1 |
Dream Evil |
"Sin City" |
SIX |
The old ways hold that metal should be gleaming and/or covered theatrically in blood. |
2 |
Sólstafir |
"Svart Blóð" |
Berdreyminn (Deluxe) |
The new ways suggest that vengeance can be replaced by slow walks over just-cooled lava. |
3 |
Tau Cross |
"Deep State" |
single |
The old ways watch us from clock towers and the parapets of abandoned cathedrals. |
4 |
Ingurgitating Oblivion |
"Amid The Offal, Abide With Me" |
Vision Wallows In Symphonies Of Light |
In the new ways, darkness can consume granite. |
5 |
Demen |
"Niorum" |
Nektyr |
In the new ways, oblivion is form of reverie. |
6 |
Great Good Fine Ok |
"Find Yourself" |
single |
In the new ways, dancing is a strategy for holding your ground in a season of emotional landslides. |
7 |
Grace Mitchell |
"Cali God" |
single |
Trap music can be made with stone slabs sliding on hidden rails. |
8 |
HUNNY |
"Hallways" |
Windows I 5 |
Viral nostalgia admits to new Cures. |
9 |
Fyfe |
"Closing Time" |
single |
The melancholist says this is the last glass of water, and we won't forget glasses or water. |
10 |
Monakr |
"Teardrop" |
single |
You can say another person's words in your voice, but can you feel one of their feelings in your own heart? |
11 |
Novo Amor |
"Carry You" |
Bathing Beach 4 |
Can you sleep one of their uneasy nights? |
12 |
Anoraak |
"Skyline" |
single |
Maybe that's easier than waking to somebody else's morning, |
13 |
Great Grandpa |
"Fade" |
single |
or making bridges out of uncertain memories of cardboard and foam, |
14 |
Carly Rae Jepsen |
"Cut To The Feeling" |
single |
but somehow we keep managing to end up on the other side of ourselves anyway. |
15 |
Halsey |
"Strangers" |
single |
Our methods are inadequate, but we compensate with loving disregard. |
16 |
Little Mix |
"Power" |
single |
Our dark horses stray into rays of light, |
17 |
Burial |
"Subtemple" |
Subtemple / Beachfires 2 |
and we patiently catalog whatever is left behind in shadow. |
18 |
Lapalux |
"Flickering" |
single |
Naming can feel like a form of control, |
19 |
Pixelord |
"Chrono Echoes" |
Chrono Echoes 5 |
if you think of physics as a product of will, |
20 |
Sun Glitters |
"Where the End Begins" |
It Will Be Forever |
subject to our jurisdictions and treaties. |
21 |
Swet Shop Boys |
"Zombie" |
single |
But try declaring petulant victory and see what that gets you, |
22 |
Postiljonen |
"Crazy" |
single |
and then try declaring glorious defeat and compare who cheers. |
23 |
Direct |
"Oracle Heart" |
single |
When you hit upon truth, you look in their eyes and you see not you, nor them, |
24 |
Joey Dale |
"Taking Me Home" |
single |
but all of the people either of you love, |
25 |
The Upbeats |
"Grasshopper" |
single |
or fear. |
26 |
Arctic Moon |
"Nocturnal Horizons" |
single |
In that moment, are you able to release yourself to the inevitability of joy? |
27 |
In Hearts Wake |
"Nomad" |
Ark |
Even transmuted to fury, |
28 |
Beartooth |
"Hated" |
Aggressive (Deluxe Edition) |
joy never shakes its cadence. |
29 |
Sarea |
"Black at Heart" |
Black at Heart |
Small anger builds never-enough walls |
30 |
Broadside |
"Paradise" |
single |
that grand defiance carries us over -- |
31 |
The Gospel Youth |
"Moods Like English Weather" |
single |
for sentimental strength to hurdle; |
32 |
Pet Symmetry |
"LTCTLYB" |
Vision |
to dwindle into horizon behind us as we go. |
33 |
Jule Vera |
"Lifeline" |
single |
You cannot uplift with a fear to see beyond what you already know. |
34 |
Charlie Siren |
"Summer" |
Party 6 |
Resistance, hope: these are words for waking up excited. |
35 |
Impure Wilhelmina |
"Torn" |
single |
Today we will outwit the preconceptions of our enemies and our pedometers. |
36 |
Downtown Boys |
"A Wall" |
single |
Today we will build some earnest idiot thing we'll then have to spend half our time walking around, |
