1 |
Juliana Hatfield |
"Touch You Again" |
Pussycat |
Cultivating complexity in long friendships. |
2 |
Sun Glitters |
"From Saturday to Sunday" |
single |
Mosaics made out of gathered shards of light. |
3 |
Bright Light Bright Light |
"Stay (I Missed You)" |
Cinematography 2: Back in the Habit 6 |
Grace in detail; |
4 |
Bnjmn |
"Mass Conductor" |
Paean 3 |
serenity in menace. |
5 |
Beacon |
"Marion" |
single |
It is up to us how and how far to fill our days. |
6 |
Sólstafir |
"Scorpion Moonrise" |
Silfur-Refur 2 |
All kingdoms have roads paved with something. |
7 |
Carach Angren |
"Charlie" |
single |
Random stories may still have morals |
8 |
Corpus Christii |
"The Curse Within Time" |
Delusion |
and villains. |
9 |
INHEAVEN |
"Vultures" |
single |
Silent engines slam you back in your seat; |
10 |
Allie X |
"Paper Love" |
single |
the sky is a shade you don't precisely remember; |
11 |
Coquin Migale |
"Plans" |
single |
every drive towards a goal is also a flight from something released. |
12 |
Rostam |
"Gwan" |
single |
Your fragility is scaffolding towards a better floor you've earned with patience or bravery. |
13 |
Pyramaze |
"Land of Information" |
Contingent |
You find a place to stand and survey and think "All of this I have built." |
14 |
Dream Evil |
"Antidote" |
single |
Counterfactual private egomania is an act of empathic responsibility, |
15 |
Jorn |
"Man of the 80's" |
single |
like hearing a song and thinking that it was written just for you, |
16 |
Seven Kingdoms |
"Kingslayer" |
single |
or believing that this dragon will let you and only you pet it, |
17 |
Wolfpakk |
"Run All Night" |
Wolves Reign |
or that you can reach the end of this rainbow if you clarify that you don't need the gold. |
18 |
Astral Doors |
"Walls" |
Black Eyed Children |
Nostalgia is attachment in both bonding and restricting senses. |
19 |
Skating Polly |
"Black Sky (feat. Louise Post & Nina Gordon)" |
New Trick (feat. Louise Post & Nina Gordon) 3 |
But the things you can throw away and find again, you don't need to hoard. |
20 |
Sløtface |
"Magazine" |
single |
The things you can throw away and replace with new different things, you may not need to even catalog. Or maybe those are exactly the ones you do. |
21 |
Mew |
"Nothingness and No Regrets" |
Visuals |
The glass may be only half full, but even half full it may have more manganese than a serving of kale. |
22 |
Ben Schuller |
"Green Light" |
single |
Do you even know how much manganese you need, or what would happen to you if you didn't get it? |
23 |
Riverdale Cast |
"Kids in America" |
To Riverdale and Back Again (From Riverdale) 2 |
How many of your mistakes matter? |
24 |
Orthodox |
"I'm Scared of You" |
single |
How many of your fears? |
25 |
Helion Prime |
"Remnants of Stars" |
single |
None of us alive today have yet lived long enough to not know |
26 |
Vandroya |
"The Path to the Endless Fall" |
Beyond the Human Mind |
that greater joys await us. |
27 |
Mindmaze |
"Sign of Life" |
Resolve |
Your aversions are a reservoir of future revelations. |
28 |
Noumena |
"Sanat pimeydestä" |
Myrrys |
It's a small planet, but it's way bigger than you. |
29 |
Colin Stetson |
"Spindrift" |
All This I Do For Glory |
You think of yourself as constant, but your heart pauses and reconsiders between every pair of beats, |
30 |
Oliver Coates |
"Peace" |
Micachu - Peace & Riding Through Drinking Harpo Dine 2 |
and you somehow mostly manage not to think about this, |
31 |
ERSATZ |
"Q-Swang" |
Motive Still 3 |
and be thrilled by solving far simpler puzzles than the ones that keep you alive. |
32 |
Varien |
"Mutiny" |
single |
The capacity to take satisfaction from solving simple puzzles is a life skill, |
33 |
Illenium |
"Sound of Walking Away" |
single |
like the willingless to be transported by new songs made out of old notes. |
34 |
Kyau & Albert |
"Trace - Radio Edit" |
Trace - Single 2 |
Love is more complicated than a stranger in an open car, |
35 |
Solarstone |
"I Found You" |
single |
and yet: |
36 |
Daisyhead |
"Never Know" |
In Case You Missed It |
the wind is something you can feel; |
37 |
Hundredth |
"Neurotic" |
single |
dream of qualities your strangers must have, and then find them in your friends; |
38 |
The Other Stars |
"Everyone I Know" |
