To some extent the tools you have available to you limit the range of activities you can perform. Obviously you’re not going to be able to build a house if all you have is a box of weet-bix and a broken cup.

Generally musicians forget this and they spend their time amassing the funds to buy many and varied pedals and synthesizers and computer programmes. The guitarist from the Casette Kids has a fucking ridiculous pedal board. He has, like, three different delay station things. He probably has more gear than his drummer. We’ve heard the story about Animal Collective getting stopped by customs on their way into NZ because our valiant border patrollers thought they were going to set up a make-shift shop at their sold-out show and evade tax or something.

One of the things that impresses me about Bandicoot is they’re doing their thing with what I consider to be minimal tools. Reuben is in charge of harmony and he is playing some guitar through some Boss digital floor unit. I had always thought digital floor things were the domain of 14-yr-olds playing Blink 182 songs with the phaser setting (in before: you thinking, “Oh, but Reuben is only 15 so what does he know?” but not actually commenting because you haven’t discovered the comment feature yet).

Sure, MS Paint is easy to hate on but MS Paint is actually fucking awesome:

This video isn’t displaying but I don’t fucking care.

Oh, it is now. Weird.

Written by: Zach.
Tags: bandicoot, marry me ms paint.