1 |
Alexx Mack |
"BAD" |
single |
As young as you once were, somebody is that young now. |
2 |
Kasbo |
"Over You (feat. Frida Sundemo)" |
single |
Nostalgia is an opportunity to let go, |
3 |
GIRLI |
"Play It Cool" |
single |
to accept other people's ignorance as innocence, |
4 |
Allman Brown |
"Now You're Gone" |
Bury My Heart EP 5 |
and thus forgive your own. |
5 |
Whyzdom |
"Armageddon" |
single |
But forgiveness does not have to be muted. |
6 |
Graveshadow |
"Doorway to Heaven" |
single |
Maybe, to really work, it can't be: |
7 |
Monument |
"Attila" |
single |
forgiveness as a heroic act, |
8 |
Primordial |
"Exile Amongst the Ruins" |
single |
as a defiant budgeoning of pain, |
9 |
Thy Catafalque |
"Sárember" |
single |
as an epic encryption of mundane offenses |
10 |
Aura Noir |
"Dark Lung of the Storm" |
single |
until you have a woven darkness strong enough |
11 |
Crescent |
"Obscuring the Light" |
The Order of Amenti |
to stop your fall. |
12 |
Acherontas |
"Sorcery and the Apeiron" |
single |
Performative evil is, before anything else, an acknowledgement of the scope of our impulses. |
13 |
Surrender The Crown |
"Welcome To The Life You Chose" |
The Neverending Now |
Metal's oscillation between grandiose and grotesque is as orbital and essential as diurnality. |
14 |
Rafael Anton Irisarri |
"Downfall" |
Sirimiri |
All art either opens or closes wounds, |
15 |
alva noto |
"Uni Mia" |
Unieqav |
or transfers intensity between the physical and emotional realms, |
16 |
Rival Consoles |
"Untravel" |
single |
or between new realms constituted on the fly for exactly this obscure purpose. |
17 |
Kate Boy |
"Dopamin" |
single |
The boundary between dance music and sleep music is as permeable as our awareness, |
18 |
Twin Shadow |
"Brace (feat. Rainsford)" |
single |
of course, because it's ours, |
19 |
Bilmuri |
"Wash" |
Solid Chub |
and we are embodiments of giddy tenuousness, |
20 |
WVNDER |
"Angry or Sad (Angry Version)" |
single |
colllecting solipsistic protest anthems |
21 |
Ferdk |
"Brand New Girl" |
single |
in notebooks nominally printed for other promotions. |
22 |
The Glitch Mob |
"Take Me with You (feat. Arama)" |
single |
We are the creatures that look up from our pages and screens and say "Now." |
23 |
Electro-Light |
"Ignite" |
single |
Now, now, tell the others. |
24 |
Sak Noel |
"Quitate la Ropa" |
single |
Now we reveal ourselves, |
25 |
I Am King |
"Crosses" |
Playing the Saint 5 |
bones and circuitry alike, |
26 |
Dream On Dreamer |
"Let It In" |
single |
knowing that skin is always poetry. |
27 |
Dead Like Juliet |
"Unwanted" |
single |
This theatric refusal is also our way of accepting your terms |
28 |
Mustan Kuun Lapset |
"Ikaros" |
single |
as terms |
29 |
Uniklubi |
"Tulennielijä - Radio Edit" |
single |
by asserting our own investment in defining them. |
30 |
The Raveonettes |
"Ghost" |
single |
This is, after all, the bargain we always offer to authority: |
31 |
The Slow Readers Club |
"You Opened Up My Heart" |
single |
you may print your intolerances on banners, |
32 |
Donovan Woods |
"Truck Full of Money" |
single |
but you cannot stop us from walking away, unbannered. |
33 |
Sällskapet |
"L'Autostrada (feat. Andrea Schroeder)" |
Disparition |
Hearts can be compelled, but not compulsed. |
34 |
Sista Brytet |
"Kolla På Mig" |
single |
You cannot silence us, because there is no silence, |
35 |
Solala |
"Vår bästa tid är nu" |
single |
and of course no meaningful separation of you and us. |
36 |
Kate Nash |
"Life in Pink" |
single |
Separatism works on people exactly as well as it does on oceans. |
37 |
Scotty McCreery |
"Boys From Back Home" |
Seasons Change |
We swallow your righteousness, |
38 |
Jason Aldean |
"Rearview Town" |
single |
sneak souvenir t-shirts out of your fortress hometowns, |
39 |
RaeLynn |
"Queens Don't" |
single |
