1 |
CHVRCHES |
"Get Out" |
single |
A new era begins this week, every week. |
2 |
flor |
"overbehind" |
come out. you're hiding |
New eras of joy fountain out of us, uncontrollably, |
3 |
The Weeknd |
"Pray For Me (with Kendrick Lamar)" |
single |
thinly disguised by token diffidence and conscience, |
4 |
Pale Waves |
"The Tide" |
single |
by inward patterns |
5 |
Familjen |
"Rök och speglar" |
single |
and outward distance. |
6 |
DON BROCO |
"Tightrope" |
Technology |
We made up this universe as a joke, |
7 |
We Were Sharks |
"Hotel Beds" |
single |
or somebody did, |
8 |
Therion |
"Bring Her Home" |
single |
but now it is ours, |
9 |
Alkonost |
"The River" |
The River +1 |
and thus exactly as real as we make it. |
10 |
Necrophobic |
"Tsar Bomba" |
single |
If this makes it sound like we stand upon thin floating plates of transient and illusory solidity, |
11 |
Djevel |
"Det Svartner Paa Likbleik Hud" |
single |
then how many other metaphors are literal? |
12 |
Tengger Cavalry |
"Ride into Grave and Glory (War Horse II)" |
single |
All of them, of course. |
13 |
Susperia |
"The Lyricist" |
single |
We are, all and only, living metaphors for how the impossible could be. |
14 |
Ancst |
"Dysthymia" |
single |
We are essential sacraments in the guises of wireless headphone reviews, |
15 |
Armored Dawn |
"Sail Away" |
single |
new philosophies of cooking, |
16 |
Demonical |
"Towards Greater Gods" |
single |
new absences of light. |
17 |
Slugdge |
"Putrid Fairytale" |
single |
We are nothing but our |
18 |
Manigance |
"Face contre terre" |
Machine nation |
magnificent legends |
19 |
McCafferty |
"What Cannot Be Said, Must Be Wept" |
McCafferty / Heart Attack Man Split EP 5 |
and their torn out discarded pages. |
20 |
Dozer TX |
"Drain" |
single |
We don't learn, we incorporate. |
21 |
The Secret Post |
"Cold Like Air" |
single |
We don't teach, we recreate. |
22 |
The Soft Moon |
"Burn" |
Criminal |
We are twitching statuary, |
23 |
Thin Lips |
"So Stoned" |
single |
and pixies of disconsolate misgiving. |
24 |
Sleeping At Last |
"January 31, 2018: Super Blue Blood Moon" |
single |
We are awake at dawn for one fleeting glimpse of emptiness |
25 |
Courtney Marie Andrews |
"Kindness of Strangers" |
single |
before we return to creatures who need our love to rise, |
26 |
Frank Turner |
"1933" |
single |
before we sound alarms, |
27 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Arise" |
Arise +2 |
before we gird ourselves |
28 |
Mattia Cupelli |
"Embers, Pt. II" |
Embers |
or admit new quietnesses. |
29 |
Voicians |
"Holograms" |
single |
Lasers can show you cities hiding under canopies, or fantasies in daring pants, |
30 |
Rivals |
"Damned Soul" |
Damned Soul |
but only one of these at a time. |
31 |
Happy Hour |
"Night Vibe$" |
single |
These spaces must choose, again in each moment, between planning and stage, |
32 |
Eyes Wide Open |
"Fire Is the Solution" |
single |
between destruction and collapse, |
33 |
QuietKind |
"Failed State" |
Shadow Play |
between desperation and resolve. |
34 |
Long Distance Calling |
"In the Clouds" |
Boundless |
It is one thing to observe that everything is available in kits, |
35 |
Poppy Ackroyd |
"Light" |
Resolve |
another to realize that you leave traces of yourself in everything you assemble. |
36 |
Raison D'être |
"Nigredo" |
Alchymeia |
We carefully dust off and catalog fragments of the infinite, |
37 |
Nomy |
"Society falls" |
Society Falls |
and line them up under hammers. |
38 |
Bloodywood |
"Tunak Tunak Metal" |
single |
You can take things seriously, but eventually you have to give them back. |
39 |
Earthists. |
"Memento Mori" |
single |
We sometimes refer to this as thermodynamics or humility, |
40 |
Glim Spanky |
"Orokamonotachi" |
Orokamonotachi +3 |
but these are mostly oblique ways to apologize for temporarily forgetting a friend's friend's name, |
41 |
炎亞綸 |
"最久的瞬間-電視劇<一路繁花相送>主題曲" |
single |
or maybe for never having known that was a name. |
42 |
Punkreas |
"Fermati e respira" |
single |
Once you start apologizing, of course, you expand your capacity to blame yourself, |
43 |
Eva Weel Skram |
"Om du vil" |
single |
and push some horizon farther away, |
44 |
Ost+Front |
"Heavy Metal" |
single |
so that there is more room in between for parades, |
45 |
Aesthetic Perfection |
"Ebb and Flow" |
Ebb and Flow +2 |
which are the least creative possible use of inhabited space, |
46 |
Saxon |
"The Secret Of Flight" |
Thunderbolt |
but give you a sense at least of capacity. |
47 |
Simple Minds |
"In Dreams" |
Walk Between Worlds |
Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill have been in Simple Minds for 40 years; what have you done? |
48 |
Kim Wilde |
"Pop Don't Stop" |
Pop Don't Stop +1 |
Don't answer yet if you're not done, |
49 |
Grim Sickers |
"Save Me" |
single |
if you're never done. |
50 |
Varry Brava |
"Satánica" |
single |
You are never as simple as you aspire to be, |
