This Is Not What You Had Planned is the debut mini-album from Reading

Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a large town and unitary authority area in England. It is located in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway, some west of London....

 singer-songwriter Ben Marwood

Ben Marwood

Ben Marwood is an English singer-songwriter from the English town of Reading.-Musical career:As part of the contemporary London folk scene, Marwood has performed alongside Frank Turner , Chris T-T, Pete and the Pirates and Glasvegas...

, released on 4 August 2008 via Broken Tail Records. In November 2008, "Five Little Secrets" was selected as Times Online

The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...

's 'track of the day'.

Critical reception

The album has gathered favourable reviews, with critics praising Marwood's "rare lyrical and musical grace" and "intelligently quirky lyrics".

Track listing

1. "Question Marks" - 2:12
2. "Five Little Secrets" - 3:49
3. "I Know What I Did Last Summer" - 3:10
4. "Heathens" - 3:33
5. "Claire" - 3:18
6. "Fake It" - 2:22
7. "Like It or Not" 3:14