Today’s Random Album of the Day is vand, død & ensomhed from Himmelrum. It’s listed as rock on Rate Your Music but honestly it’s more of a Danish Indie Pop. They self identify as Rock, Ambient, Shoegaze, and synaesthesia. I don’t really see the shoe gaze. I’d still say Indie Pop.
I didn’t really like this album at all. Not to my tastes. One song got weird in a good way. The music is fine, just not my kind of fine.
Rating: 6.0
Favorite Track(s): “Usynlige” got nice and weird. “Nerve” is ok.
Today’s Random Album is Loveseat from Quarterbacks. This is Twee Pop, Cuddlecore, or Slacker Rock. And that all works for me.
This is the second album from Quarterbacks to make the album of the day. The first was a keeper so unsurprisingly this will also be a keeper. I like their Twee thing that they have going here.
My playlist for this is out of order. Oops. At least the songs have the correct titles. That’s progress.
Songs are all super short. But melodic and fun.
Rating: 9.1
Favorite Track(s): “Lauren” is lovely Twee. “Schmictionary” is good. “Last Boy” sounds good but the lyrics are either super creepy or sweet. Hard to say without digging deeper. I think it’s intended to be sweet after reading lyrics haha. “Simple Songs” is fun. “Don’t Wanna” is adorable. This was out of order but I enjoyed the whole album with its short twee love stuff.
Today’s Random Album of the Day is Do a Two Sable from Danielle Howle. This is Singer-Songwriter but also Rock ‘n Roll. This is one of many albums in my collection where I have no idea where it came from. Hence the Random Album of the Day…
I wasn’t expecting much here but for the first part it is a solidly good album. My songs are messed up though. Each song is titled wrong. How exactly does that happen? Did I end up with a bootleg download? fixing this will be annoying.
The album is good at first but I’d not say it’s great in the end. Some songs fall flat for me and some are just bad to me. Sort of a Blues Rock I suppose. Though some songs are practically Country. Which does not work for me at all. Which I suppose is why the more I listened the less I liked it. But then there’d be a good song I liked. So a mixed overall album.
Rating: 7.1
Favorite Track(s): “Feel So Bad” is a great song. “You Came A Knockin'” is great and ok now I recognize her. “Where Were You” brings back the rock and it’s solid. “Dusty” is probably the only slower song that I liked on the album. But I did like it.
Keep or Trash: Trash. Honestly I might have been on the fence about this if it weren’t for the mislabeled songs. That made me realize I didn’t care enough to fix them. Like it’s easier to just discard them and I seemed ok with that once the thought crossed my mind. Especially with me not really liking half the album. Also I was a bit too enthused when we got to the last song and the album was over.
Today’s Random Album of the Day is Aum from Divers On The Moon. They are a math rock band out of Italy. Their music is instrumental. No vocals.
I’d say that these are pure math rockers. And they are quite good. No finger tapping nonsense. Just good orchestrations! I don’t always did instrumental music. I tend to lose interest in instrumental music after a bit. The first couple of songs on this album are really excellent and it’s overall a good album. I lost interest once or twice but not much.
Rating: 9.4
Favorite Track(s): First off “432fm” is a great album intro. “Sugar in the Morning” is excellent. “Florea” is fantastic. “Yrgen” I liked. “Scallops” is pretty classic instrumental math rock.
Welcome to the Radio Shower Semi-Weekly Highlight Podcast with Jayne. Issue #9. This episode features lots of women artists including Post Pink, Olimpia Splendid, and Ô Paon. Leave your comments below…
Today’s Random Album of the Day is Numerals from Disco Doom. Disco Doom is considered Noise Pop or Indie Rock. On Rate Your Music it also gets tagged with Experimental Music and Alternative Rock. I’m not sure how experimental this album is though…
I thought I recalled liking this album. But I didn’t particularly care for it until half way through. It’s fine music at the start, just not music that I love. Things get interesting though when it gets louder. I swear I’m not just addicted to loudness. Honestly they are at their best when they engage their amps. Things are ok outside of that but it seems like they save the most interesting riffs and melodies for those moments.
Those are my opinions on it after one listen (the first in years) for what it is worth. It is possible I’m totally misjudging this album so maybe it needs more listens to fully assess. My mood can affect how I receive music so much.
Rating: 7.5
Favorite Track(s): “Rock Yeah” picks things up a bit. But “Love 77” gets better and then “Zonk” even better. “Dead Eye” is solid too. And “Shannon” is an example of slow excellence. I genuinely like “Rice & Bones”.
Keep or Trash: Keep. For now. It’s borderline honestly but we do have on vinyl so I figure give it more listens and see if my wife likes it more than I do. But if she doesn’t love it I may unload both the digital and vinyl.
Today’s Random Album of the Day is Casual Goths from Finally Punk. This is a compilation album of their material. Finally Punk is an “Art Punk” band from Austin, TX. I quite enjoy them. Their songs are short. Very short, typically coming in under one minute long.
I enjoy this album. Adequate noise and they seem to be having a lot of fun making this music too. The lyrics are silly as much as anything usually. “Jazz Hit” is about making a sandwich mostly. That’ pretty typical. And in fact people who know me know that I quite enjoy it this kind of thing…
They have such a fun aggressive angular sound. It’s really quite enjoyable to me.
Rating: 9.6
Favorite Track(s): “Henry” is good. “5 Year Old Angst” is silly fun. “Missile” is great with a great closing scream. “Johnny Depp Vs Gator” is great. I appreciate the ode to “Manatee”. I love “Redneck Gout Club” and lol at the title. etc…
Today’s Random Album of the Day is the Self Titled LP from Goat Girl. Goat Girl is Indie Rock with some touches of Neo-Psychedelia, punk and even dance.
My wife had bought me this album and I quite like it. I really love the singer’s voice. The song are generally short and there are a lot of them. Really powerful, tight music. It all has a haunting edge to it. But musically its pure excellence.
Rating: 9.7
Favorite Track(s): “Salty Sounds” is hauntingly tilted in a good way for a super short intro. I Love the power behind “Burn the Stake”. It’s really powerful. “Viper Fish” is so good. “Slowly Reclines” is so good and “The Man” is even better! “I Don’t Care Part 1” really works for me with its angular guitars and memorable vocals. Really the album is so consistently good all that way through…
Today’s Random Album of the Day is a Split 7″ from Tyrannosaurus Dead and Joanna Gruesome. Both bands are considered Noise Pop and hail from the UK.
Rating: 9.6
Favorite Track(s): “Anti-Parent Cowboy Killers” is lovely. it’s melodic and noisy as promised from a noise pop outfit. Great bridge too. That’s my favorite of the two but “Post Holiday Dead Song” is also good. Almost dream poppy.
Keep or Trash: Keep.
I found the songs in different places so they are both posted below separately…
Today’s Random Album of the Day is a Demo from G.L.O.S.S. which is some straight up queer trans hardcore – aka queercore. That’s right – the trans radical agenda is here!! haha.
This album is pretty great. I’m biased but I think it shreds and it’s super rad. It’s very short of course. Brings back memories of trying to do even part of my radio show with all hardcore. So hard with every song being so short. You’d be panic queueing albums just in time – or not in time.
Rating: 9.8
Favorite Track(s): I liked the whole demo honestly. “Lined Lips and Spiked Bats” is such a great title.