51 |
La Habitación Roja |
"Nuevos Románticos" |
single |
nor as completely forgotten. |
52 |
Dinero |
"Armas sin filo (con Nina de Juan)" |
single |
You are dancing under the walls of a city abandoned |
53 |
Efecto Mariposa |
"Qué Me Está Pasando" |
single |
and reclaimed and rereleased. |
54 |
Imperial Age |
"The Awakening" |
The Legacy of Atlantis |
We will fill in every unoccupied space, and yet still dream of lost realms. |
55 |
Alia Tempora |
"Humanity" |
single |
We set out to cure disease, and end up inventing new ways to make shiny clothes. |
56 |
DZ Deathrays |
"Total Meltdown" |
Bloody Lovely |
We set out to put a book back on the shelf where we found it, and find that somebody has filled the space with a new sequel, |
57 |
What So Not |
"Stuck In Orbit - Edit" |
Stuck In Orbit 2 |
and the characters are older now, and maybe not exactly wiser, |
58 |
Mia Dyson |
"Fool" |
single |
because wisdom is only a placeholder goal when you don't know what you want, |
59 |
Middle Kids |
"Mistake" |
single |
but less willing to give up before a kiss or a heartbreak, |
60 |
Montaigne |
"Glorious Heights" |
Glorious Heights |
or before finding the way to rotate elements so that these two things happen furiously kaleidoscopically at once. |
61 |
Dream State |
"In This Hell" |
single |
Escape routes are choreographed, |
62 |
Oliver Mtukudzi |
"Mahara" |
Hany'Ga (Concern) |
improvised in instants and charted over decades, |
63 |
Nola Wren |
"Creature" |
single |
via aqueducts and signal tubes, |
64 |
Fix |
"Survive" |
single |
and your best friends' back yards, |
65 |
Audrey Assad |
"When I See You" |
single |
and a hundred other normative devolutions, |
66 |
I AM THEY |
"My Feet Are on the Rock" |
single |
and surging avoidances. |
67 |
Dear Rouge |
"Modern Shakedown" |
single |
Nowadays you can't be too sentimental, because there are specialists for that. |
68 |
Yes-R |
"Streets" |
single |
Cities grow older, but all of their streets are born anew every day, |
69 |
The Atlas Moth |
"Actual Human Blood" |
single |
recalibrated by your or whoever's presence, |
70 |
Yanakoto Sotto Mute |
"HOLY GRAiL" |
echoes 2 |
and new lights, |
71 |
Atrium Carceri |
"Miles to Midnight" |
Miles to Midnight |
and how new lights and you combine to make new shadows. |
72 |
Mr.Busta |
"MACHETE" |
single |
Sometimes you turn a corner between one narrow alley and the next, in a new city of cryptic signs, and find a Texas Steakhouse or another artisanal Asian-fusion burger place, |
73 |
Wess Meets West |
"Skylar, There's Rot" |
single |
or a plaque marking the place where Marie Curie first heard her favorite song, |
74 |
Steve Hackett |
"When The Heart Rules The Mind 2018" |
single |
or somewhere you suddenly realize you've been once before. |
75 |
Oblivion Machine |
"Омут" |
single |
The first secret to cheerful traveling is realizing that cryptic signs mostly say things about where you can and cannot park, |
76 |
Boy Peacemaker |
"เธอเปลี่ยนไป" |
single |
or make life-changing promises about specific brands of shampoo, |
77 |
Manran |
"Là Inbhir Lòchaidh" |
single |
and you can stand, transfixed, accumulating rhetorical wastes of water, |
78 |
Tide Lines |
"Streets of Dreamers" |
single |
or you can look both ways for cryptic traffic, and then dance in the middle of this street too. |
79 |
Lights & Motion |
"Bloom" |
Bloom 5 |
We don't transit, we precess. |
80 |
MISSIO |
"Everybody Gets High - Stripped" |
Skeletons: Part 2 5 |
Streets accrete. |
81 |
GoGo Penguin |
"Window" |
single |
We play, again, the same notes everyone before us has played already, |
82 |
We Deserve This |
"Silver Lines" |
single |
in a triumph of persistence, a suspension of disbelief powerful enough to float a city. |
83 |
Metalite |
"Afterlife (Piano Version)" |
single |
For 17 seconds this thronged street is empty except for us, |
84 |
Shmu |
"Hololeaps" |
single |
and dark windows are allegories of walls. |
85 |
Mt. Wolf |
"Bohemia (Single Version)" |
single |
Is the kiss now, or next? Is this where she heard it? Is this where her heart went, whenever she heard it later? |
86 |
Carlton Melton |
"The Lighthouse" |
Mind Minerals |
Streets do not transpire by themselves, that is why they matter more than asteroids. |
87 |
Frozen Crown |
"Kings" |
The Fallen King |
Ancient citadel cities are no more inherently spiritual than new subway entrances, but breath displaces outgassing incrementally, |
88 |
Amiral Revers |
"Kpanou lelo" |
Fon Sonore |
and so even where local regulations require all new passages to be infused with old air, |
89 |
Sheila On 7 |
"Film Favorit" |
single |
we may still pass through. |
90 |
Danheim |
"Ginnung" |
single |
All of this, after all, was once a limbo of endless impenetrable fog. |
91 |
Wu Bai |
"王道 - “雙面對決” Live" |
伍佰 & China Blue 雙面對決演唱會全紀錄 |
For trillions of years there was nothing here worth hearing, and now listen. |