Artist	Song
Of Monsters and Men	Alligator
from Fever Dream (2019) 'The starlit sky grew before my eyes'
Michael Kiwanuka	You Ain't the Problem
from KIWANUKA (2019) 'You got the key - break out the prison'
Epaulets	The Hold Steady
from Thrashing Thru the Passion (2019) 'I'm good with the irregular heartbeats, so now she's hanging with me'
Amyl and the Sniffers	Some Mutts (Can't Be Muzzled)
from Amyl and the Sniffers (2019) 'Well, I guess I got you puzzled'
Sports Team	M5
from Keep Walking! (2019) 'I, I was hoping for a change of heart/I, I was looking for a little direction'
Tegan and Sara	I'll Be Back Someday
from Hey, I'm Just Like You (2019) 'You know that feeling when you're cold - how do you make it go away?'
Gaptooth	Why I Left You Standing Outside Pizza Express
from Sharp Minds, Raised Fists (2019) 'I'm not the romcom sweetheart or the fairytale princess'
Martha	Love Keeps Kicking
from Love Keeps Kicking (2019) 'Dressed for the reception, you were coping with the blues/When you got smashed and tried to mosh to Huey Lewis and the News'
Jenny Lewis	Red Bull & Hennessy
from On the Line (2019) 'Don't you wanna even try and devour the moon?'
Billie Eilish	my strange addiction
from WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP WHERE DO WE GO (2019) 'Shoulda taken a break, not an Oxford comma'
Stormzy	Vossi Bop
from Heavy is the Head (2019) 'Fuck the government and fuck Boris'
Good Cop Bad Cop	Silk and Leather
from Good Cop Bad Cop (2019) 'I've been here before, and this time, I'm not coming back'
PAWS	Honoured to be Honest
from Your Church on My Bonfire (2019) 'I am honestly exhausted'
Better Oblivion Community Center	Dylan Thomas
from Better Oblivion Community Center (2019) 'The truth is anybody's guess'
Purple Mountains	That's Just the Way That I Feel
from Purple Mountains (2019) 'Course, I've been humbled by the void/Much of my faith has been destroyed/I've been forced to watch my foes enjoy ceaseless feasts of schadenfreude'
Oxford Collapse	I Feel Better
from Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit's The Midnight Organ Fight (2019) 'The sun does shine in this place some days/And even when there's clouds, there isn't always rain'
Lizzo	Juice
from Cuz I Love You (2019) 'If I'm shinin', everybody gonna shine'
Idlewild	Same Things Twice
from Interview Music (2019) 'Rip it up, and stop doing the same things twice'
The Twilight Sad	Shooting Dennis Hopper Shooting
from It Won/t Be Like This All the Time (2019) 'Is it too much to be kind?'
Martha	The Void
from Love Keeps Kicking (2019) 'I spent my whole life running from a darkness I can't comprehend'

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Here are some of my favourite songs of 2019. The title is inspired by an offer to a friend, which was itself inspired by Untitled Goose Game. For clarity, the offer was made as goose; I haven't actually offered anyone any knives.

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