| 1 | Sylvaine | "Earthbound" | Wistful | Blackgaze into the abyss. |
| 2 | Mesarthim | "Declaration" | Isolate | The abyss has been watching you for eons already. |
| 3 | Kane Ikin | "Partial" | Modern Pressure | Over time it has developed complicated beliefs about infrastructure. |
| 4 | Adult Jazz | "Earrings Off!" | Earrings Off! | But, I guess, they're no more implausible than our own. |
| 5 | Beach Slang | "A Million Miles Away" | HERE, I MADE THIS FOR YOU (Beach Slang Mixtape Volume I) 5 | Things are only ever really simple in retrospect. |
| 6 | Wolf Parade | "Mr. Startup" | Wolf Parade - EP 4 4 | Which is how nostalgia can be the third most basic creative energy. |
| 7 | Winterhorde | "Antipath" | Maestro | The second is the inspirational tumult of chaos. |
| 8 | In Mourning | "Fire and Ocean" | Afterglow | The first is fragility. |
| 9 | Evil Masquerade | "The Outcast Hall of Fame" | The Outcast Hall of Fame | We have a range of coping mechanisms for fragility. Effusive denial is obviously a good one. |
| 10 | Trick or Treat | "United" | single | Another good one is starting an Italian Helloween tribute band and then forgetting to be terrible. |
| 11 | Lonewolf | "Wolfsblut" | The Heathen Dawn | I'm pretty sure France has more metal bands with "wolf" in their names than they do actual wolves. |
| 12 | Broods | "Couldn't Believe" | single | And if we now have more chvrches than churches, let the buildings stand as reminders that drama used to be the domain of superstition and control. |
| 13 | Yuna | "Mannequin" | Chapters | Our crowns of thorns are now all fiber-optic, glimmering more fiercely the more wistfully we sway. |
| 14 | Huntar | "4AM" | single | On a ball of unsteady rock always merciless half-scorched, we chase after quiet liminal hours. |
| 15 | Babewatch | "No Sleep" | single | And then rend them with noise. |
| 16 | Charly Bliss | "Ruby" | single | And thus transport ourselves blearily to nirvana. |
| 17 | Sampha | "Timmy's Prayer" | single | We stand on impossible bridges and watch things we might have loved walk away. |
| 18 | Niki & The Dove | "Lady Friend - Bonus Track" | single | Like Douglas Fairbanks, waving his wedding ring. |
| 19 | The Temper Trap | "Burn" | single | And it makes us stronger, or at least it makes us sound stronger from outside. |
| 20 | Paolo Simoni | "Il vuoto di questo tempo" | Noi siamo la scelta | And this method of encasing our emptiness is what we refer to as culture. |
| 21 | Moseek | "Tiger Tiger" | Gold People | And to get from culture to fashion, all you have to do is lose track of the implausibility of being alive. |
| 22 | Gojira | "Silvera" | single | Which metal never does. |
| 23 | Deadlock | "Berserk" | single | There is no such thing as a desperate nihilism-courting/defying hat. |
| 24 | Architects | "Downfall" | single | There is always a slanted power-dynamic between architecture and dance. |
| 25 | Jasmine Cain | "Coming in Hot" | White Noise | You can build up some unwise speed sliding down it. |
| 26 | Q5 | "The Right Way" | single | Enough momentum, sometimes, that you notice you're still moving 30 years later. |
| 27 | Anahí | "Siempre Tú" | single | Why don't we have an Amerivision Song Contest? We totally should. |
| 28 | Dani Martín | "Las Ganas" | Las Ganas +1 | And if Australia can compete in Europe, we can surely pretend Spain was reverse-colonized by Mexico. |
| 29 | ADIAM | "Dead Girl Walking" | single | Or maybe ours shouldn't be geographic, it should be emotional. We can have Eurovision for the sentimental, and Indivision for the conflicted. |
| 30 | kent | "Nattpojken & Dagflickan" | Då Som Nu För Alltid | A stadium spectacular for the muted and anthem-resistant. |
| 31 | King Melodies | "Modern Superstar" | Taken Away | Love songs for adaptive borderlands, rather than abstracted expo pavillions. |
| 32 | Tiger Lou | "Leap Of Love" | single | We can fill floodlight stages with songs designed for walking home through darkness afterwards. |
| 33 | Highasakite | "Samurai Swords" | Camp Echo | Songs for watching our enemies approaching, for admiring the way they walk. |
| 34 | XXX Rottweiler hundar | "Í næsta lífi" | single | Songs for pointing out that we predicted this. |
| 35 | Ensími | "Herðubreið" | Herðubreið | We can score them on how many things they are post-, and from how insular contexts they have emerged. |
| 36 | Erik Ekholm | "Expanding Reality" | Structures 2 | Or on how we would feel if these were the last few minutes before the end. |
