1 |
Delta Goodrem |
"Welcome to Earth" |
single |
What if you had to speak for all of us? |
2 |
Petal |
"Better Than You" |
single |
But then, don't we always speak for all of us? |
3 |
Alice Merton |
"Hit The Ground Running" |
No Roots EP 5 |
This is what it means to speak: to formulate a thing that other people can choose to believe about themselves. |
4 |
Donovan Woods |
"Our Friend Bobby" |
single |
The inherent untenable audacity can be counterbalanced, carefully, with humility and grace, |
5 |
Panopticon |
"En hvit ravns død" |
The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness, Part 1 |
or transmuted by tradition, |
6 |
Wonders of Nature |
"Devils Tower" |
Mysterious Peaks |
or disowned in abstraction, |
7 |
Glorior Belli |
"The Apostates" |
The Apostates |
or postponed in the hopes of preemptive apocalypse, |
8 |
Aura Noir |
"Shades Ablaze" |
single |
but you're still responsible for what you say, and for the empty spaces where you should have. |
9 |
Craft |
"Thorns in the Planet's Side" |
Fuck the Universe |
So many empty spaces, |
10 |
Acherontas |
"The Old Tree and the Wise Man" |
single |
preserved despite so many words. |
11 |
Ihsahn |
"Wake" |
single |
After a while you begin to suspect that some of the words must be working for the void, |
12 |
Kamelot |
"Stories Unheard" |
The Shadow Theory |
in loving treachery, |
13 |
Whyzdom |
"The Mistchild" |
As Time Turns to Dust |
infiltrating oblivion |
14 |
Vega |
"All over Now" |
single |
in black velvet capes |
15 |
Christina Vantzou |
"Glissando for Bodies and Machines in Space" |
No. 4 |
to find out how emptiness talks about the rest of us |
16 |
Zola Jesus |
"Vacant" |
Okovi: Additions |
while we are obliviously dancing |
17 |
Alison Wonderland |
"Okay" |
Awake |
in marble. |
18 |
The Glitch Mob |
"I Could Be Anything (feat. Elohim)" |
single |
Everything you say speaks for all of us, |
19 |
Generdyn |
"Souls In Gravity" |
Souls in Gravity |
all of us cheering wildly, |
20 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Subcreation" |
Zeropoint |
cameras spinning, |
21 |
Varien |
"Of Foxes and Hounds" |
single |
time and regret suspended. |
22 |
ToxicxEternity |
"Dragon Roost Island" |
single |
Archive the wordless transcripts. |
23 |
AmaLee |
"Gravity Wall (Re:Creators)" |
Total Coverage, Vol. 4 |
Remember this moment when we were saved. |
24 |
The Bombpops |
"Turn up the Thermostat" |
Dear Beer 4 |
Remember all these moments until they blur into dawn and you can see to escape, |
25 |
The Wonder Years |
"It Must Get Lonely" |
Sister Cities |
but choose to stay. |
26 |
Chief State |
"Broken Eyes" |
single |
Nobody can make you speak, nobody can make you listen, |
27 |
Huora |
"Puukottaja" |
single |
but you choose to by living |
28 |
Apulanta |
"Toinen jumala" |
single |
anywhere. |
29 |
Engel |
"Gallows Tree" |
single |
You have already paid your fee, |
30 |
Maj Karma |
"101 tapaa olla vapaa" |
single |
you walk here unimpeded. |
31 |
Mors Subita |
"Dead Sun" |
Into the Pitch Black |
Or, at least, impeded no more than any celestial object. |
32 |
The Body |
"Can Carry No Weight" |
single |
Silent no more than any radiant or convulsive star. |
33 |
Soft Kill |
"Missing" |
single |
All the movies you loved will be reevaluated as unworthy, |
34 |
Divididos |
"Caballos de la Noche (La Foca)" |
single |
but the love itself remains, is freed. |
35 |
Abraham |
"Vulvaire" |
single |
The frontiers you explored are suburbs now, |
36 |
Johnny Marr |
"The Tracers" |
single |
and your heroes own landscaping companies |
37 |
Nico Vega |
"Little Operator" |
single |
that their children can defy. |
38 |
Bugzy Malone |
"AND WHAT" |
single |
But if you can think of a few rhymes, you can always start over. |
39 |
Wormwood |
"[Angry Chanting]" |
single |
You can always escape the trap |
40 |
Jason Aldean |
"I'll Wait for You" |
single |
and follow an old road away from here |
41 |
David Lee Murphy |
"Way Gone" |
No Zip Code |
to mythical nowheres |
42 |
Kira Isabella |
"Little Girl" |
single |
other people escaped so recently you must have passed them |
43 |
Elenco de Soy Luna |
"Claroscuro" |
Soy Luna - Modo Amar |
on your way in. |
44 |
Le Vibrazioni |
"Così sbagliato (feat. Skin)" |
single |
Up behind the lights, the same stars sparkle over cities and towns. |
45 |
Tony Maiello |
"Spettacolo" |
single |
If you travel, you have to remember to look down, |
46 |
