| 1 | Myth & Roid | "Tragedy:Eternity" | eYe's | Learn to use the orthography of your native language as a pigment. |
| 2 | MIYAVI | "Long Nights - World Mix" | Long Nights 2 | Most things have been said already, but we can always find uses for brightness and color, |
| 3 | Portico Quartet | "Double Space" | Untitled (AITAOA #2) | for techniques that shift focus, |
| 4 | OMNIA | "Suck My Flute" | single | for a sense of captured movement, and the accompanying implication that it can be directed. |
| 5 | Joan Armatrading | "I Like It When We're Together - Edit" | single | Tradition and discipline are contrasts. |
| 6 | Masaki Suda | "Sayonara Elegy" | Sayonara Elegy +2 | If you can learn to hear your own words as unintelligible, you can go anywhere. |
| 7 | Ancst | "Gehenna of Fire" | Split w/ King Apathy 2 | You can go into the dark |
| 8 | Amorphis | "The Bee" | single | and emerge beyond. |
| 9 | Kalmah | "Blood Ran Cold" | single | You can live where the seas end, |
| 10 | Nocturnal Graves | "Silence the Martyrs" | single | or the mercies. |
| 11 | Izegrim | "Beheaded by Trust" | Beheaded by Trust +3 | Once you render metaphor literal, you can use it for all sorts of household and spiritual purposes. |
| 12 | Borealis | "The Offering" | The Offering | This Canadian power-metal record is probably my favorite album of the year. |
| 13 | Midnattsol | "Herr Mannelig" | single | These ghosts know where your ancestors lived, |
| 14 | Kingfisher Sky | "Paving Stones" | Technicoloured Eyes | but for their own reasons. |
| 15 | MILCK | "Quiet - Spanish" | single | My ten-year-old daughter gets out of her aerials class and we grab her sign and go to this week's protest. |
| 16 | C. Diab | "Postdrome" | single | It's hard to hear the speakers, hard to believe this time we will get equality or justice or better laws or better leaders, |
| 17 | Preoccupations | "Disarray" | New Material | hard to reconcile the simplification of slogans with the complexity of existing and apologizing and continuing, |
| 18 | Snail Mail | "Pristine" | single | but she gets to see that other people are angry at shitheads, and yet when they see her they smile and take her picture. |
| 19 | McCafferty | "Sauerkraut" | Yarn | She gets to stand up. |
| 20 | Parting Gift | "Rensing" | Vein & Rensing 2 | The people streaming away, as we arrive mid-event, radiate the bouyant confidence of having done a public work. |
| 21 | Svrcina | "Steady" | single | Rebellion and collectivism are parallelisms. |
| 22 | Picturesque | "Dead Flowers" | single | Maybe this time we will change the laws. |
| 23 | Discrepancies | "The Awakening" | The Awakening | Maybe this time we will change the broken moral systems that the laws are usually resigned to bandage. |
| 24 | Nicole Cross | "Dancing on My Own" | single | But if all we do is feel less alone, and fill the sky over our town with news helicopters, |
| 25 | Vanessa Carlton | "Call Your Girlfriend" | single | and seed memories for walking through this space again when it's empty, |
| 26 | Abraham | "Silent at Last" | single | and believe and doubt our power at once, |
| 27 | Coda | "No Me Importa" | Ciclos | and learn to witness other people's bravery and resolve, |
| 28 | Persefone | "In Lak'ech" | single | these are intricacies enough. |
| 29 | Mors Subita | "I, God" | single | We rehearse to face down evil, |
| 30 | Jordan Davis | "Sundowners" | Home State | and dream of lazy futures where we don't have to. |
| 31 | Plini | "Salt + Charcoal" | single | What if all this harnessed energy could be set randomly free again? |
| 32 | Giraffes? Giraffes! | "Hug of Death" | single | Imagine a flash mob this size with an inspiration instead of an enemy. |
| 33 | Valis Ablaze | "Frequency" | single | Imagine what we could do with these days |
| 34 | Demonical | "Välkommen Undergång" | Chaos Manifesto | if we could stop morbidly monitoring the chaos. |
| 35 | Punkreas | "Conto su di te" | Inequilibrio 5 | We are not creatures of retreat and defense, |
| 36 | Oslo Ess | "Ingen forhandling" | single | we are elementals of joy. |
| 37 | Per Gessle | "Name You Beautiful" | Name You Beautiful (Official Song - World Table Tennis Championship 2018) 2 | We overflow with so much uncontainable wonder that the greatest living pop songwriter can write a throwaway theme for a ping-pong tournament and prove to me beyond a doubt that we are not doomed. |
