1 |
CHVRCHES |
"Never Say Die" |
single |
Put your sad down. |
2 |
Chaostar |
"Blutbad" |
The Undivided Light |
Pick up something more dangerous, more inexplicable, more alive, |
3 |
BiSH |
"SCHOOLYARD" |
PAiNT it BLACK 2 |
and then smash it. |
4 |
Kobra And The Lotus |
"Let Me Love You" |
single |
Almost everything we know comes from shards and fragments: |
5 |
Kamelot |
"Phantom Divine (Shadow Empire)" |
single |
all our edifices, |
6 |
Issa |
"Sacrifice Me" |
single |
most of our nostalgia, |
7 |
The Lust |
"Faster" |
Karmalove (Album) |
exactly half of our dreams, |
8 |
Nicumo |
"Witch Hunt" |
single |
every extant nation. |
9 |
Collibus |
"The Last Time" |
Trusting The illusion |
It takes strength to stand, so of course there are mines and monuments of strength, |
10 |
Alight |
"The Portal" |
single |
and we make them beautiful, because we can't stop ourselves. |
11 |
Follow The Cipher |
"The Rising" |
Valkyria 2 |
We are intricate exaggerations of resolution, |
12 |
SpellBlast |
"Tex Willer" |
Of Gold and Guns |
redolent explications of habit, |
13 |
Judicator |
"Take up Your Cross" |
The Last Emperor |
pathologies of certainty. |
14 |
On Thorns I Lay |
"Erevos" |
Aegean Sorrow |
We are vessels constructed to leak life |
15 |
Altars of Grief |
"Desolation" |
Iris |
as our manifestation of exuberance |
16 |
Firkin |
"Awaken The Iron" |
We Are The Ones |
and manic ruefulness. |
17 |
Sata kaskelottia |
"Aamumandaatti" |
Sydän on vuori |
Many miles away, something crawls to the surface of a dark Finnish lake, |
18 |
Barren Earth |
"The Living Fortress" |
A Complex Of Cages |
not to emerge, but to see if our oceans have drowned us yet, |
19 |
Dimmu Borgir |
"Council Of Wolves And Snakes" |
single |
to make way for something else. |
20 |
Varathron |
"Into the Absurd" |
single |
The answer is: no. |
21 |
Árstíðir |
"While This Way" |
single |
For the moment, we are still immortal and divine, |
22 |
Perfume |
"Mugenmirai" |
Mugenmirai +2 |
irrepressible, undaunted, |
23 |
Luna Shadows |
"Be The One" |
single |
annointed, |
24 |
Hayley Kiyoko |
"What I Need (feat. Kehlani)" |
Expectations |
animated, |
25 |
Tancred |
"Reviews" |
single |
broken and perfect. |
26 |
Desperate Journalist |
"Incandescent" |
You Get Used to It 5 |
We are celebrating memories of victory by staging new victories over nominal foes, |
27 |
Sevdaliza |
"Voodoov" |
The Calling |
and then becoming their eulogists and wraiths, |
28 |
C. Diab |
"The Green Plain, Pt. 1" |
Exit Rumination |
or the equations of their heart rates at rest, |
29 |
Markus Schulz |
"Safe from Harm" |
single |
or the clarity we learned from their eyes. |
30 |
ARTY |
"Rain" |
single |
We don't always master humility, but we get pretty good at fractions, |
31 |
AmaLee |
"L.L.L. (Overlord)" |
single |
and undoing division is after all half of the problem. |
32 |
Rachael Sage |
"No One Is To Blame" |
single |
Somebody sings the old words more deliberately, and we think "Oh, is that what they were saying?" |
33 |
Mokoma |
"Kepeät mullat" |
single |
Pick up something you only just understood for the first time, |
34 |
Evil Drive |
"Anti-Genocide" |
Ragemaker |
and use it to smash something else, instead. |
35 |
Slomatics |
"Ancient Architects" |
Totems |
Whatever object survives is by definition the weapon. |
36 |
CASTLEBEAT |
"Tennis" |
VHS |
Whatever regret survives is the seed of an apology |
37 |
Prides |
"Born to Be Whole" |
A Mind Like the Tide, Pt. 2 |
you don't have to say. |
38 |
Cassadee Pope |
"Take You Home" |
single |
We have simple templates, |
39 |
J.B.O. |
"Ich will Spaß" |
Deutsche Vita |
simpler needs, |
40 |
Galactic Empire |
"Scherzo for X-Wings" |
single |
simplest joys, |
41 |
Augury |
"The Living Vault" |
Illusive Golden Age |
until you are brave enough to look them in the mitochondria and accept why we want them. |
42 |
Nekrokraft |
"Servants ov the Black" |
single |
