1 |
Pentakill |
"Tear of the Goddess" |
II: Grasp of the Undying |
This band does not exist, but they make great music. |
2 |
Everything Everything |
"Desire" |
single |
Remember when you thought Muse was going to be more than just a pastiche of Muse's potential? Or wait, was that me? |
3 |
Grace Mitchell |
"Capital Letters" |
single |
Remember when you figured out what that knob did? |
4 |
Monakr |
"Ophelia" |
single |
How did we fall in love before we had these laptops? |
5 |
Mystic Prophecy |
"Burning Bridges" |
single |
Before we had these engines of glory? |
6 |
Eden's Curse |
"Fallen King - Rerecorded" |
single |
Was there ever actually a time before nostalgia? |
7 |
Hell In the Club |
"The Phantom Punch" |
single |
Didn't we invent levers to lift ourselves into the air? |
8 |
The Nights |
"Welcome to the Show" |
The Nights |
Right before or right after hair spray? |
9 |
For The Win |
"What You See Is What You Get" |
More Than You Know |
Sincerity is not a defense. |
10 |
Pvris |
"Winter" |
single |
Your free membership of any given community is always contingent, and even a season is a community. |
11 |
Social Repose |
"Heavy - Acapella" |
single |
One day some vampires come, and they claim they are allowed to get coffee and snacks if it's dark outside. |
12 |
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die |
"Dillon and Her Son" |
single |
And you stand up and say "See, I told you sales tax would lead to this." |
13 |
Dead Leaves |
"Alive In The Spring" |
single |
And you get your ass pitched, and the vampires get more snacks. |
14 |
Make Out Monday |
"Desirae" |
single |
Maybe you should have shut up and danced. |
15 |
Bengalfuel |
"Ancient Vessels" |
Woglum / Feldspar |
Maybe by morning, the past will be different. |
16 |
Paradise Lost |
"Blood and Chaos" |
Blood and Chaos +1 |
Everything counts in loud amounts. |
17 |
Kelela |
"LMK" |
single |
By morning, the vampires will be weaker and you will be stronger, |
18 |
Leikeli47 |
"O.M.C." |
single |
and you will retake the streets, |
19 |
Shiftee |
"Psychic (feat. Mad Hed City)" |
single |
or whatever is left of the streets |
20 |
Fleurie |
"Hurricane" |
single |
or of the morning. |
21 |
Moxi |
"Paclew" |
single |
And you may object that you were not consulted on this wording, |
22 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Burn the Sky" |
Trinity |
or this inevitability, |
23 |
Caleb Hyles |
"Fireflies" |
single |
and thus are not responsible for these specific interpretations of policy. |
24 |
AmaLee |
"Sora ni Utaeba (My Hero Academia)" |
single |
But these implications were always clear. |
25 |
ToxicxEternity |
"Blooming Villain" |
single |
Or not clear, but impossible to |
26 |
8-Bit Arcade |
"You Shook Me All Night Long" |
The Ultimate ACDC |
unhear once suggested. |
27 |
Karliene |
"I'll Come to Thee" |
The Highwayman |
If you're about to make somebody feel uncomfortable, you should probably have a good idea whether the particular discomfort is a manifestation of dissatisfaction and resolve, or of helplessness and fear. |
28 |
Slushii |
"Into the Light" |
Out of Light |
If it's the latter, you're being an asshole. |
29 |
Urbanstep |
"Battlefield" |
Unreleased 2013-2015 |
If you can't tell which it is, you're being a sociopath. |
30 |
Weaves |
"#53" |
single |
The difference between sociopathology and sociopathy is self-awareness. And feedback. |
31 |
Zola Jesus |
"Poor Animal" |
Stridulum |
We will have these conversation again, but that's no excuse not to listen to them each time we do. |
32 |
Hieroglyphic Being |
"Calling The Loas" |
A.R.E. Project |
Even when we can only think to repeat ourselves, we do so over different background noises. |
33 |
Prayer |
"I" |
Prayer I / II 2 |
Arguably progress comes more readily from changing the context than from rewriting the anthems. |
34 |
Will Pan |
"第三類接觸" |
single |
This is why "derivative", phrased as a criticism, is an admission of critical defeat. |
35 |
Phil Lam |
"有淚多好" |
single |
Derivation is a quintessential human art. |
36 |
張三李四 |
"一人一半" |
single |
We get up in the morning and derive a slight different today from how we tentatively think yesterday went. |
37 |
Crossfaith |
"FREEDOM" |
FREEDOM +2 |
We offer smug genuflections to the gods we imagine wanted us to feel this way, |
38 |
Momoiro Clover Z |
"BLAST!" |
BLAST! |
and then we don't even notice when they walk right past us in spectacular matching outfits. |
39 |
LiSA |
"Datte Atashino Hero" |
Datte Atashino Hero - EP 4 |
Mythology is a technique for syllogizing joys out of impossibilities, |
40 |
PassCode |
"Maze Of Mind" |
Zenith |
