We've reached the stagnation period of the exam/revision time, when you're probably burnt out, definitely bored. Nothing inspires you anymore, your motivation is non-existent. You're basically done.

But here I am with a new playlist of fresh noises for your ears.

I think a good soundtrack is vital to revision. Something mellow but not sad, calm but not slumberish with regular pace changes to speed up your writing to. Soft, unoffensive songs that you won't want to skip or spend too much time finding the perfect one.

Ta-da, here it is. A 3 hour long playlist of soft and calm songs to bring the inspiration back in the final stretch. Featuring some of my fave artists and fave new finds. Regularly added to so follow the playlist for new songs to fuel you.

Another really good option for revision soundtrack is listening to your spotify discovery playlist which is based on what you listen to, so is bound to match your taste. Pre-made playlists are a saviour to minimise procrastination time. And you're welcome for this one. I think it's pretty 10/10.

On the 24th April, I'm releasing my first poetry collection; chrysalism.

My aim since I can remember was to release a book by the age of 18, and maybe I'm a year later, but I figured releasing a book a day before I turn 19 works just as well. So I've decided to finally just bite the bullet and do it.

The collection is a compilation of my work over the past year, moving through themes and emotions with the seasons. It's all printed, folded, bound by me, making every inch of the book mine mine mine. I'm bursting with excitement, and nerves. I'll be releasing the book for pre-order in the coming weeks, and it would mean the world to have people buy and support this somewhat ridiculous project, and me as a writer.

But for now, a playlist. I put this together after I completed my first draft, with each group of songs flowing perfectly with the poems while also showing a lot of my biggest inspirations- Patti Smith, Stevie Nicks, Lucas Jones, Kate Bush and Jeff Buckley. It gives a little taster of whats to come.

I don't quite have the words for how I'm feeling right now. I've been thinking a lot about death of the author and how in a couple of weeks all these words about all these situations will no longer be quite as private as they once were, they won't be quite as mine. And I think I'm excited for that. I currently taking a creative writing course, and it's fascinated me totally seeing how people have interpreted my work completely different to me, when I see it as solidly born from it's context or the pain or emotion that caused it. I love it, but it's scary. After the 24th I'll have no control, and those words will be the world's.

I can't wait to share, more info to follow soon.

My eyes open like the raising of a silk curtain,
onto a view of blue and white and sky and air.
It's cold enough to wake you,
grey enough so everything else only glows more.
The wind whistling, whispering in the soft tone of
my mother,
the reflection, from the window to my face, is
the look of a lover: visible and felt.

I roll over and over through the Mondays and the Tuesdays,
I hold hands with my time, learning the sound of it's footsteps.
Over and over and over,
learning to feel everything as I feel a blanket,
an arm, a hand, a warm cup.
Learning to feel everything as I feel on Sunday,

I've been thinking for a while about how to encapsulate my music taste of 2016, but I've come to realise that the past year I really stopped caring. I stopped caring about trying to categorise my taste or stay within one genre or strain of music and just like what I like. So my 2016 playlist is messy. It moves from Kate Bush to Drake to Mura Masa to Ariana Grande to Gaga to the indie bands I loved in year 8. I like classic bangers, electronic stuff, movie soundtracks and glittery hazey indie junk; but its a guarantee that I'll play Side To Side at least twice a day.

Some of my fave albums of the year-

I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it (amazing title) - The 1975
II - The Rose Affair
Leave Me Alone - Hinds
Gamble For A Rose - King Charles
So Long Forever - Palace
Swim Against The Tide - The Japanese House
Warm On A Cold Night - HONNE
Cleopatra - The Lumineers
Nothing's Real - Shura
Writings Of Blues And Yellows - Billie Marten
Kindly Now - Keaton Henson
22, A Million - Bon Iver
Lemonade - Beyonce
Anti - Rihanna

(Just the mention a few)

Some artists I obsessed over-

Her's
Banks
Nicki Minaj
Mura Masa
Sundara Karma
Nao
Bear's Den
Frank Ocean
Tame Impala
Lapsley
Flume
Classics like Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Stevie Nicks, Jeff Buckley, Janis Joplin (as always)

A playlist to summarise- 

It's Christmas eve and Lucy is only on her second christmassy blogpost ahhh behind the blogging calendar as always...

But I'm coming at you with the ultimate Christmas playlists to end all Christmas playlists so hold onto your baubles people.

If like me your Christmas spirit fluctuates between allllll the festivities and 100% grinch, this ones for you. With an even mix of classics, modern remakes and new tunes there's no risk of overdosing on cringe. It's got my fave Christmas bangers like last Christmas, all i want for Christmas is you (duh) and Mary's boy child (the best Christmas song, don't even try to argue against it) to get you fully in the mood. But this season has been a long journey down the rabbit hole as I've found eeeeveryone's novelty Christmas album- Destiny's child, R. Kelly, Ariana Grande etc etc. And the result is perfect harmony of bangers and vibes. You're welcome.


I hope you have the merriest of Christmas' from my family to yours, and lets see if I'll actually get any NYE posts out on time!

Today America elected a racist, misogynistic, xenophobia, trash-bag of a human over a qualified, experienced woman. It reminded us all that sexism and misogyny are never too distant, and someone will always try to bring down and degrade powerful women.

