1 |
Dalriada |
"Hollórege" |
Nyárutó |
Folk metal is the antithesis of melancholy indie rock in the way that mythology is the antithesis of Raymond Carver stories, |
2 |
Arkona |
"Volchitsa" |
Khram |
form as a consequence of legend rather than the also-interesting other way around. |
3 |
Oceans of Slumber |
"The Banished Heart" |
single |
Metal is, in general, an applied art of legendry, sometimes applied abstruely |
4 |
The Atlas Moth |
"Galactic Brain" |
single |
and sometimes coarsely. |
5 |
Primordial |
"Stolen Years" |
single |
Most things are, one way or another, but not everything is as unself-conscious about it, |
6 |
Necrophobic |
"Mark of the Necrogram" |
single |
not just unbowed by self-consciousness, but actually conscious of the unself, of the void. |
7 |
Usurpress |
"In Books Without Pages" |
single |
To be sure, not every insight inspired by the void is entirely new. It's the void. |
8 |
Cynic |
"Humanoid (Single)" |
single |
But sometimes we reach the event-horizon of the void in ships designed to fly there, |
9 |
Eternal Void |
"With Time" |
single |
fight the gravity, |
10 |
REXORIA |
"Queen of Light" |
Queen of Light |
and return triumphant. |
11 |
Magnum |
"Peaches and Cream" |
Lost on the Road to Eternity |
Sometimes in a battered, indestructible freighter; |
12 |
Lione - Conti |
"You're Falling" |
single |
sometimes in royal livery. |
13 |
Sällskapet |
"Morgenlicht" |
single |
But on every ship, life goes on. |
14 |
Soho Rezanejad |
"Pilot (The Guardian)" |
Six Archetypes |
On the way to the void you have plenty of time to contemplate it. |
15 |
Parade of Lights |
"Tidal Waves" |
single |
On the newer ships, you have artificial gravity for dancing, |
16 |
Betty Who |
"Ignore Me" |
single |
but weightlessness admits its own choreographic character, |
17 |
Prides |
"Born to Be Whole" |
single |
or in a way all dancing is about weightlessness or intertia, |
18 |
Computer Magic |
"Delirium (Don't Follow the Sheep)" |
single |
or how we fear them. |
19 |
Editors |
"Magazine" |
single |
Half our travelers' stories, of course, are at least ostensibly about missing home, |
20 |
MILCK |
"Call Of The Wild" |
This Is Not The End |
in the same way that our meditative stands and isolations are about longing. |
21 |
bow church |
"Remedy" |
Canon |
We are never more human than in geometric abstraction, |
22 |
Mikky Ekko |
"Not The One" |
single |
in hypothetical rules for delerious orbital mechanics, |
23 |
Preoccupations |
"Espionage" |
single |
in echoing regrets, |
24 |
Teenage Wrist |
"Dweeb" |
single |
in imitations of nirvana, |
25 |
Moose Blood |
"It's Too Much" |
single |
in retreat. |
26 |
Waterparks |
"Not Warriors" |
single |
We eat the world, |
27 |
Noah Guthrie |
"Hollywood Nights" |
single |
searching for a taste we remember. |
28 |
Hodge |
"Sunlight On a Broken Column" |
Without Form / Sunlight On a Broken Column 2 |
But sometimes what we remember is what it felt like to expect a taste and get a sound, |
29 |
Sophia Loizou |
"Shadows of Futurity" |
Irregular Territories/Trembling With Tenderness 2 |
or to expect math and get poetry, |
30 |
AmaLee |
"Unyielding Wish (Magic Knight Rayearth)" |
Nostalgia III |
or to fall in love with the credits. |
31 |
Dan Bull |
"The New Colossus - Wolfenstein Rap" |
single |
Just when you think you get the innermost in-joke, it punches through into a |
32 |
FamilyJules |
"Kraid's Lair" |
single |
new |
33 |
The Sound Bee HD |
"ENDLESS DEAD" |
ENDLESS DEAD 5 |
bright |
34 |
Q'ulle |
"DRY AI" |
コネクトライト |
universe. |
35 |
Frej Larsson |
"Äntligen hemma" |
single |
But if you can learn to feel centered in foreign streets, |
36 |
Major Parkinson |
"Munchausen by Proxy" |
single |
you can learn lessons from what you imagine other people to suffer. |
37 |
Ondt Blod |
"Unge Kniva" |
single |
They don't sound resigned, |
38 |
Sin Fang |
"Love Will Leave You Cold" |
single |
and you can't really stay, |
39 |
Keith Urban |
"Parallel Line" |
single |
but truces and understandings are possible. |
40 |
Bely Basarte |
"Mariposas" |
single |
They probably have streetlights, or fireflies, or dawn. |
41 |
Juan Pablo Vega |
"Amazonas, los Cantos del Agua" |
single |
Unfamiliar homeopathies will do you no real harm. |
42 |
Hämatom |
"Warum kann ich nicht glücklich sein?" |
single |
Other people's street-gangs will fight each other in other people's streets, |
43 |
L'âme Immortelle |
"Letztes Licht" |
Hinter dem Horizont |
watched over by inscrutable demons, |
44 |
Pop Evil |
"Colors Bleed" |
single |
against which they will eventually unite and turn, |
45 |
The XCERTS |
"First Kiss Feeling" |
Hold on to Your Heart |
freeing us all. |
46 |
Why Everyone Left |
"T.A.S.A." |
single |
Pick up a guitar, |
47 |
Letzte Instanz |
"Mein Land" |
single |
or a statistical correlation you can windmill, |
48 |
NF |
"NO NAME" |
single |
and make it your anthem. |
49 |
VETO |
"A Pit" |
single |
All of these stories are somebody's dreams. |
50 |
Haley & Michaels |
"All Out" |
single |
You can learn to spot simplistic dreams, but you can't critique them smaller. |
51 |
Ashley McBryde |
"American Scandal" |
single |
Music is agnostic, all the religions are ours. |
52 |
Bella Thorne |
"Burn So Bright (Single from the Midnight Sun [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack])" |
single |
But also all the joys. |
53 |
The Blue Hour |
"How Soon Is Now?" |
How Soon Is Now? +1 |
Music is agnostic where we are crushed by faith, |
54 |
Kashuks |
"Endless" |
Mood - EP 6 |
patient where we restlessly accelerate, |
55 |
We Will Fail |
"Night" |
Schadenfreude 4 |
frantic where we are abandoned, |
56 |
ASC |
"Tessellate" |
Tessellate/Zoo Hypothesis 2 |
sinister where we once thought we were right. |
57 |
Gazelle Twin |
"The Dream Ends" |
The Dream Ends/Ghostly Metafiction 2 |
We have a grammar of despair, |
58 |
Answer Code Request |
"knbn2" |
single |
and we use it to talk about what we will do tomorrow. |