And so to the best songs of 2019. Hope youse all had a zen Christmas with maximum chi. Let’s hope for a positive 2020. On a less positive note, I completely forgot about The Warp Tapes reissue/slash mix by Autechre in my best albums of 2019 column I posted last week. Call it a brain freeze, or something, but yes, that was a massive boo-boo.

I’ve tried to avoid a similar pratfall here, but then again such lists are always a snapshot of one’s taste at a specific time. As all analysis is retrospective and ongoing, I’ll probably feel differently two months from now. At least that’s what I’m telling myself for forgetting the Autechre release. What I can say for certain is that the ten songs I’ve picked are good’uns and they come in alphabetical order. Catch you on the flip side mates.

Carly Rae Jepsen – Now That I Found You

From the album ‘Dedicated’

Fat White Family – Feet

From the album ‘Serfs Up!’

Khotin – Water Soaked In Forever

From the album ‘Beautiful You’

Mike Patton & Jean-Claude Vannier – On Top Of The World

From the album ‘Corpse Flower’

One True Pairing – One True Pairing

From the EP ‘One True Pairing’

Prefab Sprout – I Trawl The Megahertz

From the reissued album ‘I Trawl The Megahertz’

The Specials – Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys

From the album ‘Encore’

Vanishing Twin – You Are Not An Island

from the album ‘The Age Of Immunology’

Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima & Saktsuki Shibano – Atelier

From the album ‘Serenitatem’

Yu Su & Pender Street Steppers – Tipu’s Tiger

From the EP ‘Roll With The Punches’