I feel disheartened, angry, anxious but most of all just confused by the result and how there was even a contest between Trump and Clinton. It's scary. Hearing Trumps beliefs and policies is baffles me how people could see presidential qualities in his behaviour. My heart aches for all Americans that arent cis white christian males, it aches for the environment, the peace of the world, the treatment of muslims, women, LGBT+ people, so so so much fear in the world right now. But we must look to the future with the hope we can muster, and continue to campaign for our beliefs, our rights and for progress.

Females are strong as hell, lady president or not, we're gonna get this ladies. Gotta keep pushing forward.

I felt today of all days we needed a girl power boost, so I've compiled a boss-ass playlist of only empowering female artists killing the game daily. 6 hours 57 minutes of girl love and strength.

Girl power and solidarity, today and always.

Summer is officially over, it's rained and I've worn a jacket, it's over. So to cling onto the remains of the sun, I made my ultimate summer 2016 playlist. My music taste this summer has been totally based on obsession, I would listen to the same songs/artists for weeeeks but I also fell in love with so many new releases. So many 10/10 artists have released albums these past months- Tom Odell, Blossoms, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, NAO, Shura etc etc...

For once my music loves have been overwhelmingly happy and upbeat so this playlist really is summer in songs. I've been really loving more electronic music lately like Mura Masa and Flume, but still so connected to my indie rock roots and my mad love for the goddesses that are Kate Bush and Joni Mitchel so you know they're in there.

I don't think I've ever made a more eclectic playlist, it goes from crazy Spanish girl power to grime to super chill so quick, but that's what I love about it. My taste in music is so unrefined at the moment, it definitely keeps me on my toes!

So if you need a little bit longer to chill before life catches up, check it out! And make sure you follow me on spotify, I make new playlists all the time.

Exams have kicked in big time now as I've officially finished college and am now on study leave ahh. For me, once the exams start then I start to be able to see the finish line and it actually becomes less stressful and easier to revise. But revision now is like SERIOUS no messing around revision so of course I made the ultimate heads-down studying playlist.

I'm the sort of person that gets way too into a song and when I was listening to other playlists, revision time basically became karaoke time. Then I found a playlist called "music for concentration" that was all instrumentals and like classical pieces and I was honestly so much more productive as I wasn't skipping songs or getting carried away singing along. So I made my own!

This playlist has 7 and a half hours worth of music in it so it's perfect to just press play and get your head down. It full of super chill pieces of music as well as the scores from some of my fave films like 500 Days Of Summer and The Great Gatsby. So much ambiance!

Give it a listen and I promise it will help you get so much done!

Exam time is slowly creeping up on me, so I've officially started revising. A good playlist is essential to my concentration and there's so much good new music around at the moment making my revision playlist shape up quite nicely. I'm obsessed with the new albums by The 1975 and Kind Charles as well as still being in love with The Rose Affair EP (which I reviewed HERE )

This playlist is really eclectic as it's a mixture of upbeat indie tunes and softer folky stuff, but I think the contrast is really good for motivation as it never gets dull. I'm still constantly adding to it but at the moment it contains music by The 1975, Nina Nesbitt, Matt Corby, Jack Garratt, Oh Wonder, Flo Morrissey, Shura and many many more,

So got exams coming up? or just need some motivation to finally do all those things you've been avoiding? Give it a listen...

I'm a proper folk girl.

I'd say 99.9% of the time you'll find me listening to this playlist, which contains my folk faves and some of the classic artists that totally shape my music taste. Doing homework, writing up blog posts, spinning round on my chair, whatever I'm doing, I'm probably also harmonising over a Joni Mitchell ballad or deep into the best part of a Dylan track.

My folk playlist contains the absolute essential, classic artists including- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Mamas and Papas and more! But it also has some tracks from folk newbies (or just new-ish songs that get me in that folky mood) like Hudson Taylor, The Staves and the soundtrack for Inside Llewyn Davis. It's a flawless playlist, if I do say so myself.

Love a bit of folk? Or wanna dip your toe into the ancient woodstock puddle? Listen here-

This playlist it my go-to, ultimate chill/study/calm-down playlist. It's probably one of my favourite playlists I've ever made as it's super calming but the songs are still happy so you aren't plummeted into an existential crisis while you listen, allowing you a nice sing-along and lots of smiles and productivity!

It contains so many of my fave new artists like Billie Marten, Flo Morrissey, Alice Kristiansen and Greta Isaac. But also some total classics like Pulp, Joni Mitchell and Lou Reed. It's basically a compilation of some of my all time fave old and new artists and songs I've loved for so long.

I listen to this constantly and now you can too! (you're welcome) Also, this playlist gets added to alll the time for you've always got fresh songs to listen to (you're double welcome)

2015 has been a big year for music as I've seen my taste change about 1000 times and made some absolutely phenomenal playlists (if I do say so my self) But as the year draws to an end I thought it was time to share my favourite albums of the year...

• Stevie Nicks & Fleetwood Mac
• Jeff Buckley
• Joni Mitchell
• Joy Division
• Bob Dylan
• Crosby, Stills & Nash
• Pulp
• and many many many more!

I'm a full-on spotify addict making playlist pretty much daily for every possible emotion/situation. And so I thought as well as doing my monthly round-up of my fave albums, I want to start sharing my playlists so we can all connect of a musical level and share the feels.

Let me know if you like this idea!

The months are going too quick! How is it April already?! However it is time again for me to share what I listened to in March, so lets get into it!

Music is a massive part of my life so i thought I'd continue this series if that's ok?

Here's what I've been listening to in February!