Riding your bicycle was just what you had to do

Rookie Dreaming – Courtney Marie Andrews (from ‘Honest Life’ LP. Bandcamp)
Graceland – Bill Botting and the Two Drink Minimums (from ‘Better Friends’ LP. Bandcamp)
No Trace – The Bats (from ‘The Deep Set’ LP. Bandcamp)
The Lane – PORT SULPHUR (digital single. Bandcamp)
(Don’t) Talk to Strangers – Agent blå (digital single. Bandcamp)
How We Met, The Long Version – Jens Lekman (from ‘Life Will See You Now’ LP. Bandcamp)
All At Once – Rose Elinor Dougall (from ‘Stellular‘ LP)
Infinity In Your Eyes – Violet Swells (from ‘There’s No Time Like Eternity’ LP. Bandcamp)
(3 mins 56 secs) – Fabulous Diamonds (from ‘Fabulous Diamonds II’ LP. Bandcamp)
The Bus Song – Jay Som (from ‘Everybody Works’ LP. Bandcamp)
A Song They Won’t Be Playing On The Radio – Molly Nilsson (from ‘Follow The Light’ LP. Bandcamp)
Harringey House – The Hardy Tree (from ‘Through Passages of Time’ LP. Bandcamp)
Teeth – Heart Beach (from ‘Community 4’ compilation. Bandcamp)
Let Me Go – Market Square Recordings (7″ single. Bandcamp)
Everything is Salted Caramel – Exam Season (PinPal single. Bandcamp)
My Resistance – Armstrong (from ‘Fragments and Curiosities’ LP)
Safe in Silence – Snails (from ‘Safe In Silence’ LP. Bandcamp)
Memories – The Proper Ornaments (from ‘Foxhole’ LP. Bandcamp)
Secret Lives and Deaths – Allison Crutchfield (from ‘Tourist In This Town’ LP. Bandcamp)
The Singer (For Jason Molina) – Mark Eitzel (from ‘Hey Mr Ferryman‘ LP)

I’ll be the one who sticks around

These are the things buried deep in the ground

The Last Ten Years – Mark Eitzel (from ‘Hey Mr Ferryman’ LP. YouTube)
Just as Was Told – Lift to Experience (from ‘The Texas-Jersusalem Crossroads’ LP. YouTube)
Retro Moon – The Blue Aeroplanes (from ‘Hello Stranger‘ LP)
Generals – Neurotic Fiction (PinPals digital single. Bandcamp)
When I Retire – Walpurgis Family (from ‘Live Your Life Around It’ LP. Bandcamp)
Out Among the Ruins – Cathal Coughlan (from ‘Black River Falls’ LP)
Denims and Curls – The Chameleons (from ‘Tony Fletcher Walked On Water’ EP. YouTube)
A Promise – Echo & The Bunnymen (from ‘Heaven Up Here’ LP)
The Garden – Vital Idles (7″ single. Bandcamp)
Nue Au Soleil – Ludus (available on ‘Nue Au Soleil’ retrospective)
Wonderful Woman – The Smiths (from ‘This Charming Man’ single)
Wichita Lineman – Dennis Brown (YouTube)
Mrs.Bluebird – Eternity’s Children (YouTube)
Four In The Morning – The Scarlet Ribbon (YouTube)
Days I Forgot to Write Down – Comet Gain (from ‘City Fallen Leaves’ – vinyl reissue January 2017. YouTube)
Commandant, Commissar – The April Seven (from ‘Pop Tarkovsky’ LP. Bandcamp)
Sellotaping Leaves – Stephen Hero (from ‘Golden’ EP. Bandcamp)
She’s The One – Saint Etienne (from ‘Foxbase Alpha’. 25th Anniversary edition, or the original record. Whichever…)
Teach Me To Forget – The Radio Dept. (from ‘Running Out Of Love’ LP. YouTube)

Embarrassments and moral debts