Play This Thing: Let’s Fall In Love
By Omar (@siegarettes)
I’m nothing but a sentimental romantic. Behind the veneer of hipster cool and cynical apathy, I am alive with the blood of poetry writing art school dropout. So with that, let me recommend to you something for the lovers in us all:
Final Straw - Snow Patrol
Love songs tend to attach themselves to moments and people in your life. Snow Patrol is no different. What separates Snow Patrol from your regular pop song, however, is the way that Lightbody’s lyrics always seem to come off genuine. Like our real lovelives, it sometimes comes close to a cliche, but it manages to avoid the melodrama and artificiality that a lot of pop music leans on.
Final Straw is an album of hesitation, unsure wording, the conversations we never had, or wished we hadn’t. It’s an album rooted in the everyday struggles of loving another human being, the fear of being with a person who makes you feel so alive you’re terrified of it.
Favorite Tracks:
Digital: A Love Story - Christine Love
Christine Love may be known now for her work on Analogue: A Hate Story and her upcoming Lady Killer in a Bind, but this is the game that launched her work into the public eye and showed that she had a talent for working with both writing and interfaces. Taking place “five minutes into the future of 1998" Digital is a game that takes place in an era where the Internet still carried a touch of mystery and alien mystique.
The interface mimics an Amiga work station and will have you dialing ISPs and trawling BBSs. You’ll slowly uncover more of it and correspond with a few others to learn more (cleverly, you only see their response, leaving you to interpret the sent message). It’s nostalgic enough to bring a warmth to those who grew up in the time of screeching modems, and interesting enough to rope in those who didn’t. Personally, it was one of my favorite, if not my favorite game of 2010. Best of all, it’s entirely free.
Download Digital: A Love Story
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