We’ve decided to do things a bit differently this year – too many times in the past we’ve posted our favourite songs of the year and then discovered late releases we wished we’d added! And also 2019 was a shit year for the world – Brexit, Johnson, Trump, the world burning… at least there is music.
So, way after everyone else has done theirs, here is MM’s countdown of top 100 tunes for 2019 – part 1!
100 Chupa Cabra – Violent Urges
99 Metz – Dry Up
98 Youth Sector – Renting Spaces In My World
97 Some Bodies – TV Show
96 Tummyache – Median
95 Dr. Dog – Can’t Catch Me
94 Amyl & The Snifters – Monsoon Rock
93 DITZ – Gayboy
92 Phobophobes – Blind Muscle
91 B Boys – I Want
90 Big Thief – Not
89 Matt Shapiro – Rockaway Girl
88 Pile – The Soft Hands of Stephen Miller
87 Port Juvee – Hope to Lose
86 The Murder Capital – Green & Blue
85 Better Oblivion Community Center – Dylan Thomas
84 Oh Sees – Heart Worm
83 Spectator – Weight
82 Fat White Family – Feet
81 Hurt Valley – Apartment Houses
80 Bambara – Serafina
79 Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – At The Back Of The Pit
78 Crows – Chain of Being
77 WIVES – Hit Me Up
76 Cate le Bon – Daylight Matters
75 Slaves – One More Day Won’t Hurt
74 B Boys – Instant Pace
73 LIFE – Moral Fibre
72 Catholic Action – People Don’t Protest Enough
71 Black Adidas – Be Cool
70 Panik Attaks – Terror
69 FEET – Outer Rim
68 The Dream Syndicate – Put Some Miles On
67 Purple Mountains – Margaritas At The Mall
66 Lightning Dust – Competitive Depression
65 Comet Gain – We’re All Fucking Morons
64 LIFE – Excites Me
63 Hotel Lux – Tabloid Newspaper
62 Sunflowers – Dreamweaver
61 Sleep Eaters – Bad Love
60 Frog – Black Friday
59 Patio – Boy Scout
58 Working Men’s Club – Teeth
57 The Stroppies – Cellophane Car
56 Brooke Bentham – All My Friends Are Drunk
55 IDLES – Mercedes Marxist
54 Bee Bee Sea – Be Bop Palooza
53 Sleep Eaters – Life of Sin
52 Field Medic – The Bottle’s My Lover, She’s Just My Friend
We shared their brilliant Bad Blood single back in January and now newly signed to Heavenly Recordings, Working Men’s Club’s pounding new single Teeth is a stomping masterpiece, one that bites deep into their broad influences, bringing in machine-subverted rave music you’d find in 80s Detroit, to their NY post-punk grooves, and all delivered with their marvellous Northern snarling approach.
Watch the video here.
Catch them live too
15 July Manchester International Festival w/ The Orielles
20 July Macclesfield, Bluedot Festival
21 July Suffolk Latitude Festival (Lake Stage)
28 July Cornwall, Port Eliot Festival
11 Aug Hebden Bridge Trades Club w/ Bodega
12 Aug Edinburgh Summerhall w/ Bodega
13 Aug Newcastle The Riverside w/ Bodega
24 Aug Birkenhead Futureyard Festival
27 Aug Brighton Concorde 2 w/ Bodega
28 Aug Birmingham The Hare and Hounds w/ Bodega
29 Aug Bedford Esquires w/ Bodega
30 Aug Manchester Psych Festival
01 Sep County Laois, Electric Picnic
05 Sep London, The Lexington
07 Sep Blackburn Confessional Festival
13 Sep Hawarden The Good Life Experience
19 Sep Manchester, Yes (Basement)
11 Oct Warrington, Rusgan House
12 Oct Manchester Neighbourhood Festival
16 Oct Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
17 Oct York, The Fulford Arms
18 Oct Hull, The Polar Bear
19 Oct Oxford, Ritual Union
20 Oct Cardiff SWN Festival
23 Oct Southampton, Heartbreakers
25 Oct Guildford, Boileroom
27 Oct Glasgow, Broadcast
28 Oct Birmingham, Hare and Hounds 2
31 Oct Bristol, The Louisiana
02 Nov Sheffield, Record Junkee
07 Nov Norwich, The Waterfront Studio
08 Nov Reading, Purple Turtle
09 Nov Derby 2Q Festival
We’re thoroughly enjoying our first introduction to Working Men’s Club.
Named after the venues they used to sneak into, they are a new band made up of teenagers from Calder Valley – an area of old mill towns that links Leeds and Manchester.
Their jerky debut single Bad Blood fuses 70s Magazine style guitar lines with the stomp of Parquet Courts’ at their most punky. From The Knack style infectious grooves to half-spoken words with more than a touch of the late, great Mark E Smith drawl about them, it’s the feeling of a Saturday spent scuffing about in thrift stores and hanging out with friends.
Stream it here – ones to keep an eye, and an ear, on!
