Random Album of the Day – Sunday, May 31, 2026

Posted by jayne k on May 31, 2026
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Today’s Random Album of the Day is The Icicles with Arrivals & Departures. Today is pure unadulterated twee pop. Very uplifting and at times bitter sweet. Pretty vocals with jangly music.

This album exudes a certain atmosphere. Even when it’s darker in content lyrically, it’s jangly and bright. But in a way that works. It’s very nice Sunday music actually. It fit so well this morning.

Rating: 8.8. It’s hard to rate this super high for some reason, but I absolutely adore this album. It really meshes with the girl in me.

Favorite Track(s): La Ti Da. I just love how uplifting this song sounds.

Keep or Trash: Keep. I haven’t trashed anything in a while but I really love this album so no chance I’m gonna trash it.

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Random Album of the Day – Saturday, May 30, 2026

Posted by jayne k on May 30, 2026
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Today’s Random Album of the Day is Quarterboy from Quarterbacks. This is some very twee music. Bedroom caliber twee. I quite enjoy it of course.

Is that a Striped Maple leaf on his head? It looks like it. Striped Maple we always called the toilet paper tree because it was quite useful when you needed that.

In any case, this is very bare bones, emo-esque twee. Lovely little songs that are short and enjoyable. Melodic music with just vocals and acoustic guitar.

Rating: 8.5

Favorite Track(s): Words and Smiles (Tiger Trap Cover)

Keep or Trash: Keep. It seems like I’m keeping almost everything. But I do like my bedroom twee shit. And spoiler: one of their songs may have made the top 50 rain songs list. Just saying….

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Random Album of the Day – Friday, May 29, 2026

Posted by jayne k on May 29, 2026
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Today’s Random Album of the Day is a Daytrotter session from Mountain Man – a trio from Vermont who I think is now in North Carolina? I’m not totally sure. I just had come across this trio in a music league round and I liked what I heard. I had forgotten I had the Daytrotter session in my collection. Funny when you discover something you’ve already “discovered”.

Honestly, I know I like some of their music but this particular Daytrotter Session didn’t blow me away on the first listen. I turned it up a bit and re-listened and that helped. Sometimes music benefits from some volume so you can fully experience it. Though this is not the style of music they had in mind when they said to turn it up to 11.

So yeah what is this? It’s folk music basically. Rate Your Music calls it “Contemporary Folk” which ok. It’s pretty and chill. They do good music, though this was early content for them and I think based on what I’ve heard their later stuff might be better. I sound Luke-warm and I guess I am. I thought I’d like this more than I did and expectations might have hurt my reception of it. But it is good folk music so give it a listen yourself. You may like it a bunch if that’s your thing.

Rating: 8.0

Favorite Track(s): Mouthwings

Keep or Trash: Keep. I’ve been wanting to listen to more of their stuff so I think I’ll do that.

This Daytrotter Session is from 2010 which is when they released their album Made the Harbor.

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Random Album of the Day – Thursday, May 28, 2026

Posted by jayne k on May 28, 2026
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Today’s Random Album of the Day is Book Lungs from Hello Shark. Wow, what a contrast with yesterday! I guess this also has a slow tempo. It’s classified as Indie Folk / Slowcore.

I became enamored with the simple sounds from Hello Shark via one of their Christmas songs which was on a compilation I had. Of course, that’s the benefit of compilations – helping to find bands you like!

This album really appeals to the hippie part of me: The environmentalist and solo backpacker. The one who would venture off a trail or crash on a floor. The one who took my dog backpacking. While also feeling entirely comfortable with the indie rocker in me. I do want to note that they sound like they are having such fun making this album.

Gratuitous photo of my old dog backpacking…

Rating: 8.9

Favorite Track(s): “I Love Vermont” reminds me of my youth of sharing spaces and traveling places. “Ruth the Bug” similarly gives me a nostalgic vibe. “This is a Mess” feels just perfectly comfortable. But “When the Rain Comes” is just so lovely. I could listen to this song all day.

Keep or Trash: Keep. I don’t listen to them enough but definitely a keep.

The album is embedded below but it’s not available to buy there. If you are interested in any of their content, check out their Bandcamp here. But Book Lungs is not on it.

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Random Album of the Day – Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Posted by jayne k on May 27, 2026
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Today’s Random Album of the Day is Dead Eyes from Khünnt. They are a sludge noise band from the UK. I really like sludge noise, though it’s not good for casual listening per se.

