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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 Wings

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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.)