1 |
Nocturnal Rites |
"What's Killing Me" |
single |
You don't have to stand for this. |
2 |
Eleine |
"Hell Moon (We Shall Never Die)" |
single |
These flags and monuments are ritual mnemonics, |
3 |
Wolves In The Throne Room |
"Fires Roar in the Palace of the Moon" |
Thrice Woven |
symbols we once made to explain a realization or a refusal. |
4 |
Satyricon |
"The Ghost Of Rome" |
Deep calleth upon Deep |
They are future ruins, polished and preserved in their splendor for a while until they crumble, |
5 |
KAUAN |
"Sateen Huuhtoma" |
Kaiho |
and then unpolished and preserved in their decay until we need the space more for something alive. |
6 |
Auðn |
"Skuggar" |
single |
But insisting on the memorization of old answers to questions we no longer ask the same way |
7 |
Altarage |
"Orb Terrax" |
single |
is the opposite of curiosity. |
8 |
Cradle Of Filth |
"The Night at Catafalque Manor" |
Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness of Decay |
Codifying the body postures appropriate to any given song is the opposite of listening. |
9 |
Sarke |
"Jutul" |
single |
Alexander Hamilton wasn't even thinking about football games, that night in 1776, |
10 |
The Clientele |
"The Circus" |
Music for the Age of Miracles (Deluxe Version) |
when he first picked out the tentative strains of our future National Anthem |
11 |
The Jesus and Mary Chain |
"The Two Of Us (feat. Sky Ferreira) - Radio Edit" |
single |
by flickering candlelight |
12 |
Cold Cave |
"Glory" |
single |
on a battered 808. |
13 |
Ritual Howls |
"Perfume" |
Their Body |
All he wanted was for us to not throw away our shot. |
14 |
Chelsea Wolfe |
"Particle Flux" |
Hiss Spun |
He wanted us to get up at dawn and see more potential than conspiracy in the day. |
15 |
Kindling |
"Destroy Yrself" |
single |
He wanted us to keep standing up for the things we claimed to believe last night. |
16 |
Tegan and Sara |
"Call It Off" |
single |
He wanted us to survive the bombs, and thus to prove the uselessness of bombs. |
17 |
The Killers |
"Rut" |
Wonderful Wonderful |
He knew that enemies are never clearly seen, because the nature of enmity relies on occlusion. |
18 |
Cold Specks |
"Rupture" |
Fool's Paradise |
Where is the band that sang that song? |
19 |
We Came As Romans |
"Lost in the Moment" |
single |
What is this pointless moral civil-war we're having when we should be rebuilding islands, |
20 |
Circa Survive |
"Stay" |
The Amulet |
this time strong enough to weather changes in climate |
21 |
Beach Slang |
"Thirteen (Quiet Slang)" |
single |
and administrations. |
22 |
Twenty One Two |
"Without You" |
single |
Puerto Rico should be a state. |
23 |
Halflives |
"Welcome to the Black Parade" |
single |
Donald Trump should be rich asshole yelling at his television while smugly and harmlessly eating steak with ketchup in his ghastly apartment. |
24 |
My Ticket Home |
"We All Use" |
single |
Except not steak, because the beef industry is killing us, but he can keep the ketchup. |
25 |
Enter Shikari |
"The Sights" |
The Spark |
The North Koreans should be helping us reach Mars. |
26 |
Christina Rotondo |
"That's What You Get" |
single |
Our spectacles should be helping us let our hearts win. |
27 |
Makeout |
"Ride It Out" |
single |
Repect the powers that break and strain nations, |
28 |
Man Without Country |
"Jaws of Life" |
Lion Mind / Jaws of Life 2 |
by not surrendering to them. |
29 |
BadBadNotGood |
"Confessions Pt III (feat. Colin Stetson)" |
single |
If jazz is my steak, Colin Stetson is my ketchup. |
30 |
Balmorhea |
"Clear Language" |
Clear Language |
Storms pass, the need for resources of calm does not. |
31 |
Aaron Martin |
"Risen, Darkened" |
Hymn Binding |
Nor the needs for water, and walls where there are holes that used to be walls. |
32 |
Secret Pyramid |
"Touch" |
Two Shadows Collide |
Arecibo survived. |
33 |
Wolf Alice |
"Heavenward" |
single |
The recipes for bacalaíto and alcapurria survived. |
34 |
Noah Gundersen |
"NUMBER ONE HIT OF THE SUMMER (FADE OUT)" |
WHITE NOISE |
The dream of paradise always survives, you can't blow away dreams with wind. |
35 |
Audiomachine |
"Radiant" |
Life |
But everything else is weaker, and dreams may have to begin again from rock and salt. |
36 |
Thomas Bergersen |
"Unleashed" |
Unleashed |
But of course they do. |
37 |
Fringe Element |
"Nine Days Wonder" |
Limitless |
Paradise is inherently all-inclusive. |
38 |
J2 |
"Renegade (feat. Coleen McMahon)" |
single |
We do not dream grandly of existing cities with slightly better zoning, |
39 |
AmaLee |
"Hourglass" |
Hourglass 5 |
or Mitch McConnell somehow miraculously becoming .7% decent. |
40 |
MYRNE |
"Confessions (feat. Cozi Zuehlsdorff)" |
single |
We dream of sweeping everything away and having to account for no constraints, |
41 |
Weaves |
"Scream (feat. Tanya Tagaq)" |
single |
apologize for no past injustices, |
