| 1 | Pallbearer | "I Saw the End" | single | If they can make doom metal in Arkansas, we ought to be able to do pretty much anything. |
| 2 | Fickle Friends | "Hello Hello" | single | We can import shiny pop songs from England, like we used to when neither place was scared of everywhere else. |
| 3 | Crywolf | "Fuse (Liminal)" | Skeletons | We can mail ourselves to Iceland and see what that frees. |
| 4 | VUKOVI | "And He Lost His Mind" | VUKOVI | We can imbue the search for ourselves with a sense of desperate urgency. |
| 5 | Generationals | "Turning The Screw" | single | Because what if the robots find us first? |
| 6 | Dream Wife | "Somebody" | single | Not that they'd know what to do with us. |
| 7 | Public Service Broadcasting | "Progress" | single | The process of true searching relies on being relentlessly distracted by dreams, |
| 8 | Cellador | "Break Heresy" | Off the Grid | which is how effusively fantastical metal can be a form of oblique pragmatism. |
| 9 | Eclipse | "Jaded" | single | Power-metal anthems are to music what mountains are to terrain. |
| 10 | Degreed | "Captured By the Moment" | Double Album | You don't grade mountains on subtlety. |
| 11 | Minniva | "Where Were You Last Night / You Give Love a Bad Name (Mashup)" | Volume #1 | In the end times, they will rise up against each other. |
| 12 | Charli XCX | "ILY2" | Number 1 Angel | In the meantime, we try not to cower under them too plaintively, playing with ever-increasingly elaborate toys. |
| 13 | Little Mix | "Touch" | single | Our trivial obsessions will always matter to us, no matter what the peaks disdain. |
| 14 | Hey Violet | "Break My Heart" | single | While we are warily eying mountains that might fall but mostly won't, the seas are creeping up a centimeter at a time and people we love are betraying us through no faultline of their own, |
| 15 | Peter Hollens | "The Sound of Silence" | single | and no amount of meticulous solemnity will make us feel, or be, safer. |
| 16 | Aeverium | "Vale of Shadows" | single | The argument for incautious acceptance is the argument for life. |
| 17 | The Lust | "Fate to Fade" | Tangled | The argument for life is the argument for louder guitars, |
| 18 | Nightrage | "Bemoan" | single | and howling, |
| 19 | The Animal In Me | "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" | single | and reprocessing as an aesthetic discipline. |
| 20 | Can't Swim | "All the Moves We Make Are in the Dark" | Fail You Again | Memory is overrated; if a thing was important, it will probably happen again and again until you're either sick of it or it's how your life works. |
| 21 | Gnarwolves | "Wires" | single | If we could remember everything, we would probably never move again. |
| 22 | Dozer TX | "Smoke Screen" | Centerpiece 6 | Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do to avoid being instantly crushed by the past. |
| 23 | Kahn | "We Could Be Divine" | single | The essential genius of robots is the capacity for decisive forgetting. |
| 24 | Erik Ekholm | "Beast Mode" | Revenge | What would you do if you could start over a trillion times a second? |
| 25 | Matias Puumala | "Desolate Earth" | Desolate Earth | The problem with the actual future is that we only have the bandwidth to run a single simulation, |
| 26 | Peter Roe | "Bushido" | Ronin | and only in interminable real-time. |
| 27 | RichaadEB | "Guren No Yumiya" | single | Which is why, if you care about what happens, you can't just wait. |
| 28 | J2 | "Halo (Epic Trailer Version) [feat. I.Am.Willow]" | single | We have to live all the tomorrows we won't get, now, quickly, before it's too late. |
| 29 | Dulce María | "Sin Ti Yo Estoy Muy Bien" | DM | Everybody who is different from you, today, is trying a future you probably won't have the opportunity to evaluate. |
| 30 | V for Volume | "Warrior" | single | And you can mourn this, but the futures happening around you today outnumber your remaining days by martial orders of glorious magnitude. |
| 31 | Jacques Greene | "Feel Infinite" | Feel Infinite | If you don't want to die yet, other humans are the greatest gift, |
| 32 | Nathan Fake | "PROVIDENCE" | Providence | and robots are a way to imagine more people without having to figure out how to legislate their health care. |
| 33 | Staubkind | "Platz zum Träumen" | An jedem einzelnen Tag | The argument for curiosity is the argument for introspection or melancholy or grace or anything. |
| 34 | Tiziano Ferro | "Valor Absoluto" | El Oficio De La Vida | If pizza doesn't kill you, maybe you'd like an Italian "rapper" who sounds like your grandmother's favorite aftershave model. |
| 35 | Management Del Dolore Post Operatorio | "Esagerare sempre" | Un incubo stupendo | Did the Italians panic when the Conquistadors came back from Peru with weird red squishy fruit? No. No they did not. |
