Today’s Random Album of the Day is a compilation from various artists. This is the Slow Rack Sampler from Badman Recording Company, I don’t ever listen to various artist compilations. So I’m glad to see them come up on the Random Album of the Day. I just don’t naturally seek them out. But sometimes they do really rock.

As a Slow Rock Sampler this is pretty chill overall. Which isn’t bad for the morning. None of these songs knock me off my chair. But only like one of them makes me want to march off in disgust either. Still, there are songs I didn’t love. There are songs I liked. I guess what you’d expect from a compilation that isn’t entirely in your wheelhouse.

Rating: 7.0

Favorite Track(s): “Home by Saturday”. I’ve always liked Hayden. “Wax Museum” from Read Thread is good. I like the guitar riff. “Hollow Heart” from N. Lannon is peaceful. I liked “Impossible” from Pleasant Grove. I liked “Brightness” from Lanterna. And it was nice to hear a woman’s voice on “Tomorrow On the Runway” from the Innocence Mission.

Keep or Trash: Trash. Honestly it’s a higher threshold to keep a various artist compilation. I have to like it more to keep it than a stand alone album. And this doesn’t meet that higher threshold for me. There is no song I absolutely love and must have. The album itself is fine but not spectacular. And so forth… If I ever feel the need to hear this album (won’t happen) I’ve reconstructed in streaming links below.

I could not find this, but I found ALL of the songs separately so here are links to stream THE songs in the order that they are on the compilation…