42 |
Kristin Kontrol |
"Concrete Love" |
single |
obey no other rules |
43 |
Dark Oath |
"If I Had a Heart" |
single |
than the new ones we write out of selfishness or love. |
44 |
Archspire |
"Relentless Mutation" |
Relentless Mutation |
Our new systems will be terrible and swift. |
45 |
CLAWS |
"Frank Takes On The World" |
single |
Probably terrible, but at least done with energy. |
46 |
A-Lin |
"不要不要的" |
A-LIN同名專輯 |
All of us dance on different patches of unreliable ground |
47 |
Bii |
"Be Your Light - 電視劇「隧道」片尾曲" |
single |
that can be claimed, but not secured, by coffee and street names. |
48 |
La Oreja de Van Gogh |
"Estoy Contigo" |
single |
We are in Barbuda and Mexico City and Rakhine. We are not with you, we are all us. |
49 |
Vanesa Martín |
"Hábito de ti" |
single |
We are singing the same love in all of these languages, |
50 |
Pornomotora |
"NEXO" |
single |
in every jagged rendition. |
51 |
MAN WITH A MISSION |
"Brave It Out" |
Dead End in Tokyo |
Where is that band? Everywhere. |
52 |
coldrain |
"FEED THE FIRE" |
single |
They are screaming in Nagoya, |
53 |
NoGoD |
"Shinkirou" |
proof |
and inside your crises, |
54 |
Kaya |
"Huuu" |
single |
and in wordless arguments for better ways. |
55 |
Vulture Industries |
"Tales of Woe" |
Stranger Times |
Stories of our failure and destruction are always chapters of novels of redemption, |
56 |
Damned Spring Fragrantia |
"Float" |
single |
not because we don't suffer, but because we don't stop when we suffer. |
57 |
Kelsea Ballerini |
"High School" |
single |
So today try this: remember what you think it felt like when you were magic, |
58 |
Danielle Bradbery |
"Hello Summer" |
single |
and how you think you would feel if it weren't for all of this shit, |
59 |
Jessie James Decker |
"Hungry" |
single |
and then realize that those feelings are always |
60 |
Carly Pearce |
"I Need A Ride Home" |
single |
inside of you. |
61 |
Post Monroe |
"White Noise" |
Digital 45, Vol. 1 2 |
Remember what it feels like when we look at each other, |
62 |
H.E.A.T |
"Redefined" |
Into the Great Unknown |
in these or any other ruins. |
63 |
Revolution Saints |
"I Wouldn't Change a Thing" |
single |
Remember supergroups of the forgotten, |
64 |
Diary Of Dreams |
"Epicon" |
single |
disassemblies of dust, |
65 |
Iris |
"Re:call" |
single |
full glory now reflected, |
66 |
Dame |
"Ich seh dich" |
Ich seh dich +2 |
the difference between dawn and morning, |
67 |
Martina Edoff |
"Turn Our Pages" |
We Will Align |
bright blazons, |
68 |
Vetusta Morla |
"Te lo Digo a Ti" |
single |
methodical checkpoints, |
69 |
This Patch of Sky |
"Under Vermilion Cliffs" |
These Small Spaces |
evasive interstices, |
70 |
Metavari |
"Messages" |
single |
feedback mandalas, |
71 |
Stafrænn Hákon |
"Rafall" |
Hausi |
the islands that survived this time, |
72 |
Ranges |
"Called Not to a New Religion, but to Life" |
The Ascensionist |
the notional islands where we imagine we will take refuge |
73 |
The Gothenburg Address |
"All Distances Reduced to Zero" |
All Distances Reduced to Zero +1 |
if the sea rises past our threshold of disbelief. |
74 |
Aly & Fila |
"You & I" |
Beyond The Lights |
Cultivate techniques for perseverance, like listening through constant noise for a single voice. |
75 |
Dash Berlin |
"Home" |
Home +1 |
Like home as a thing you make, not find. |
76 |
Hopsin |
"The Purge" |
single |
Like resistance as a basic emotion. |
77 |
The Lillingtons |
"Zodiac" |
single |
Like choruses. |
78 |
Kıraç |
"Kerkük Zindanı" |
single |
Like chorsues as another basic emotion. |
79 |
Hidden Orchestra |
"East London Street - Edit" |
East London Street 3 |
Like between resistance and choruses and math, |
80 |
Soulwax |
"Is It Always Binary (Edit)" |
single |
we can get out of this. |
81 |
Zomaer |
"Zoveel Te Delen" |
single |
Some people haven't seen Barbuda yet, so we must get out of this. |
82 |
Bengalfuel |
"Star Frog" |
Hodes |
When we can't sing, we hum. |
83 |
Process of Guilt |
"(No) Shelter" |
Black Earth |
We never shut up. |
84 |
Leander Kills |
"Egy Hónapja Nem Láttalak" |
Élet A Halál Előtt |
You can legislate a soundtrack, but you can't control how we move. |
85 |
Magashegyi Underground |
"Itt Leszel" |
single |
We don't have to stand still for this. |
86 |
The Megaphonic Thrift |
"Winning a Battle, Losing the War" |
single |
Kneeling, standing, dancing, |
87 |
TORRES |
"Helen in the Woods" |
single |
reeling, |
88 |
Acephalix |
"Upon This Altar" |
Decreation |
praying for help, |
89 |
Le Roi |
"Torso" |
Elämä |
all of these people are us, |
90 |
Grave Pleasures |
"Joy Through Death" |
single |
and there is only one side to take, |
91 |
Ancient Ocean |
"Cassini-Huygens" |
Titan's Island |
so long as we have more theories than planets, |
92 |
Zephyra |
"The Darkest Black" |
single |
and more days than nights, if you count tomorrow. |