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Afternoon Pick-Me-Up Playlist

A not so extensive playlist to help you get through that midday struggle.

Dara Kirshoff
Aug 10, 2015
The New School
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Afternoon Pick-Me-Up Playlist

We all know it - that mid-day, “I can’t believe I have three more hours of doing this” feeling that everyone, at some point in their lives, has the privilege of experiencing. Whether it be a slow day at work, an extensive test you’re not prepared for, or even the anticipation of an exciting night, that middle of the day time stretch, the exact hours specific to you of course, is nonetheless a quite tricky and big hill to get over in order to continue on with the day.

It is for this reason that I have created a minor playlist, a “pick-me-up” of sorts, to satisfy the boredom/fatigue that we so begrudgingly feel. This beautiful mixture of happy and depressive, folky, indie goodness may just be the key to ending that mid-day battle between you and the “midday blues,” and give you the strength to fight on, and get through the rest of the day.


1. Ocean - Andreas Moe

2. Boardwalks - Little May

3. Orphan - Ciaran Lavery

4. Fast Car (feat. Kina Grannis) - Boyce Avenue

5. Love Like This - Kodaline

6. Sleeping Sickness - City and Colour

7. Mess Is Mine - Vance Joy

8. Agape - Bear’s Den

9. Peace - O.A.R.

10. I Will for You - Paul McDonald & Nikki Reed

11. Home - Johnnyswim

12. That Moon Song - Gregory Alan Isakov

13. Flowers in Your Hair - The Lumineers

14. Counting Sleep - Trent Dabbs

15. Till the End of Time - A Boy and His Kite

16. Ends of the Earth - Lord Huron

17. Mango Tree - Angus & Julia Stone

18. Trek - Spencer & Antfood

19. Janglin - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes

20. Keep Your Head Up - Ben Howard

21. Atlas Hands - Benjamin Francis Leftwich

22. Home - Little May

23. Step Down From It - Andreas Moe

24. New Slang - The Shins

25. Further On - Bronze Radio Return

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