| 1 | Wreck and Reference | "The Clearing" | single | Sometimes songs are anti-anthems for vertigo. |
| 2 | Thisquietarmy | "Dogma" | The New Testament 4 | Or for being marched slowly through empty cities. |
| 3 | Thränenkind | "Desperation" | King Apathy | But eventually resignation always loses its charm. |
| 4 | Kvelertak | "Dendrofil for Yggdrasil" | Nattesferd | And we sharpen metal tools for constructing revenge. |
| 5 | Kayo Dot | "Magnetism" | single | But then, isn't alienation a form of transcendence by definition? |
| 6 | Colleen Green | "Cold Shoulder" | Colleen Green 6 | Drum machines are a way of claiming the endorsement of even inanimate objects. |
| 7 | Speedy Ortiz | "Death Note" | single | As, for that matter, are amplifers. |
| 8 | Eagulls | "Heads or Tails" | Ullages | You shut your mouth. How can you say we go about things the wrong way? |
| 9 | CHVRCHES | "Warning Call" | single | Some of these pings are our vital signs. |
| 10 | Tobacco | "Gods in Heat" | single | Some of these broken noises are us holding saws against something permanent we are trying to render temporary. |
| 11 | Jorn | "Live to Win" | single | And sometimes we win. |
| 12 | Withem | "In the Hands of a God" | single | My favorite industries manufacture excuses for effusive triumph. |
| 13 | We Are Magnetic | "Shut the Lights" | single | We learn to overcome by rehearsing what that feels like. |
| 14 | Dive In | "Let Go" | single | We dance, bleary-eyed and weightless, through parting crowds of glitter-dusted robots. |
| 15 | Paperwhite | "Get Away" | Escape 5 | Don't you want to? |
| 16 | Allie X | "Too Much To Dream" | single | Robots can learn the synchronized routines so quickly, and their shells are so smooth. |
| 17 | The Staves | "Roses" | Sleeping In A Car 3 | And we are always most human by constrast among them, even when they step away. |
| 18 | Cappa | "I'm Good" | single | Complaining that pop has become too perfect is like complaining that airplanes stay up. |
| 19 | Hayden Calnin | "Caution Cares" | Cut Love Pt. 2 | Imperviousness is how we make fragility also possible. |
| 20 | Delta Goodrem | "Dear Life" | single | Mass produced defiance is how everybody can have a Fight Song. |
| 21 | Ayin Aleph | "Crystal Bell" | single | And if only occasionally it sounds like somebody tried to ship you an opera in a cardboard box and you forgot to take it out before playing it, maybe we'll have patience. |
| 22 | Tothem | "Gemini" | Gemini | And then you open it, and stars and valkyries pour out over everything. |
| 23 | Antonella Lo Coco | "Non ho più lacrime" | single | But this is why we build arenas open to the sky. |
| 24 | Perturbazione | "Dipende da te" | single | Although obviously we don't actually need arenas, or drum machines, or anything. |
| 25 | Tides from nebula | "Safehaven" | Safehaven | We call it post-rock, but at this point we're all helplessly post-everything, and this is just what that feels like. |
| 26 | Yahir | "Todo pasará" | single | And mortality frees us from the past as surely as it does from the future. |
| 27 | Bow To Each Other | "Crave Me" | single | All these circuit boards are tiny embedded chvrches of human perfectability. |
| 28 | Torn Hawk | "The Romantic" | Union And Return | The market opportunity is personal soundtracks. |
| 29 | Epic Score | "Race of Truth" | Epic Action & Adventure: Dawn of Freedom | Maybe they shouldn't all sound like disaster hymns for the end of the world, but that's just a scaling challenge. |
| 30 | death's dynamic shroud.wmv | "Rare Emoji Collection" | Classroom Sexxtape | The people already living by future rules always seem crazy for a while. |
| 31 | The Hotelier | "Our Lives Would Make A Sad, Boring Movie" | It Never Goes Out | The open-hearted always seem (and feel) a little desperate. |
| 32 | Half Hearted Hero | "Invisible City" | single | Every heart has a heartland. |
| 33 | Holly Miranda | "Hold on, We're Going Home" | Party Trick 6 | Your internal monologue is in a language nobody else actually speaks. |
| 34 | Maren Morris | "Rich" | single | Maybe it sounds weird to make a country cover of a pop hip-hop song that never existed before this, but I think we bootstrap ourselves through a lot of days by emulating imaginary role models. |
| 35 | Brad Paisley | "Without a Fight" | single | And everything that gets popular becomes pop, that's the whole point. |
| 36 | Gorguts | "Pleiades' Dust" | single | Resisting universal gravity's pull is the thing that takes real power. |
| 37 | Destruction | "Under Attack" | Under Attack | The opposite of inertia is violence. |
| 38 | Lord Of The Lost | "The Love of God" | The Love of God 5 | The opposite of entropy is extravagance. |
| 39 | Weaves | "Tick" | single | So make some giddy, keening, unmistakable noise. |
| 40 | See Through Dresses | "Haircut" | End of Days 6 | Allow yourself to be guided by muffled voices. |
| 41 | Dalriada | "Bor vitéz (részlet)" | Forrás | And the occult obsessions of dark elves. |
| 42 | Navi | "Sohneya" | single | A foreign bazaar is just shopping, technically, but "commerce" is as much a way of dismissing culture as it is of commoditizing it. |
| 43 | Oscar | "Daffodil Days" | Cut and Paste | Go on, don't walk away. |
| 44 | Migrant Kids | "Beaten" | Primordial Soup 4 | It's easy to forget how much of what was New about New Wave had to do with releasing drumming from the burden of discretion. |
| 45 | Chelsea Grin | "Skin Deep" | single | And once you open that gate to hell, monsters can come out and howl among you. |
| 46 | Cezinando | "Botanisk Hage" | single | And things you thought you made only for yourself can be scattered across the world. |
| 47 | Grand Magus | "Freja's Choice" | Sword Songs | And no voyages of plunder will ever return with the right mortar to rebuild the walls that were lovingly disassembled in your absence. |
| 48 | AMZY | "Words" | single | The strangers you conquered are now forever among you, so you might as well learn to dance with them. |
| 49 | Ted Poley | "Everything We Are" | Beyond the Fade | Might as well learn to sing along with their goofy sentimental ballads. |
| 50 | Sunstorm | "The Darkness of This Dawn" | Edge of Tomorrow | You don't really know somebody until you can feel the truth of the things they believe but can't explain. |
| 51 | LUNKHEAD | "Kessen Zenya" | Kessen Zenya 5 | Until you can feel yourself lifted by truths you cannot translate. |
| 52 | Blender | "Du och jag (inte som andra)" | Ängel utan vingar | Until the things they think you'd never care about seem like the exact things that prove that your deepest loves are sinuously, intimately interchangeable in every way that matters. |