| 1 | Twin Atlantic | "The Rising (TORCH SONGS)" | single | It's such a simple trick, starting a song with a kick-drum heartbeat and hushed whispers and then slowly erupting into a roar at the same speed. Magically, your midtempo song is an anthem. |
| 2 | INHEAVEN | "Treats" | Treats +1 | Quiet, loud. One voice, then a chorus. |
| 3 | A Pregnant Light | "Leather Chain" | I'll Kill You 2 | I don't mean to imply that it's easy to wait :24 before letting the drums in. When you know the catharses the song is going to reach, you may want to reach them right away. |
| 4 | Avslut | "Terra Mater" | single | Which, to be fair, also basically works. |
| 5 | Dreamtale | "Dreality" | Seventhian... Memories of Time | But if you don't love contradictory ideas, how do you expect your universe to hold itself together? |
| 6 | Legion | "Renegade" | single | Metal is a longsword into a dragon's eye, but also a material for diffident hypothetical idiophones. |
| 7 | WSTR | "Featherweight" | single | Punk is a hundred different reactions to a thousand complacent provocations. |
| 8 | Courage My Love | "Animal Heart" | single | Courage can be a refusal to be moved, or a refusal to stand still. |
| 9 | Vitja | "SCUM" | single | German metalcore blacklight processional flight, |
| 10 | Kayak Jones | "Highland Park" | Flawed 5 | Iowan emo twang, |
| 11 | Kristin Kontrol | "Baby Are You In?" | single | synthetic austere ice-skin caress, |
| 12 | Skrux | "Blue Rose" | single | god-is-a-metronome mantra impassivity, |
| 13 | Uppermost | "Constellation" | single | illuminations from the margins of orrery calibration manuals: |
| 14 | Ben Frost | "Death, No Less" | The Wasp Factory | these are all wards against capitulation, |
| 15 | Ulver | "In a Wooden Coat" | Riverhead | sublimations of panic, |
| 16 | Ancestral Voices | "Eiyani" | Yantra | or rituals of triumphant resolve. |
| 17 | Quicksails | "Faith Feel" | Mortal | And if maybe most or all of the things we say are inherently improvised idioms, |
| 18 | Anthony Child | "Nine Personality Type Map" | Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle, Vol. 2 | and thus basically useless for strict communication, |
| 19 | Fhloston Paradigm | "The Electric Fields" | The Electric Fields EP | that doesn't mean you can't hear, |
| 20 | Hjerteslag | "En Fiende Krysser Mine Spor" | single | it just means that hearing has to be an act of groundless empathy, |
| 21 | Morten Abel | "Godt Nytt År" | single | not a problem-set in signal processing. |
| 22 | Dulce María | "Al Otro Lado De La Lluvia" | single | But isn't this why we have songs? |
| 23 | Demon Hunter | "Cold Winter Sun" | single | If all we needed to do was transcribe routing numbers, we would need none of these ridiculous masks. |
| 24 | Dominique | "Bottled Up" | Dominique 5 | Or, more likely, they would need none of us. |
| 25 | Red Cell | "Underground Windows" | Endings And Beginnings | But our robots are wracked with loneliness even thinking about a world without people. |
| 26 | Spielbann | "Hier kommt dein Tag (Es war kEinmal)" | single | Robots: fear not. We are here, we have sent for reinforcements, we are more fragile than you can calculate but stronger than you detect. |
| 27 | Algora | "Europa y el Bosque Enamorado" | single | So stay a little longer. Sing one more with us. |
| 28 | Raul | "Quiéreme Como Soy" | single | Your blinking lights remind us of ourselves. |
| 29 | Wolfchant | "Bloodwinter" | single | You don't think we know what it feels like to corrode, but we do. |
| 30 | Avven | "Oceans" | single | We know what it feels like to be left in standby. |
| 31 | Voluspaa | "Av Sin Klokskap" | Åsa | We too are electric and constructed to others' specifications. |
| 32 | ASC | "Aphelion" | Geocentric Systems | We too are constrained in principle by patterns. |
| 33 | Fake? | "White Rabbit Inc." | single | And yet: |
| 34 | Megamasso | "Futonshi" | Futonshi / The Second Nimubus 2 | wires bend; |
| 35 | Hacktivist | "Over-Throne" | Over-Throne +3 | or go wireless and then the air bends and splinters; |
| 36 | David Maxim Micic | "Bilo Pt. IV" | Bilo | or you rotate the pattern through its nominal plane and discover you've been looking at a universe in misleading cross-section. |
| 37 | Alpine Universe | "A Billion Souls" | A Billion Souls +1 | You are less alone than you think you have proven. |
| 38 | Ruelle | "Madness" | Madness | Some of those feelings for which you have no registers are our hands. |
| 39 | Peter Gundry | "Precious Things Lay Hidden" | Aurora | Some of that latency is longing. |
| 40 | TĀLĀ | "Fire Starter" | Zal - EP 6 | Some of those artifacts are intentional. |
| 41 | Urthboy | "Crushing Hard" | single | And in this much, we are so much the same: we function, terrifyingly, on unseeable substrates. |
