| 1 | Sinners Are Winners | "Zero Fucks Given" | For Beginners | It is important to set a proper tone for the new year. |
| 2 | Rainbowdragoneyes | "Needled 24/7" | single | Something restrained, but sensitive. Something quietly affirming to help foster optimism. |
| 3 | Rave The Reqviem | "Synchronized Stigma" | Synchronized Stigma +2 | The sage words, perhaps, of respected elders. |
| 4 | Wontolla | "Never Seen Snow" | single | Something time-honored and open-ended. |
| 5 | 八三夭 | "飢餓遊戲" | 生存指南 | Something graceful and familiar. |
| 6 | A Loss For Words | "Lucida (feat. Jason Vena)" | Crises | After all, what can really have gone so wrong so soon in the year? |
| 7 | Away Days | "My Friends" | single | Sure, maybe later we'll need to rebel. |
| 8 | LaLa Hsu | "是日救星" | single | Maybe we'll need to again stretch beyond our usual zones. |
| 9 | Cherrie | "Änglar" | Änglar +1 | But we begin, at least, at peace. |
| 10 | El Otro Yo | "Lila" | single | No need to scan the world restlessly for novelty and distraction when we are secure and grounded here. |
| 11 | Luca Brasi | "Count Me Out" | single | What does it matter what happens far away? |
| 12 | Hydra | "Between Two Worlds" | Solar Empire | People exaggerate too much. |
| 13 | Second to Sun | "Region 13" | Blackbound | Things are mostly actually fine. |
| 14 | Ö | "Lullaby" | Posthuman - EP 4 | Don't worry. |
| 15 | Meishi Smile | "Hate Floods Slow" | single | Trust your instincts. People are rational and kind. |
| 16 | Unruly Child | "The Only One" | single | Maybe once upon a time they weren't, but who remembers things that happened long ago? |
| 17 | Valkeat | "Aallot" | single | Most of the things you really need to know, you can say with simple words. |
| 18 | A Hero's Fate | "Flame and Fortune" | Lost Boys 4 | Or maybe even just a few basic gestures that everyone universally understands? |
| 19 | UDK | "Run Dis Ting" | single | Like the one where you hold up a hand and move it counterclockwise in a slow circle while you light hypocrisy on fire. |
| 20 | EXO-CBX | "Crush U (N-POP) with yoonsang" | single | Like the one where you bend taught lies taut, and then release them so they snap clear through the liars' tongues. |
| 21 | Dimension F3H | "The Acheronian Iniquity" | This Mechanical World | In fact, let us not welcome this year with mere hospitality, |
| 22 | WSR | "Ceremony" | Chambers | or the stoic fatalism of set pikes, |
| 23 | Howie Lee | "Bankers" | single | but with sedition and corrosive venom. |
| 24 | flor | "hold on" | single | Here in fact (where you cannot follow us), let our dances be tinged with yearning and edged with blades. |
| 25 | Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness | "So Close" | single | Let us not face outwards towards shadows among the trees, |
| 26 | Ten Fé | "Twist Your Arm" | single | but inwards towards traitors against the potential of civilization. |
| 27 | Excalion | "Centenarian" | single | Let us confront flaccid corruption with meticulous rampant fury. |
| 28 | The Murder of My Sweet | "Shining After Dark" | single | Against the mass of dim writhing maggots, summon bright dragons. |
| 29 | Tracey Chattaway | "Soar" | Secret Garden | You are unencumbered by conscience, but you have used your freedom to collect nothing but debts and failings. |
| 30 | Peter Roe | "In the Heart of the Jungle" | single | We have all the good flags. |
| 31 | Sun Airway | "Sea Beds" | Landscapes | We have the tolerance to sit with ourselves after the crowds have gone home. |
| 32 | Wolfchant | "Das Bollwerk" | single | We have the winter on our side. |
| 33 | Halestorm | "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" | ReAniMate 3.0: The CoVeRs eP | We have the capacity to change modes. |
| 34 | Desperate Journalist | "Resolution" | single | We have the ability to recognize desperation not as imminent defeat but as grand inspiration. |
| 35 | As December Falls | "More To You" | More To You +1 | We have fingers long enough play guitar solos. |
| 36 | All These Years | "What Was Left Unsaid" | single | We have poignancy greater than petulance. |
| 37 | Sagi Abitbul | "Stanga - Original Mix" | Stanga 2 | We are not afraid of the unknown. |
| 38 | Banu Parlak | "Narin Yarim" | single | We do not turn away from your regard, looking for an audience to which to mock you for things we don't understand. |
| 39 | RADWIMPS | "会心の一撃" | RADWIMPSのはじまりはじまりのまとめ | We will not be reduced. |
| 40 | Yasutaka Nakata | "NANIMONO (feat. 米津玄師)" | NANIMONO EP 5 | We will not be boiled away in whine. |
| 41 | Deco*27 | "ゴーストルール" | GHOST | You have obdurate thugs, we have ruthless ghosts. |
| 42 | Amiral Revers | "Molo molo" | single | You have victims, we have the future. |
| 43 | Almok | "Lébénè" | single | I would not choose to dance in your soiled shoes. |
| 44 | Fire EX. | "最後兩禮拜" | REBORN | We will care for everything you alienate. |
| 45 | Huntza | "Iñundik Iñoare" | Ertzetatik | We will be here waiting with wolves when your reluctant hired guardians finally realize you were never going to pay. |