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Y Kant Tori Read |
"The Big Picture - Remastered" |
Y Kant Tori Read |
It is inevitable that you will become embarrassed by things you once did. Thus the importance of doing them with enough aplomb that you'll be proud of them again once you stop being embarrassed. |
2 |
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart |
"So True" |
The Echo of Pleasure |
Thus the power of remembering how you once felt, |
3 |
Pinkshinyultrablast |
"Find Your Saint" |
single |
what you once found inexplicable, |
4 |
The Stargazer Lilies |
"Fukitol" |
Lost |
what you once assumed nobody really knew. |
5 |
INHEAVEN |
"Treats" |
INHEAVEN |
You will hear things you have heard before, and you control how your heart leaps this time |
6 |
Sløtface |
"Backyard" |
single |
just as much and as little as you controlled it the last time. |
7 |
Tricky |
"Running Wild" |
single |
The heart beats to accumulate leaping energy. |
8 |
The Wake |
"Isolated Illusion" |
Earth's Necropolis |
Conflation is a crude strategy for discovery, |
9 |
Nocturnal Rites |
"Repent My Sins" |
single |
but maybe no cruder than ritual. |
10 |
Lonewolf |
"Through Fire, Ice and Blood" |
single |
We rehearse to fill the time between inspirations, |
11 |
Epica |
"Fight Your Demons" |
The Solace System |
or to practice not giving up. |
12 |
The Unity |
"Never Forget" |
Never Forget +1 |
What is it about ecstatic glory that makes any more or less sense than invisible rays and particles? |
13 |
KAUAN |
"Kasvot" |
single |
And yet here we are, |
14 |
Usnea |
"Eidolons and the Increate" |
single |
more or less, |
15 |
Auðn |
"Í Hálmstráið Held" |
single |
terrified |
16 |
Ne Obliviscaris |
"Urn, Pt. I: And Within the Void We Are Breathless" |
single |
and ascendant. |
17 |
Secrets |
"Incredible" |
single |
The sun doesn't pause, under the horizon, |
18 |
Alazka |
"The Witness" |
Phoenix |
wracked with self-doubt, |
19 |
Andrew Baena |
"MU 無 - MU 無" |
single |
thinking "but hasn't this already been done?" |
20 |
Bright Green |
"Knowing I Won't Do Anything Better" |
That's Heaven Behind Me 5 |
It does not: |
21 |
Jetty Bones |
"No Lover" |
single |
it rises as best it can into unknown days, |
22 |
Heavy Hearts |
"Easy Mark" |
single |
and reaches out over everything. |
23 |
Zola Jesus |
"Siphon" |
single |
Our foundational misconception about resurrection is that it doesn't happen constantly. |
24 |
Pinch |
"Control" |
Control / Strobe Light 2 |
Or it's that the state between rebirths is any different. |
25 |
Septicflesh |
"Martyr" |
Codex Omega |
Or that we aren't our demons. |
26 |
Soundcritters |
"01001 I Am Digital" |
Era |
Or that dream-logic would be any better than astonishing mundane reality. |
27 |
Kári Sigurðsson |
"A Boy and His Cat" |
Those Who Think They Know |
Hold still and count the atoms that surround you. |
28 |
Black Mare |
"Femme Couverte" |
single |
Do you know their true names? |
29 |
Mary's Blood |
"Hanabi" |
Fate |
All these words are other helpless ebullient ways to explode |
30 |
Perfume |
"Everyday" |
If You Wanna 2 |
and succumb. |
31 |
Astro Bunny |
"不想就這樣結束" |
single |
The colors are always a tiny bit different in even the same air, |
32 |
Lara Liang |
"陽光" |
single |
and particles of adoration get into you no matter how carefully you breathe. |
33 |
White Moth Black Butterfly |
"Rising Sun" |
Atone |
Who will be in your other bands? |
34 |
Merche |
"Noche de San Juan" |
single |
Will you read the news and think "I have been where that sorrow fell, and I will go there again", |
35 |
Big & Rich |
"Turns Me On" |
single |
or will you turn away thinking "I would never have made those choices"? |
36 |
Jessie James Decker |
"Southern Girl City Lights" |
single |
The path you take is the one that leads from everywhere else to where you stand. |
37 |
Diary Of Dreams |
"Hiding Rivers" |
single |
Loneliness is the space left when you eliminate everybody you would leave unprotected. |
38 |
The Crüxshadows |
"Helios" |
Astromythology |
Nobody becomes a vampire because they never had sunlight explained to them devoutly enough. |
39 |
WÖYH! |
"Totuuskone" |
KRTKRTK |
Bad choices are mostly misunderstandings, but so are good choices. |
40 |
Kilpi |
"Kasikuus" |
Kasikuus +1 |
People with names you can't pronounce will have nicknames you can't pronounce, either, |
41 |
Mansesteri |
"Turbulenssi (feat. Samson)" |
single |
but that just means you can call them anything, |
42 |
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark |
"As We Open, So We Close" |
The Punishment of Luxury |
and can be anybody in return. |
43 |
Vessels |
"Deeper in a Sky" |
single |
Technology doesn't make you less human, any more than hurricanes make you more human. |
44 |
Maldita Nerea |
"Cuando Todas las Historias Se Acaban" |
single |
Storms don't come ashore. It's you who observes these edges as boundaries. |
45 |
La Maravillosa Orquesta del Alcohol |
"La Inmensidad" |
single |
It is only you who stipulates that these words are that language, |
46 |
Marwan |
"Mi Único Motor" |
Mis Paisajes Interiores |
when we all know that we all hear them perfectly clearly. |
47 |
Odisseo |
"Invencibles" |
single |
You will look down on destroyed islands you couldn't locate, and you will see your uprooted streetlights and your torn roofs. |
48 |
Casper |
"Alles ist erleuchtet" |
Lang lebe der Tod |
These people you don't know want justice, or temporarily want clean water and blankets but will want justice again. |
49 |
Alex Lahey |
"Lotto in Reverse" |
single |
This is the real lottery we play: most days, you are not in the storm. |
50 |
George Maple |
"Hero" |
single |
You show your soul when you have nothing to run from, |
51 |
Tenishia |
"Alba" |
single |
and we will remember this |
52 |
Stand Atlantic |
"Sidewinder" |
single |
when there are tigers before you |
53 |
Looming |
"Queen" |
single |
and storm surge behind. |
54 |
Mimikry |
"Jag har valt att hoppa av" |
single |
We will remember this when we corner you on a round planet. |
55 |
Passion |
"Glorioso Día" |
Glorioso Día |
We will look in your eyes and know whether you understand that you have nowhere else to go. |
56 |
Soror Dolorosa |
"Another Life" |
single |
You fear this trap, but it releases you from flight. |
57 |
LÜT |
"Trash Gjennom" |
single |
Of all the problems you must solve or suffer, this one you are spared. |
58 |
Atrium Carceri |
"Prepare the Stage of Night" |
Black Corner Den |
You need not choose this life. |
59 |
Max Richter |
"Dona Nobis Pacem 2 (From “The Leftovers” – Season 1)" |
single |
It has chosen you. It has fallen in love with you. |
60 |
Even As We Speak |
"Our People Travelled Many Moons" |
The Black Forest 5 |
We are your people, this is your rock. We're getting some logo hoodies made! What's your size? |
61 |
Pale Honey |
"Get These Things out of My Head" |
single |
You don't have to wear them. But it gets cold at night, and you are what you are. |
62 |
Frida Sundemo |
"Gold" |
single |
If you can't sleep, you can't dream. |
63 |
Voyce |
"Gemeinsam zu weit" |
single |
And you can't sleep through this. |