1 |
Rebellion |
"Thankless Child" |
A Tragedy in Steel, Pt. II: Shakespeare's King Lear |
Aim high. |
2 |
Therion |
"Theme Of Antichrist" |
single |
No, higher. Any hittable target is too low. |
3 |
Orphaned Land |
"Left Behind" |
Unsung Prophets And Dead Messiahs |
Why shouldn't every new song encapsulate all of human history to this point? |
4 |
Victorius |
"Dinosaur Warfare" |
Dinosaur Warfare - Legend of the Power Saurus 6 |
And why just human history? |
5 |
Shakra |
"Something You Don't Understand" |
Snakes & Ladders |
We are overflowing and eternal, and it fills our voices, |
6 |
In Vain |
"En Forgangen Tid (Times of Yore, Pt. II)" |
Currents |
and this is how it has always been. |
7 |
Tribulation |
"Nightbound" |
Down Below |
The continents unify and splinter and unify, |
8 |
Rage Of Light |
"I Can, I Will" |
single |
and we are their will to continue. This time. |
9 |
Only Shadows |
"Stay Close to Me" |
single |
We are champions and welcome and celebrants. |
10 |
The Dangerous Summer |
"This Is Life" |
The Dangerous Summer |
We are empathy wrapped in saltwater and wires. |
11 |
Tiny Moving Parts |
"Smooth It Out" |
Swell |
We are dying and winning, |
12 |
New Years Day |
"Bizarre Love Triangle" |
Diary of a Creep - EP 6 |
and being constantly born again changed |
13 |
Buffalo Tom |
"Roman Cars" |
single |
and unmistakable. |
14 |
Fear Of Domination |
"The Last Call" |
single |
We find ways to be proud of the inevitable, |
15 |
Grimner |
"Fafnersbane" |
single |
the indelible, |
16 |
Maj Karma |
"Lama Lama Lama" |
single |
the insensible, |
17 |
Black Light Discipline |
"Deadlight" |
single |
in the hopes that it will also love us syncretically in return. |
18 |
Portal |
"Crone" |
ION |
We go where there is nothing, |
19 |
A Pregnant Light |
"Never Innocent, Frequently Not Guilty" |
Lucky All My Life |
with half-empty bags half full of hope, |
20 |
Agrimonia |
"A World Unseen" |
Awaken |
bulkheaded with darkness, |
21 |
Dima Lancaster |
"Copycat" |
single |
and everywhere see ourselves. |
22 |
tyDi |
"You Don't Love Me" |
single |
We are lonely in galactic cities, |
23 |
Dream Wife |
"Kids" |
Dream Wife |
complete from the outset, |
24 |
Marmozets |
"Meant To Be" |
Knowing What You Know Now |
frantic and serene. |
25 |
Imaginary Future |
"Dreams" |
single |
We survive. Mostly. Or part of us does. |
26 |
Veronica Maggio |
"20 Questions - From "Bergman’s Reliquary"" |
single |
Or we declare it survival, |
27 |
Nira K |
"Bara stjärnorna & jag" |
single |
or whatever your word for that is. |
28 |
Alice B |
"Two Man Gang" |
single |
We need instructions for the simplest things: |
29 |
Hooded Menace |
"Sorrows of the Moon - Celtic Frost Cover" |
Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed |
shake before drinking, or afterwards? |
30 |
WagakkiBand |
"雪影ぼうし" |
雪影ぼうし +1 |
lay flat to dry, or run screaming? |
31 |
Crossfaith |
"Wipeout" |
single |
live forever, or panic, or both? |
32 |
heidi. |
"心葬" |
Ray 3 |
The fantastic essence of code is the idea of an unqualified else, |
33 |
Lowtide |
"Elizabeth Tower" |
single |
of a dreamworld where most eventualities need not be enumerated. |
34 |
Kalie Shorr |
"Awake" |
Awake |
We inhale this grand illusion every time we start to make a hopelessly endless list: |
35 |
Divitius |
"People = Shit" |
single |
reasons to distrust people who don't look like your parents; |
36 |
Arsafes |
"Merchants of Bliss" |
The Silk Road Experience Pt. 1 3 |
things to bring back from anywhere you will only visit once; |
37 |
Atena |
"Confessional" |
Possessed |
injuries incurred by falling or doubt; |
38 |
Laura Pausini |
"Nadie ha dicho" |
single |
people you do not know but might have kissed; |
