1 |
MUNA |
"In My Way" |
single |
Synthesizers flutter and swell, and with them my heart. |
2 |
The Great Discord |
"Darkest Day" |
The Rabbit Hole |
Did I ever believe that vulnerability and power somehow weren't inextricably intertwined? |
3 |
Grace Mitchell |
"French Becky" |
single |
That you couldn't nail a note with a trill? |
4 |
Cold Specks |
"Void" |
single |
I skipped this to find something my daughter would like better, and she said "No, go back!" |
5 |
Liima |
"1982" |
single |
We need comsat angels now more than ever. |
6 |
MILKK |
"IDWK" |
single |
The world could be wiped clean, and with even just one drum-loop we could start again. |
7 |
Satyricon |
"To Your Brethren In The Dark" |
single |
Some noises reach into ourselves towards where we yearn for this chance: |
8 |
Myrkur |
"Elleskudt" |
Mareridt (Deluxe Version) |
Nihilism as a situational strategy for viridian reorganization, |
9 |
Samael |
"Black Supremacy" |
single |
a way to disintegrate current power structures, |
10 |
Kadaverdisciplin |
"Death Supremacy" |
Death Supremacy |
fearlessly |
11 |
Xanthochroid |
"The Sound Which Has No Name" |
Of Erthe and Axen: Act I |
and recklessly, |
12 |
BANNERS |
"Firefly" |
single |
in the theory that beginning again with what we know now |
13 |
Amberian Dawn |
"Maybe" |
single |
will be a shorter path to joy. |
14 |
Ensiferum |
"King of Storms" |
single |
This is a massive vote of no-confidence in our history and its inertia, |
15 |
Arion |
"No One Stands in My Way" |
single |
but a magnificent gesture of faith in our potential |
16 |
Neverland |
"Destiny" |
Before the Winner |
and our future. |
17 |
Kee of Hearts |
"Stranded" |
Kee of Hearts |
And isn't this ultimately the question we ask ourselves about this life: |
18 |
Evanescence |
"Imperfection" |
single |
Is progress a thing? |
19 |
The Story So Far |
"Out of It" |
single |
Do we learn from mistakes? |
20 |
Daisyhead |
"Cute Little Finger" |
Purple & Blue 2 |
It's never as simple as identifying errors and then not making them any more, |
21 |
Stand Atlantic |
"Sidewinder" |
Sidewinder 5 |
but do make them in incrementally less damaging ways? |
22 |
Now, Now |
"Yours" |
single |
Are the new mistakes less profound, |
23 |
Plastic Flowers |
"How Can I" |
single |
or less frequent? |
24 |
PONY |
"Small Things" |
single |
Or can we recognize or recover from them faster? |
25 |
Bloodywood |
"Look What You Made Me Do" |
single |
When our nominal heroes write lifeless, joyless new songs, |
26 |
The Animal In Me |
"Look What You Made Me Do" |
single |
can we fight them with purpose, |
27 |
Veil Of Maya |
"Overthrow" |
single |
so that their frailty and betrayal becomes part of the story of justice and strength, |
28 |
Moonspell |
"Todos Os Santos" |
single |
as of course it always must? |
29 |
The Unguided |
"Legendary" |
single |
Never bring a sulk to a catharsis fight. |
30 |
Hanging Garden |
"Elysium" |
single |
To contemplate death is to |
31 |
Skyfire |
"Liberation In Death" |
Liberation In Death +3 |
look beyond yourself, |
32 |
Even Vast |
"After All" |
Dawning Gloom |
and recognize the elements of you that already exist in everybody else: |
33 |
Ben Frost |
"Ionia" |
single |
oblique torments, |
34 |
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith |
"To Feel Your Best" |
single |
amorphous attachments, |
35 |
Bvdub |
"Limitless" |
Heartless |
elusive infinities, |
36 |
Machinedrum |
"1 2 B Needed" |
single |
resolving into concurrent structures, |
37 |
Gabriel Saloman |
"What Belongs To Love" |
Movement Building Vol.3 |
and their attendant theories of architecture. |
38 |
Miracle Of Sound |
"No One" |
single |
Simulated apocalypses can be critiques of our planning, |
39 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Soul Reaper" |
single |
but are more often just mordant celebrations of scale, |
40 |
Tsuko G. |
