1 |
Nothing But Thieves |
"Particles" |
Broken Machine (Deluxe) |
New storms will come. Somebody will break again everything you think you've fixed. |
2 |
Inanimate Existence |
"Underneath a Melting Sky" |
Underneath a Melting Sky |
But maybe not yet. |
3 |
Alvvays |
"Lollipop (Ode To Jim)" |
single |
Maybe not today. |
4 |
Honeyblood |
"Swell Love" |
single |
All victories are temporary, by definition. |
5 |
Current Joys |
"Dogfight" |
Split 4 |
Victory is declaring the end while you're ahead. |
6 |
Kagoule |
"Monsieur Automaton" |
single |
Everything else about quidditch is inane, but that only highlights how right this one detail is. |
7 |
Mourn |
"Over the Wall" |
Over the Wall 5 |
You can be derivative in a thousand ways as long as you are also derivative of the truth. |
8 |
Teen Daze |
"Echoes" |
single |
New storms will come. |
9 |
Mas Ysa |
"MapQuest" |
Untitled 5 |
But maybe not today. |
10 |
Wild Cub |
"Clicks" |
Closer |
So maybe today we will be happy |
11 |
POP ETC |
"Outside Looking In" |
single |
amidst whatever wreckage, |
12 |
ROMES |
"Can't Get Enough" |
single |
with whatever tools survived last night. |
13 |
GGOOLLDD |
"Excelsior Springs - Single Edit" |
single |
Mornings exist to say something not yet over begins again now. |
14 |
Dymna Lotva |
"Самотны Чалавечы Голас" |
Палын |
We can begin again in horror, |
15 |
Primal Fear |
"If Looks Could Kill" |
single |
in retreat, |
16 |
Threshold |
"Superior Machine" |
Legends of the Shires |
in glory, |
17 |
Force Majeure |
"Church of Steam" |
The Rise of Starlit Fires |
in exaltation, |
18 |
Kee of Hearts |
"Crimson Dawn" |
single |
as long as we |
19 |
Pink Cream 69 |
"We Bow to None" |
single |
begin. |
20 |
H.E.A.T |
"Eye Of The Storm" |
single |
So of course songs are powerless against approaching hurricanes. |
21 |
Capstan |
"Elysian Fields" |
single |
But departing hurricanes are even more powerless against songs. |
22 |
Touché Amoré |
"Palm Dreams" |
single |
Songs form faster, |
23 |
Architects |
"Doomsday" |
single |
strike more sharply, |
24 |
Metro Station |
"Young Again" |
Bury Me My Love |
flood everything. |
25 |
Butcher Babies |
"Lilith" |
single |
Coasts rise, |
26 |
Om Unit |
"Out of the Shadows" |
single |
thrash. |
27 |
Zola Jesus |
"Veka" |
Okovi |
And we create our own temporary inlands that are not required to react to ocean weather. |
28 |
Leikeli47 |
"O.M.C." |
Wash & Set |
My measure of civilization, probably, is how much of it can exist in disregard (and ignorance) of the weather. |
29 |
Antwood |
"Disable Ad Blocker" |
Sponsored Content |
Currently, on Earth: not much, and our own actions are arguably making this less rather than more. |
30 |
Guy Andrews |
"Feelings" |
single |
Building walls that increase human suffering is a gruesome parody of technology. |
31 |
FOURS |
"Overthink" |
single |
But lay that wall down flat, maybe we can dance on it. |
32 |
Lorenzo Senni |
"The Shape Of Trance To Come" |
single |
Raise it up, maybe it can protect us from something we really don't control. |
33 |
Alex G |
"Younger Now" |
single |
Paint it, wrap it around us -- |
34 |
Noah Gundersen |
"HEAVY METALS" |
single |
we'll think of something. |
35 |
Tori Amos |
"Bang" |
Native Invader |
Perversity is only one of our many superpowers. |
36 |
Chelsea Wolfe |
"The Culling" |
single |
Some days it may seem like the only one left, |
37 |
Sleeping Romance |
"My Temptation" |
single |
and on those days it is our responsibility to procrastinate |
38 |
3LAU |
"Star Crossed" |
single |
until tomorrow, |
39 |
Clark |
"Acid Romp Off" |
Rellik EP 4 |
when maybe it won't be. |
40 |
Laraaji |
"Sun Gong No.2" |
Sun Gong |
Some songs just sing "not yet" in words you struggle to hear, |