39 |
Luis Fonsi |
"Despacito 緩緩 - Mandarin Version" |
single |
ways you might have met; |
40 |
Simple Minds |
"Sense of Discovery" |
single |
stories you would rather read again in sequels than remember from the first time; |
41 |
echodrone |
"Failure" |
Past, Preset and Future |
vantage points from which the universe appears infinite. |
42 |
Sixth June |
"Everytime" |
Everytime |
We are defined by what we have internalized as novel, |
43 |
ACTORS |
"Slaves" |
single |
especially what surprises us before we know enough to be anything but surprised, |
44 |
Blushing |
"Hidden Places" |
Weak 5 |
and what shatters when we dream of it. |
45 |
Project Pitchfork |
"Akkretion" |
Akkretion |
We aspire to be mediated authentically, |
46 |
Kirlian Camera |
"Sky Collapse" |
Hologram Moon |
or to abstract authenticity |
47 |
Varry Brava |
"400 Bailes" |
single |
and thus be freed from the confines of the so few things we have managed to master. |
48 |
Disco Las Palmeras! |
"Hoy" |
single |
The people cheering for faraway teams seem ecstatic, |
49 |
Rural Zombies |
"Hospital St." |
From Home to Hospital St. |
so much not crushed under the weight of tasks and aspirations. |
50 |
Sneakbo |
"Fuck It" |
single |
The picket lines against unknown injustices seem incontrovertible and manifest; |
51 |
MIST |
"Game Changer" |
single |
give us this certainty in our own words, |
52 |
DJ Q |
"My Heart" |
single |
this frenetic energy in our own steps, |
53 |
Mez |
"Follow Us" |
Tyrone EP |
this incoherent righteousness and its own unraveling. |
54 |
Tillie |
"Good Song" |
single |
When you're fifteen and somebody tells you that you know where buried rivers run, you believe them. |
55 |
Jamie Lenman |
"Body Popping (automatic Edit)" |
single |
And the water runs out, and you start discovering less-obvious things about yourself: |
56 |
Grumble Bee |
"Heron" |
single |
Can you count by 7s? By 7.2s? By moonlight? |
57 |
Dust in Mind |
"Open Your Eyes" |
single |
Whose heroes do you run with? |
58 |
Anthony Ramos |
"Common Ground" |
single |
Can you hover over missing bridges? |
59 |
Katie Herzig |
"Beat of Your Own" |
single |
Do you have any documentation for the machines you use to move restlessly in place? |
60 |
Jerome Isma-Ae |
"Bloodmoon" |
single |
Is your time ongoing or lapsed, |
61 |
Jonas Reinhardt |
"Cyclical Man" |
Conclave Surge |
repeating or reverting, |
62 |
Irigy Honaljmirigy |
"Mindenki Táncol (Majka)" |
single |
or polished to bright shards? |
63 |
Jinjer |
"Bad Water" |
single |
We are overflowing and eternal, and aim higher by floodrising. |
64 |
Mors Subita |
"As Humanity Weeps" |
single |
Only we can drown ourselves. Well, us and the sea. |
65 |
lowlow |
"Sbagliato (feat.RIKI)" |
single |
But the sea rises with its own reverences, and we meet it at the seawall with sheafs of half-finished poetry, |
66 |
Anna Meredith |
"Calion" |
single |
needing to see the look in its eyes |
67 |
Eternal Void |
"Lie Awake" |
single |
to know whether to write the endings or become them. |
68 |
Makassy |
"Danse comme ça" |
single |
We are alone amidst unscheduled coincident parades, |
69 |
3D Stas |
"Lost Civilization" |
The Heat |
which is the same story every hieroglyph evades. |
70 |
Lione - Conti |
"Outcome" |
Lione - Conti |
Aim high, at the blank space further up the rock face. |
71 |
Night Flowers |
"Losing The Light" |
single |
All of this will be buried for millenia, and then exhumed, |
72 |
Monte del Oso |
"Por una nueva vida" |
Cosas Que Salvar de una Casa en Peligro |
like every other way we fall in love, |
73 |
Residente |
"Somos Anormales" |
Residente |
like every other way we try to understand the people we might have been or might yet be. |