We’ve been listening to loads of interviews with Nicholas Carr, talking about his book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to our Brains. (Destroying it, obviously.) At one point he talked about this guy who gave up the Internet, and found himself listening to the actual radio instead of, say, Pandora—and how doing so left him open to all these weird, awesome moments of synchronicity, where the music was unexpectedly tuned into an actual moment—which doesn’t happen in the same way when you’re basically programming your computer to play certain songs. (In our experience with Pandora, this means Coldplay, over and over and over again.)

In this spirit, we’ve been listening to Radio 1 on the BBC more and more lately—recommended! Er, long story short, they played the XX like three times today, and we love them, and we were going to put up the XX doing a Florence and the Machine cover (of a Candi Stanton). But then we decided we didn’t love any of that as much as we did “Drumming” by Florence and the Machine, above, which also makes us want to buy as much eyeliner as possible, as quickly as we can.