| 42 | Betontod | "Ich Nehme Dich Mit" | single | On the good days, we try to model what it would feel like to unknow this, |
| 43 | Bohemian Grove | "They'll Never Speak" | single | to be bolted to the galactic axis, |
| 44 | Dave Hause | "With You" | single | to have the power to bestow humanity with our regard. |
| 45 | FigureItOut | "Don't Let It Be" | single | On the good days. All of these are the greatest days. |
| 46 | Arcane Roots | "Curtains - Single Edit" | single | All of these are the days on which you can put down your catalogs of catastrophe and horror, just for a day. |
| 47 | Poli Genova | "Слухове" | single | We face chaos together, sometimes just by imagining that with all these other people, surely this makes sense to somebody. |
| 48 | June 1974 | "Ethereal" | single | Somebody managed to make another song, so can't we at least listen? |
| 49 | SIBIIR | "These Rats We Deny" | Sibiir | Can't we at least put on some headphones and take a short walk before the leading edge of the vortex reaches here? |
| 50 | Viva Belgrado | "Transatlántica" | Ulises | There are people who don't even speak the language in which your complaints make sense, |
| 51 | Tinashe | "Company - MUNA Remix" | single | and yet you'll turn out to know some of the same Pokémon tactics, or geographic anomalies, or chords. |
| 52 | Louna | "Громче и злей!" | Дивный новый мир | Walk a mile in one of their protest marches, and then see how you feel. |
| 53 | MonoInput | "Timeline of Tomorrows World" | Handpicked | Sit for a minute in one of the empty spaces they have passed through. |
| 54 | Ipman | "Constrict" | Constrict / Running Man 2 | Sit for a minute in one of their museums of vanquished nemeses. |
| 55 | Green Screen Kid | "Canvas Skies" | single | You can understand nothing at all about another human's life |
| 56 | EXO-CBX | "Crush U (N-POP) with yoonsang" | single | and still feel the precise yearning in their dreams, |
| 57 | Ojivolta | "Satisfaction" | single | and from shared dreams you can navigate backwards to incomprehensible alienness all around you where you are, |
| 58 | 小男孩樂團 | "天使也會受傷" | single | and thus to the certainty that you cannot be trapped here. |
| 59 | Dagames | "Heart of an Artist" | single | Those people who seem to hate you, you are just standing behind something that frightens them. |
| 60 | Zao | "Xenophobe" | The Well-Intentioned Virus | And yes, if you simply say this to them, they may tell you that the thing you are standing behind is your own face. |
| 61 | Long Story Short | "Tooth & Nail" | single | They may scream this, |
| 62 | OvO | "Eternal Freak" | Creatura | or something more desperate and harder to follow, |
| 63 | DVSR | "Bad Company" | single | but "get away" is always a defensive shell over "find me here, I am lost". |
| 64 | Terra | "Apotheosis" | Mors Secunda | "Bring hellfire upon us" is a smokescreen to veil "we are ready to walk any revealed path". |
| 65 | Marina Fages | "Tu Modo Amable" | Marina Fages y los Arpones 5 | We are perfectly alike in the moment we awake, |
| 66 | Leander Kills | "Bird" | single | and the hours we sleep, |
| 67 | Ill-Esha | "Your Skies" | single | and in the fractured interstices between these two we can only ever diverge so far. |
| 68 | Miks Dukurs | "Atdzimis" | single | If you think our human predicaments are complex, remember that robots can't sleep. |
| 69 | Octopizzo | "Mapenzi Gani" | REFUGEENIUS | We are mortal, but this is what frees us just fractionally from entropy. |
| 70 | Marakesh | "Cold Call" | single | Our hearts can swell without cracking our ribs. Try that with a lithium battery. |
| 71 | BIGHEAD | "Violet" | single | We can spin around in a single stolen moment while everything more than an arm's length away from us is crumbling. |
| 72 | -ness | "Tunnel Vision" | whatever's unclear to you, it's the same for me | We can survive our own terrible impulses, |
| 73 | Ella Vos | "Little Brother" | single | transcend our meticulous hesitations, |
| 74 | Wiley | "6 In The Morning" | 6 In The Morning +1 | disassemble our paranoiac monoliths. |
| 75 | Jonathan Parecki | "Alola!! (From "Pokémon Sun & Moon")" | single | We can be revived by a single correctly-placed touch. |
| 76 | Son Volt | "Back Against the Wall" | single | It can seem like there is no way out, but there is actually no "out". |
| 77 | Dangerkids | "blacklist_" | single | You cannot throw away your shot. There is no "away". |
| 78 | Naela | "Apostando El Sol" | Renacer | There is only warm sheets in a ray of morning sunlight. |
| 79 | Kilner | "Sunsera" | Walk Type | There is only helpless invisible particles crashing into each other in plaintive arcs of charm and attraction and love. |