1 | AnnaMelina | "Sången Om Havet" | Sången Om Havet +1 | Fluttery Swedish astral soul from AnnaMelina. |
2 | Telepathe | "Destroyer" | Destroyer | Firm, stompy indietronica from Telepathe. |
3 | Tamaryn | "Cranekiss" | Cranekiss | Swoonyblurry synth-sparkle from Tamaryn. |
4 | French Films | "You Are the Sun" | single | Old-school muted-jangle-pop by French Films. |
5 | Ivory Layne | "Disappointed" | Something's Gonna Happen 3 | Nashville getting with the faintly-Regina Spektor-ish sophistipop times via Ivory Layne. |
6 | Lisbon | "I Don't Know" | Life Is Good 5 | Newcastle synth-emo from Lisbon. |
7 | GENER8ION | "Close (To the Metal)" | The New International Sound, Pt. 2 - EP 4 | Superbeep by GENER8ION. |
8 | Ella Chen | "有何不可" | 有何不可 | Epic gothic narration-metal by 陳嘉樺. |
9 | Fire EX. | "島嶼天光" | single | Taiwanese indie rock by 滅火器. |
10 | Krallice | "Idols" | Ygg Huur | Journeys into the strangulated occult with Krallice. |
11 | Maja Francis | "Last Days Of Dancing" | single | Robyn-esque dance-chirp by Maja Francis. |
12 | Gina Dirawi | "LOVE" | single | Dark experimental Swedish overdub pop by Gina Dirawi. |
13 | Ten Fé | "Make Me Better" | single | Grand string-buoyed neo-New-Wave strut by Ten Fé. |
14 | Magnus | "Puppy" | Where Neon Goes To Die | Sinisterial Belgian non-dance something-step by Magnus and Tim Vanhamel. |
15 | Sel | "Tu Tik Mano" | Sel-Fi | Dreamy pop-house by Sel. |
16 | Autotelic | "Kung Sa Bagay" | Autotelic | Warm Filipino indie rock by Autotelic. |
17 | Abyssion | "Luonnon Harmonia" | Luonnon Harmonia Ja Vihreä Liekki | Pounding black rock by Abyssion. |
18 | Istapp | "Apep" | Frostbiten | Lightless Swedish blackness from Istapp. |
19 | Fimbultyr | "Oförgätlig Erinran" | single | Swedish viking black metal by Fimbultyr. |
20 | WITCHGRINDER | "Rigor Mortis" | Haunted | Yes, there is really an Australian industrial metal band called WITCHGRINDER. |
21 | Orpheus Omega | "I, Architect" | Partum Vita Mortem | Also-Australian MDM by Orpheus Omega. |
22 | Majestic Downfall | "...When Dead" | ...When Dead | Mexican funeral-doom bombast from Majestic Downfall. |
23 | Dirty Ghosts | "Cataract" | Cataract 5 | Choppy SF indie math-pop by Dirty Ghosts. |
24 | Blanck Mass | "The Block" | Blanck Mass Presents - The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears Re-Score | Dark ambient re-soundtracking of an homage to Italian giallo thrillers by Blanck Mass et al. |
25 | Hope Drone | "Unending Grey" | Cloak of Ash | Black-metal blur by the unhopeful and undroning Hope Drone. |
26 | Black Fast | "The Keep" | Terms of Surrender | Black punk by the conversely well-named Black Fast. |
27 | Enabler | "Suffer to Survive" | Fail To Feel Safe | Even blacker and even punker black punk by the mighty Enabler. |
28 | Cut Ribbons | "Clouds" | single | Anthemic synthpop march by Cut Ribbons. |
29 | Pretty Vicious | "National Plastics" | single | Blaring indie guitar-rock by Pretty Vicious. |
30 | Amorphis | "Sacrifice" | single | Soaring progressive folk melodic post-adjectival death metal by Amorphis. |
31 | Turmion Kätilöt | "Hyvissä Höyryissä" | single | Screachy Finnish goth-industrial metal by Turmion Kätilöt. |
32 | Wolfheart | "Aeon Of Cold" | Shadow World | Cacophonous black-death by Wolfheart. |
33 | Kaledon | "The Holy Water" | Chapter Iv: Twilight of the Gods | Twinkly tempo-shifting prog-metal by Kaledon. |
34 | Deafheaven | "Brought to the Water" | single | Blastic hipster-entrapment post-metal by Deafheaven. |
35 | Rotting Christ | "6 6 6" | Lucifer Over Athens | Monumental double-live album by Greek symphonic metal icons Rotting Christ. |
36 | Lychgate | "I Am Contempt" | An Antidote for the Glass Pill | Horror-movie ambient black metal by Lychgate. |
37 | Aetherius Obscuritas | "Night Comes Noiseless" | MMXV | Avant garde black-prog metal by Aetherius Obscuritas. |
38 | So Hideous | "Yesteryear" | single | Tidal grey-black howl by So Hideous. |
39 | Grace Mitchell | "Breaking Hearts" | Raceday 5 | Percussive, murmuring indiepoptronica by Grace Mitchell. |
40 | Carly Rae Jepsen | "Emotion" | Emotion | The followup album by Carly Rae Jepsen. |
41 | Little Simz | "Dead Body" | single | Insistent grime rant by Little Simz. |
42 | Sleeping At Last | "Atlas: Son" | single | Haunting new ballad in Sleeping At Last's Atlas series. |
43 | Low | "Lies" | single | Low sounding a little like the Bee Gees. |
44 | Moenia | "Jamás!" | single | Meixcan electropop magic by Moenia. |
45 | Foxes | "Feet Don't Fail Me Now" | single | Awkward indie-pop soul-rave by Foxes. |
46 | DON BROCO | "Superlove" | single | Djent-disco by DON BROCO. |
47 | Cheatahs | "Seven Sisters" | single | Gauzy shoe-gaze from Cheatahs. |
48 | Ghost B.C. | "Spirit" | Meliora | Throw-back and -sideways and -wherever metalic prog-rock by Ghost B.C. |
49 | Vessels | "Journey" | Journey +2 | There is a post-rock band called Vessels, and these are 3 engaging and wildly overearnest CCM songs by somebody else. |
50 | My Friend The Chocolate Cake | "Hymn for the Carnies" | Home Improvements | If you never heard the 2007 album Home Improvements, by My Friend The Chocolate Cake, listen now. |
51 | Aurora | "Kaikki mitä näät" | single | Finnish hip pop by Aurora. |
52 | The Murder of My Sweet | "The Awakening" | Beth out of Hell | Fallen angel flourish by The Murder of My Sweet. |
53 | Wallachia | "Mother Tongue of Heresy" | Carpathia Symphonia 3 | Snarly melodic symphonic black metal by Wallachia, who are actually from Norway. |
54 | Myrkur | "Skøgen Skulle Dø" | M (Deluxe Version) | New strata of atmosphere in atmospheric black metal by Myrkur. |
55 | Tunde Olaniran | "Transgressor" | Transgressor | And maybe the beginning of the first native generation of indie r&b with Tunde Olaniran. |