I was here last week.

Listen: Real Estate – Kinder Blumen ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ (possible track of 2011)
Listen: Of Montreal – Wintered Debts ←♥♥♥
Listen: Cloud Nothings – Stay Useless ←♥

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Sorry I’ve been off the radar for a while. Just entered the final year of my PhD and it’s all getting a bit hectic. So don’t be surprised if I don’t update this very often. Here are 3 of my favourite songs since I last updated.

Listen: M83 – Midnight City ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: Lana Del Rey – Video Games ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: Wilco – Born Alone ←♥♥♥♥♥♥

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Laura Marling’s new song ‘Sophia’ is probably my favourite song by her yet! Even if she has nicked the melody from Moonpig.

Listen: Laura Marling – Salinas ←♥♥♥♥
Listen: Laura Marling – Sophia ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: Laura Marling – All My Rage ←♥♥♥♥

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The newly refurbished National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh – easily on par with any natural history museum I went to in the United States.

Listen: Patti Smith – Babelogue/Rock N Roll Nigger ←♥♥♥♥
Listen: Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks – Tigers ←♥♥♥
Listen: Tiny Ruins – Priest With Balloons ←♥♥♥♥

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She also took this.

Jai Paul – BTSTU (Edit) by Jai Paul ←♥♥♥♥
Mouves (Out July 18th) by Tropics ←♥♥♥♥
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Trouble (Chad Valley remix) by T-E-E-D ←♥♥♥

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My friend took this photo. Think it sums up these songs pretty well. Very 2011.

Listen: WU LYF – We Bros ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: WU LYF – Summas Bliss ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: WU LYF – Dirt ←♥♥♥♥♥

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Took this at the Botanical Gardens a few weeks ago – would look even better now with all the greenery. Going to see Joy Orbison this Friday at Cabaret Voltaire. Cannae wait. In the mean time here’s some new Death Cab For Cutie.

Listen: Death Cab For Cutie – Stay Young, Go Dancing ←♥♥♥
Listen: Death Cab For Cutie – You Are A Tourist ←♥♥♥
Listen: SebastiAn – Ross Ross Ross ←♥♥♥♥

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She’s been taking tips from Crystal Castles… is it just me?

Listen: Bon Iver – Towers ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: Bon Iver – Calgary ←♥♥♥♥
Listen: Lady Gaga – Goverment Hooker ←♥♥♥♥

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Metronomy are playing Cabaret Voltaire on the 25th. WANT.

Metronomy – We Broke Free by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥♥♥
Metronomy – Trouble by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥♥♥
Metronomy – Love Underlined by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥♥♥

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Sorry I’ve been away for ages – I’ve been very busy etc etc etc. Took a trip over to Strasbourg, France to see my dyood Ekin. I love her because she one of the only people I know that knows/loves music as much as I do. That’s her there on the left. Je t’aime.

The music in this post is as much for your benefit as it is for hers. I don’t think she’ll have heard The Weeknd but I’m sure she’ll find something to love in this album.

Anyway – this mixtape has not left my ears for a week now. Download it. Now. It’s ALL excellent.
But if that sounds like too much then just download track 2 – ‘What You Need’ – below. This song made me glad I love music again. It’s told from the perspective of a forlorn lover, lusting after a girl and telling her, in detail, how he’d be better than her current beau. But then you listen to the music… and it could literally be about a girl being tempted by drugs by the drugs themselves – there’s even the line “I’m the drug in your veins”. As if the drug coursing through her blood is serenading her into submission.

The Weeknd – House Of Balloons ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Track 1: High For This
Track 2: What You Need ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Track 3: Glass Table Girls
Track 4: The Morning
Track 5: Wicked Games
Track 6: The Party & The After Party
Track 7: Coming Down
Track 8: Loft Music
Track 9: The Knowing

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