Artist	Song
The Spook School	Still Alive
from Could It Be Different? (2018) 'Does it not tire you out?'
Anderson . Paak featuring Kendrick Lamar	Tints
from Oxnard (2018) 'I need tints so I can look at the snakes and posers'
Courtney Barnett	Nameless, Faceless
from Tell Me How You Really Feel (2018) 'He said, "I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and spit out better words than you"/But you didn't'
Jack White	Over and Over and Over
from Boarding House Reach (2018) 'The Sisyphean dreamer/My fibula and femur/Hold the weight of the world'
U.S. Girls	M.A.H.
from In a Poem Unlimited (2018) 'Every day, I look, every day, I see/That good war music still getting written for me'
Public Service Broadcasting	White Star Liner
from White Star Liner EP (2018) 'And, as she sailed away, her builders had no doubt that this was the start of a great career'
The Hold Steady	A Snake in the Shower
from Entitlement Crew/A Snake in the Shower (2018) 'What happens when you snuff out the candle?/ It's mostly just an absence of light/Remember when we thought this was better'
Belle and Sebastian	We Were Beautiful
from How to Solve Our Human Orobems (2018) 'We were beautiful before we got wise'
Villagers	Fool
from The Art of Pretending to Swim (2018) 'The future has been written, but the pen ran out of ink'
George FitzGerald and Lil Silva	Roll Back
from All That Must Be (2018) 'Is it cold when you're dreaming? Is it cold when you're under?'
Okkervil River	Love Somebody
from In the Rainbow Rain (2018) 'Oh but I guess I should accept the way the world, as it stands/It's spinning totally right out of my hands'
Father John Misty	Mr. Tillman
from God's Favorite Customer (2018) 'Don't leave your mattress in the rain if you sleep on the balcony'
Eleanor Friedberger	Make Me a Song
from Rebound (2018) 'It's not about being pretty/It ain't about being perfect/It's that little piece of matter/The tough-hided being'
Death Cab for Cutie	Your Hurricane
from Thank You for Today (2018) 'Heaven is a hole in the sky/The stars are cracks in the ceiling of night'
Manic Street Preachers	In Eternity
from Resistance is Futile (2018) 'Self-made and self-realised/Always ready to disguise'
IDLES	Samaritans
from Joy as an Act of Resistance (2018) 'I love myself and I want to try'
Mastersystem	Notes on a Life Not Quite Lived
from Dance Music (2018) 'Licking cuts, I count the ways I'm not quite living/No boom, no bust/Gold bars of love/Not quite floating, not quite sinking'
Mogwai	We're Not Done
from Kin (2018) 'Holding back the fear again/Try to make it real again/Fight against the past'
Frightened Rabbit	Head Rolls Off
from The Midnight Organ Fight (2008) 'While I'm alive, I'll make tiny changes to earth'
Grace Petrie	Black Tie
from Queer as Folk (2018) 'I decline a narrow set of rules that just don’t work/'Cause these red lines, they’re not mine'

Comment:

Some songs had to be abandoned: I/m Not Here (Missing Face) by The Twilight Sad because the mix wouldn't fit on a CD and their album's coming out next year, so it can probably go on next year's; Severed by The Decemberists because of the aforementioned not fitting on a CD issue; and Ullswater by Hookworms, because their front man turned out to be so awful that his bandmates have disowned him.

The Frightened Rabbit song is on there for two reasons: it's allowed, because they rereleased The Midnight Organ Fight for its 10th anniversary, and to mark how ace Scott Hutchison, who died this year, was.

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