Today’s Random Album of the Day is Outside, the Great Drought from Hyena. I forgot how I acquired this. And I haven’t listened in years so this will be good to hear.

I wasn’t able to find this on Rate Your Music but I did find it on Discogs. I found a review on Soundohm but no stream. Sorry for lack of a stream. So far I’d say this is experimental rock and somewhere between noise rock and folk rock. Definitely indie rock on all fronts.

This album has a good kind of weirdness. I see the 60s inspiration referenced in the Soundohm review. It is definitely there. It’s weird in a good way though and in the end I liked the album. Even when songs have parts I don’t love, they tend to rebound into something I do like. It isn’t exactly a melodic album. More chaotic with occasional melodies mixed in. But if you like experimental rock this is really quite exquisite.

The more I listen to this the more I like it. Yes it’s complicated in a sense. In a very good sense. And definitely a work of art.

Rating: 9.1

Favorite Track(s): “Salutations” is interestingly fun, “Portraits” is good, “I Eat Your Words” is spectacularly complex, “Stilts” because of the weird bit about oil lol

Keep or Trash: Keep. Mainly because I’m 90% sure we have this on vinyl. So I don’t want to delete the digital version because I like having both for stuff in our collection. Plus I liked it. And it’s very much a work of art worth keeping as well.