1 |
Anicon |
"Paling Terrain" |
Entropy Mantra |
I like singing better than raspy croaking, but I also like kiwi fruit better than tomatoes, and yet burritos. |
2 |
Loote |
"Your Side Of The Bed" |
single. |
The world is not improved by replacing each thing you fear with one thing that makes you feel safer, |
3 |
Powerwolf |
"Fire & Forgive" |
single |
it is improved by transmuting each fear into a fascination, |
4 |
Habitants |
"Jupiter" |
One Self |
each broken band into a new one, |
5 |
Gang Gang Dance |
"Salve on the Sorrow" |
Kazuashita |
each discarded moment into a reverie. |
6 |
Mass Gothic |
"J.Z.O.K." |
single |
There is a moral chasm between what I hear in my headphones and what I read in the news, |
7 |
The Animal In Me |
"Better Now" |
single |
and I keep buying more headphones, but it doesn't seem to help. |
8 |
We The Kings |
"Planes, Trains & Cars" |
Self Titled Nostalgia |
Or it helps a little, actually. But not enough. |
9 |
AmaLee |
"Kiss of Death" |
single |
How do you hear a song and not want to hear it sung a hundred different ways? |
10 |
Phil Rey |
"M'envoler Vers Toi" |
single |
How do you play justice like a board-game with only 9 pieces? |
11 |
Restorations |
"The Red Door" |
single |
Japan advanced to the second round on, literally, good behavior; |
12 |
Weathered |
"There is One" |
single |
"our" team sits here at home where we are incrementally re-institutionalizing cruelty. |
13 |
Anakin |
"Spaced-Out" |
@-1 2 |
Ironically, there's an American referee at the World Cup. |
14 |
Salome |
"Une nuit" |
Les Sirènes |
The last thing you should trust us on right now is judgment. |
15 |
Adrift |
"Forever" |
single |
But this is not a uniquely American flaw, of course. |
16 |
Miya Folick |
"Stock Image" |
single |
People: great at dancing, miserable at marching; |
17 |
Hail The Sun |
"Mental Knife" |
single |
magnificent in rapture, maleficent in retreat; |
18 |
Blender |
"Ska vi ta båten" |
Gambla litegrann |
great at sailing into the unknown, |
19 |
Brolle |
"Månen" |
single |
shitty at keeping the oceans clean |
20 |
Lillasyster |
"Vackert land" |
single |
and low. |
21 |
Nanne |
"Ingen Dansar Dåligt (Lika Bra Som Jag)" |
Ingen dansar dåligt (Lika bra som jag) 2 |
There is no bad dancing, |
22 |
Nanase Aikawa |
"Zero Gravity" |
ROCK GOES ON |
no bad physics, no bad space; |
23 |
HYDE |
"WHO'S GONNA SAVE US" |
WHO’S GONNA SAVE US 2 |
so how do we poison so much air, |
24 |
Nordheim |
"Arise" |
Enter the Wolf |
and yet how do we still breathe? |
25 |
Luca Brasi |
"Reeling" |
Stay |
These petty tyrants, what love did they need and never get? |
26 |
Gazelle Twin |
"Hobby Horse" |
Hobby Horse +1 |
How can people spend lives surrounded by human civilization and yet end up misunderstanding the direction of its motion so obtusely? |
27 |
Death Bells |
"Echoes" |
Echoes / Move Through Me 2 |
Forwards is love. |
28 |
Slow Crush |
"Aurora" |
single |
All you have to do is let go, and you will drift inexorably towards joy, |
29 |
Jam Hsiao |
"皮囊" |
single |
spun and tumbled, |
30 |
Delaporte |
"Azul Marino" |
single |
your path disassembled as you walk it |
31 |
Q'ulle |
"ナツシルベ" |
single |
and reconstituted in notional lights |
32 |
UNiTE. |
"ジュピタ - NEW CLASSIC ver." |
NEW CLASSIC |
that hold you still while they spin the rest of the world. |
33 |
The Micro Head 4N's |
"Nemureru Mori No Prelude ~Revoir~" |
Nemureru Mori No Prelude ~Revoir~ +2 |
Who dreams of caging the unfamiliar? |
34 |
Torul |
"You Won" |
You Won +1 |
Don't the Slovenians love their children, too? |
35 |
De/Vision |
"They Won't Silence Us" |
Citybeats |
The defending champions will be eliminated. |
36 |
I:Scintilla |
"Boxing Glove" |
single |
We have games specifically in order to orchestrate these moments of inversion. |
