| 1 | June 1974 | "Naif" | single | Hard to tell whether the piano has a crush on the synthesizer, or the other way around. |
| 2 | Therion | "L'amour est bleu ((heavy version))" | Les Épaves 5 | Gothic extremists sounding unexpectedly unbombastic on a short EP of straightforwardly metal spare tracks. |
| 3 | Amon Amarth | "On a Sea of Blood" | Jomsviking | Amon Amarthian Amon Amarthists loudly and vikingly Amon Amarthing. |
| 4 | Amon Amarth feat. Doro Pesch | "A Dream That Cannot Be" | Jomsviking | Plus one with Doro. |
| 5 | Cobalt | "Ruiner" | Slow Forever | Black groove. |
| 6 | Dive In | "Don't Break Yourself Apart" | single | Whooshy robot delirium. |
| 7 | Caliban | "Paralyzed" | Gravity | German heroic melodic metalcore. |
| 8 | Ex-Otago | "Cinghiali Incazzati" | single | Unhurried Italian indietronic post-disco. |
| 9 | Silvana Imam | "10.000" | Naturkraft | Surging Swedish soundscape hip hop. |
| 10 | The Sun Days | "OOO" | Album | Airy, chiming, Swedish twee. |
| 11 | Navet | "Companions" | Companions +1 | Pitch-wheeling through a strangely narrow gap between indietronica and Eurovision. |
| 12 | Julie Christmas | "The Wreck of S.S. Needle" | single | Like "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" with a lot more wreck. |
| 13 | Ylvis | "Language Of Love" | single | It's a brilliant gimmick to build a deadpan conventional pop song around a deliberately unmusical chorus anti-hook. |
| 14 | Luis Fonsi | "Esta Noche Es Para Amar" | single | Heart-quivering Puerto Rican sentimental arena-pop. |
| 15 | Mogwai | "Bitterness Centrifuge" | single | More pop-song-plus-motion-blur than the audacious title led me to hope. |
| 16 | Clairity | "Broken Things" | single | Ethereal atmospheric pop in the lineage of Massive Attack's "Teardrop". |
| 17 | Grimner | "Res Er Mina Söner" | Frost Mot Eld | Fluty rune-geek folk-metal. |
| 18 | BRIDEAR | "Marginal Lie" | Baryte | Female-led Japanese power-metal that manages to be understated by only Japanese standards. |
| 19 | Bob Mould | "Hold On" | Patch The Sky | Glimpses of an alternate universe in which Sugar was the Foo Fighters. |
| 20 | Dominanz | "Ruins of Destruction" | single | Norwegian industrial-gothic black metal. |
| 21 | Sara | "VDTA" | SOLUS | Pensive, patternist synthpop. |
| 22 | Miss Montreal | "One Last Drink" | single | Dutch stomp-and-twitter Euro-pop that you could probably transpose trivially into a Gloriana song. |
| 23 | The Gospel Youth | "All She Ever Does" | single | Scrape the mildness off an old Gin Blossoms record and it's still perfectly playable. |
| 24 | Astrid S | "Paper Thin" | single | Norwegian elf-pop Eurovision crossed, perhaps inevitably, with post-PC Music production glitter. Which seems like a pretty good test of exactly how poptimistic you really are. |
| 25 | Weval | "I Don't Need It" | single | Dutch inside-out indie r&b. |
| 26 | Jillian Jacqueline | "Prime" | Jillian Jacqueline 5 | What's the minimum amount of twang required for a pop song to qualify as country? |
| 27 | HANA | "White" | HANA 5 | Muted, faintly Blue-Nile-esque pulse-pop. |
| 28 | Rotten Sound | "Fear of Shadows" | Abuse to Suffer (Deluxe) | Relentless, unselfconscious Finnish grindcore. |
| 29 | Simone | "Ghost" | single | Like a grandly wistful indie-synth deconstruction of "Give Your Heart a Break". Eurovision is wherever people believe. |