1 |
Fellwarden |
"In Death, Valiant" |
Oathbearer |
The fells don't really need to be warded against anything but us. But we like how it feels when we think we have a crucial role. |
2 |
Baby Dayliner |
"You Push I'll Go" |
single |
We're standing outside a broken phone booth wait for enough people to beat a Lugia. |
3 |
False Plaintiff |
"Hive Mind" |
single |
We are the ones who broke it. We break all the things we don't think we'll need. |
4 |
Stand Atlantic |
"Coffee at Midnight" |
single |
We are the creatures of shards, |
5 |
Exit Eden |
"Unfaithful" |
single |
and glittering mosaics made out of pain, |
6 |
Mitochondrion |
"Insummation" |
Antinumerology 3 |
and harrowing pain made of wires and spells. |
7 |
Portrait |
"Martyrs" |
single |
But pain is what makes hair shine. |
8 |
Malihini |
"Miss" |
single |
We flirt with our all-time lows, |
9 |
Kryptonite |
"This Is the Moment" |
single |
half for excitement |
10 |
In This Moment |
"Lay Your Gun Down" |
Ritual |
and half for closure. |
11 |
Anthriel |
"Siren's Song" |
Transcendence |
We are majestic in derivation |
12 |
Sløtface |
"Pitted" |
single |
and resistance |
13 |
Nieves |
"Here's to You" |
single |
and sentiment. |
14 |
Patience |
"White of an Eye" |
single |
Oh, you've got white eyes. |
15 |
Sannhet |
"Salts" |
single |
Did you think any color would preserve you from the void? |
16 |
Nokturnal Mortum |
"Molfa" |
Verity |
|
17 |
Eden's Curse |
"Fly Away - Rerecorded" |
single |
All the available cavalry is here already, |
18 |
Eclipse |
"The Downfall of Eden" |
The Downfall of Eden +1 |
has been here uselessly |
19 |
Ensiferum |
"For Those About to Fight for Metal" |
single |
and grandly all along. |
20 |
Revolution Saints |
"Light in the Dark" |
single |
I believe in no gods, but I recognize faith in the unseen as a super-power. |
21 |
Crossfaith |
"Diavolos" |
single |
I believe rules are a consensual social contract, not a bequeathed liturgy, but I am awed by old books. |
22 |
Cold Black |
"Dead End Eyes" |
single |
I hold obstinately still to better feel how these songs want me to move. |
23 |
Oneohtrix Point Never |
"Leaving The Park" |
single |
They have internal math. |
24 |
A Shoreline Dream |
"Room for the Others" |
single |
We all have internal math, it just isn't normally visible in ordinary light. |
25 |
Serenity |
"X" |
single |
We make giant machines for building massive obelisks to stand for our tiny inside fears. |
26 |
Obongjayar |
"Endless" |
single |
We recognize each other in our methods. |
27 |
Brooklyn Duo |
"Despacito" |
single |
If you want to defeat your enemies, sing their songs. |
28 |
2Cellos |
"Despacito" |
single |
If you want to befriend your enemies, listen to your friends singing their songs. |
29 |
Draper |
"Worst of Us" |
single |
Maybe they will dance with you. |
30 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Ashes" |
Inferno |
Maybe their avenging robots will dance with you. |
31 |
Decrepit Birth |
"The Sacred Geometry" |
Axis Mundi |
Monument Valley would have been a much less meditative game with different music. |
32 |
Cytotoxin |
"Chaos Cascade" |
Gammageddon |
The moral: never leave the crows in charge. |
33 |
Horizon Ablaze |
"She Who Walks Upon the Sea" |
single |
The nihilists do not lack kindness, but they render it in obscurity. |
34 |
Callejon |
"Monroe" |
single |
We chant in exhortation. |
35 |
Shania Twain |
"Poor Me" |
single |
We learn eventually that "crossing over" is a self-aggrandizing way of saying "commute". |
36 |
