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Text Adventure
12+ albums
indieelectronicMellowacousticindietronica
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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 a