This is pretty good sludge noise. The music is heavy with a slow tempo as sludge noise tends to be. It might have appeal to noisy metal fans in addition to noise fans. This style of music is an acquired taste for sure. And it’s kind of best live in some respects.

However, it is not entirely compatible with my illness it seems. I can be sensitive to certain noises, though my sensitivity can vary from day to day. This did trigger some mild symptoms so I only gave it a single listen and moved on.

I think when it comes to noise I do prefer slightly catchier riffs and shorter songs than this. These are long sings. But this is good, so I don’t want to confuse that preference with an assessment of the quality of the music.

Rating: 7.5

Favorite Song: Rhoijse Nojyk

Keep or Trash: Keep. I considered not keeping due to the illness compatibility issue but my sensitivity may improve at some point. When I saw a noise band came up with material I didn’t have I thought I might opt to buy more, but this isn’t music I expect to play a lot of. So I’ll keep this and go from there.

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Random Album of the Day – Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Posted by jayne k on May 26, 2026
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Today’s Random Album of the Day is Frankie Cosmos and the Emptiness with Love Rind. Frankie Cosmos is super prolific having put out nearly two dozen regular length albums plus EPs and such. Love Rind is early and came out in 2013. To put into perspective they put out like 14 releases in 2012 and 2013. A lot of these early releases are basically bedroom recordings. But you see quite early that they have incredible sense for song writing and melodies. So this isn’t a polished album in the traditional sense. But I love this kind of stuff.

This album is pretty typical of that era. It is primarily just Frankie and their guitar. Not every song is great, but there is so much in here that has catchy melodies with nice lo-fi aesthetics. And I love their ability to sing about just about anything. I believe “birthday song” and “dancing in the public eye” are reprised on Zentropy.

Rating: 9.0

Favorite Song: I loved “gross one” or “birthday song” but my favorite has always been “dancing in the public eye”. My wife loved “mr. monkey’s hypnosis hour”

Keep or Trash: Keep, I love Frankie Cosmos.

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Top 50 Rain Songs: #40 – 31

Posted by jayne k on May 26, 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. I posted the #50 to 41 songs here. You can listen below for the #40 to 31 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, May 25, 2026

Posted by jayne k on May 25, 2026
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Today’s Random Album of the Day is a live album, Old Time Relijun performing at Maxwell’s in 2005. It’s a weird live album in that it’s strung together much like a bootleg. I think this was an eMusic release? I don’t recall entirely. But I like Old Time Relijun so alls good.

Old Time Relijun is rock and roll with an element of weirdness. The weirdness is something Arrington de Dionyso brings to all of his work. And I like it. They do a lot of slide guitar and similar sound. Arrington’s voice is dynamic and impressive in what he can do vocally. So yeah, this album is a good one. I definitely should listen to Old Time Relijun more than I do. So of course it’s nice they came up as the Random Album of the Day!

Rating: 8.8 (only a bit low because it’s not a high quality live edit)

Favorite Track: Cold Water

Keep or Trash: Keep. Definitely keep anything from Old Time Relijun.

I could not find this online, but this is their 2001 album which is close to the timing of the live album.

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Radio Shower Highlights Podcast #2

Posted by jayne k on May 24, 2026
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Welcome to the Radio Shower Weekly Highlight Podcast with Jayne. Issue #2. Leave your comments below…

Random Album of the Day – Sunday, May 24, 2026

Posted by jayne k on May 24, 2026
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Today’s random album of the day is Never Trust a Baby from Vulvette. Vulvette is a country singer from Missouri. I struggled to find the album online. It’s less modern country and more folk country so that’s good. The sound quality on the album is not good though. And I think this particular album would benefit from a better recording quality.

It is a good album I think. Some raw folk country mixed with different harmonies. It has a very bare, almost barren, sound. Acoustic guitar and vocals with vocal harmonizing here and there. Then there is some random electric guitar sounds on Everything Gets Broken and Lonesome Cowboy which I liked. My vegan ass even liked the Steak Dinner on a Saturday Night song. It was very old timey country. I’d rate the album higher probably with better sound although the low quality recording does fit the atmosphere of the music.

Rating: 6.5

Favorite Track: Everything Gets Broken or Song of the Esplanade

Keep or Trash: Keep I think. I like it enough.

I couldn’t find this album so here is another one from Vulvette which I have not listened to so it has not influenced my thoughts above. OK, after writing that I took a quick gander and it sounds very different. It is a totally different stage of their music and I like it less even if the sound quality is there this time. I’m just not that into country.

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