1 |
Fort Atlantic |
"I Will Never Give Up on You" |
Shadow Shaker, Vol. 1 |
We are formed in affirmations, |
2 |
DMA'S |
"Dawning" |
single |
set free in spirals and fifth chances, |
3 |
Anubis Gate |
"Psychotopia" |
Covered in Black |
validated in systemic grace. |
4 |
Communic |
"Where Echoes Gather, Pt. 2: The Underground Swine" |
single |
We persist. |
5 |
Nachtblut |
"Multikulturell" |
single |
Persistence is not itself a triumph until we celebrate it. |
6 |
Aeranea |
"The Fall" |
The Demons Inside 3 |
Most accurately, I think, we celebrate our capacity for celebration. |
7 |
Shadowside |
"The Fall" |
Shades of Humanity |
We are triumphantly self-aware, and least human when rage and desperation take us out of ourselves. |
8 |
The Dark Element |
"Here's to You" |
single |
Heroic sentience, |
9 |
Power Quest |
"Lords of Tomorrow (Single Version)" |
single |
these are our verses |
10 |
Enslaved |
"The River's Mouth" |
single |
and landscapes, |
11 |
Havukruunu |
"Talven Mustat Tuulet" |
Havulinnaan |
our anticipatory ruins, |
12 |
Samael |
"Hegemony" |
single |
our lightlessnesses, |
13 |
Witchery |
"Of Blackened Wing" |
single |
halls constructed for the obscure purposes of the haunters. |
14 |
Sarke |
"Age of Sail" |
single |
We are vacated historians, |
15 |
Wvrm |
"Can You Hear The Wind Howl" |
Can You Hear the Wind Howl 6 |
or the ghosts of their scribes, |
16 |
Laster |
"Play Gamer" |
Eclipse |
or the abandoned pixels where they no longer sit in vigil. |
17 |
Veil Of Maya |
"Doublespeak" |
single |
Some people want to fill the world with the entrails of love songs, |
18 |
Fjørt |
"Couleur" |
single |
wound around our throats like glistening rejected air, |
19 |
Pierce The Veil |
"Today I Saw The Whole World" |
Today I Saw The Whole World EP 2 |
like elegantly tattered scarves or scars, |
20 |
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith |
"I Will Make Room for You" |
The Kid |
like comfortably furnished imaginary empty spaces in the manors of regret. |
21 |
Alessandro Cortini |
"Iniziare" |
AVANTI |
We are founded on principles of illusory return, |
22 |
Last Japan |
"Teflon" |
Exhale / Teflon 2 |
on the solvent erroneous empowering conviction that we have solved these problems before, |
23 |
Dark0 |
"Arena3" |
Xenotype 5 |
on the seditious unearned evasion of fear. |
24 |
P!nk |
"Whatever You Want" |
single |
Our prophets are among us, |
25 |
Arctic Lake |
"Forget About It All" |
single |
consumed by notional infrastructures and obsessive detail, |
26 |
Whissell |
"Wild Animal" |
single |
but ready too to lead us into sudden flashmob raptures. |
27 |
Huora |
"Normaali?" |
single |
We don't always see ourselves in this, |
28 |
Katie Herzig |
"Feel Alive" |
single |
but we don't always open our eyes. |
29 |
The Weather Station |
"Free" |
The Weather Station |
We don't always open our hearts, |
30 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Edge of the Blade" |
Nephalem |
either, |
31 |
Alpine Universe |
"Forces of Nature" |
The Alpine Universe |
but our avatars await our better selves, |
32 |
And So I Watch You from Afar |
"Dying Giants" |
single |
with cryptic equations of conditional acceptance: |
33 |
BiS |
"I can't say NO!!!!!!!" |
I can't say NO!!!!!!! +1 |
You can have eternal peace if you can eat it before you are crushed by a cartoon train. |
34 |
UNDEAD CORPORATION |
"No Antidote" |
NO ANTIDOTE |
You can fly in black armor if you agree to live in a world of smoke. |
35 |
Good Tiger |
"Blueshift" |
single |
You can master a method of relentless redemption if you promise to only use it for planning hypothetical colonies under fictional seas. |
36 |
Angel Vivaldi |
"Adrenaline (feat. Julian Cifuentes)" |
Synapse |
You can pick an arbitrary velocity with which to not arrive. |
37 |
Negramaro |
"Fino all'imbrunire" |
single |
You can dance with people you have never seen. |
38 |
Major Parkinson |
"Baseball" |
single |
They know even less about you. |
39 |
Gåte |
"Stolt Solvår" |
single |
But they have forests, |
40 |
Makthaverskan |
"Comfort" |
single |
and you have streetlights and fog and longing, |
41 |
Alex Mofa Gang |
"Kein Wort" |
Perspektiven |
and shoes that are still in fashion somewhere, |
42 |
Killerpilze |
"Immer noch jung" |
Immer noch jung +2 |
and we have resourceful choreography |
43 |
Diary Of Dreams |
"Epicon" |
Hell in Eden |
and the faith of machines, |
44 |
Curxes |
"In Your Neighbourhood" |
single |
