January is over. My last exam went pretty absymal, so I’m somewhat sad at the minute. Bye-bye A in Economics. America next week, not excited yet but I’m sure I will be soon. I’ve officially blocked Ucas Track using Firefox extensions to avoid it ruining my holiday. Trying to read 1984 and do second English coursework draft this week. And stream Los Campesinos!’s latest album ‘Romance is Boring’ which would sound good if it didn’t cut out to buffer every thirty seconds. Damn the lack of decent copper wiring in my neighbourhood. I bought The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)…in flippin Middle English. Not that Middle English is that hard to read, but I’d rather not, considering the time it takes to compute in my little brain.

Made another Spotify playlist. I think I may do this at the end of each month. January was hectic college-wise, so I ended up mellowing out into the relms of folk/indiepop and drinking copious amounts of Japanese green tea. It doesn’t flow as smoothly as the last playlist, partly due to laziness and the fact I should be doing coursework, but my room lacks so much oxygen I can barely stay awake at my desk anymore. Here it is.

1. Charlie Darwin - The Low Anthem

2. A Short Weekend Begins With Longing - The Leisure Society

3. The Islands - The xx

4. Hopelessly Wasted - Shrag

5. Night Drive - Gotye

6. To Ohio - The Low Anthem

7. The Sleeper - The Leisure Society

8. White Sky - Vampire Weekend

9. Huddle Formation - The Go! Team

10. Twilight Omens - Franz Ferdinand

11. Dangerous and Sweet - Lenka

12. Animal - Ke$ha

13. Stronger - Kanye West

14. Everyone’s a VIP To Someone - The Go! Team

15. Bridge To Nowhere - The Like

16. Ready For Drowning - The Manic Street Preachers

17. Heart Skipped a Beat - The xx

18. Hunted By A Freak - Mogwai

I can’t be bothered to detail all the tracks. The first track is the best one, his voice will make you melt. The Leisure Society are probably my favourite band to listen to right now. Tracks 12 and 13 probably shouldn’t be in there. Ke$ha apparently compared her track to The Arcade Fire, I laughed, that must’ve been a high comment. And yeah, 13 shows that I’m a year behind the world when it comes to number one singles, and it distracted me from so much revision. Night Drive by Gotye is breathtaking, and reminds me of the sound in Age of Empires where you complete building a house. You know the one, that African drum that lasts a milisecond. I’m not that into Vampire Weekend’s latest, but White Sky was a clear highlight. And I assume everyone on the planet has already heard Huddle Formation, and I hope I’m not alone when I simply have to dance to it when it comes on.

Anyway, I quite like this playlist. This’ll be the last post into after Americas!

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