Well, the coast seems clear this far in so here we go - the hundred most exciting, affecting, thought-provoking, exhilirating, hilarious and/or joyous songs we've heard this year. Your mileage may - no, absolutely 100% will - vary. Sorry about the lack of individual track links below the Spotify playlist but THERE'S A HUNDRED OF THEM.
adults - patterns
Adwaith - Planed
Allo Darlin' - Tricky Questions
Amelia & The Housewives - Summer's Over
Anna B Savage - Mo Cheol Thú
Anna Hillburg - The Shape's Gonna Shift My Way
Anna von Hausswolff feat. Ethel Cain - Aging Young Women
The Baby Seals - Tamoo Trance
Backxwash - Black Lazarus
bar italia - Cowbella
Baxter Dury feat. JGrrey - Return Of The Sharp Heads
The Beths - Metal
Big Thief - Incomprehensible
Bill Callahan - The Man I'm Supposed To Be
billy woods feat. Steel Tipped Dove - BLK ZMBY
Bobby Conn - Never Felt Better
Bob Mould - Neanderthal
Boko Yout - 9-2-5
Breakup Haircut - Spite! Spite! Spite!
Brògeal - Vicar Street Days
caroline - Total euphoria
Cate Le Bon - Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?
C Duncan - Think About It
Cheekface - Art House
CMAT - The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station
Comet Gain - The Ballad Of The Lives We Led
The Cords - Fabulist
Dancer - Baby Blue
David Lowery - I Wrote A Song Called Take The Skinheads Bowling
Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day
Ducks Ltd. - Deleted Scenes
Ellie O'Neill - Little Sister
Ethel Cain - Nettles
Ex-Vöid - In Love Again
Factory Floor - Between You
Florist - Gloom Designs
For Those I Love - Of The Sorrows
Fortitude Valley - Oceans Apart
frown line - Days Without
Geese - Cobra
Girl Group - Yay! Saturday
Glimmerpit - Nein Danke
Goat feat. MC Yallah - Nimerudi
Gwenifer Raymond - Jack Parsons Blues
Gwenno - Dancing On Volcanoes
Hannah Frances - Falling From and Further
Hayden Pedigo - Long Pond Lily
james K - On God
Jeanines - You Can't Get It Back
Jens Lekman - A Tuxedo Sewn For Two
Jessica Winter - Big Star
Kelcey Ayer - Different Planets
Lael Neale - Some Bright Morning
Lambrini Girls - Cuntology 101
Little Simz feat. Michael Kiwanuka & Yussef Dayes - Lotus
Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Adam & Steve
Matt Berninger - Bonnet Of Pins
Mclusky - way of the exploding dickhead
Melody's Echo Chamber - In The Stars
Model/Actriz - Cinderella
Murder Club - Cave In
Neev - He Built Himself
The New Eves - Highway Man
Nilüfer Yanya - Where To Look
The Orchestra (For Now) - Skins
Other Lives - Show Us Some Love
Panda Bear - Ferry Lady
Panic Shack - Gok Wan
Patrick Wolf - Reculver
People Mover - Habit
Perfume Genius feat. Aldous Harding - No Front Teeth
The Pill - Problem
Project Overload - Wildfire
Prolapse - The Fall of Cashline
Pulp - Got to Have Love
PVA - Send
Robert Forster - Breakfast on the Train
Robin Kester - The Daylight
Rosalia - Divinize
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - New Threats From the Soul
Sacred Paws - Turn me Down
Saint Etienne - Glad
Snapped Ankles - Raoul
Snõõper - Worldwide
Stereolab - Melodie Is A Wound
Sudan Archives - NOIRE
Sugababes - Jungle
Sugar - House of Dead Memories
Superchunk feat. Rosali - Bruised Lung
Swallowtail - To Trace
These New Puritans - A Season In Hell
The Tubs - Chain Reaction
Tulpa - Psyops
Tune-Yards - Swarm
Twat Union - Singer Of The Band
Viagra Boys - Man Made of Meat
Wednesday - Townies
Wet Leg - catch these fists
Young Fathers - Lowly
Youth Lagoon - Gumshoe (Dracula From Arkansas)