37 |
Rubytates |
"Bajo las Luces" |
single |
Government is supposed to be a different category of pursuit, |
38 |
Patoranking |
"Available" |
single |
but maybe we only really have one mode, |
39 |
Estiva |
"Hero" |
Spectacle I |
and it's illusory to claim a distinction between heroism and habit. |
40 |
Roger Shah |
"For The One You Love" |
For The One You Love +1 |
All trajectories are orbital, after all. |
41 |
Coph Nia |
"Mekanick" |
Erotomechaniks |
Cowering is orbital, atavism is orbital. |
42 |
Inade |
"The Pineons of the Sacred Time" |
The Nine Colours of the Threshold |
Odin walks among us on his own errands, |
43 |
Dense Vision Shrine |
"Into the Abyss" |
Litanies of Desire (Extended Edition) |
offering you quiet responsibility for your own acts, |
44 |
Árstíðir |
"Órói" |
Nivalis |
that you too can be immortal, |
45 |
Attan |
"The Burning Bush Will Not Be Televised" |
single |
and thus accountable for the implications of your deceits. |
46 |
The Trews |
"Vintage Love - Radio Edit" |
single |
If you lose your roots, |
47 |
John Mark McMillan |
"Death In Reverse" |
single |
we have more. |
48 |
Bethel Music |
"Living Hope" |
single |
You may go looking for enemies, and find people who are twice as terrified as you and yet somehow able to move, |
49 |
United Pursuit |
"Beautiful" |
Garden |
able to explain their terrors as aspirations, |
50 |
UPPERROOM |
"So Will I" |
single |
able to condone compromises that seem intolerable to you, |
51 |
Vineyard Worship |
"Ready" |
Heart Sound: Live from Vineyard Boise |
and thus able to outnumber you in earnest capitulation. |
52 |
Arcane Roots |
"Landslide" |
single |
In games you are defeated, and a moment later free again; |
53 |
Gold Key |
"Mechanical World" |
single |
In everything else you are never in either single state. |
54 |
Post Season |
"Tell Tale" |
single |
In everything else it never ends. |
55 |
Lydia |
"Red Lights" |
single |
Wake up: yesterday's methods for bloodflow will mostly still work today, |
56 |
Mae |
"5 Light Years" |
single |
but only mostly, |
57 |
Meg Bowles |
"Chalice of Shadows" |
Evensong: Canticles for the Earth |
and the things you tried to leave unsaid |
58 |
Анита Цой |
"The Win" |
single |
are echoing triumphantly in wait. |
59 |
King Melodies |
"Modern Superstar" |
single |
The world is not improved by sterner circles, |
60 |
Dama |
"Guérilla" |
Guérilla +1 |
gerrymandered for uniformity, |
61 |
Carpark North |
"Raise Your Head" |
HOPE |
but by daily working transcendence, |
62 |
Annika Aakjær |
"Håndklædet og Ringen" |
single |
and slow shimmery repetition, |
63 |
Mylène Farmer |
"N'oublie pas" |
single |
and memory as inspiration rather than regression. |
64 |
Nerd Magnet |
"THE GREAT ESCAPE" |
single |
We are weak enough for cruelty, |
65 |
Wild Pink |
"Jewels Drossed in the Runoff" |
single |
but strong enough to know. |
66 |
Kasia Kowalska |
"Aya" |
Aya |
If you open your mouth to sing, you admit the possibility that strangers will join in, |
67 |
Marissa Nadler |
"Where Do I Go" |
single |
or feed you something they eat where they're from, |
68 |
Corrina Repp |
"Lightest Light" |
How a Fantasy Will Kill Us All |
or where you are, |
69 |
Ira Losco |
"We Are the People" |
No Sinner No Saint |
and confront you with what it feels like to bite into the ways in which we are all the same. |
70 |
Halo |
"Tygrysy - Single Version" |
single |
All you have to do is let go, |
71 |
Fleddy Melculy |
"T-Shirt From Metallica" |
single |
and you will start to heal. |
72 |
Voyager |
"The Meaning of I" |
The Meaning of I |
People: great at love, |
73 |
Ira Losco |
"The Only Law" |
No Sinner No Saint |
shitty at every attempt to interact on the basis of anything else. |