1 |
Hidden Hospitals |
"Acid Rain" |
single |
I never learned to play the hi-hat properly, and I've never been to Chicago. Yet, not yet. |
2 |
Amorphis |
"Wrong Direction" |
single |
Observation is cheaper than education, but gaze is finite even so. |
3 |
Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik |
"Ni Døtre av Hav" |
Hugsjá |
There are methodologies for acquiring facility, but none for heritage. |
4 |
Crystal Ball |
"Alive for Evermore" |
single |
Unless, unless: If we are immortal, then we can still be things for nearly forever |
5 |
Temperance |
"The Last Hope in a World of Hopes" |
Of Jupiter and Moons |
that we have yet to begin. |
6 |
Issa |
"Am I Losing You" |
Run with the Pack |
The things we don't yet realize we will never do again accumulate silently |
7 |
Mitski |
"Between the Breaths" |
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
among us. |
8 |
Tancred |
"Queen of New York" |
single |
Pick one thing every day to keep alive, |
9 |
Brian Eno |
"Kazakhstan - Edit" |
single |
one way to not yet stop breathing, |
10 |
Konntinent |
"Grasp of Math" |
All Lines Lead In |
one impractical system to stubbornly employ, |
11 |
Touché Amoré |
"Green" |
single |
one rage not to relinquish, |
12 |
Heavy Things |
"Vices" |
Glimpse |
one agnostic mantra to reiterate. |
13 |
worlds greatest dad |
"A Song for Mogis" |
single |
Center one thing marginalized, |
14 |
Dan Bull |
"God of War" |
God of War +1 |
and push one unavoidable constraint towards a margin. |
15 |
Tryhardninja |
"Impossible War" |
single |
Dreaming of superheroes marks you in your waking hours, |
16 |
TeraBrite |
"Say Amen (Saturday Night)" |
single |
but you choose whether to hide or brandish the mark, |
17 |
Dead Letter Circus |
"The Armour You Own" |
single |
and superheroes have to come from inside someone's skin to exist, |
18 |
Seanzy |
"Beauty in Tragedy" |
single |
and be absorbed into the rest of ours to have power. |
19 |
Alteras |
"Another Breath" |
single |
How quickly does your frantic anger resolve into yearning? |
20 |
Drown This City |
"Third Law" |
single |
There are methodologies for self-awareness, |
21 |
Deafheaven |
"Honeycomb" |
single |
but by definition none for epiphany. |
22 |
Unreqvited |
"White Lotus" |
Stars Wept to the Sea |
And yet, you can put yourself in the paths of catharses, |
23 |
Abraham |
"Wind" |
single |
and not fight them if they start to seem to converge or converse towards meaning. |
24 |
Donovan Woods |
"Easy Street" |
Both Ways |
Sometimes not fighting is the challenge, or the gift. |
25 |
Novo Amor |
"State Lines" |
single |
You don't know what the next breath will fill you with, |
26 |
Metalwings |
"End of the War" |
For All Beyond |
until you breathe its fire out again, |
27 |
Turmion Kätilöt |
"Sikiö" |
single |
and see it gleam on the armor of your armies |
28 |
Pinkshinyultrablast |
"Dance AM" |
single |
of weightlessnes and spin. |
29 |
Soft Kill |
"Hard Candy" |
single |
To be at rest in the center of maelstroms, |
30 |
Belong |
"I Never Lose. Never Really" |
October Language |
of course we construct practice maelstroms we inevitably cannot control. |
31 |
Only Shadows |
"We Are Machines" |
single |
How else will we rehearse for the day you leave, or the day some other end falls? |
32 |
Dear Jack |
"Non è un caso se l'amore è complicato" |
single |
Dancing in the face of despair is too exquisite to be reserved for loss, |
33 |
Sibille Attar |
"Paloma" |
single |
the evocation of arches too allusive for just organized awe. |
34 |
Sugarland |
"Babe" |
single |
You can visit places you have been before, and it's not quite the same as coming home again, |
35 |
Post Monroe |
"No More" |
No More + Coke & Rum 2 |
but you were never entirely where you're from. |
36 |
TesseracT |
"ジュノ" |
ゾンダー |
All work is movement, and all movement is escape. |
37 |
Subsignal |
"Even Though the Stars Don't Shine - Radio Version" |
single |
I mean, there must be worse theories: |
38 |
Grimner |
"Freja Vakar (Bonus Track)" |
Vanadrottning |
something about elves, or using levers as clubs, |
39 |
Grailknights |
"Pumping Iron Power" |
single |
or holding them backwards as you do; |
40 |
Inferi |
"A Beckoning Thrall" |
