Text Adventure

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Kill Meow 04:01 Tools
Pink Smoke 04:11 Tools
I'm Losing My Reflection 03:46 Tools
If It Could Talk, It Wouldn't Say Anything 04:30 Tools
If It Could Talk It Wouldn't Say Anything 04:31 Tools
I'm a Shoe I Miss You 03:33 Tools
Cowboy Shadows 06:27 Tools
A Little Explosion 00:51 Tools
Saturday Morning Cartoons 05:18 Tools
Boobook (for R) 04:48 Tools
Nothing Is Wrong 05:22 Tools
Tide to the Oceans 03:11 Tools
Sunset In The Silver Forest 02:46 Tools
I Might Be Silly 06:06 Tools
I Believe In Lassies 12:47 Tools
Delfino Plaza 03:45 Tools
I Aim to Cause Offense 02:41 Tools
Add Your Own Crackles 04:46 Tools
Let's Us Get Wrong Tonight 04:46 Tools
A New Golden Era 03:39 Tools
Sunrise in the Silver Forest 03:20 Tools
Busted Art Cat 04:59 Tools
Bad Jaffa 03:36 Tools
Nothing Ever Happens Anymore 03:50 Tools
Soft Reset 06:36 Tools
Boobook 04:49 Tools
good nintentions 04:49 Tools
fringed with icicles 01:59 Tools
Boobook (Song For R) 01:59 Tools
06 Cowboy Shadows 01:59 Tools
04 Boobook (song for R) 01:59 Tools
02 If It Could Talk, It wouldn't Say Anything 01:59 Tools
Boobook - for R 04:50 Tools
Lets Us Get Wrong Tonight 04:04 Tools
09 Sunset in the Silver Forest 04:04 Tools
You Are Paint 04:50 Tools
26 Candles 04:04 Tools
03 / Text Adventure - Lets Us Get Wrong Tonight 04:04 Tools
07 Nothing is Wrong 04:04 Tools
01 Pink Smoke 04:04 Tools
05 Saturday Morning Cartoons 04:04 Tools
My Best Fake Smile 04:04 Tools
textadventure - Delfino Plaza 04:50 Tools
Complete Fakes 05:03 Tools
if it could talk it wouldn’t say anything 04:50 Tools
Chooloo 05:03 Tools
08 I Might Be Silly 05:03 Tools
10 I Believe In Lassies 05:03 Tools
cats versus boyfriends 05:03 Tools
I'm A Shoe, I Miss You 05:03 Tools
Nerds On A Cliff 04:29 Tools
My Love Affair With Jewellery 02:23 Tools
Bird Waves 02:23 Tools
Superior Light 02:23 Tools
Indian Midi 02:23 Tools
Caught My Dad Crying 04:29 Tools
Im Losing My Reflection 04:29 Tools
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Mostly one wee guy, sometimes two wee guys from Glasgow, Scotland making little songs on guitar and computers, with singing and glockenspiel and a bunch of keyboards. Sometimes electronic, sometimes acoustic folk. I BELIEVE IN LASSIES DSF004 (Release date: october 2007) The first “Text Adventure” A game which relied on your imagination to unfold it’s magic, has formed the inspiration for our favourite release of the year so far. The second album by David Roy and Stephen Scott, I BELIEVE IN LASSIES is a homage to lo-fi brilliance in a world gone pro-tools mad. You see, it’s about addressing the simple things. IBIL is a record about girls by boys too shy to talk to them in person, and one that communicates in an aching swirl of acoustic and digital lo-fi, the longing of not only meeting that spry-eyed girlie, but actually being able to say hi. What must be a crippling disability for David and Stephen, is a blessing for the rest of us, as we get treated to 10 tracks bursting with the self-confidence that can only come from living in hope. Crafted from acoustic guitar, Casio keyboards, circuit bent speak and spell machines, and live drums recorded to a “very, very old 8-track”. The songs have a layered aesthetic in the vein of Adem and Tunng. But this is more than an exercise in nerdy bedroom electronica: “I have tried to move away from that” asserts David. “The Golden Portion was very much sequence-based, computer-recorded, programmed beats, tons more keyboards and hardly any guitar. I felt it had been done to death already, so i wanted to make a grander sounding folk record with loads more guitars and more vocals too” Songs are as important to the boys as textures, and the melodies come at you with such self-assurance that you don’t know whether to meet them with a bear hug or duck for cover. With collaboration comes perspective, and Stephen’s vocals liberate David’s soundscapes, adding a psychedelic edge in the vein of My Bloody Valentine, but with a dose of skewed realism. Lines like “I’ll be the scarf around your neck” (If It Could Talk It Wouldn’t Say Anything) make you gaze up from your shoes and focus instead on your breaking heart. This yearning wistfulness can be traced through a number of influences; from James Taylor and Nick Drake, through to Ariel M and Jim O Rourke. The record also pushes the line between analogue and digital instruments just a little bit further. Are the bleeps at the end of Pink Smoke, forged through Logic or a circuit bent keyboard? Is that a harmonium or a sine wave on If It Could Talk It Wouldn’t Say Anything? Is that a fast flowing stream or a microphone left on in a pocket. Really good records speak their own language, and ask you to investigate them to understand. And so it is with IBIL: complex textures and simple melodies conspiring to make it at once disarming and compelling. It’s music inspired by accidents, by finding beauty in the unintentional, the ‘wyrd’ in the everyday. David states his inspiration as “Whenever I hear something natural that has gone wrong or has been digitally manipulated. Like an old field recording of some birds or rain that has been distorted.” Text Adventure is perfect pop, with a post rock sensibility: Gorgeous acoustic guitar lines hang hammocked in the mix between crackling static like an electronic rainstorm. The tracks come on like a series of commands strung together to create a whole gaming experience. Take Boobook (For R) which opens with three minutes of bossa guitar worthy of Eureka era Jim O Rourke before even a sniff of a lyric. Or Nothing is Wrong (Nothing is wrong) whose Mice Parade-esque guitar line warps into a digital portrait of the wintertime before bursting back again into full summer. And yes it’s cute. But cute is what makes life worth living: It’s the crinkle of an old kit kat wrapper in your pocket. It’s the rain. It’s the plastic bag snagged on a branch in a stream. It’s walking by a motorway on a grey day and staring at the clouds. Aesthetically simple, but as complex as you can make it. “It’s like something beautiful gone wrong” says David modestly. Or very, very right. 01. Pink Smoke 02. If It Could Talk, It Wouldn't Say Anything 03. I'm Losing My Reflection 04. Boobook (For R) 05. Saturday Morning Cartoons 06. Cowboy Shadows 07. Nothing Is Wrong (Nothing Is Wrong) 08. I Might Be Silly 09. Sunset In The Silver Forest 10. I Believe In Lassies http://www.myspace.com/iamtextadventure http://www.myspace.com/dearstereofan Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.