1 |
Kobra And The Lotus |
"My Immortal" |
Prevail II |
We are crossbred organisms of inexorable violence and fractal elegance, |
2 |
Crematory |
"Stay with Me" |
Oblivion |
brandishing nostalgia for hypothetical oblivions to come, |
3 |
Twin Shadow |
"18 Years" |
Caer |
armoring unconcealable doubt for defiant display, |
4 |
Elohim |
"Half Love" |
single |
most nakedly human in our yearning mechanisms. |
5 |
Mainland |
"Villains" |
Villains 5 |
We see ourselves in camera angles, |
6 |
Little Monarch |
"Tangerine" |
single |
and western skylines retreating ahead of us over the beckoning horizon. |
7 |
Meg Myers |
"Numb" |
single |
We smell like in-between spirits, |
8 |
Elysia Crampton |
"Orion Song" |
Elysia Crampton 6 |
becalmed in electrical storms |
9 |
Eli Lieb |
"Fall for You" |
The Nights We Lived |
sent by our ancestors half as gifts, half as warning. |
10 |
Anne-Marie |
"Cry" |
Speak Your Mind |
The borders writhe, invert, |
11 |
Camila Cabello |
"Never Be the Same (feat. Kane Brown)" |
single |
subliminate into the sky when we show up with trucks, |
12 |
Jennifer Lopez |
"El Anillo" |
single |
and then precipitate back into forgotten channels. |
13 |
Lisa Heller |
"Quicksand" |
single |
We are collectors of abandoned talismans, |
14 |
TeraBrite |
"No Tears Left to Cry" |
single |
carving them into new semblances of old shapes |
15 |
The Animal In Me |
"Him & I" |
single |
in order to smash things we can't afford to be without. |
16 |
Scavenger Hunt |
"Name" |
single |
People become dolls become simulations become ghosts, |
17 |
Peter Hollens |
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" |
single |
and the ghosts defy you to touch them. |
18 |
Warmth |
"Convex" |
Parallel |
The bridge exists as much for the water's sake as ours, |
19 |
Max Würden |
"Initial Condition" |
Momentum |
if you listen to what water thinks. |
20 |
Blanck Mass |
"Shit Luck" |
Odd Scene / Shit Luck 2 |
Frantic absence |
21 |
FigureItOut |
"Want to Want Me" |
single |
only pretends to be above us. |
22 |
AmaLee |
"Pray (Gintama)" |
Nostalgia IV |
Our hearts live in our stories, |
23 |
Phil Rey |
"The Heart of a Giant" |
single |
gathering quests for the sequels, |
24 |
LLNN |
"Parallels" |
Deads |
and then eating half of them to survive the night. |
25 |
The Lion's Daughter |
"Die into Us" |
single |
Thus we are poisoned by our own impatience and an angle of rotation; |
26 |
Ummet Ozcan |
"Change My Heart" |
single |
thus we are immune to anything we survive twice; |
27 |
Kahbum |
"Appuntamento al buio" |
single |
thus we earnestly substitute contrition for grace, |
28 |
Correos |
"El último verso (feat. Gabriel de la Rosa)" |
single |
contortion for silence, |
29 |
Destination Anywhere |
"Außenseiter" |
single |
exhaustion for peace; |
30 |
The Alarm |
"Beautiful" |
single |
thus we hide from storms only until they feel familiar; |
31 |
Keith Urban |
"Same Heart" |
Graffiti U |
thus we have our methods as tenuously as our regrets; |
32 |
Sugarland |
"Mother" |
single |
thus we model our comforts in hardwood and iconography |
33 |
Maddie & Tae |
"Friends Don't" |
single |
and tractor beams of overcommitment and desire. |
34 |
Madeline Merlo |
"Neon Love" |
single |
Time passes too swiftly to do any exact thing more than once, |
35 |
Molly Sandén |
"Större" |
Större |
which is why we take pictures we will never look at, |
36 |
Rúzsa Magdolna |
"Légzés" |
single |
or never without filters. |
37 |
Kell Smith |
"Sete Galáxias" |
Girassol |
Only in this way, sometimes, can we extricate ourselves from the gravity of perfect moments, |
38 |
IZA |
"Bateu (Participação especial de Ruxell)" |
Dona de mim |
trailing them behind us in strobeframe, |
39 |
Javiera Mena |
"Cerca" |
Espejo |
and escape into the hopes they intimate |
40 |
Janelle Monáe |
"Crazy, Classic, Life" |
Dirty Computer |
or threaten. |
41 |
a crowd of rebellion |