and small rooms against infinite space. |
45 |
Liv Sin |
"King Of The Damned" |
single |
You who would defeat us, we have already rehearsed more defeats than you can imagine. |
46 |
Sevdaliza |
"Mad Woman" |
single |
We have animated our implosions in stop motion, |
47 |
Once A Tree |
"Fine" |
single |
savoring each frame. |
48 |
Social Repose |
"Empress" |
Empress 6 |
What you mistook for distraction |
49 |
Modelo de Respuesta Polar |
"Siempre" |
single |
and sentimental reluctance |
50 |
DON BROCO |
"Stay Ignorant" |
single |
was always preparation for this oblique war |
51 |
YONAKA |
"Bubblegum" |
HEAVY 5 |
between curiosity and gout. |
52 |
Alex Lahey |
"I Love You Like a Brother" |
I Love You Like a Brother |
You can quit UNESCO, but it won't free you from your heritage. |
53 |
Bec Sandridge |
"I'll Never Want a BF" |
single |
You can tear up strangers' love notes and set them on fire, but it won't make you any warmer when night corners you again. |
54 |
Aly & Fila |
"Concorde" |
single |
You lost the future before it ever began. |
55 |
Mark Sixma |
"Missing" |
single |
You can move away, you can change the laws, but this will always be Emma's house. |
56 |
Sympuls-E |
"City of the Void" |
Mirror City |
You can exempt yourself from everything the rest of us bear, |
57 |
Misanthropy |
"Of Wolves" |
single |
but escape nothing. |
58 |
Second to Sun |
"We Are Not Alone" |
We Are Not Alone +1 |
We are formed, out of negative space, in defiant affirmations. |
59 |
High Contrast |
"Don't You Go Out Of My Mind" |
Night Gallery |
You are isolated inexorably by your disdain, |
60 |
Royalston |
"We Were Told" |
Popular Mechanics |
surrounded by bodies but forever reliving the moment when the fear of not knowing how to dance |
61 |
Mimikry |
"Alla vill till himmelen men ingen vill dö" |
single |
was ground into the pulp of realizing nobody was going to do it with you anyway. |
62 |
Sam Evian |
"Need You" |
Need You +1 |
You find yourself alone, |
63 |
Cold Kingdom |
"In Stereo" |
Cold Kingdom 5 |
and tell yourself it's because you're special, |
64 |
Blahalouisiana |
"Egyetlen Magányom" |
single |
because you have to tell yourself something. |
65 |
Weval |
"Ways To Go - Alternative Version" |
single |
If you can't sit with yourself for 4:11, you will never understand what forever means. |
66 |
Ewigkeit |
"Wonder of the Cosmos" |
Battle Furies |
Without forever, you will never know how the rest of us are overcome at once, right now, by sadness and joy. |
67 |
Cara Dillon |
"Dubhdara" |
single |
We will have history and myth and dignity, and you will have unopened cartons of the shittiest hats. |
68 |
Camille |
"Lasso" |
single |
We will have fascination and mystery in quiet voices, and you will try to shout so loud that even you don't have to hear yourself any more. |
69 |
Frida Sundemo |
"Islands" |
Flashbacks & Futures |
You think we are weak when we stand in the path of storms, |
70 |
Sun Glitters |
"Too Much to Lose - The Synthwave Version" |
Too Much High 2 |
you who have cowered from everything. |
71 |
NF |
"10 Feet Down" |
Perception |
We are not weak. |
72 |
Peter Hollens |
"The Dawn Will Come" |
single |
We are not beaten. |
73 |
Anthonie Tonnon |
"Two Free Hands" |
single |
The bully knows all too well what the blows feel like. It's everything except the blows that remains mysterious and withheld: |
74 |
Gjan |
"Together" |
single |
Sadness, and loving anything enough to both dread and accept its loss; |
75 |
Farewell Dear Ghost |
"Hollywood Dreaming" |
single |
lightness and any kind of non-punitive urgency; |
76 |
Sadikbeatz |
"Dawn" |
single |
any drama more complex than a single spotlight; |
77 |
Beneath The Spin Light |
"Happy Now" |
single |
resilence and fragility and how they go together, how anything ever goes together; |
78 |
Deradoorian |
"Love Arise" |
Eternal Recurrence |
all the noises that are shaped out of silence instead of clenched blood and betrayal; |
79 |
tyDi |
"Closing In (with Christopher Tin, ft. Dia Frampton)" |
single |
catharsis, not the momentary relief of ignorant applause and irrevocable distance. |
80 |
Metalite |
"Nightmare" |
single |
We will sing when you slink away. |
81 |
Poppy |
"Let's Make A Video" |
Poppy.Computer |
We are singing while we wait, |
82 |
Lin-Manuel Miranda |
"Almost Like Praying (feat. Artists for Puerto Rico)" |
single |
in drowned towns and sanctuary cities and all these insurrectionary choruses of the truth. |