1 |
Susanne Sundfør |
"Mountaineers" |
single |
Songs can assume form in meticulous time-lapse, |
2 |
The Killers |
"Run For Cover" |
single |
or speed us down open roads, |
3 |
The Interbeing |
"Deceptive Signal" |
Among the Amorphous |
or blast out of a cliff-face or in. |
4 |
Bright Light Bright Light |
"Into the Night (Junotrix '84' Remix)" |
Into the Night (Club Remixes) |
They can be sent plunging backwards through time, and then be retrieved for study. |
5 |
New Arcades |
"Fade" |
single |
Usually, when we do this, our instruments suggest that the future is real, but the past is imaginary. |
6 |
SKIES |
"Green" |
single |
This is one of the two possible fates of measurement, both tragic, |
7 |
Masterplan |
"Mr. Ego" |
single |
which is why Heisenberg said that past particles are each obsolete in their own way, |
8 |
Coldspell |
"Call of the Wild" |
single |
but future particles are all triumphantly the same. |
9 |
Snakeyes |
"Sign of Death" |
single |
The impossible is triumphant by definition. |
10 |
Absolva |
"Harsh Reality" |
Defiance |
Any song that sounds like people had and took time to play it until they got it right is affirmational and humanity-positive. |
11 |
Apollo |
"A Moment of Silence (feat. Peter Jessy)" |
single |
A violin is a machine for joy. A fake violin is a real machine. |
12 |
Nokturnal Mortum |
"In the Boat with Fools" |
Verity |
|
13 |
Myrkur |
"Ulvinde" |
single |
that no one owns. |
14 |
Necro Deathmort |
"80,000" |
single |
Atmosphere is not always neutral; |
15 |
Thisquietarmy |
"A World Without Power" |
Democracy of Dust |
the background may have its own ideas about deferrence and power. |
16 |
Caitlyn Scarlett |
"Hell for a Honeymoon" |
Red Tape, Vol. 1 5 |
You may become lost in bright labyrinths open to the mutely beaming sky, |
17 |
Suicideyear |
"Flood (Autumn Hate)" |
Hate Songs |
and then night falls. |
18 |
Wrabel |
"It's You" |
single |
But wait a moment, before giving in to terror. Feel along the walls for a mirrorball switch. |
19 |
Sylar |
"Points Of Authority" |
single |
There are menacing creatures in the darkness, but they like to dance as much as you do, |
20 |
As December Falls |
"... You're Giving Up" |
Keep Deaming... 2 |
like to think of these narrow spaces as passageways for falling in love |
21 |
Stick To Your Guns |
"The Sun, The Moon, The Truth: "Penance of Self"" |
single |
or failing to with defiant aplomb. |
22 |
Stand Atlantic |
"Mess I Made" |
single |
Look them in the eye and smile. |
23 |
Minniva |
"Hunting High And Low" |
single |
We are here to see what delight can destroy, |
24 |
Ela |
"Deadly Sins" |
single |
and what we become when we outlive this. |
25 |
Worhol |
"We, The Abused" |
The Awakening |
We are here to find ourselves in endlessness. |
26 |
Converge |
"Eve" |
I Can Tell You About Pain 2 |
We are here to eat through these stones with our corrosive blood, |
27 |
Blood Stain Child |
"O.k.e.@.n.o.S" |
TRI ODYSSEY 4 |
to get to the mineral veins |
28 |
Eluveitie |
"Lvgvs" |
single |
and older legends. |
29 |
Golden Retriever |
"Pelagic Tremor" |
Rotations |
A piano will not quite float, |
30 |
Jonathan Parecki |
"Zen Zen Zense (From "Your Name. - Kimi no Na wa.")" |
single |
normally, but in a not-quite ocean you never know. |
31 |
ToxicxEternity |
"Mute City" |
single |
Oceans are no less artifacts of context than pianos or other cities. |
32 |
Belle & Sebastian |
"We Were Beautiful" |
single |
You can fit a world into a room. |
33 |
Tori Amos |
"Cloud Riders" |
single |
Sometimes you can even tell |
34 |
