| 1 | Dead Sara | "Times To Remember" | Temporary Things Taking Up Space 6 | Enlightenment is believing, believing, that every song you hear is the best song ever, and I won't pretend I've achieved that, but for 3:19 I gloriously can't think of any reason not to declare that Dead Sara is the best American rock band in the world. |
| 2 | Lenna | "Wir sind da" | single | I'm not saying you have to listen to American rock bands. We aren't even in the World Cup, and we elected a horrific semi-human-shaped turd, and half the people here are still fighting about whether the best American band is the Beatles or the Stones. |
| 3 | RADWIMPS | "カタルシスト" | カタルシスト +1 | America First is a hilarious welfare concept for people who pretend to be against government helping people, and half the people who only half-speak English do more-creative things with it. |
| 4 | Runrig | "Somewhere - Re-Recording 2018" | Rarities (Best Of Deluxe) | "America First", we say in a language we stole from distant islands. |
| 5 | Julie Fowlis | "An Aghaidh Fàilte Na Mòr-Thìr" | alterum | But it's OK, they have other ones. |
| 6 | Angelique Kidjo | "Crosseyed and Painless" | Remain in Light | And here's the amazing thing: the same words in the same language can say completely different things. |
| 7 | Joan Armatrading | "Loving What You Hate - Edit" | single | You say "America First", and I hear "Love Wins". |
| 8 | Letters from the Fire | "Naked in the Rain" | single | You say "Fire and Fury", and I hear "Oceans Rise". |
| 9 | Vast & Hazy | "獨一" | 求救訊號 | You say we are invincible, and I hear your uncertainties and fears. |
| 10 | Dharma | "Televised" | Substance | The future will be wiser, |
| 11 | Doro | "All For Metal" | single | with immortal abs, |
| 12 | Halcyon Way | "Blame" | single | halcyon and halogen, |
| 13 | Mechina | "The Halcyon Purge" | Acheron | and the old ways will be torn from your grasp. |
| 14 | Beyond The Black | "Heart of the Hurricane" | single | We are the creatures whose terrible mixed-metaphors still end up triumphant. |
| 15 | Trillium | "Fighting Fate" | Tectonic | We are moving ground |
| 16 | Dead Shape Figure | "Strange Light Pulsate" | Cacoëthes | and flickering stars. |
| 17 | Soliloquium | "Catharsis" | Contemplations | We are your doom and your release |
| 18 | Dagny | "Used To You" | single | and the ones who learned your worst flaws |
| 19 | Kim Petras | "Can't Do Better" | single | and didn't leave. |
| 20 | Bright Light Bright Light | "How I Feel" | single | We are incapable of any meaningful discretion, |
| 21 | Wild Nothing | "Letting Go" | single | or of forgetting the first moment of any of a million crushes, |
| 22 | Sleeping At Last | "Atlas: Five" | single | and yet we move the stars around the sky with nothing but our hearts. |
| 23 | Efisio Cross | "Hell Shall Perish" | single | Our gods are indentified less by their commandments |
| 24 | Alexander Brandon | "Caution At Hyla's Crescent" | Aven Colony (Original Game Soundtrack) | than by their themes, |
| 25 | Huora | "Kaikki kaatuu" | single | more by the things they ruin |
| 26 | Countless Skies | "Tempest" | single | than by any salvation nominally promised. |
| 27 | Markus Krunegård | "O A O A E vi förlorade" | single | You say something, and we hear sounds: |
| 28 | Sleep Token | "Jaws" | single | the clicky sounds of your bones crumbling as you flinch; |
| 29 | Bengalfuel | "One" | Montrose | the graceful retreat of the air from your touch, |
| 30 | Earlyguard | "Somnia" | single | and how it will shimmer as it returns to the space you fill when you relinqiush it; |
| 31 | Colin Stetson | "Funeral" | Hereditary | how numbers hum when left to themselves; |
| 32 | Max Cooper | "Hope" | Hope +1 | whatever essence it is that, a drop at a time, suffuses everything with hope. |
| 33 | Friðrik Dór | "Á sama tíma, á sama stað" | Á sama tíma, á sama stað / Heimaey 2 | We set out to walk 500 miles, but the island hits the sea, and we're left on a beach |
| 34 | Sunstorm | "State of the Heart" | The Road to Hell | while our helpless aspirations sail away, |
| 35 | Dear Jack | "L'impossibile" | Non è un caso se... | carrying a bottle crammed with discarded drafts of "I miss you, where are you, who are you?" |
| 36 | I Botanici | "Un'altra estate" | single | and "we never meant to hold you responsible for our happiness, but then we looked in your eyes" |
| 37 | Xmas Eileen | "Friday Night" | single | and "is this pen working?" |
| 38 | Korpiklaani | "Kotikonnut" | single | We have a cabin in the forest; |
| 39 | Uniform | "The Boy with Death in His Eyes" | Mental Wounds Not Healing | the forest has an army. |
| 40 | Haunted | "Lunar Grave" | Dayburner | If all you want to do is surrender, you don't need rockets. |
| 41 | Odd Nordstoga | "Tru" | single | If all you want to do is sleep, you don't need a lullaby. |
| 42 | Di Derre | "Tilbake til deg" | Høyenhall | Songs are plans for the future, |
| 43 | Jordan Allen | "Synchronised" | single | disguised as transmissions from the past. |
| 44 | Uriah Heep | "Grazed by Heaven" | single | You have more organs to donate than you can ever count. |
| 45 | The Night Flight Orchestra | "Lovers In The Rain" | single | We're good at blood and water and wild dreams, but surprisingly bad at counting; |
| 46 | La Gusana Ciega | "Amantes Modernos" | single | strongest where our voice breaks, |
| 47 | Holy Esque | "Belly Full of Dread" | Television / Sweet | flutters, |
| 48 | Black Fast | "Silhouette Usurper" | single | frays. |
| 49 | Black Peaks | "Home" | single | We have stolen more things than words from distant islands, |
| 50 | Nexilva | "Decades" | single | and perhaps this is why the ocean sends us stern waves of pulverised stars to remind us what we owe, |
| 51 | The Anix | "This Machine" | This Machine +1 | which we count off as rhythm, as if nothing they carry matters. |
| 52 | Mayday Parade | "Stay The Same" | single | We pose for postcards of the event horizon, |
| 53 | Psy'Aviah | "Looking for the Sun" | Looking for the Sun | apocalypse as gradient-fill |
| 54 | Chicane | "Running To The Sea" | The Place You Can't Remember, The Place You Can't Forget | exactly as it should be. |
| 55 | Katie McBride | "NBSL" | single | We have filters as idioms, |
| 56 | Rose Cousins | "Never Surrender" | single | and then repaint the postcards in oil |
| 57 | John Mark McMillan | "Wilderlove" | single | and truth. |
| 58 | Aless | "Čakám" | single | Ana Ng and I are getting old half a world apart, but also always just turning 19 everywhere in between. |
| 59 | Ae Jirakorn | "ตราบที่ยังหายใจ" | single | Beaches, cliffs, edges, ages: |
| 60 | Pascal Obispo | "Chante la rue chante" | single | these are our excuses to not just forever drive in circles, |
| 61 | The Beths | "Happy Unhappy" | single | to fall in actual love when the next love is always immune to the current one's weaknesses, |
| 62 | Mechina | "Ode to the Forgotten Few" | Acheron | to forget. And, by the same techniques, to remember. |