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark |
"The Punishment of Luxury" |
single |
31 years went under the bridge. |
37 |
Haudegen |
"Das vergesse ich dir nie" |
Blut Schweiß und Tränen |
Many years, many bridges. |
38 |
Dizzee Rascal |
"Focus" |
Raskit |
They tell you not to look down. Do you look down? |
39 |
Vera Blue |
"First Week" |
Perennial |
You have to look down. The point of a bridge is to give you a perch from which to look down, |
40 |
Tau Cross |
"On the Water" |
Pillar of Fire |
later to be destroyed. |
41 |
Ereb Altor |
"En Synd Svart Som Sot" |
Ulfven |
All our love stories are engraved upon ruins. |
42 |
Los Blenders |
"Amor Prohibido II" |
single |
Or else all our ruins are love stories, I always forget which one it is, |
43 |
Milk Teeth |
"Prism" |
single |
or how many. |
44 |
Across the Atlantic |
"Playing for Keeps" |
single |
And where bridges are not enough, we put oceans. |
45 |
Sun Of The Sleepless |
"Where in My Childhood Lived a Witch" |
To the Elements |
And where oceans are not enough, we imagine infinite emptiness and then immediately fill it with stars |
46 |
Leander Kills |
"Vigyetek Kórházba" |
single |
and send it weakly encoded entreaties for help. |
47 |
Rómeó Vérzik |
"Nyár Van Végre!" |
Újratervezés |
We will be snowbound again, but not just yet. |
48 |
Oysterband |
"My Country Too" |
single |
This week these streets are still half ours, and every bonus is doubled. |
49 |
Cocktail |
"ทำดีไม่เคยจำ" |
single |
If you want to find your allies, listen to how they sing their songs, |
50 |
Ae Jirakorn |
"ปาใส่หน้า" |
single |
and then look in the direction they are yearning. |
51 |
Trapped Under Ice |
"Backstabbed" |
Heatwave |
You have time to let the song play. Even when it's long, it's not that long. |
52 |
First to Eleven |
"Dead to Me" |
Dead to Me 5 |
Not that strange. |
53 |
Natasa Bekvalac |
"Crta" |
single |
I'm pretty sure you can figure out how to dance to it. |
54 |
Gigan |
"Plume Of Ink Within A Vacuum" |
single |
The people who eat this food all the time? They haven't evolved a different kind of teeth. |
55 |
Skies Collide |
"Underwater" |
The Dream & the Lie |
They are exactly as afraid of you. |
56 |
Ancient Ocean |
"Titan's Island" |
single |
You may choose to share that equilibrium if you counterpose your fears to produce it. |
57 |
Toko Telo |
"Mikea" |
Toy Raha Toy |
Evolving differently takes a remote island and more time than we've yet had. |
58 |
Oumou Sangaré |
"Djoukourou" |
Mogoya |
We have airplanes, and they can deliver guitars. |
59 |
Marileyda |
"La Noche Dice" |
single |
You have ancient noises, but we have samplers. |
60 |
Carla Mauri |
"Mi Estado Normal" |
Redefining Love |
You have plazas and courtyards. We have shoes. |
61 |
Pia Tuccitto |
"7 Aprile" |
7 Aprile +1 |
We bought these shoes on the last trip. |
62 |
Sotomayor |
"Pulso" |
Conquistador |
We are ethnofuturists because we're alive still. |
63 |
Romeo Santos |
"Tuyo" |
Golden |
The easiest way to explore is to go somewhere filled exuberantly with people you don't know, |
64 |
Massiv |
"Manhattan" |
single |
and the world is full of these places. |
65 |
Brutus |
"Not Caring" |
Burst |
You should try to see some of them before they're routinely leveled, |
66 |
Yahir |
"Llegaste A Mi Vida" |
single |
or shrouded in vines, |
67 |
Kari Jobe |
"The Garden - Recorded At Spotify Studios NYC" |
Spotify Singles 2 |
or reduced to temples, |
68 |
Cody Carnes |
"What Freedom Feels Like" |
single |
or earnestly betrayed. |