buy up your vacant lots. |
40 |
Shotgun Rider |
"Bottom of This Crown" |
single |
We're not angry any more. |
41 |
Haley & Michaels |
"Me Too (feat. Tarana Burke)" |
single |
If you can make a soaring country anthem about how this country has betrayed half its people, |
42 |
Tebey |
"Denim on Denim" |
single |
and then go back to coy sawdust naiveté one thumpy beat later, |
43 |
TesseracT |
"King" |
single |
then maybe all this math is less inexorable than it seems. |
44 |
Rivers of Nihil |
"Death is Real" |
Where Owls Know My Name |
Maybe the oceans will swallow the flags before the countries before our homes, |
45 |
Sergey Golovin |
"Charger" |
Sculpture |
and we will lead bemused tours through where they used to be. |
46 |
04 Limited Sazabys |
"My HERO" |
My HERO / 夕凪 2 |
Here we learned how to say love in ways that encode different assumptions about what comes next. |
47 |
NCT |
"WITHOUT YOU" |
NCT 2018 EMPATHY |
Here we found pottery shards or the gleam of broken phones. |
48 |
David Bisbal |
"A Partir De Hoy" |
single |
Here we looked up, |
49 |
Laura Pausini |
"Un proyecto de vida en común" |
Hazte sentir |
and realized we had become no more able to measure the distances that overarch us. |
50 |
Soleá Morente |
"La Alondra" |
Ole Lorelei |
Here we noticed other footprints moving in parallel to our own. |
51 |
La Habitación Roja |
"Estrella Herida de Muerte" |
Memoria |
Here we breathed in, |
52 |
Disco Las Palmeras! |
"Bestia" |
single |
or maybe it was out-- |
53 |
El Último Vecino |
"Si Dejas Cosas Atrás" |
Parte Primera 6 |
our records are least clear on the most important details-- |
54 |
Toundra |
"Cobra" |
single |
and either way we changed the air the tiniest bit, |
55 |
Huminoida |
"Just by Wishing" |
single |
as we moved through it, hoping. |
56 |
Ari Mason |
"Lucy" |
single |
Forgiveness does not have to be moot. |
57 |
Jann Arden |
"All The Little Things" |
These Are The Days |
We will save the planet as methodically through attention to tiny details as through cloudbusting, |
58 |
KMPFSPRT |
"Trümmer" |
single |
and vice versa. |
59 |
UP10TION |
"Finally" |
INVITATION |
We are defined by our percise pirouettes through right angles |
60 |
Crematory |
"Salvation" |
single |
as much as our careless polishing of the shells of unproductive myths. |
61 |
Derya Uluğ |
"Ne Münasebet" |
single |
These angles were here before we came; |
62 |
Hayko Cepkin |
"Nikah Masası - Düğüm Salonu Orjinal Film Müziği" |
single |
these angels will be gone long before we give in. |
63 |
Seinabo Sey |
"I Owe You Nothing" |
I Owe You Nothing / Remember 2 |
The same rocks out of which we made Sweden, |
64 |
Dave Days |
"Want You Back" |
single |
and a theme park of Australia, |
65 |
Azekel |
"Hollow" |
single |
can be crushed into powder and simply blown away. |
66 |
Road |
"A tökéletesség hibája" |
single |
These roads are drawn with crayon and will, |
67 |
Nightrun87 |
"The Destroyers Are Coming" |
The Destroyers Are Coming |
these corridors lit with flashes, |
68 |
Cocktail |
"โปรดฟังอีกครั้ง Feat. เจ๋ง Big Ass" |
single |
and yet these thin lines and brief lights are enough to support us, |
69 |
Andrea Ori |
"Io adesso" |
single |
to lift us above the mantle, |
70 |
Cadena Perpetua |
"Contra la Pared" |
Un Golpe de Suerte 5 |
to give us the strength of purpose with which to stomp on ground we fear to perturb. |
71 |
Anni Lahe |
"Maistan Sut" |
single |
Here we breathed in. |
72 |
Nayt |
"Gli occhi della tigre" |
single |
Here the madonnas cried in the corner. |
73 |
Sanction |
"The Prophet Who Saw Fire" |
The Infringement of God's Plan |
Here every thing burned. |
74 |
Louna |
"Колыбельная" |
single |
Here we surrendered to relucant terrified sleep under unfamiliar terrifying stars, |
75 |
False Friends |
"Anywhere at All" |
single |
and woke up closer to the watchful infinite guardian sky. |