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Random Album of the Day

Today’s Random Album of the Day is Haw from Hiss Golden Messenger. They are listed as Folk Rock, Americana, and Country Soul. Country Soul is a new genre to me. But I guess it sounds like this…

I always confuse this band with another band that is more abstract noise so I get a little shock when I hit play and it’s not that haha. But I do like their music overall.

With that said, some of the songs fall flat for me too. Which makes it tough, How much do I like this album?

Rating: 8.5

Favorite Track(s): “Sufferer” caught my attention. “Hat of Rain” is good. It was my #71 rain song of all time!

Keep or Trash: Trash. It’s a solid album but it won’t break into my rotation much at all. I am TRYING to pare down our collection so it’s a victim of that.

The embedded album below is the “remastered” version. That’s not what I have but it should do…

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Today’s Random Album of the Day is Sampler Number 4 from Yellow Dog Records. Their music tends to include Americana, Soul, Blues, Jazz, Folk, and Roots music. I tend to like most material from them.

And that holds for this sampler. This is a collection of good music from a good label. It may not be your preferred style but it’s worth a listen.

Of course with a compilation part of the point is to interest listeners to musicians they might like. With that said, most of the artists that I liked on this I already have some of their stuff and didn’t feel compelled to get more at least at this time. Though I was most tempted by some of the blues…

Rating: 9.3

Favorite Track(s): “Later than you think” from Eden Brent is excellent. I like most material from them so not surprising that I liked “Never Going’ Back” from the Asylum Street Spankers. “I’m dreaming of your demise” is pretty cool from Mary Flower. “Turpentine” from Woodbrain is good blues rock. “Mean & Strange” from Big Joe Duskin is good blues. As is “Madison Ave. Shuffle” from Terry Robb if you are ok with instrumentals. Very old timey sound on this one. “Come On” from Christ Cotton is good too. “The Streetwalker’s Stroll” is an excellent instrumental. Very jazzy. The whole album is pretty consistently solid honestly.

Keep or Trash: Keep.

I could not find the Sampler streaming so I’m going to paste in the songs below the fold and reconstruct it for your listening pleasure…

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Today we have a second BONUS Random Album of the Day! This is a new thing since we have over 4,500 albums in our digital collection, to get through more albums when I have the time and bandwidth to do it I’ll post a second bonus album of the day.

Today’s BONUS Random Album of the Day is the Culture of the Copy EP from FEATURE. FEATURE is listed as Noise Pop or Indie Rock.

This is good. My favorite music styles are a bit noisy so noise pop usually works for me and this is no exception.

Rating: 9.5

Favorite Track(s): “Psalms” sounds so good. Like a Sebadoh tune with fem vocals. “Reeling” has a good driving riff. It’s excellent. “Twins” and “Fuzz” are both excellent. Great album!

Keep or Trash: Keep.

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Today’s Random Album of the Day is A Daytrotter Session from Imelda May. They are listed as a rockabilly act from the UK (originally from Ireland).

They do fit the rockabilly mold, I like it.

Rating: 9.0

Favorite Track(s): “Big Bad Handsome Man” I expected to dislike but it’s a decent song musically. “Sneaky Freak” is great. “Watcha Gonna Do” is even better.

Keep or Trash: Keep. I considered trashing just because I don’t really seek out rockabilly much. Especially since I can’t dance due to disability. This is great swing-ish dance music. But it is too good not to keep.

You can listen to this session here.

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Today’s Random Album of the Day is Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts from Velocity Girl. Velocity Girl is somewhere between Indie Rock and Indie Pop – or both. I’ve been a fan since college which was a long time ago.

My wife says they sound like the Go-Gos. Which I guess I can see. They have this poppy sound but it also borders Shoegaze a bit and Indie Rock too. If it was any poppier I would probably not be a big fan. But it falls into a nice niche where it is. Not every song is a banger of course. But they are pretty consistently solid.

