| 1 | TeraBrite | "PILLOWTALK" | single | It doesn't even matter whose songs they're covering. |
| 2 | Little Jinder | "Puzzel" | Allting suger | Sparklyshimmering Swedish poptronica. |
| 3 | Kitten | "Fall on Me" | single | Ringing, crashing widescreen giant-chorus pop. |
| 4 | Cardiknox | "Wild Child" | single | Brash, whirring-gear hyperpop. |
| 5 | Mint Julep | "Small Memory" | Broken Devotion | Pulsing, lyrical gauze-pop. |
| 6 | Pinkshinyultrablast | "The Cherry Pit" | The Cherry Pit +1 | Either the first or second most self-explanatorily-named band in the world. It's them or Bolt Thrower. |
| 7 | Ihsahn | "Mass Darkness" | single | Symphonic Norwegian everything-metal. |
| 8 | Rotting Christ | "In Nomine Dei Nostri" | Rituals | This is what it sounds like when your forgotten monuments wake up and crush you. |
| 9 | Cirith Gorgor | "Salvator" | Visions of Exalted Lucifer | Mordor hates tourists. |
| 10 | Germ | "I'll Give Myself to the Wind" | single | Roaring Australian blackgaze. |
| 11 | CHINAH | "Colder - Single Edit" | single | Stark, glassy vapor soul. |
| 12 | Maya Payne | "We Are the Wild" | single | Slow, defiant synth-pop cross between "Die Young" and "Fight Song". |
| 13 | nrwy | "No Cause For Alarm" | Not Now | In addition the Seed Vault, they remember how to make big British indie guitar rock in Norway. |
| 14 | Electric City | "Take Control" | The Wilderness | Maybe there's a lion on the cover because they just like lions. Maybe he sings like that because he's just straining earnestly to hit the notes. Maybe there's a terrible "rap" in the middle of one of these over-earnest Hinder-like too-alt-to-be-actually-alternative song as a bit of self-deprecating irony. Or maybe this is a crowd-funded, cartoonishly stereotype-fulfilling Christian "hard"-rock band that I will be the only atheist to ever play, much less put on a playlist with a band called Love of Lesbian. |
| 15 | Love of Lesbian | "El Yin y el Yen" | single | Gruff, exuberant Spanish indie punk. I don't think they're singing about the inner glow of God's great love, but it's not like I actually translated the Spanish, so it's hard to claim it matters. |
| 16 | Río Roma | "Caminar de Tu Mano" | single | Glorious Mexican pop/trad boy-band duo. |
| 17 | Algora | "La Fábrica de las Guapas" | single | Blocky, almost chip-tuned Madrid indie-pop. |
| 18 | Twin River | "Antony" | single | Vancouver jangle-gaze. |
| 19 | Mogwai | "U-235" | single | A couple slight, soundtracky ambient meditations. |
| 20 | Dear Jack | "La storia infinita" | Mezzo Respiro | Magnificent Italian arena-pop-rock. |
| 21 | Chiara Dello Iacovo | "Vento" | Appena sveglia | Apparently in Italy even TV talent-shows are used to identify disconcertingly talented singer-songwriters. |
| 22 | ADIAM | "Quiet Desperation" | single | My favorite, as far as I know, Eritrean/Swedish singer returns sounding a little like FKA Twigs crossed with Rihanna. |
| 23 | Postiljonen | "How Can Our Love Be Blind" | single | Dreamy Swedish synth-pop. |
| 24 | Nord & Syd | "Åt helvete med allt" | single | Portentous Swedish orch-pop. |
| 25 | Kerridge | "FLA 1" | Fatal Light Attraction | Shaped, but relentless, but conscious, but abrasively unwelcoming pulsebeat noise-art. |
| 26 | Kid Antoine | "Bodypaint" | Bodypaint +2 | Instrumental nightbus future-footwork post-grime sound-designer thing. |