"Rewrite" |
single |
and tentative methods of taunting every lesser storm. |
41 |
NateWantsToBattle |
"Heroes (From "My Hero Academia")" |
single |
I will mourn with people I have never met, but also sing the theme songs of shows I will never watch. |
42 |
Alpine Universe |
"The Hunter" |
single |
The anthemic urge is part of what defines us, |
43 |
Curtis Schweitzer |
"Tachocline" |
The Frequency of Dreams |
even if it contains our inherent weakness for loving the shape of evil, |
44 |
Tony Anderson |
"Butterflies" |
single |
for confusing morality with grace, |
45 |
Frightened Rabbit |
"Roadless" |
Recorded Songs 3 |
for thinking that anywhere we have personally ended up is accessible to all. |
46 |
MUCC |
"Bouzenjishitsu" |
Koroshi No ShirabeⅡ This is NOT Greatest Hits |
But your familiar roads are other people's labyrinths of frantic despair. |
47 |
THE NOVEMBERS |
"dysphoria - Before Today ver." |
single |
Your labor builds somebody else's dystopia. |
48 |
Glim Spanky |
"Fukinuku Kazenoyouni" |
Bizarre Carnival |
Remember this, and put the tourist bureau near the gate. |
49 |
flumpool |
"Hana Ni Nare" |
For flumpool beginners |
Print a few menus in other languages. |
50 |
Ninos Du Brasil |
"O Vento Chama Seu Nome" |
Vida Eterna |
It is not necessary to change the food, |
51 |
Dear Jane |
"也許我不會活多一歲" |
single |
just remember that people who don't know what you know, |
52 |
Sandee Chan |
"他是末日預言中的宇宙碎片" |
single |
but who operate on the same imperatives, |
53 |
Ken Hung |
"衝破 (香港青年協會「Project STEP-青少年情緒健康計劃」主題曲)" |
single |
still need to eat when they come. |
54 |
Malú |
"Invisible" |
single |
They are here already, of course. |
55 |
Pastora Soler |
"La tormenta" |
La calma |
A part of each of us is lost wherever we are, |
56 |
047 |
"uBuhle" |
single |
and found upon arrival in any elsewhere, |
57 |
Legend |
"Frostbite" |
single |
desperately deprived of whatever it is they only have there. |
58 |
The Contortionist |
"Monochrome (Passive)" |
Clairvoyant |
We mutter to ourselves, |
59 |
Caligula's Horse |
"Dream the Dead" |
In Contact |
rehearsing arguments for things we probably don't really need, |
60 |
Archspire |
"Calamus Will Animate" |
single |
and practicing our hammer-swing, |
61 |
Dyscarnate |
"To End All Flesh Before Me" |
With All Their Might |
and our ability to recognize the first signs of decay, |
62 |
Gigan |
"Hyperjump-Ritual Madness" |
Undulating Waves Of Rainbiotic Iridescence |
and thus disguise it in ourselves. |
63 |
Black Mare |
"Ingress to Form" |
Death Magick Mother |
Mortal-coil generators, |
64 |
⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ |
"・✧(๑ඕัළ*.。 * ̈°。" |
・✧(๑ඕัළ*.。 * ̈°。 +1 |
symbol fetishism, |
65 |
△▃△▓ |
"░▓░▓░▓░▓░▓░▓░▓░▓░▓░▓░▓░▓░▓" |
single |
insular methods: |
66 |
Sløtface |
"Galaxies" |
Try Not To Freak Out |
our diaries accomodate all these tactics for self-awareness, |
67 |
Donkeyboy |
"Kaleidoscope" |
single |
and then close behind gleaming locks. |
68 |
Lucy Swann |
"Foreign Bodies" |
single |
Learning to walk is the essence of dancing, |
69 |
Makthaverskan |
"Eden" |
single |
like learning to cry is the essence of love. |
70 |
Gary Numan |
"Ghost Nation" |
Savage (Songs from a Broken World) |
Hope comes packaged with regret, |
71 |
Caroline Kole |
"Tidal Wave" |
single |
in a box that can be a puppet theater, |
72 |
Carly Pearce |
"Color" |
single |
and a living-room ark for cats, |
73 |
Haloo Helsinki! |
"Tuntematon" |
single |
and a teleporter to imaginary realms where you have been foretold, |
74 |
Tuoni |
"Tulipyörä" |
single |
dreaded, |
75 |
Jimi Pääkallo |
"Rakkauden Nimeen" |
Elämä Suomessa |
debated learnedly in your absence. |
76 |
Kettcar |
"Wagenburg" |
single |
The base discipline of curiosity is realizing that your unaccustomed presence is part of other people's arguments with each other |
77 |
Serum 114 |