37 |
Tsuko G. |
"Deja Vu (Initial D)" |
single |
which is just one of a thousand reasons why holograms of half-remembered disco |
38 |
Arcane Roots |
"Matter" |
single |
are better than concrete or concrete minds. |
39 |
Christoffer Gustafsson |
"hjrta" |
single |
If you crush everything that lets you touch it, you will sleep alone. |
40 |
Eskobar |
"Propulsion" |
single |
You will wake alone, walk alone. |
41 |
Goatwhore |
"Chaos Arcane" |
single |
You will cower in crumbling towers, |
42 |
Municipal Waste |
"Slime and Punishment" |
single |
where even the zombies don't go. |
43 |
The Mirraz |
"Ningenno Switch" |
single |
Meanwhile, everywhere else, we are trying to think of ways for happiness to not be zero-sum. |
44 |
Rie a.k.a. Suzaku |
"Free for Me" |
Don't Hide Your Face 4 |
We are signing treaties not as a way to win or lose, but as a way to find shared catharsis in things we can't escape anyway. |
45 |
Gianluca Capozzi |
"Nunn'è mai stato ammore" |
La metà di un viaggio |
We know that without Paris or Italy we wouldn't have all of this, |
46 |
Diodato |
"Di questa felicità - Red Version" |
Di questa felicità 2 |
so we get out of the fucking golf cart and try to see at least a little bit of how beautiful it is. |
47 |
Thyx |
"Doubt and Regret" |
single |
Apocalypse can wait a few more days, we think. |
48 |
Lichtgestalt |
"Tempus Fugit" |
Tempus Fugit |
(But they pass quickly.) |
49 |
Divitius |
"Serpent Skin" |
The Arcadian Parallel |
What if you lived life as if every emotional quantity were finite and meagre, |
50 |
Stag Hare |
"Bloom" |
Starlights Gloom |
but every physical one were infinite and adjustable by fiat? |
51 |
Andrea Belfi |
"Lead" |
Ore |
What if you governed by vanity, exactly the same way you arrange your remaining poverty of hair? |
52 |
Belako |
"Render Me Numb" |
single |
What if your heart was so small, and so encrusted, that you reasonably expected to die any minute, and didn't care what happened after that, even to your own children? |
53 |
Nudozurdo |
"Jaula de Oro" |
single |
What would we do with you? |
54 |
Double S |
"Get Paid (feat. Wiley)" |
single |
Nothing you ruin changes what we need. |
55 |
Against Me! |
"Stabitha Christie" |
Stabitha Christie +1 |
Nothing you disbelieves gives a shit what you think. |
56 |
Bad Cop, Bad Cop |
"Amputations" |
single |
No amount of arms you sell will rid you of these tiny, unwelcome hands. |
57 |
Ten |
"Paragon" |
single |
Everything you have done and acquired is temporary, and every gutless step you retreat runs out more of your dwindling time. |
58 |
Goldfinger |
"Put The Knife Away" |
single |
You will be undone. |
59 |
La Skala de Richter |
"El Monte de Venus" |
Facta Non Verba |
Your shitplated treasures will be photographed for rueful posterity and then composted so they're at least worth something. |
60 |
Hante. |
"Le Point de Non-Retour" |
Between Hope & Danger |
But even so, even as we clean up after you, we will grant you one durable victory: |
61 |
Max Cooper |
"Four Tone Reflections" |
Chromos |
not because we love you, as we should, because on that count too we will fail; |
62 |
Carlos Vives |
"La Bicicleta" |
El Dorado |
not because you have learned any rudimentary skill or compassion; |
63 |
Myrkur |
"Två Konungabarn (Single)" |
single |
but because ultimately no amount of love can rebuild the structures inside of you that your corrosive existence have destroyed. |
64 |
Mt. Wolf |
"Soteria" |
Aetherlight |
So here's your victory: |
65 |
Echobelly |
"Reign On" |
Anarchy and Alchemy |
You tried to sell out your own children and all of the rest of ours, |
66 |
Ifriqiyya Electrique |
"Zuru el Haadi - El Maduulaa - Maaluuma" |
Rûwâhîne |
and we will only be able to save |
67 |
Penguin Cafe |
"Rescue" |
The Imperfect Sea |
ours. |