| 27 | Omnium Gatherum | "The Pit" | single | Blasting Finnish death metal. I'm still mad at myself for not overcoming jet-lag to go see the triple-um bill of Omnium Gatherum, Insomnium and Enisferum when I had the chance last year. |
| 28 | The Resistance | "I Welcome Death" | Coup De Grace | Swedish melodic-death-metal veterans re-group to take death metal back to an elemental near-hardcore intensity. |
| 29 | Sivik | "Time" | single | Sultry indietronic r&b. |
| 30 | Beshken | "Safekeeping..." | Closed Doors 4 | 808s and pitch-shifters. |
| 31 | LANCO | "Long Live Tonight" | single | It's only a matter of time until Nashville finishes sneakily reconstructing pre-Zooropa with click-tracks and a slight twang and calling it "country music". |
| 32 | Exclusion | "Wonderland - Original Mix" | single | Chirpy trance-step. |
| 33 | Waylander | "Balor of the Evil Eye" | The Light, The Dark and the Endless Knot | The new death-metal Motörhead. |
| 34 | Pity Sex | "Burden You" | single | Somehow post-punk, post-Sarah and neo-shoegaze all at once. |
| 35 | Sundara Karma | "A Young Understanding" | single | Interpol + The Killers. There are worse ideas. |
| 36 | Nothing But Thieves | "If I Get High - II" | single | Radiohead was once going to be a rock band. |
| 37 | Only Shadows | "Be Still" | Be Still +1 | But you can always tell when a band is a ROCK BAND in their own hearts. |
| 38 | D=OUT | "Shin Gi Tai" | Shin Gi Tai | Stylistically-peripatetic visual-kei-as-avant-garde-metal. |
| 39 | 9mm Parabellum Bullet | "Hangyaku No March" | Hangyaku No March / Dark Horse / Daremo Shiranai / Mad Pierrot 4 | Similarly circus-bright nervous-energy j-rock. |
| 40 | The Mirraz | "Majika Soukitaka Yappa Soukimasuyone Haihai Desuyone Sittemasu" | Shirubupure!!! | Quasi-industrial cartoon j-dance/rock even rainbow-stranger than the other two. |
| 41 | Journalism | "Faces I" | single | Shimmery Brooklyn indie-post-rock. |
| 42 | Instinct | "Na život a na smrť" | single | Rousing Slovak pop-rock. Such a terrible name-choice. Were there no Slovakian words left? |
| 43 | Sara | "Synkkä matkustaja" | Synkkä matkustaja +2 | Also badly named: excellent Finnish retro-synthpop-ists. |
| 44 | Farewell Dear Ghost | "We Were Wild Once" | Skin 4 | Breathy, soaring Viennese indie-rock. |
| 45 | Alexi Lalas | "Small Time Pretender" | It's a Better Version of You | Soccer commentator, never-surrender writer of mild-mannered power-pop songs. |
| 46 | The Bergamot | "Forget About Tomorrow" | Tones | Painfully-Brooklyn artisanal husband-wife stomp-and-pourover duo. |
| 47 | Palestra | "Bad Moon Rising (feat. Candace Devine)" | single | Creedence Clearwater Robotics. |
| 48 | Mia Dyson | "Tearing up the Lawn" | Right There | Ragged Australian roots-punk. |
| 49 | Bunnydeth♥ | "Candy Man Theme: Sweet Wounds - Abridged" | Sweet Wounds - Single 3 | Cosmic gamecore weirdness. |
| 50 | Lacey Sturm | "Impossible" | Life Screams | Former singer of Flyleaf. God likes guitars. |
| 51 | Steph | "Liebe." | single | Germans also like guitars. |
| 52 | Michael Neil | "Saturn's Turn (Melancholia)" | The Rings of Saturn | Ambient epicore. |
| 53 | Takashi Suzuki | "Ondo" | Water and Air | Ambient ambientcore. |
| 54 | The Jezabels | "Stand And Deliver" | Synthia | Exciting indie band short-circuits normal developmental path and jumps straight to giant astonishing, unapologetic rock maybe-masterpiece. |
| 55 | Aedliga | "Surrogate Centuries" | Surrogate Centuries +1 | This is still me. Arguably even more me than usual. |