Revenant |
conspiracies of the unseen, |
41 |
Darker by Design |
"Overthrown by Oblivion" |
single |
as if you are not exactly as unseen to them in return; |
42 |
MAN WITH A MISSION |
"Take Me Under" |
Take Me Under / Winding Road 4 |
any value-system originating in envy |
43 |
Maneki Kecak |
"青息吐息" |
きみわずらい |
of the untranslated |
44 |
The Beatmotors |
"Everyday Is Like Sunday" |
single |
for any quality but its universal joy; |
45 |
Halflives |
"Crown" |
single |
canonizations of the irrevocable |
46 |
Dani Martín |
"Dieciocho" |
single |
or things seen from only particular angles, such as the side or above; |
47 |
Jess Lee |
"Hey Baby 你是我的 (電影<親愛的初戀> 中文主題曲)" |
single |
fear of foreign faiths; |
48 |
Sun Glitters |
"Forever and Ever" |
SG X S 2 |
fear of insistent patterns; |
49 |
Sunstorm |
"Only the Good Will Survive" |
single |
fear of first loves; |
50 |
Dorian |
"Justicia Universal" |
single |
anything about how other people deserve less or different; |
51 |
Los Planetas |
"Hierro y Níquel" |
Zona Temporalmente Autónoma |
anything reliant on the deferral of dust |
52 |
Aisha Devi |
"Light Luxury" |
single |
or the prescient distinction between dust in shadow and glitter in light. |
53 |
Linney |
"The Hurt" |
single |
Every simple song must surely have been written, |
54 |
Karmia |
"Jäätynyt maa" |
Jäätynyt maa +2 |
long before dawn every day, in every idiom, |
55 |
Glasperlenspiel |
"Willkommen zurück" |
Licht & Schatten |
but this tells you nothing at all about the next one, |
56 |
ZSK |
"Es wird Zeit" |
single |
nothing useful, |
57 |
Offset |
"Negau koto" |
Monogatari no yukue |
nothing that absolves or exempts you from hearing it again. |
58 |
Ruido Rosa |
"Vértigo" |
single |
As a new song comes on, where none should be left, your plane flies out of a cloud and you're looking down on somewhere, |
59 |
Angelus Apatrida |
"Farewell" |
single |
Montana or Moldova or the moon, |
60 |
Psychework |
"Karelian Hills" |
Karelian Hills |
the setting for somebody's ancestral legends |
61 |
ASTRO |
"Clouds" |
Flight in the Dream |
and somebody else's satiric dioramas, |
62 |
Puteraeon |
"The Living Inferno" |
The Dunwich damnation 5 |
someone's inexorably constricting trap |
63 |
Arvingarna |
"Hon och jag" |
single |
and someone's punitive nostalgia. |
64 |
Shirley Clamp |
"Efter vi fallit" |
single |
All honest new songs have little gasping intakes of air, |
65 |
BBS Paranoicos |
"Sanatorio" |
single |
which is the only way planes stay up, |
66 |
AURORA |
"Queendom" |
single |
and why flying over is not enough. |
67 |
Elza Soares |
"Banho" |
single |
Down there on the moon, or wherever, they look up and wave, |
68 |
ASG |
"Survive Sunrise" |
single |
and then go back to reconciling corrosion and grace. |
69 |
Ssaliva |
"Danger Came Smiling" |
Wyin 6 |
In that square building they are voting on whether to replace a bridge, |
70 |
Carpark North |
"When We Were Kids" |
single |
and thus implicitly deciding whether it has failed first as engineering or metaphor. |
71 |
Fyfe |
"Foundation" |
Fyfe & Iskra Strings EP 1 |
You never stood on it, on a summer night, making up your mind whether to fall in love or have fallen. |
72 |
Blender |
"Du vet inte hur man uppför sig" |
Gambla litegrann |
This is another bridge, over some other chasm, |
73 |
Borixon |
"Puls" |
single |
and nothing of yours can be betrayed in this moment, here. |
74 |
Naela |
"La Noche (Versión Mundial Rusia 2018)" |
single |
Nothing of yours is at stake, |
75 |
BNLX |
"Short Elevated Period" |
EP #10 4 |
and yet and thus this is another of the infinite ways you can risk nothing and win, |
76 |
D.A. Stern |
"Isn’t It Obvious?" |
Isn't It Obvious? 4 |
another revelation you can infer from other people's rueful or fractious capitulation, |
77 |
Anggun |
"The Good is Back" |
single |
another escape you are offered from or to a place you've never been. |
78 |
TheOvertunes |
"Time Will Tell" |
single |
Pick one thing every day to love for qualities you unapologetically project; |
79 |
Aslay |
"Kwa Raha" |
single |
this is a method for free radiance, and a machine for locating or opening hearts, and a way to realize that this is also what every new song is willing to do for you. |