41 |
Remember Sports |
"Making It Right" |
single |
and thus you forget to walk away |
42 |
Narrow Head |
"Stuttering Stanley" |
The Spring Singles 3 |
or give up. |
43 |
Full Tilt |
"We Rise We Fall" |
Steroidal |
Some songs just exist to imply, desperately, that something amazing is about to start. |
44 |
J2 |
"Love Is War (feat. Racella)" |
single |
Sometimes the trailers are thus truer than their movies. |
45 |
Perturbator |
"Tainted Empire" |
New Model |
Sometimes we show promise, and the promise is itself the point, |
46 |
Usnea |
"Demon Haunted World" |
Portals into Futility |
and the memory of promise, not the anticipation of its fulfillment, is what carries us through torment. |
47 |
Novelists |
"L'appel Du Vide" |
Noir |
Maybe tomorrow won't be beautiful, |
48 |
Toothgrinder |
"The Shadow" |
single |
but we have had days of terrifying beauty. |
49 |
WagakkiBand |
"月に叫ぶ夜" |
雨のち感情論 2 |
We may not escape this room, |
50 |
MAGIC OF LiFE |
"Hajimarino Hibi" |
Niemeyer |
but we have seen faraway wonders. |
51 |
uchuu, |
"Keep on Living in My Music," |
Keep On 5 |
We have fallen under inexplicable spells, |
52 |
Blake Shelton |
"I'll Name the Dogs" |
single |
and spells drenched in explicability like low islands returned to the sea, |
53 |
Gothminister |
"The Sun" |
single |
and we have risen |
54 |
Susanne Sundfør |
"Reincarnation" |
Music For People In Trouble |
again, |
55 |
Kari Bremnes |
"Det kunne skjedd" |
Det vi har |
chastened and scoured, but not exactly destroyed; |
56 |
Exhumed |
"Lifeless" |
single |
not exactly dead; |
57 |
Impureza |
"Sangre Para Los Dioses" |
single |
covered with some kind of blood, but not all exactly ours. |
58 |
Alkonost |
"Tropa K Vesne" |
Tropa K Vesne +1 |
We have ridden into battle with gods, |
59 |
Varang Nord |
"Зов битвы" |
Зов битвы |
and come home again without them, |
60 |
Maldita Nerea |
"Desde las Nubes" |
Bailarina |
freed. |
61 |
Deaf Havana |
"Happiness - Reworked" |
single |
Freed. |
62 |
Stereophonics |
"Caught By The Wind" |
single |
Wherever you are hiding when the storm breaks, |
63 |
Rogers |
"Nie euer Land" |
Augen auf |
you don't own a place by cowering there, |
64 |
Radio Havanna |
"Faust hoch" |
single |
you own it only in the moment when you |
65 |
Iron Chic |
"My Best Friend (Is a Nihilist)" |
single |
let it go. |
66 |
Selim Gülgören |
"Ohh Be" |
single |
This abandon is the opposite of abandonment. |
67 |
Miss Montreal |
"A Million Ways" |
single |
This lost is the opposite of lost. |
68 |
Soror Dolorosa |
"Everyway" |
single |
Barbuda will be rebuilt, not out of debris, but out of memory |
69 |
Tunde Olaniran |
"Symbol" |
single |
and defiance. |
70 |
Hale |
"Alon" |
single |
New storms will come. |
71 |
Indochine |
"Station 13" |
13 |
New attacks on beloved streets, new fascists in empires of enlightenment, |
72 |
Secret Rule |
"Twin Flames" |
single |
new tragedies that make our celebrations seem momentarily hollow. |
73 |
Skarlett Riot |
"Break" |
single |
But our celebrations, themselves, have always been hollow. |
74 |
Lunatic Soul |
"Anymore" |
single |
The core inside them has always been us, |
75 |
We Deserve This |
"Templates" |
single |
or on days when we can't celebrate, our redolent absence. |
76 |
KAUAN |
"Kaiho" |
single |
Thus the cathartic, awed experience of returning to our recovered shells. |
77 |
JóiPé |
"Stælar" |
GerviGlingur |
Not our experience. We will leave again. We have things to see. But the shell, the fear, the discarded mythology, the forgotten or to-be-forgotten language: for a moment again it remembers what it feels like to be the illusory armor for a briefly deliriously impervious soul. |