and this is all speculative machinery for the manufacture of legend. |
41 |
Bely Basarte |
"The Scientist" |
single |
And it sounds hopeless to debug machines by turning them off and standing in the quiet spaces where they usually run, |
42 |
Bomba Estéreo |
"Internacionales" |
single |
but we invented them by standing in quiet spaces where they didn't exist yet. |
43 |
Versengold |
"Samhain" |
Funkenflug |
Most of the time, the problem with the machines is us. |
44 |
Paganizer |
"Your Suffering Will Be Legendary" |
Land of Weeping Souls |
The noise is us. |
45 |
Gary Numan |
"What God Intended" |
single |
We want to attribute our current fortunes to magic, so we can dream of further fortunes arriving faster than we can earn them. |
46 |
The Cadillac Three |
"Demolition Man" |
single |
We want to simplify our own responsibilities to breaking things instead of repairing them, |
47 |
Chase Holfelder |
"How Far I'll Go" |
single |
but there's often not actually that much difference between the two, |
48 |
NEFER NEFER |
"Bon Jovin Always" |
single |
and either way, when you're finished cleaning up we can go get |
49 |
The Preatures |
"Yanada" |
single |
ice cream. |
50 |
Tired Lion |
"Fresh" |
single |
This week my daughter is making a band and a song out of 5 girls who hadn't even met each other before it began. |
51 |
We Are The Empty |
"Alone in the Snow" |
single |
Like all great ideas, this is a normal thing that all of life is like, compressed until it changes shape, |
52 |
EXO-CBX |
"It's Running Time! (Music from 런닝맨)" |
It's Running Time! 2 |
and set spinning in lights. |
53 |
Mimikry |
"Jag kommer aldrig dö" |
single |
The spinning helps us forget everything else, |
54 |
Ember Sea |
"Dance of Pan" |
How to Tame a Heart |
in the same way that frames help us forget all the endless unpainted spaces, |
55 |
Josh Abbott Band |
"Until My Voice Goes Out" |
single |
so that a moment of grace isn't just a reminder of the virtual omnipresence of gracelessness. |
56 |
Rich O'Toole |
"God & George Strait" |
single |
And if we fall back, as we will, |
57 |
Jim-E Stack |
"Deadstream" |
It's Jim-ee 6 |
monitors will be triggered, and help sent. |
58 |
Even As We Speak |
"Such a Good Feeling" |
single |
We will be resupplied |
59 |
Мумий Тролль |
"Отв. за романтику" |
single |
with the new models. |
60 |
End Of Green |
"Dark Side Of The Sun" |
single |
If the glass is half-empty, drink the rest and the glass will be ready for |
61 |
Maja Šuput |
"Kamikaza" |
single |
something else. |
62 |
Anúna |
"The Salley Gardens" |
single |
The glass was empty once. The glass was full once. Which story do you want to hear tonight? |
63 |
VILDE |
"Stimuli" |
single |
Did I tell you the one where the streets are made of appendices |
64 |
First to Eleven |
"Shape of You" |
single |
and desire is a glass wall we stand on either side of, |
65 |
Fracture |
"Cold & Rain" |
Cold & Rain +3 |
dreaming of the synesthesias from shape to warmth, |
66 |
Rainer Maria |
"Forest Mattress" |
single |
and humidity to loneliness? |
67 |
Aaron Shust |
"Resurrecting - Radio Version" |
single |
You may know the devil by how he first promises that you will not be alone. |
68 |
We Deserve This |
"Modus" |
single |
For that, too, he has erratic mythological devices, |
69 |
Kryptonite |
"Chasing Fire" |
Kryptonite |
sold in packages upgraded more often than the contents. |
70 |
Lowtide |
"Alibi" |
single |
The power of recycling is being able to look at new promises and know that they have been countless other groundless fantasies before this, |
71 |
Morphinist |
"What Once Was Immortal" |
What Once Was Immortal +1 |
and will yet be a fractal impacted blur of all possible fates, |
72 |
Puppet |
"Here Again" |
single |
and still relish this moment now when we see what this version of illusion turns out to conceal. |
73 |
MxPx |
"They" |
single |
Inside this box are some swords of dissidence, |
74 |
Lucah |
"Afortunado" |
single |
and a dance floor on a warm night, |
75 |
Ciaran McMeeken |
"My Kin" |
Ciaran McMeeken |
and a place that welcomes you back |
76 |
Curly Strings |
"Aastapäev" |
single |
the first time you arrive. |
77 |
Eleni Foureira |
"To Kati Pou Exeis - Radio Edit" |
To Kati Pou Exeis 2 |
All cities are permutations of the implications of walls, |
78 |
Elza Soares e Pitty |
"Na Pele" |
single |
what they exclude as much as what they enclose. |
79 |
NF |
"Outro" |
single |
Inside these walls is an infinite labrynthine metropolis of defiance and triumph. |
80 |
Pentatonix |
"Dancing On My Own" |
single |
Inside this box is a voice that can surround your heart. |