| 37 | LOCASH | "The Fighters" | single | Our American Eurovision, of course, is really Country music. This is the music of our national caricature. |
| 38 | Whispered | "Strike!" | Metsutan - Songs of the Void | Which is why we have to have a separate contest, because the music of Finland's national caricature would put a smart-axe through the windshield of our rusty pickup-truck. |
| 39 | Sympuls-E | "Shackles of Hope" | Destroying the Barriers | You don't want to bring a coy bro-country smirk to a weaponized cyber-metal fight. |
| 40 | Tiny Moving Parts | "Good Enough" | Celebrate | But I guess, in a way, South by Southwest is our anti-Eurovision already. Instead of one song for each whole country, competing to depict a collective future in barely-edible icing, we assemble 3 bands per audience member and vie to see who can concede most poetically to futility. |
| 41 | Real Friends | "Mokena" | single | We try to find even more layers of costuming to remove. |
| 42 | Short Stories | "Dare Me to Dwell" | single | Or even more haunting ways to dress up as the selves we secretly fear. |
| 43 | The Gospel Youth | "Hurricane" | single | We try to sing songs not of shining catwalks into the heavens, but of the exact tired footprints that brought us exactly only this far. |
| 44 | Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties | "67, Cherry Red" | Bittersweet 3 | We trace inexplicable hopeful messages in the blood that emptied itself out of our hearts. |
| 45 | Brand New | "I Am a Nightmare" | single | And we gather it up and begin again. |
| 46 | Anakin | "Wouldn't It Be Nice" | Wouldn't It Be Nice / God Only Knows 2 | Because maybe that's actually the best way. |
| 47 | Against The Current | "Running With The Wild Things" | In Our Bones | Maybe that's how we are most heroic. |
| 48 | Dawn Of Ashes | "Tribe of Chemosh" | Theophany | What is art if not the conviction that there can be better blood than what we started with? |
| 49 | Mr FijiWiji | "Thought Police" | Dogma - EP 5 | A reductive contest relies on redefining your opponents' goals in such a way that they become a subset of your achievements. An expansive contest consists of redefining your own goals so that you are unopposed. |
| 50 | Rachael Sage | "Heaven (Is A Grocery Clerk)" | Choreographic | "Everybody gets a trophy", somebody will mutter, but the whole point is that everybody has their own trophies already. |
| 51 | Brooke Candy | "Changes" | single | You're standing outside a broken phone booth with a smart-phone in your hand that recapitulates the entirely of human history. |
| 52 | Leshak | "Imp-banisher" | Besogon | We are not besieged by monsters, we are reinforced. |
| 53 | Fatherson | "Open Book" | single | We are not diminised by pain and sadness, we are buoyed by realization. |
| 54 | Prides | "Rome" | single | These marks on us are maps to the center. |
| 55 | Merely | "Backdraft" | single | Synthesizers matter because they are valves to release the symphonies inside us. |
| 56 | Lisa Prank | "Take it All" | single | Minimalism matters because it suggests the removal of symphonic exoskeletons. |
| 57 | Field Harmonics | "Life" | Corners | Or at least new technology for printing circuitry directly on skin. |
| 58 | Kate Jackson | "Homeward Bound" | British Road Movies | And seeing where you end up when you just start walking. |
| 59 | AOA | "Good Luck" | Good Luck 5 | If Eurovision glosses over real distinctions, our Indivision will celebrate boundaries for their chalk-line transience. |
| 60 | Odonis Odonis | "Vanta Black" | single | Our contest will be a carnival cacophony of "Here, can you dance to this?" |
| 61 | Tegan and Sara | "Stop Desire" | single | Our flag anthems will be songs of "I don't want that, but I still love you even more." |
| 62 | Pastoratet | "Lögnarnas vals" | 6:03 2 | We will have street-punk even where our streets are properly socialized. |
| 63 | Sarah Jarosz | "Take Another Turn" | single | You haven't been properly lost until you've been lost in Texas. |
| 64 | Helen Love | "First Girl from Wales in New York" | Smash Hits | But we all think we come from somewhere unique, and are somehow the only people here from there. |
| 65 | Sanzu | "Phenomena" | Heavy Over The Home | And we're half right. |
| 66 | Weval | "You’re Mine" | single | Right up until the moment when we embrace being from nowhere. |
| 67 | Ghosts of Pandora | "After Death" | Scorched Earth 6 | Which is the first step towards being nowhere. |
| 68 | Lonely The Brave | "Wait in the Car" | Things Will Matter | Which is the next step towards not being contained where you are. |