| 36 | Klamydia | "Saappaat jalassa" | single | If you won't listen to music where the only thing you understand is the band name and the band name is stupid, you are depriving future generations of something better than pizza. |
| 37 | Haloo Helsinki! | "Oh No Let's Go" | Hulluuden Highway | What if Paramore dreamed of being Roxette? |
| 38 | Brother Firetribe | "Big City Dream" | single | What if you dreamed about exactly the same things you currently dread? |
| 39 | Viitasen Piia | "Vieraita loppuun saakka - Radio Edit" | single | Some day you're going to be living in a great big city, and this is not what any of the rest of this will mean. |
| 40 | Tryer | "Poika ja Ilves" | single | Murderous trolls will get part-time jobs as crossing guards, |
| 41 | Evocation | "Modus Operandi" | The Shadow Archetype | muttering peacefully to themselves as they help you over the ice-ridges the plows had to leave, |
| 42 | Los Punsetes | "Miedo" | ¡Viva! | and you can skip when you get to the clear stretches. |
| 43 | Wretch 32 | "Daily Duppy" | single | So maybe, for now, shut up for long enough to hear somebody else's version. |
| 44 | Rey Pila | "Ninjas" | single | Let them take a turn telling the story of how they singlehandedly defeated the advancing hordes. |
| 45 | B.A.P | "DYSTOPIA" | ROSE 3 | Whether they did or not isn't half as important as how they attribute heroic character-flaws to their totemic villains. |
| 46 | Tankurt Manas | "Sıkıntı Yok" | single | A religion turns into a mythology when you find the way for its gods to suffer conclusive defeat, and thus transubstantiate into existence. |
| 47 | Balún | "Teletransporte" | single | You don't long for nirvana half as profoundly as the raptured miss shoveling driveways and getting to buy new shoes. |
| 48 | MKRNI | "Sobre hielo" | single | Did the Chileans panic when the Europopeans showed up with synthesizers? No. No they did not. |
| 49 | My Silent Wake | "Helga Kindir" | Invitation to Imperfection | You can make gothic armor with a few wires and a lot of leaves and history. |
| 50 | Desperate Journalist | "Be Kind" | single | But it won't protect you from falling in love |
| 51 | Quantic | "Que Me Duele?" | single | with somebody you've never seen before. |
| 52 | Ankor | "Lost Soul" | single | You think your victory is secure, and then you go to Barcelona. |
| 53 | Plaitum | "Yearning" | single | If you do not dream, somebody else will. |
| 54 | 6cyclemind | "Di Na Atin" | single | The rising seas won't obligingly swallow the rest of the world before your personal bit, |
| 55 | Supernem | "Egy Nap Egy Év" | single | and there's little more pathetic than wishing it would. |
| 56 | Мохито | "Нелюбимая" | Нелюбимая +1 | Seeing enemies in strangers is a complex talent, but so very minor. |
| 57 | Ondt Blod | "Storma" | single | Whereas hitting a drum is simple. |
| 58 | Dunderbeist | "Kometen Kom" | Tvilja | Dissent can be simple but still correct. |
| 59 | Cory Branan | "Another Nightmare in America" | single | If you made $150 million in a single year and still can't be nice to babies or pets or other humans, you can afford to get help reorganizing your priorities. |
| 60 | Damnation Plan | "Beyond These Walls" | Reality Illusion | One of the many advantages of bridges over walls is that you can much more easily tell if they're working. |
| 61 | Secret Eyes | "Starboy" | single | People don't need simple machines to help them shrink in place, they need help transcending their preconceptions. |
| 62 | Slot Machine | "จรวด" | Spin the World Thailand Edition 6 | If you learn only one useful thing from operating casinos, that ought to be it. |
| 63 | Crimson Moon | "Seeker of the 7th Gate" | Oneironaut | Gambling is the least creative possible form of fantasy. |
| 64 | Mr FijiWiji | "Tomorrow (feat. Matt Van & Holly Drummond)" | single | All the better ones, which is all of them, involve understanding some specific different way to live. |
| 65 | Kindbergs | "Bara låt mig vakna" | single | Last night in Sweden they were probably dancing. |
| 66 | Greywind | "Hear You Me" | single | Last night in Ireland they were singing American songs. |
| 67 | Earth Electric | "Mountains & Conquerors" | single | Last night in Portugal they were writing new Deeper Purple songs. |
| 68 | Northlane | "Mesmer" | single | Last night inside the machines, darkness twisted into floral spirals. |
| 69 | Le Roi | "Elämä on pilalla!" | single | The argument for single-payer health-care is the same as the argument for kaleidotropic Finnish punk-rock. |
| 70 | Te Vaka | "Lukitau" | Te Vaka Beats | We've been standing at the edge of the water as long as we remember. |
| 71 | Fen | "III (Fear)" | Winter | And we've always had reasons not to step in, but they were always bad reasons. |