A Playlist for the Abroad

Graphic by Sara Yanelli

Kenyon is, well, small. Naturally, so is the town that encompasses it. Though I do not take the rolling fields and sky-scraping trees we’ve got for granted, I’d be remiss if I didn’t admit that Gambier can feel a bit claustrophobic at times — particularly when so many of its residents are traveling the world and exploring all that lies beyond our quaint campus.

To help with this cabin fever, I’ve assembled a playlist that will fly you all across the globe, featuring artists from a variety of the world’s corners and composed entirely of songs referencing the places we might wish to visit — or perhaps the ones our classmates are visiting as you read this post. Hopefully, this music can do as music does and take you someplace else entirely: to Dublin, say, as Fontaines D.C. and Inhaler present poetry to in “Sky of Dublin” and “Dublin in Ecstasy,” respectively, or Perth, which Julia Jacklin sweetly soliloquizes about in her song “to Perth, before the border closes.” 

To our friends abroad, I wish you the very best of travels. Know that this playlist was not made in denigration, but rather in admiration, of your worldly ways. After all, we chose to come to this small school. Let these songs be a way to make it just the tiniest bit bigger.