 2017ish. This EP dates from 2015 and has very good, mature indie punk sounds. I suppose I feel more of a Indie Rock sound. Edgy without being overly noisy. And who doesn’t love a queer punk act? Besides loser bigots.

Their music is slightly aggressive without losing good melodies. The vocals are underemphasized in a good way. Over-emphasis on vocals can be a mistake unless you are making vocals-based pop or something like that. Though sometimes I also think the vocals are too buried so there is that.

They also use good stop and go techniques at times. Something that has always worked for me. Overall, love this album! Love their sound! It was also popular with my wife!

Rating: 9.4

Favorite Track(s): Killswitch or White Noise

Keep or Trash: Keep. Honestly I need more of their material in our collection. Will work on that when funds allow. In the meantime we do have this EP on vinyl which is nice.

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Random Album of the Day – Friday, June 5, 2026

Posted by jayne k on June 5, 2026
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Today’s Random Album of the Day is Wish I was In Heaven Sitting Down from R.L. Burnside. This is straight up blues music.

I really like good blues music and this is that. So glad I have this in my collection. I’m no expert in Blues but I appreciate it and enjoy it. R.L. Burnside has that sort of older blues sound. There is a more modern sound I don’t always love. But this I absolutely adore. This album is just really good.

There is something about the raw guitar and vocals that evokes early blues sounds. “Too Many Ups” starts a departure from this sound but is also an enjoyable song. This track is more modern but it works. It’s a bit funky. It’s got some nice horns. “Nothin’ Man” is more modern too but in a different way. Honestly there is a fair amount of variety on this album too.

“R.L.’s Story” is some serious talk. It’s basically him discussing all the people who’ve been killed in his life for a part of it. Then talking about his different moves around and such.

Rating: 9.5

Favorite Track(s): Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues or Miss Maybelle. Really this album is full of great songs but the early songs are the best!

Keep or Trash: Keep. So good.

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Random Album of the Day – Thursday, June 4, 2026

Posted by jayne k on June 4, 2026
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Today’s Random Album of the Day was What the Hell do I Know? from Illinois. Illinois is classified as Indie Rock but they are definitely on the poppier end of indie rock at times.

I didn’t love the first song, but the EP settles in nicely with the next two songs. “Nosebleed” is really good. And “What Can I Do for You” is a very nice pop song. I liked Headphones too. So I think overall a good album with a couple of songs I didn’t love.

My wife and I agreed that they are poppier indie rock. She thought a couple of songs would work great on a soundtrack.

Rating: 7.5

Favorite Track(s): Nosebleed or Headphones

Keep or Trash: Keep. Decent enough indie rock.

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Random Album of the Day – Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Posted by jayne k on June 3, 2026
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Today’s Random Album of the Day is A Tribute To from Yim Yames. This is an EP. This is indie folk, maybe alt-country. It can also be labeled as singer songwriter.

This is a tribute album from the singer of My Morning Jacket and features 6 George Harrison covers. To me, it’s just lacking the vibrancy one would expect from George Harrison covers. Probably the only cover that was on par was “My Sweet Lord.”

Rating: 5.0

Favorite Track(s): My Sweet Lord

Keep or Trash: Trash. I like the concept but this album doesn’t work for me. But Jen likes My Sweet Lord so I think we’ll keep that one song.

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Random Album of the Day – Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Posted by jayne k on June 2, 2026
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Today’s Random Album of the Day is Calling the New Gods from Indonesian Experimental artists Senyawa. I like Senyawa but I haven’t listened in a while. So this is a vert nice surprise.

This is so good. It’s experimental music so it does require you have a taste for that. But it’s very good. But there aren’t melodies. There are rhythms. You get what you get. This is artsy music at its core.

Rating: 9.5

Favorite Track(s): Kereta Tak Berhenti

Keep or Trash: Keep. As noted above I like Senyawa so definitely keep.

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Top 50 Rain Songs: #30 – 21

Posted by jayne k on June 1, 2026
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We’re currently doing a music league using the Band Jam App and our theme for this past round was Song for a Rainy Day. I found so many songs about rain when looking into this, so I decided randomly to do a top 50 list. See below for links to the #50 to 31 songs. You can listen below for the #30 to 21 songs.

I’ve included the list below the fold in a text format with streaming links. In case you’d rather do that…

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Random Album of the Day – Monday, June 1, 2026

Posted by jayne k on June 1, 2026
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Happy Pride! Today’s Random Album of the Day happens to be from a queer artist. Today’s album is Do Not Disturb from Young Miko. Young Miko is a pop rap artist from Puerto Rico.

This album is really good. I don’t know much about this style of music, but it grooves, flows, and makes you want to dance. They probably overuse the vocal effects but that’s normal these days. All in all, it is a very enjoyable album and it fit my mood well today.

Rating: 9.0. This may not be my normal wheelhouse but it’s very good at what it does.

Favorite Track(s): Ni Le Cabe

Keep or Trash: Keep. Even if I didn’t like it my wife loves it so it’s a definite keeper.

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Radio Shower Highlights Podcast #3

Posted by jayne k on May 31, 2026
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Welcome to the Radio Shower Weekly Highlight Podcast with Jayne. Issue #3. Leave your comments below…