Eavesdropping What Harvard's Playing

I just got the Tiny Hawks LP from Zach Baron, which is amazing. My hard drive full of MP3s crashed during exams, so me and my iPod are still reeling from that, and I haven’t bothered to download or find anything new since. My roommates and I have been listening to the pre-release 12” from the Gorillaz and Daft Punk. The new Justus Kohncke record as well as the Bloc Party LP have been on pretty constant rotation since January. Also, grime: anything by Wiley, or anything off the Run the Road comp. The new LCD Soundsystem record is worth buying just for the bonus disc that compiles all the singles. Unbelievable stuff to dance to. My band, Blanks, just recorded a bunch of demos over break, so I’ve been playing those a lot, trying to flesh them out in my head. I just spent the last hour listening to Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence” on repeat.

—Interviewed by Lucy F. Lindsey