"Ich Lebe (feat. Myriam von M)" |
single |
about what they merely love |
78 |
Emil Bulls |
"Kill Your Demons" |
single |
and what they require. |
79 |
Arcane Roots |
"Indigo" |
single |
Find a window over a city street, and watch people walk past for six and a half minutes. |
80 |
The XCERTS |
"Daydream" |
single |
All of those people are you. |
81 |
Press To MECO |
"If All Your Parts Don't Make a Whole" |
single |
All of their dreams are wonder that could swallow you a minute from now. |
82 |
Guillotina |
"Difícil Entender" |
Volumen |
At the end of the song, have you fallen in love, |
83 |
This Patch of Sky |
"Coordinates (44°06'12"N 121°46'09"W)" |
single |
or have you designed ineffective sanctions against helpless strangers without ever learning how to say their names? |
84 |
Alex Lahey |
"I Haven't Been Taking Care of Myself" |
single |
Will you pull the shade, |
85 |
Tired Lion |
"Where Were You?" |
Dumb Days |
or go outside? |
86 |
Otherwise |
"Won't Stop" |
single |
And outside, on the sidewalk, will you stop there? |
87 |
Awaken I Am |
"Wolves" |
single |
Someone made this sidewalk for you, |
88 |
Circa Survive |
"Premonition of the Hex" |
single |
without a plan. |
89 |
Main-De-Gloire |
"Tonight" |
single |
This is how you hold out a hand to people, |
90 |
Sweater Beats |
"Symphony" |
single |
knowing nothing about how they dance: |
91 |
Slow Magic |
"Drum" |
single |
it's going to be somewhere between slow and fast, |
92 |
AUTOBAHN |
"Future" |
single |
and you'll know it when they move. |
93 |
Visionist |
"No Idols" |
single |
It's the same way you find common ground with yourself, |
94 |
Iglooghost |
"White Gum" |
single |
with your own relentless fears, |
95 |
Michael Prins |
"She Makes These Streets Look Like a Hollywood Town" |
single |
with your sentimental defenselessnesses, |
96 |
Ibeyi |
"Me Voy" |
single |
with flight, |
97 |
Caparezza |
"Prosopagnosia" |
Prisoner 709 |
with those moments when you understand what you don't know about what you think you believe. |
98 |
Besserbitch |
"Error Code 31" |
Error Code 31 +2 |
Sometimes we make mistakes in order to make something. |
99 |
Sunrise Avenue |
"Heartbreak Century" |
single |
Actually, maybe that's most of it. |
100 |
Leander Kills |
"Ha Elmész" |
single |
Or, if no that's not you, a way of tolerating other people's incomprehensible decisions. |
101 |
ESPRIT 空想 |
"It's a Fast Driving Rave up with ESPRIT" |
single |
It's not like you can reasonably expect other people to just hold still forever |
102 |
Rivermaya |
"Sabay Tayo" |
Sa Kabila Ng Lahat |
just because you hadn't planned past selling them sanctuary, |
103 |
Bengalfuel |
"Black Hole" |
single |
past what will motivate them after this storm is over. |
104 |
Rone |
"Brest" |
single |
But if Michael Nyman could have a post-rock band, |
105 |
Kaleida |
"Convolution" |
Tear The Roots |
and statuary can access their feelings, |
106 |
Shania Twain |
"We Got Something They Don't" |
single |
then probably we can rebuild pretty much any ruined thing. |
107 |
Sumo Cyco |
"New Rules" |
single |
If we focus. If we take this opportunity to focus. |
108 |
Makassy |
"Laisse tomber l'amour" |
single |
It's 2017, maybe we can think of a way to build a power-grid on a tropical island so that hurricanes don't just wash it away. |
109 |
NF |
"Let You Down" |
single |
It's 2017, maybe we can stop trying to out-kill the planet. |
110 |
J:Kenzo |
"Cross Polarity" |
single |
Maybe we can organize our noises a little bit, so they form empathic patterns. |
111 |
David Garrett |
"Born In The USA" |
Rock Revolution |
Maybe we can see how our impulses are both grand and ridiculous, |
112 |
Gwar |
"El Presidente" |
single |
cartoonish and precise, |
113 |
Max Richter |
"Openings" |
Taboo |
false conclusions that leave us ready to think about what previously-unthinkable thing we can prove next. |