1 |
Christen Lien |
"Prologue" |
Elpis |
Take a viola and a lot of electronics, or any other combination you like of moral grounding |
2 |
Metalite |
"Purpose of Life" |
Heroes in Time |
and elaborate levers. |
3 |
Anteros |
"Bonnie" |
single |
Pick your heroes not for the coin-flips they won, |
4 |
Prides |
"You're the Drug" |
A Mind Like the Tide, Pt. 1 |
but for how they live, |
5 |
The Naked And Famous |
"Last Forever - Stripped" |
single |
for their amazing outfits or how they stand naked, |
6 |
The Sound of Arrows |
"In the Shade of Your Love" |
Stay Free |
for their silhouette swaying in front of you in the dark. |
7 |
Kap Slap |
"If We Were Alone" |
single |
Look at the people you know as if your futures together are momentous and barely begun. |
8 |
Savage Messiah |
"Wing and a Prayer" |
single |
Look this way, too, at yourself. |
9 |
Serenity |
"Empire" |
Lionheart |
Instead of desperately saying smaller things to avoid giving offense, |
10 |
Within Silence |
"You & I" |
Return from the Shadows |
say bigger things |
11 |
Keldian |
"Nightfall" |
Darkness and Light |
you are willing to defend. |
12 |
Cardiant |
"Life Has Just Begun" |
single |
Innocense isn't a victory of self-censorship, |
13 |
Communic |
"Black Flag of Hate" |
Where Echoes Gather |
it's a base-state of emotional alacrity. |
14 |
Moonspell |
"In Tremor Dei" |
single |
Technology is not the enemy of magic, |
15 |
Blut Aus Nord |
"Chorea Macchabeorum" |
Deus Salutis Meae |
it's the method, |
16 |
Mammoth Grinder |
"Pulverizer" |
Split 3 |
but in magic the fossil record is consumed |
17 |
All Pigs Must Die |
"A Caustic Vision" |
Hostage Animal |
without being destroyed. |
18 |
Ne Obliviscaris |
"Intra Venus" |
Urn |
The internal structure of love and the internal structure of chaos |
19 |
Hanging Garden |
"Our Dark Design" |
I Am Become |
are mutual evocations of congruency, |
20 |
Black Swan |
"蟲聲" |
蟲聲 +1 |
or explosive imitations of collapse. |
21 |
Skyclad |
"Thinking Allowed" |
Jonah's Ark |
Take a violin and a lot of iron giants with guitars, |
22 |
Eluveitie |
"Rebirth" |
single |
or anything that makes noise by grinding, |
23 |
Heavy Hearts |
"Macramé" |
On a Chain 6 |
and set it on fire in the night sky. |
24 |
TeraBrite |
"Gorgeous" |
single |
This is both how we get stars, |
25 |
PONY |
"I Don't Know" |
Do You 5 |
and how we pull them down when we refused to be pierced and watched any longer. |
26 |
Sleeping Romance |
"Lost In My Eyes" |
single |
Pick your angels not for their commissions, |
27 |
Poppy Ackroyd |
"The Calm Before" |
single |
but for their willingness to systematize. |
28 |
MIYAVI |
"No Thanks Ya" |
single |
Productive divinity is the ability to discard entropy and mortality at the same time, |
29 |
kankakupiero |
"ハルカミライ" |
single |
to hypothesize the effects of universal law by believing laws can apply |
30 |
SCANDAL |
"Koisuru Universe" |
Koisuru Universe +3 |
in both any moment and all moments. |
31 |
Merche |
"Ciao" |
De Otra Manera |
Monoliths can be constructed expediently, |
32 |
Ventino |
"Apaga Y Vámonos" |
single |
but only maintained in ruins by love. |
33 |
Cir.Cuz |
"Hjerteknuser" |
single |
What new ruins will you raise up today? |
34 |
Major Parkinson |
"Lover, Lower Me Down!" |
Blackbox |
What stone will you place, knowing that building is the act of setting an object into the slowest available fall? |
35 |
ASP |
"BernsteinmeerengeL" |
single |
We don't get worse at making mistakes, we only get slowly better at recognizing them, |
36 |
Staubkind |
"Wunsch frei - Radio Mix" |
single |
better at dreaming of grander sadnesses, |
37 |
Maerzfeld |
"Falsche Helden" |
Ungleich |
regretting with more anticipatory precision. |
38 |
Paola Turci |
"Eclissi" |
Il secondo cuore |
Take a picture and an index of unresolved targets for allegory, |
39 |
Gianna Nannini |
"Cinema" |
Amore gigante |
or anything that moves as if it touches the ground only by choice, |
40 |
Paola |
"Gordios Desmos" |
single |
and try to write it in the alphabet you would have invented |
41 |
Xavier Boscher |
"Cornucopia" |
single |
if this were the first thing you wanted to say. |
42 |
Rey Pila |
"Fangs" |
single |
Learning to speak is learning to pretend everything hasn't already been said |
43 |
Tourist |
"Sleepwalking" |
Wash 4 |
a billion meaning-eroding times, |
44 |
Miss Montreal |
"Zonder Jou" |
Again |
learning to believe that old truths are sustained by repetition, |
45 |
Svrcina |
"Astronomical" |
single |
bound by patterns: of rope, of roads, of imaginary lines drawn between stars. |
46 |
Dessa |
"Good Grief" |
single |
Choose your enemies to lose to, your friends to lose, |
47 |
Cam |
"Diane" |
single |
your errors and transgressions to mythologize. |
48 |
Skarlett Riot |
"Calling" |
Regenerate |
Raise monuments with quiet deference, crush them with magnificent rage. |
49 |
The Poodles |
"It's No Good" |
single |
Destroying stone is creating space, |
50 |
Drop the Act |
"The Art of Thinking" |
The Art of Thinking 5 |
reclaiming volumes held in stewardship for future air. |
51 |
Only Shadows |
"Escape" |
single |
These houses have held orphans and killers and people who fled here from identical towns, |
52 |
Throne of Heresy |
"Liber Secretorum" |
single |
carrying nothing but hammers and photographs of fire. |
53 |
Butcher Babies |
"Burn the Straw Man" |
Lilith |
The new people may be your new best friends or the reason you move in turn, |
54 |
Holy Hydrogen |
"Gravitons, Pt. 1" |
Gravitons 2 |
but either way, love or flight, |
55 |
Audn |
"Veröld Hulin" |
single |
will be a better story if you learn their names. |