CONTACT:

scottstandleymusic@gmail.com

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Excerpts from Pitch Perfect’s review of VICTORIA :

‘Simple Sweet’ has a Brian Wilson ‘Pet Sounds’ vibe, as if refracted through an audio kaleidoscope.

‘You Got It’ has a Stevie Wonder sheen and vocal complexity.

‘Driving’ again channels the Fleet Foxes both lyrically and musically with maybe a dash of Hozier.

People often describe music with the phrase “you’ve never heard anything like this before” but in this case it’s 100% true.

Audacious in its presentation but quite beautiful.

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bio

Scott Standley’s debut solo album VICTORIA spans indie, western, Neo-soul and folk. He is now playing the album live in a stripped down, solo set with his electric guitar.

After playing in rock groups Jungleset and ChooChoo for years, as well as performing at Austin City Limits Music Festival 2019 and 2023 with percussion group Resonate, Scott’s solo material returns to his roots of playing music with grandparents in Victoria, Texas, infusing it with modern influences. Victoria is available on all major music platforms. 

The original idea of Victoria was to create cosmic hymns that blended Scott’s old southern influences with a modern world. Written during the last years, Scott aims for Victoria to cut through anxiety and find some peace. One prominent lyric sums this up: “Hold on, delicate strong, we lost a home but we can find one.”

Scott Standley sings, plays guitar, bass, percussion and strums on his Grandpa’s handmade dulcimers from Victoria, Texas. Keyboard accompaniment was provided by Ryan Imboden, saxophone and flute contributions from Davis Jones of Loki Moon. All songs were mixed by Scott Standley, Davis Jones and Ziyad Asrar of the band Whitney. All songs were self-recorded and self-produced.

Scott Standley is an Austin-born singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Experimental and choral-focused, Scott’s songs reflect the Southern music that he grew up hearing in the house (Bonnie Raitt, Lyle Lovett, choral hymns and folk standards) but also his favorite current artists (Bon Iver, Frank Ocean, Perfume Genius, Sufjan Stevens). Scott has been living between Austin, Chicago and Seattle since 2010. 

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VICTORIA LYRICS

READY

[Verse 1]
I got stuck in between
All the details, the details
Look at them now
Look at them now

They mean nothing
All that clutching
Not a goddamn thing

[Chorus]
I am ready
To feel rock steady

[Chorus]
I am so ready
To feel rock steady

DELICATE STRONG

[Chorus]
Hold on
Delicate strong
We lost a home
But we can find one
Winding roads
Scary white folk
Give me some hope
That I won’t be one of them

Can we wake a new world
One that hasn’t been stolen
We can make what we want there
Let’s go tell all our friends

[Chorus]
Hold on
Delicate strong
We lost a home
But we can find one
Yeah
Yeah
Give me some hope
That I won’t be one of them

Treating fate like a sweet roll
Once it’s eaten it’s eaten
Why waste time on the replay
The basket’s full again

[Chorus]
Hold on
Delicate strong
We lost a home
But we can find one

Winding roads
Scary white folk
Give me some hope
That I won’t be one of them

SIMPLE SWEET

Every feeling comes running up fast, doesn’t it?
Every feeling was made to last, wasn’t it?

[Chorus]
Can you help me
I’m so simple sweet
Don’t mess with me
Or you will get teeth
Or you will see the wrong side of me

Every feeling speaks in big, wild tones
With shallow breathing, it tells me to hide at home
Every feeling runs up to you doesn’t it?
Like it’s waiting to tell you its big secret

[Chorus]
Can you help me
I’m so simple sweet
Don’t mess with me
Or you will get teeth

Every feeling comes running up fast doesn’t it?
Doesn’t it?
Doesn’t it?
No other feeling was made to last
Was it?
Was it?

YOU GOT IT

[Chorus]
You got it
You deserve it
You’ll finish
You’re perfect

I mean it
I see it now
I witness
You unleash a sound

Your power
Your meaning
It came with you
And it ain’t leaving

You know now
How to change the scene
I believe I hear ringing

[Chorus]
You got it
You deserve it
You’ll finish
You’re perfect

I mean it
I see it now
I witness
You unleash a sound

Your power
Your meaning
It came with you
And it ain’t leaving

You know now
How to change the scene
I believe I hear ringing

DRIVING

I am driving
In a Texas scene
Sky is a sherbet dream
Kill the high beams
Let’s ride to New Orleans

Now you’re driving
Hill Country scene
Sky that you can’t believe

[Verse 1]
This life is a napping dream in the back seat
With the windows down on a short ride home through that old street

[Chorus]
(Napping dream)
You are steering me
(Back seat)
(A short ride home)
You are steering me
(That old street)

[Verse 2]
When will this ride take me to a new time?
The engine’s loud, still we sleep in the sunshine

[Chorus]
(A short ride home)
You are steering me
(With the windows down)
(Still we sleep)
You are steering me
(The engine’s loud)

And the engine’s loud

DUSTING OFF HELL

Bring me that love
Bring that heart you’ve spoken of
Things felt fine until fine wasn’t enough

God I feel it now
It is so loud
Feels like washing off a shroud
Shit I feel it now

[Chorus]
Wow this can’t be real
How can I tell?
So many years numb to the feel
Dusting off hell

Bring me that love
Not the kind spoken of
Bring that shine that makes it all enough

[Chorus]
Wow this can’t be real
How can I tell?
So many years numb to the feel
Dusting off hell

DELICATE STRONG REPRISE

Hold on
Delicate strong
We lost a home
But we can find one

BEFORE ALL THAT

Is it just me?
Is it you too?
Sometimes I don’t trust my mind

If I hate me
Then I’m scared too
I wish I could leave all that behind

How long
Until it feels
Like we’re not scraping through mud?

Is the lie
In everything I’ve been told?
Or was I feeding myself a line?

THE WHOLE TIME

Allright
We’re in a fight
Us against time
The weak will keep the strong alive

All I need is your hand tight
Search me my friend
We might, we just might

Stumble through the fight
Through the night
To that old light
Arrive in time
Yeah, in time

I have seen them
The whole tribe
They were right here
Watching the whole time

Stumble back in to that ancient light
Broken, healing
Two sides, same damn dime

Broken
Healing
Stumble back in