New playlist!
DON’T CALL ME BORING, IT’S JUST ‘CAUSE I LIKE YOU: songs from a lovestruck youth
Dappled Cities - Holy Chord
The Lucksmiths - Sunlight In A Jar
Pony Up! - The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Is That They Die)
The Spinto Band - Oh Mandy
Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken
Basia Bulat - Before I Knew
Art Brut - Good Weekend
Hefner - Hello Kitten
Voxtrot - The Start of Something
Special Needs - Blue Skies
The Libertines - What Katie Did
Giant Drag - God Only Knows
Pikelet - They Call It Love? … Wow
Benoit Pioulard - Moth Wings54mb — DOWNLOAD HERE
When it came to adolescent romance I did myself no favours re: the objects of my affection. I fancied straight girls and gay boys, and the one time I seriously liked a girl who swung my way she’d just gotten over a crush on me that I, with my great powers of observation, completely failed to notice. It’s no surprise that the songs I loved back then are schizophrenic in nature, swinging from dizzying hyper-articulation to the depths of incoherence. Here they are in playlist format, sugar-coated in nostalgia and leaping from one end of the romantic spectrum to another but, somehow, maintaining an internal sense of consistency. Enjoy!
(The above paragraph seems like I overthought this mix but I haven’t really, it’s just a collection of songs that I really liked in my final year of high school and now, in my final year of university, are a source of great comfort when I’m up at 3am working on wanky writing projects and missing my ladyfriend.
Also: years later I pinpointed the week in which the girl and my respective crushes overlapped each other and neither of us acted on it. Sweaty-palmed anxiety! The spike in last.fm play counts of Luxembourg, Hefner and The Lucksmiths show how I channelled my awkwardness into listening to bands that have since or are in the process of breaking up. You read into the analogy there.)
Half of this wonderful playlist by cass is exactly what I have been listening to over and over in my final school years and my first years at university (Hefner! almost forgot them). The rest is completely new to me. So thank you, I’m going to spend this morning with a bit of nostalgia and discovering some fitting new songs.
