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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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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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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Don’t even ask. Just turn the volume UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!

Listen: Smith Westerns – Weekend ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: The Go! Team – Buy Nothing Day ←♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: Chris Brown – Look At Me Now (Feat. Busta Rhymes, Twista & Lil Wayne) (Patchwork Pirates Re-Edit) ←♥♥♥

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More photos from my time in NYC. If you could see my face you’d know I was jizzing. Anyway, here’s a new one from Toro Y Moi kinda in the vein of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Grafitti. Also I meant to post this stunner from Zoo Kid ages ago – the guy’s only 16! Finally a blast racket from PB&J.

Toro Y Moi – Go With You by Scottish Friction ←♥♥

Listen: Zoo Kid – Out Getting Ribs ←♥♥♥♥
Listen: Peter Bjorn & John – Breaker Breaker ←♥♥♥

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3 of the best new pieces of music I’ve heard this week.

Robyn – Indestructible (A-Trak Remix)(Radio Rip) by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Cloud Control – The Rolling Stones ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Perfume Genius – Learning ←♥♥♥♥

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p.s. i took that photo

‘Blockhead’ will be on the new Kitsune Maison Compilation – loved it as soon as I heard it on the video teaser. Meanwhile Arkist has put out an absolute killer jam. Fill your boots.

Punks Jump Up – Blockhead by Punks Jump Up ←♥♥♥

Fill Your Coffee by Arkist ←♥♥♥

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Went down for a few days there, but I’m back on it and ready to go!

Listen ♫: Young Fathers – Fevers Worse (1066 Remix) ←♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Magnetic Man – Getting Nowhere (Feat. John Legend) ←♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Magnetic Man – Flying Into Tokyo (Azedia Remix) ←♥♥♥♥

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1. I don’t usually like stuff like this but the epic drop on this Skrillex remix is dastardly

2. This D.I.M. track is BR00T4L

3. When the piano thumps in and rides the groove into the distance I feel like I’ve arrived. Great work Radion & Mamarella.

Listen ♫: iSquare – Hey Sexy Lady (Skrillex Remix) ←♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: D.I.M. – Kleine Träume ←♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Visti & Meyland – Stars (Radion & Mamarella Mix) ←♥♥♥♥

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