Rating: 9.1

Favorite Track(s): “Nothing” really works for me. “Just Like That” is good jangly fun. “Go Coastal” is indie rock fun. “Zealous Heart” is more emo jangly goodness. I Liked “The Only Ones” too. I also liked “Formula 1 Throwaway”. I liked “One Word” too.

Keep or Trash: Keep. I should listen to them more…

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Today’s random album is Plum Vision‘s Self Titled EP. Plum Vision is listed as an Alternative Rock band from Idaho. I feel they are more Indie Rock, but that’s a bit subjective I suppose.

In any case I really like them. They have a bit of a blended sound I guess. Sometimes clean enough to be considered Alternative Rock but at other times more edgy than that. And I of course am often a fan of all lady bands!

Rating: 9.4

Favorite Track(s): “Broken Things” is solid rock and probably is more Alternative Rock sounding. I really like “Purple Waves” which reminds me of a punk Blondie track. “Everchanging Lullaby” is nice and heavy and slow. I like it. “Stitches” is solid. I like the heavy bass a lot. And it gets more punk than anything else.

Keep or Trash: Keep. I recently bought this because I like it.

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Today’s Random Album is A Day Late and a Dollar Short from The Queers. This is a compilation album of their material. and they are a pop punk or punk rock band depending on your angle.

They are not queer for what it is worth. It’s definitely ok to have thoughts about that. Joe Queer sometimes has good opinions (hate nazis) but sometimes has shitty ones (make excuses for Ferguson shooting). All worth knowing but influence my decision on if I keep their music. Overall the band has had like 50 different musicians. So their lineup has changed a lot over the years. Lots of people can claim to have been part of The Queers.

Musically they are fun mostly, Lots of tight short songs with great rhythm and often stupid lyrics. And sometimes iffy lyrics.

Rating: 9.0 (on music alone)

Favorite Track(s): “Terminal Rut” is good. And then the songs are so short and fast I can’t keep up. But honestly lots of good songs. Solid material. And certainly early pop punk and did a lot to inspire that sound.

Keep or Trash: Trash. I debated trashing it and was torn about it. But in the end my wife and I agreed we won’t really want to listen to it much – if at all. Co-opting queerness might have been punk for a cis hetero white boy in 1981 in a way but in 2026 not so much. We’ll listen to some queercore instead.

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Today’s Random Album of the Day is Je Ne Sais Claust from Nuclear Santa Claust. They are listed as a Hardcore Punk band and that fits.

As you’d expect this is quite heavy, loud, and aggressive.

Rating: 8.8

Favorite Track(s): “Castle Bravo” is good. I like the guitar riff. “Five Dollar Tarot Card” rips nicely. I might have to listen again to properly pick but for now those two are solid.

Keep or Trash: Keep.

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Today’s Random Album of the Day is Antiquities from Ewan MacColl. This was a double CD back in the day. Anyhow Ewan MacColl is a folk singer probably best known (at least to me) for his working class, pro-labor music,

This kind of folk music is as much an acquired taste as the noise rock I listen to. I like it more for the message than the music. If I were just rating the message it’d be a 10. But the music drags it down haha.

Rating: 8.3

Favorite Track(s): So many songs but I’ll go with Manchester Rambler mostly thanks to Casey Neill introducing it to me many years ago.

Keep or Trash: Keep. I like a good protest folk song and this has its place in my collection.

Unfortunately this album I could not find streaming. However it should be on Apple Music or Amazon Music. Also his bandcamp page is here.

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Today’s Random Album of the Day is the Ass Rhymes Double Ought Road Gang EP from Two Dollar Guitar. Two Dollar Guitar is tagged as Slowcore (cool), Post-Rock (cool), and Country Rock (oh fuck…).

It’s not terrible. I just don’t love country rock usually. This isn’t bad though and it’s actually decent.

In the end, this album annoys me because there are like 6 songs but only 2 tracks on my copy. So the songs are joined together into single 15 minute tracks. That annoys me.

Rating: 7.5

Favorite Track(s): I can’t really say due to how the songs are merged together.

Keep or Trash: Trash. It was ok but I don’t like the mashup of the songs into two tracks and the album wasn’t good enough to get past that.

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