Bianco |
"Punk Rock con le Ali - Malibu Version" |
single |
see where you're walking, how it has been marked. |
47 |
Valis Ablaze |
"The Crossing" |
Boundless |
Learn, about yourself, whether confusion makes you assume there is a system, |
48 |
Dmitry Demyanenko |
"Limitless" |
Universe |
a productive impulse no matter how often it's wrong. |
49 |
Rothko |
"May 3rd 1979 (When Evil Took Hold)" |
Blood Demands More Blood |
You can try not to pick arbitrary days to fixate upon, but ultimately all of them are exactly as arbitrary as the day you were born, |
50 |
Oslo Ess |
"Frie radikaler" |
Frie radikaler |
just as broken, |
51 |
Alkonost |
"Lystopad" |
Lystopad +1 |
just as legendary. |
52 |
TOTALFAT |
"Phoenix" |
single |
Rise again, make history; |
53 |
LAMP IN TERREN |
"Dreams" |
single |
it isn't going to make itself. |
54 |
DEADLIFT LOLITA |
"It's Sou Time!!" |
single |
At least, you can't trust it to do it right, |
55 |
Soledad Vélez |
"Cromo y Platino" |
single |
to know when to be overwhelmed, |
56 |
City Calm Down |
"Echoes In Blue" |
single |
to know when to hold still with a flourish, |
57 |
Johan Baeckström |
"Utopia" |
Utopia +1 |
to perform the correct math, |
58 |
Dorsal Fins |
"Ascension" |
single |
to pace in erratic circles, |
59 |
Hatchie |
"Sugar & Spice" |
single |
to effervesce. |
60 |
HER NAME IN BLOOD |
"KATANA" |
POWER |
If you want your cautionary tales |
61 |
Perfect Plan |
"Never Surrender" |
single |
and spectacular fables |
62 |
Wess Meets West |
"Take Great Pride in Everything You Do" |
A Light Within the Fracture |
and formalist poetry |
63 |
World's End Girlfriend |
"MEGURI" |
single |
to coallesce into any kind of ballet or barricade, |
64 |
Degree of Arc |
"Ascent" |
Raptures |
you will have to be patient and able to conceive of responsive shapes, |
65 |
Betsie Larkin |
"Driving Through the Dark" |
single |
willing to contemplate diaphanous clothing at your current weight or take night trips that really could have been done by daylight, |
66 |
Diamond Platnumz |
"Niache" |
single |
willing to learn a new dance you'll initially be bad at, |
67 |
PRXZM |
"Queen of Hearts" |
single |
but eventually inhabit. |
68 |
Nordvargr |
"Invocation for a Malicious Spirit" |
Metempsychosis |
And anyway, consider the converse: what if you are silent? |
69 |
Road |
"135 seb" |
A tökéletesség hibája |
What if all your love and anger is contained? |
70 |
Sloan |
"Wish Upon a Satellite" |
12 |
The stars pass above, and you ask them for nothing. |
71 |
Son Volt |
"The Search" |
The Search |
Roads vanish in the distance, and you just allow it. |
72 |
Paddy And The Rats |
"Aerolites" |
Riot City Outlaws |
You take no steps that would be heard, |
73 |
JOY |
"PUSS" |
single |
and therefore necessarily wear no glittering or dissident shoes. |
74 |
Messa |
"Snakeskin Drape" |
Feast for Water |
You do not protest, do not precess, do not catharse. |
75 |
TINI |
"Princesa" |
single |
To have no unreasonable dreams, you do not dream. |
76 |
Bedroom Audio |
"เล่นกับไฟ" |
single |
But this is not even effective as nihilism. |
77 |
Stamp |
"ฝันหวานอายจูบ" |
SKY 4 |
Say nothing and they will assume they know the language you aren't saying. |
78 |
Bombino |
"Deran Deran Alkheir (Well Wishes)" |
single |
Hold perfectly still and they will see you where they are. |
79 |
Dj Polarsoul |
"Risonanza di rumore" |
Solitudine |
Blur, and they will form you into their own outlines. |
80 |
Ylvis |
"Nå er det OL" |
Stories From Norway: Skrik 4 |
Pretend, and they will know you chose these untruths. |
81 |
Danheim |
"Fornheim" |
single |
Better to invite your truths in, and let the untruths dance just out of the firelight. |
82 |
Nytt Land |
"Ragnarök" |
Odal |
This will all end soon enough. Now is when we choose sides. |
83 |
Chorale |
"Tää Ilta" |
single |
Now is for beepy dancing and consecutive umlauts |
84 |
Distrito Rojo |
"Loco de Remate" |
single |
and racing hearts |
85 |
Ari Mason |
"Vodka Rocks" |
Vodka Rocks +1 |
and resilience |
86 |
False Friends |
"Rebuild" |
single |
and recovery. |
87 |
Earlyguard |
"Strangers" |
Synthesis |
This is when we can take time for yearning gradients that do not vanish over an event horizon. |
88 |
Sykes |
"Andromeda" |
single |
This is when we pick an insanely distant destination, |
89 |
Brooklynn |
"Compass" |
single |
and a direction that may lead nowhere near there, and then we just go. |