1 |
Violet Cold |
"Life in Moments" |
Sommermorgen, Pt. I: Innocence |
People you don't know are composing epic triologies, because they finally realized nothing will stop them. |
2 |
Violet Cold |
"Penguins Commit Suicide" |
Sommermorgen, Pt. II: Joy |
There is a note here for every listener, enough for you to pick one that is yours alone. |
3 |
Violet Cold |
"Ein Hauch Von Ewigkeit" |
Sommermorgen, Pt. III: Nostalgia |
Innocence, joy and nostalgia are not a sequence, they are a trinity. |
4 |
June 1974 |
"Arcadia" |
Nemesi |
All these patterns exist inside of your regret and obsession and self-doubt. |
5 |
Kataklysm |
"Narcissist" |
Meditations |
They have been inside of you all this time, while you have been alternatively building and destroying. |
6 |
Dead in the Manger |
"Despondency, Pt. 3" |
Despondency 3 |
They are why you oscillate between the two, |
7 |
Moongates Guardian |
"The Dragon Is Withered" |
Let Horse Be Bridled, Horn Be Sounded! |
and why you can't stop writing sequels to your own stories and everyone else's, |
8 |
Dead Shape Figure |
"Bolt of Chaos & Creation" |
single |
why you can't stop ending or beginning again. |
9 |
Lonely Star |
"Undo" |
Love & Loss |
Darkness and pale flowers; |
10 |
Elvellon |
"Oraculum" |
Until Dawn |
starlight and battlements; |
11 |
St. Vincent |
"Fast Slow Disco" |
single |
dancing with fears in our eyes: |
12 |
Allie X |
"Focus" |
single |
these are itineraries dressed as travelogues, |
13 |
Betty Who |
"All Things (From "Queer Eye")" |
single |
and we have costumes we excuse as travel clothes. |
14 |
ayokay |
"Swing Swing" |
single |
We walk lightly on ground we do not have to account for, |
15 |
AURORA |
"Queendom - Harp Version" |
single |
excuse every exquisite flaw of places we are only for a day, |
16 |
Nick Wilson |
"All the Same" |
single |
see even ourselves through alluring blur for a moment apart. |
17 |
Lily Allen |
"Lost My Mind" |
single |
You need one move, one hook. And then another, |
18 |
Chelsea Grin |
"Hostage" |
single |
lodged in skulls by force |
19 |
Phil Rey |
"Vanitas" |
single |
or breath. |
20 |
Kitten |
"Pink Champagne" |
Pink Champagne +3 |
We pack marching anthems, and then just wander. |
21 |
Sugarland |
"Tuesday's Broken" |
single |
We form tentative forgiveness inside of us, |
22 |
Dan + Shay |
"Alone Together" |
single |
quiet and so carefully hidden. |
23 |
Walking Across Jupiter |
"Unus Multorum" |
Oneiroid |
Your own buildings are zoning issues and accessibility affronts; other people's are majestic architecture. |
24 |
Leprous |
"Golden Prayers" |
single |
Your own hesitations and syncopations are fear; other people's are control and grace. |
25 |
Night Verses |
"Phoenix IV: Levitation" |
single |
Other people's monsters are demons and legend; |
26 |
Familjen |
"Kan vi bara låtsas" |
Kom |
yours are real, |
27 |
Larz-Kristerz |
"Kantareller och hjortron" |
Det går bra nu |
and wearing clothes you have only seen in your parents' pictures |
28 |
Petal |
"Stardust" |
single |
until you feel them on your own skin. |
29 |
Tancred |
"Hot Star" |
Nightstand |
We form tentative heroics in anticipation |
30 |
Alessandro Casillo |
"Ancora Qui" |
single |
of dreams as much as nightmares, |
31 |
Slow Dancing Society |
"Garland" |
single |
knowing that when you get a future you think you wanted, you are responsible for how it turns out, |
32 |
Árstíðir |
"Lover" |
single |
for the value of whatever you convinced your tribe to sell, |
33 |
Jam Hsiao |
"王妃 2.0" |
single |
whether it is natural resources or the way you dance. |
34 |
四分衛 |
"Rocket Man" |
練習對抗的過程 |
In the globalist futures you are surrounded by the unintelligible, |
35 |
Viva Suecia |
"Amar el Conflicto (todo Lo Que Importa)" |
single |
but perfectly comfortable; |
36 |
Efecto Mariposa |
"Qué Más Quieres De Mí" |
Vuela |
in the isolationist futures you are loved in every language but cowering in just one. |
37 |
Hjerteslag |
"Møhlenpris Motell" |
single |
Other people's hotels are glamorous and storied, |
38 |
Skambankt |
"I Dette Huset" |
Horisonten Brenner |
yours are decaying assemblies of noise complaints and subsistence drug deals, |
39 |
Luca Brasi |
"The In-Between" |
single |
and empty slightly sloping parking lots perfect for learning to ride a bicycle. |
40 |
ZSK |
"Es müsste immer Musik da sein" |
single |
There are tunnels under the best streets, |
41 |
Der Tante Renate |
"But Whoever Made This" |
Whoever Made This 5 |
dark at all times but lit at night, |
42 |
Spurv |
"Et blekt lys lyder" |
Myra |
where the city is not a surface |
43 |
Ağaçkakan |
"Fatalerrorist" |
A Naşkvit |
but a circumscribed logic. |
44 |
Nervosa |
"Never Forget, Never Repeat" |
Downfall of Mankind |
In the globalist apocalypses they flood our tunnels, |
45 |
Mayday Parade |
"It's Hard To Be Religious When Certain People Are Never Incinerated By Bolts Of Lightning" |
single |
and die above us; |
46 |
MZ. 412 |
"Ulvens Broder" |
Ulvens Broder +2 |
in the isolationist nightmares the waters only bring us swarming out, |
47 |
4lienetic |
"Promises" |
single |
bringing with us our darknesses and lights and methods, |
48 |
Lándevir |
"El Espíritu del Viento" |
Desde el Silencio |
and our better pagan gods, |
49 |
Lörihen |
"El Viaje" |
Desconexión |
and stories about where else the tunnels emerge. |
50 |
HoneyBeast |
"A Lényeg" |
Élet A Marson |
Joy is not translated, |
51 |
Rasmus Bo |
"Ingen Vej Tilbage" |
Ingen Vej Tilbage EP 4 |
it is native everywhere. |
52 |
Jem Cubil |
"When I See You [From the Movie "Sid & Aya (Not a Love Story)"]" |
single |
Denial is translated a thousand ways, |
53 |
North Point InsideOut |
"Unshakeable Love" |
single |
but also native everywhere. |
54 |
SKIES |
"Dusk" |
single |
Your own heartbeat is a rhythm. |
55 |
Rura |
"Lust" |
In Praise of Home |
Desire is resonant; want is idiophonic. |
56 |
Максим Фадеев |
"Breach the Line" |
single |
People you don't know are forming epic trios. |
57 |
Ghost |
"Witch Image" |
Prequelle |
There is a joy for every listener, enough for you to pick one that is yours alone. |
58 |
18th & Addison |
"Not My Home" |
Vultures 4 |
We write anthems of rebellion, and then only play them for our friends. |
59 |
Kate Rezková |
"Jediná" |
single |
This is how we find friends, |
60 |
Mechina |
"Anathema" |
Empyrean |
and how we check the references of our enemies. |
61 |
BADA$$ B. |
"Lo So Fare" |
single |
Enmity discriminates. Amity unites. |