The Day We Met |
rearrange these songs for sentimental carillons |
39 |
Bleed American |
"It's Legal" |
single |
and second-order allusions |
40 |
Epic Score |
"Waiting for Oblivion" |
Epic Action & Adventure: Occupied World |
and eliding the distinctions between concrete |
41 |
Twisted Jukebox |
"Nightmare" |
Thunder |
and pastiche; |
42 |
Fort Atlantic |
"Sleeping Giant" |
single |
we are binge-watching episodic melodrama |
43 |
Per Gessle |
"Första pris" |
En vacker natt |
and constantly confusing characters and actors; |
44 |
Dolores Haze |
"White House" |
single |
we see better in garish lights. |
45 |
Joi Chua |
"我是我" |
single |
Sometimes all we really remember is some way we once felt, |
46 |
VAMPS |
"Rise Up" |
Underworld |
which is weaker magic than syntax, |
47 |
MAGIC OF LiFE |
"Senkohanabi" |
Senkohanabi / Ranbu-Rendezvous 4 |
and yet math works for translation at least as well as it does for surrender, |
48 |
Dvicio |
"Quién Soy" |
Qué Tienes Tú |
and far better than it does for making imaginary lines taller. |
49 |
Samo |
"Te Necesito" |
single |
Love is believing that foreign languages must mean something. |
50 |
Giulia Ananìa |
"Come fa questa città" |
Come l'oro |
Something amazing. |
51 |
Air Max '97 |
"Reduct" |
Vessel 5 |
Arbitrary structure can be decoded, if you decode as a creative act. |
52 |
Tyler Farr |
"I Should Go to Church Sometime" |
single |
Every flight from threat is also somehow a distorted and misunderstood precognition of a truly better world. |
53 |
Kenny Chesney |
"Noise" |
Cosmic Hallelujah |
We can make all of this great again, and again, |
54 |
JT Hodges |
"Dance Right Here" |
single |
if we understand how it was great a minute ago, |
55 |
Plain White T's |
"Land Of The Living" |
single |
and three minutes ago, |
56 |
Blondie |
"Fragments" |
single |
just as much as when we were kids |
57 |
Rey Pila |
"No Man's Land" |
Wall of Goth - EP 4 |
in far apart and indistinguishable times and towns. |
58 |
Abel Pintos |
"Oncemil" |
single |
We are, at every elevation, up where we ought to feel like we belong. |
59 |
Iskelmäradio |
"Jameson" |
single |
We are encapsulated in found mixtapes thinly disguised by having other people's names on them. |
60 |
Danny L Harle |
"Me4U" |
single |
Our bodies are made of current, |
61 |
Love of Lesbian |
"Efímera" |
Nouvelle Cuisine Canibal, Vol. II 3 |
solidified only in compelling illusion. |
62 |
Shinova |
"Viajero (feat. DePedro)" |
single |
Our regrets can be recycled into furniture or hairbrushes |
63 |
WAS |
"Upside Down" |
single |
or minutes we needed anyway. |
64 |
Lady Leshurr |
"Juice" |
Mode - EP 6 |
Do you really want to know another human's secrets? Their secrets are why they hurt. |
65 |
Mr Traumatik |
"Information" |
single |
But not knowing their secrets is part of why you hurt. |
66 |
Astralia |
"The Örnen" |
Solstice |
Only knowing your own secrets is the seventh definition of loneliness. |
67 |
Machine Gun Kelly |
"Let You Go" |
single |
Your own humanity starts with learning some secrets everybody knows, |
68 |
Ali Barter |
"Please Stay" |
single |
and not petulantly quibbling about whether this makes them not secrets. |
69 |
Harem Scarem |
"One of Life's Mysteries" |
single |
We move the cameras around when we don't want to stand still but we can't move. |
70 |
OG3NE |
"Loved You First" |
We Got This (Special Edition) |
We transpose defeat into clefs, |
71 |
Renate |
"Suveõhtud" |
single |
and diacritical distance, |
72 |
P-Square |
"Nobody Ugly" |
single |
and take turns allowing ourselves to be objectified in clothes we know we'll have to return. |
73 |
Blood Command |
"Ctrl + Art + Delete" |
Cult Drugs |
We follow Norwegian punk bands into battle. |
74 |
The Mountain Goats |
"Rain in Soho" |
single |
We play for you whether you sing or not. |
75 |
Counter-World Experience |
"Isis the Prism" |
Leaving Lotus |
We are here to tell you that you have implications. |
76 |
Hunter and The Bear |
"Hologram" |
single |
We are here to believe, for a few minutes, whatever crazy thing helps you love. |
77 |
Skipinnish |
"Crò Chinn t-Sàile" |
The Seventh Wave |
We are here to hear what your home sounds like to you, |
78 |
Capercaillie |
"An Gille Ban" |
The Blood Is Strong |
because we never know who we'll someday be. |