We are devoted to idiot causes, |
43 |
Thanatos |
"A New Beginning" |
single |
in grand defiance, |
44 |
Nadàr Solo |
"Quello Sbaglio" |
single |
and boundless love. |
45 |
ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION |
"The Survivor's March" |
Best Hit AKG 2 (2012-2018) |
Our old stories are never unresumable. |
46 |
Straightener |
"Boy Friend" |
single |
We are coiled in readiness to be in love again with everything we ever let go |
47 |
GARNiDELiA |
"SPEED STAR -Album Ver.-" |
G.R.N.D. |
or idolized. |
48 |
Elenco de Soy Luna |
"Soy Yo - From "Soy Luna – Modo Amar"" |
single |
Thus are identities assembled: |
49 |
Correos |
"No se apaga" |
single |
out of bounding grief, |
50 |
Jaded Heart |
"Set Free" |
Devil's Gift |
clattering empathy, |
51 |
FM |
"Killed by Love" |
Atomic Generation |
and ridiculous costume embraces, |
52 |
Maxsta |
"Guns And Roses" |
single |
buttoned over roiling self-awareness. |
53 |
AYLA |
"Throw Your Arms Around Me" |
single |
I will not try to forget, |
54 |
KMPFSPRT |
"Kreuze" |
Gaijin |
and in return you will never hesitate, |
55 |
Revolverheld |
"Zimmer mit Blick" |
single |
and they will write of us in all the best words. |
56 |
Kormus |
"Unissakävelijä" |
single |
We are vigilant sociologists in visibility-limiting purple dinosaur heads. |
57 |
Ruusut |
"Glitchit" |
single |
The dark lakes are filled with drum sequencers, |
58 |
SafetySuit |
"Victory" |
single |
and the roads lead from the shores towards various unorganized horizons. |
59 |
Miya Folick |
"Deadbody" |
single |
Of course all of this is performative, how could it be anything else? |
60 |
Social Repose |
"Stay Alive" |
single |
Sometimes we are most true at our most literal, |
61 |
B.A.P |
"Young Wild & Free" |
Massive |
sometimes our synchrony is universal metaphor. |
62 |
Spido |
"Yamoh" |
single |
Derivation is relative, |
63 |
Inferi |
"Condemned Assailant" |
single |
and destruction aspires to be absolute, |
64 |
Alkaloid |
"Kernel Panic" |
single |
but everything we have was made out of residue and the reclaimed. |
65 |
Dronny Darko |
"Numinous" |
Black Hive |
Attack and retreat are concessions to impatience |
66 |
Coph Nia |
"Our Lady of the Stars" |
That Which Remains |
that we are not actually required to make. |
67 |
Son Volt |
"Carnival Blues" |
single |
It was fine how it was and how it will be. |
68 |
Eternal Summers |
"Contenders" |
single |
Sometimes you walk away just to walk, |
69 |
Getsunova |
"ชีวิตที่มีชีวิต" |
single |
and end up on new roads |
70 |
Black Autumn |
"The Threefold Life" |
Aurora |
through abandoned prophecy and its attendant pedagogical rubble. |
71 |
Jelena Rozga |
"Najbolji Dan" |
single |
The winner loses the ability to perceive the things they believe themselves to have overcome. |
72 |
Evolucija |
"Jerusalime" |
Baklja Slobode |
Cognizance is the floating province of the rebellion. |
73 |
Belly |
"Stars Align" |
single |
We never really let go, not willingly. |
74 |
Philip Glass |
"Pendulum" |
single |
We have our reasons, and hearing them might help, |
75 |
Broken Records |
"Let the Right One In" |
What We Might Know |
but if so, only because our voices are shaped out of our loves, |
76 |
Fyfe |
"Peaks" |
single |
as, by now, is any air we still have around us. |
77 |
Blender |
"Ska vi dricka te?" |
single |
Our redemption is sentimental. We will dance this way again when we are old. |
78 |
Ari Mason |
"Had Enough" |
single |
But first, we have some things to explain. |
79 |
Chloe Adams |
"Bonfire Night" |
single |
Put your sad down, and your grievances, and what you think you know about us. |
80 |
The Blue Hour |
"Moving Forward" |
Moving Forward +2 |
We are but the ghosts of that, |
81 |
Delia |
"Du-Te Ma" |
single |
wrapped around pillars of gleeful aplomb, |
82 |
OMNIA |
"Niiv’s Cauldron" |
Reflexions |
calmly accumulating exactly the magic you are about to realize you need. |