"Ill" |
single |
We have no weapon but private reference-systems, |
42 |
WagakkiBand |
"紅蓮" |
オトノエ |
designed against langauge but employed against fear. |
43 |
QUEEN BEE |
"HALF" |
HALF(Full Edition) 4 |
We never learned to walk any other way but this: |
44 |
Aimyon |
"満月の夜なら" |
single |
like each step crushes the surface of the earth and flowers emerge; |
45 |
edda |
"夢のレイニー" |
single |
like we see invisible paths, as of course we do; |
46 |
Sanna Nielsen |
"Det vänder nu" |
single |
like walking is dancing is mediation is math. |
47 |
Mœnia |
"Clásico" |
Clásico +1 |
We will remember these devices fondly when they are gone, |
48 |
Editors |
"Darkness at the Door" |
Violence |
or we are. |
49 |
Hatchie |
"Sleep" |
single |
We are haunted not by ghosts but by twins, |
50 |
Alight |
"Roses in the Dusk" |
Spiral of Silence |
by the unreconciled implications of things we once believed. |
51 |
Argentum |
"Сверхновая" |
Сверхновая +3 |
All our marginalia has this subtext, |
52 |
Captain Black Beard |
"All the Pain" |
Struck by Lightning |
from sacrament commentary to arena inscriptions, |
53 |
Skeletonwitch |
"Fen of Shadows" |
single |
its true meanings only elicited by inspirational disintegration, |
54 |
lynch. |
"SORROW" |
SINNERS-no one can fake my blood- |
memorial regret, |
55 |
Nergard |
"Question Of God" |
Memorial For A Wish |
and reconstruction as a fetish. |
56 |
Candlemass |
"House of Doom" |
single |
Without the moon, we would be different people, |
57 |
Chris Bay |
"Flying Hearts" |
Chasing the Sun |
but this is obviously also true of the sun, |
58 |
Midas Fall |
"Dust and Bone" |
Evaporate |
and even more essentially of the space between them. |
59 |
Toundra |
"Tuareg" |
Vortex |
We are disruptions of emptiness, |
60 |
Visions |
"Monad" |
Monad +3 |
and at the same times its heirs, |
61 |
John 00 Fleming |
"Mhysa's Point Of No Return" |
Galactic Transmissions |
and we are at work on a ballet about how it fell in love, when it was young, |
62 |
DRYM |
"Ethereal" |
single |
with what happens when light trasmutes into time, only to find that the past has already gone. |
63 |
The Spacies |
"Keep Your Head Up" |
single |
The differences between collection and hoarding |
64 |
Tigress |
"Bring Me Down" |
single |
are smaller than the differences between curiosity and faith. |
65 |
Boikot |
"Hablarán las Calles" |
single |
Our hearts live in the spaces inside of us that stories vacate when they are told. |
66 |
Sista Brytet |
"Aldrig Komma Hem" |
single |
We try not to cry. |
67 |
KAFVKA |
"Hallo Welt" |
2084 |
We try not to tell you everything we secretly belive in the first minute. |
68 |
Phyno |
"Onyeoma" |
single |
We try not to blurt out all the ways we have dreamed of being you. |
69 |
Miligram |
"Vampir" |
single |
We're lucky if we even know which ancient realms share land borders. |
70 |
New Arcades |
"Afterlight" |
Nothing Is Lost 5 |
And yet, we know what it feels like when the stars come down and glitter among us. |
71 |
Saara Aalto |
"DANCE!!!" |
Wild Wild Wonderland |
We know how every one of these clichés infected us. |
72 |
T-cophony |
"1015 Refreshes" |
Day Sketch |
We know what's left after everything we've already said has been removed and unheard. |
73 |
Craig Cardiff |
"Okay Cupid" |
Okay Cupid +1 |
What's left is anticipation and an insatiable vulnerability to transformation. |
74 |
Dan Bull |
"How to Shave" |
How to Shave +1 |
What's left is a willingness to learn, setting its pikes against the insistence to teach. |
75 |
Angelique Kidjo |
"Once in a Lifetime" |
single |
What's left is the conviction that your love has the power to overrule the valences of particles. |
76 |
J.Fla |
"Castle On The Hill" |
Rose |
What's left is the willingness to let truth come upon you by surprise, like it's your own face appearing sheepishly in the mirror after a quantum instant of nothing. |