Lilly Hiatt |
"The Night David Bowie Died" |
single |
what posters used to be above the bed. |
35 |
Matt Pond PA |
"The Ballad of Laura and Mike (feat. Laura Stevenson)" |
single |
Remember the nights we would have spent here, listening to records, if we'd known? |
36 |
CASTLEBEAT |
"Heart Still Beats" |
single |
I am still in love with the people we would have been. |
37 |
Chelsea Wolfe |
"Vex" |
single |
I have a database of their ghosts, |
38 |
Softer Still |
"Junipero" |
Visions of You 4 |
and all these T-shirts too soft to wear. |
39 |
Archspire |
"Remote Tumour Seeker" |
single |
The nights |
40 |
Dying Fetus |
"Reveling in the Abyss" |
Wrong One to Fuck With |
are terrified and lost |
41 |
Dawn of Disease |
"Leprous Thoughts" |
single |
without us |
42 |
Versengold |
"Funkenflug" |
single |
when the morning comes again. |
43 |
Leprous |
"Stuck - radio edit" |
single |
We are secure in complicated evasions. |
44 |
Rings of Saturn |
"Servant of This Sentience" |
Ultu Ulla |
But of course "secure" is the wrong word. |
45 |
Davide De Marinis |
"Stringi più che puoi - Valerio Music Radio Edit" |
single |
We are not so much secure as we are gradually inevitable. |
46 |
Carlos Vives |
"Robarte un Beso" |
single |
Sometimes when it seems like we have learned nothing, it feels like it was never on us to learn anyone else's ways. |
47 |
Lali |
"Una Na" |
single |
Our hits don't lie. |
48 |
Mickey Guyton |
"Nice Things" |
single |
You are alive to hear the greatest songs we have ever written |
49 |
Callejon |
"Utopia" |
Fandigo |
and to deliriously skip ahead with :15 left in order to hear sooner what's next. |
50 |
Crimfall |
"Mother of Unbelievers" |
single |
Such is our overwhelming, untenable profusion of joy. |
51 |
Travis Atreo |
"Heavy" |
single |
Such is our hopelessness, |
52 |
Leo |
"Heavy" |
single |
our grief, |
53 |
Sam Tsui |
"Alone" |
single |
our loss. |
54 |
Alex Lahey |
"Every Day's the Weekend" |
single |
But the people who die today cannot die again tomorrow, |
55 |
Ecca Vandal |
"Broke Days, Party Nights" |
single |
and therefore we are all mostly immortal. |
56 |
Estiva |
"Little Planet" |
single |
Thus our responsibility for everything. |
57 |
Ultimate |
"Perihelion" |
single |
The planet would spin cheerfully on without us, but it would be our fault. |
58 |
Electrodomesticos |
"En tu mirar" |
Público |
This is why we have scripted these rituals of acceptance, |
59 |
Yonca Evcimik |
"Kendine Gel" |
single |
and why they always have dance scenes. |
60 |
Illbliss |
"God of Wonders (feat. Praiz)" |
Illy Bomaye |
Our gods are excavated from the walls of our dead ends. |
61 |
Odd Nosdam |
"LIF" |
LIF |
The guitars can have solos without us; |
62 |
Meteor |
"Forever War" |
single |
we set the machines into inexorable motion when we make them. |
63 |
Wen |
"CASCADE" |
CARVE + GAZE 4 |
What are machines but manifestations of our momenta |
64 |
Thelem |
"Ninety 3" |
Ninety 3 +2 |
and determined embeddings of our preconceptions into what we think are our defiable constraints? |
65 |
J.Fla |
"Despacito" |
single |
Sometimes, slowly, we can untangle ourselves from their power cords and temperamental untethered wirelessnesses. |
66 |
South London Ordnance |
"Parallel Window - Sigha Remix" |
Parallel Window |
Sometimes we cannot, and so we build up great cities around the places we cannot escape |
67 |
Eddie van der Meer |
"Jiyuu No Tsubasa (From "Attack on Titan")" |
Anime Songs #9 |
until we no longer want to, and this is how true science fiction becomes wishful folklore. |