| 38 | Maja Francis | "Stressed" | single | After she's had her picture taken with her sign enough times, we walk into Chinatown to get bubble tea. |
| 39 | 小男孩樂團 | "We Are" | single | You can think "America First" if you're afraid to eat anything other than well-done steak with ketchup, |
| 40 | Tay Kewei | "胜利在闪耀" | single | and you cheat on your imported trophy wife with trophy ciphers. |
| 41 | Niños Mutantes | "Segunda Oración del Desierto" | single | Privilege is squandering unearned resources on the counterproductive perservation of your own ignorance. |
| 42 | Triángulo de Amor Bizarro | "Les Llevaré Mi Cruz" | El Gatopardo 4 | The defeated build walls around their defeats; |
| 43 | W.E.T. | "Kings on Thunder Road" | Earthrage | the triumphant ride forth. |
| 44 | Dokken | "It's Another Day" | single | Do you walk home through the streets, momentarily elated, |
| 45 | BLUE ENCOUNT | "灯せ" | VECTOR | or is your motorcade chased back to your compound? |
| 46 | Kaqriyo Terror Architect | "Oninoinumaondo" | Cultural Mixing | You will be overcome by power and poise, |
| 47 | Last Days of Eden | "The Storyteller" | Chrysalis | and the relentless humanity of mythology |
| 48 | Shadowrise | "Lost in Time" | Shadowrise | and passing time. |
| 49 | Melted Space | "Newborns" | Darkening Light | You have conflated heroism with vanity, |
| 50 | First to Eleven | "Want You Back" | single | and shouted hatred at a generation that speaks love. |
| 51 | Spurv | "Og Ny Skog Bæres Frem" | single | You will be inexorably unraveled, |
| 52 | Malú | "Ciudad De Papel" | single | replaced by resplendent queens |
| 53 | U-KISS | "Beginning" | LINK | and idol princes, |
| 54 | Mournful Congregation | "The Indwelling Ascent" | The Incubus of Karma | bypassed by a methodical tide of vengeance en passant. |
| 55 | Red Eleven | "Back in Time" | single | New heroes pick up the old banners. |
| 56 | Sol Invictus | "Necropolis: Portal" | Necropolis | Truth is patient enough, |
| 57 | Ugasanie | "In Antarctic Night" | Ice Breath of Antarctica | more patient than you. |
| 58 | Javiera Mena | "Intuición" | single | You have that time you cheated the electoral votes and then couldn't even remember by how much, but we have Chilean indie-pop, |
| 59 | Ari Mason | "Just for Tonight" | single | and the Pan-American Highway, |
| 60 | Étienne Daho | "Le jardin - Single Version" | Le jardin 3 | and French electro-surf, |
| 61 | Matthias Reim | "Ich geb uns nicht auf" | Meteor | and German Robbie Robertsons, |
| 62 | Azekel | "Pyramids & Starships" | single | and innumerable relics of empire. |
| 63 | Gost | "Garruth" | Possessor | We see your "well-regulated militia" posturing and raise you cosplay gothica |
| 64 | Nikolija | "Malo" | single | and Serbian diva strut |
| 65 | Jim-E Stack | "Somebody" | single | and gossamer fluttercrash solidity. |
| 66 | Carina Dahl | "Waste No Time" | single | We plan arbitrary vacations to places where the seas end, |
| 67 | Maître Gims | "Tant pis" | Ceinture noire | where people have been unfraid to come |
| 68 | Hooss | "Woodstock" | Woodstock | and rewrite sacred stories |
| 69 | Cavern of Anti-Matter | "Motion Flow" | Hormone Lemonade | into architecture |
| 70 | Aisha Devi | "Dislocation of the Alpha" | single | or disassembly |
| 71 | Will Haven | "Winds of Change" | Muerte | or redemptive collapse. |
| 72 | We Deserve This | "No" | No / Yes 2 | That hum you always hear is us. |
| 73 | BIGHEAD | "I'll SEE YOU (feat. Tara Louise)" | single | That rattle you hear now is the choreography of our approach. |
| 74 | Uppermost | "The Brightest Light" | Perseverance | We know where you live, we know where we live, |
| 75 | Paulo Cuevas | "Hyori Ittai - From "Hunter x Hunter"" | single | and we have programmed attack bots to negotiate the difference. |
| 76 | Blanck Mass | "Please - Zola Jesus Remix" | World Eater Re-Voxed 4 | They are upon you now with the elegiac consequences of your disdain, |
| 77 | Blanck Mass | "The Rat - Gazelle Twin Remix" | World Eater Re-Voxed 4 | and rococo formulas of conviction, |
| 78 | Rubio | "Mátame" | O 2 | but yet, too, a set of rueful oblique proofs of your repressed nobility, |
| 79 | Daniel Paez | "Cuando Tú Estás" | single | and a breathlessly outstretched hand and an offer of higher love. |