1 |
HAIM |
"Little of Your Love" |
single |
Summer is for pop neo-classicism |
2 |
The Chain Gang Of 1974 |
"Slow" |
FELT |
of all vintages, |
3 |
Bastille |
"Glory - Single Version" |
single |
including new. |
4 |
Public Service Broadcasting |
"People Will Always Need Coal" |
single |
Of course, summer is also for found-audio as political commentary. Sometimes even music is reporting, |
5 |
The Aces |
"Stuck" |
I Don't Like Being Honest 4 |
but not always. |
6 |
Sexton Blake |
"Go Outside" |
Granted |
Sign up for renewable energy, and then use it to turn on the keyboards. |
7 |
BardSpec |
"Fire Tongue (Radio Edit)" |
single |
On warm, clear days, even endless dark-ambient albums can have singles. |
8 |
Samael |
"Angel of Wrath" |
single |
And because the planet spins, even summers have nights and storms. |
9 |
Sannhet |
"Way Out" |
single |
On cool, shrouded nights, even doom-metal bands can play elegant dark-ambient atmospherics. |
10 |
Der Weg einer Freiheit |
"Skepsis, Pt. I" |
single |
Skepticism + septic is a primordial metal formula, |
11 |
Epica |
"The Solace System" |
single |
but so too is conviction + elegance, |
12 |
Ten |
"La Luna Dra-Cu-La" |
single |
and doesn't summer air exist to be galloped through? |
13 |
Force Majeure |
"Gemini Rising" |
single |
Hills to crest? |
14 |
Blood On The Dance Floor |
"Six Feet Under" |
single |
But then, some of us are pale, and hide, and of course this too can be celebratory. |
15 |
Rozwell Kid |
"Total Mess" |
Precious Art |
Introvertiginous grandeur? |
16 |
Captain We're Sinking |
"Books" |
The King of No Man |
Doesn't windowlessness represent the perfection of rooms? |
17 |
Across the Atlantic |
"24 Hours" |
single |
Only inside do we control the conditions. |
18 |
Moxi |
"Figures Bathed in Light" |
single |
Dimmer switches; spotlights; compact fluorescence and renewable joy. |
19 |
Annodomini |
"Пыль и пепел" |
Пыль и пепел +3 |
The kinetic essence of armored galloping does not rely on horses or hills. |
20 |
Hammock |
"Things of Beauty Burn" |
single |
Any tranquility is fundamentally an act of imagination. |
21 |
Roedelius |
"On The Fly" |
Einfluss |
Cosmology and mortality render all calm defiant, |
22 |
MAN WITH A MISSION |
"Dog Days" |
single |
and all defiance self-possessed. |
23 |
Megamasso |
"Tenshi Houkai" |
Tenshi Houkai |
After all, the planet is always spinning. Dizziness comes from inside. |
24 |
ITOWOKASHI |
"カナデアイ" |
中央突破 |
ITOWOKASHI are my favorite J-rock band since BUMP OF CHICKEN. |
25 |
Mostro |
"Niente di me" |
single |
Mostro is my favorite Italian hip hop producer since wait did I have a favorite Italian hip hop producer before? |
26 |
Les Enfants |
"Milano" |
Persi nella notte 5 |
A favorite echoey Italian post-punk band? |
27 |
Marco Ligabue |
"Il mistero del DNA" |
single |
Nobody is waiting for you to pick a category to rank them in. |
28 |
Neurotech |
"The Catalyst" |
The Catalyst |
Not because they don't care about categories, |
29 |
Goatwhore |
"Where the Sun Is Silent" |
Vengeful Ascension |
but because they don't know what else you love. |
30 |
Pignoise |
"Interrogante" |
single |
They don't know that you're going to put Goatwhore right before Pignoise. |
31 |
Noah Guthrie |
"Razor Blade" |
The Valley |
They don't know where you come from. |
32 |
Miss Garrison |
"Pocket Song" |
single |
Maybe even you don't always know where you come from until you hear something that's obviously from whereever your heart was made, |
33 |
Koffi Olomide |
"Nyataquance" |
single |
or somewhere far away that you've half-seen in dreams, |
34 |
Lilly Hiatt |
"Trinity Lane" |
single |
or somewhere you're not from, but somebody is. |
35 |
June 1974 |
"State of Mind" |
single |
Somewhere dark, but then lights blink on. |
36 |
Le Roi |
"Jättiläisen askeleet" |
single |
Monsters emerge, |
37 |
Haudegen |
"Wilde Orchideen" |
single |
and are given bureaucratic careers at which they turn out to excel. |
38 |
Crywolf |
"Silk - Midoca Remix" |
single |
Infrastructure can be elliptically poetic. |
39 |
These Hidden Hands |
"Dendera Light - JK Flesh Remix" |
Vicarious Memories Remixed |
Possibly the notion of infrastructure is intrinsically a poetics by its nature. |
40 |
Alchimia |
"Giorno Perfetto" |
single |
How many roads must we walk down before we agree that roads are topical applications of idealism? |
41 |
Winterland |
"Angekommen" |
Angekommen |
We don't just influence climate, its is our presence to which "climate" and "seasons" refer. |
42 |
In Tormentata Quiete |
"R136A1" |
Finestatico |
Rain exists so that you have the choice to go stand in it; |
43 |
kankakupiero |
"疑問疑答" |
single |
What I mean is, in calling it "rain" we are expressing anthropocentricity more than physics, insisting that the direction we are looking is therefore up, |
44 |
Thermo |
"Tu Nombre" |
Ancestros |
as of course we always do, |
45 |
Nivelles |
"Círculos" |
single |
as we can't not do. |
46 |
Delux |
"Sirenas" |
Sirenas +1 |
People are as different as we can manage, and yet our songs converge. |
47 |
Hey Bésala |
"Fuego Vs. Fuego = Amar" |
Volumen 2 |
We are the things that pulse |
48 |
Celest |
"Acompáñame" |
single |
and elide. |
49 |
BUDAYA |
"Origen" |
single |
We are the clocks that taught ourselves to yearn, |
50 |
Perdidos en Tokyo |
"El Futuro" |
single |
to tick while yearning, |
51 |
Volvmen |
"Polos" |
Antes de Morir |
to understand that time is the medium in which yearning is formulated |
52 |
Mondragon |
"Cenit" |
Presentimiento |
and then meticulously vaporized. |
53 |
Badjer |
"Khey" |
single |
We say this in every language at once, |
54 |
Wide Eyes |
"Paradoxica" |
Paradoxica |
from anguish to math, |
55 |
Lisa Heller |
"Things You Never Said" |
single |
because a new thing that might not work is always better than another fearful index of the silence. |