1 |
Immortal |
"Mighty Ravendark" |
single |
You get to decide what you want from art, |
2 |
Shylmagoghnar |
"No Child of Man Could Follow" |
Transience |
which sounds powerful, and is powerful, |
3 |
Oubliette |
"The Curse" |
single |
but is also just another way of saying that you have to decide |
4 |
The Antichrist Imperium |
"The Dreadful Hosanna" |
Vol. II: Every Tongue Shall Praise Satan |
the range of futures you consider anticipatable, |
5 |
Primal Fear |
"King of Madness" |
single |
and how you reconcile the disparity between |
6 |
Dark Sarah |
"Trespasser" |
single |
their potential effects on you |
7 |
Helion Prime |
"Silent Skies" |
single |
and your ability to control or influence them. |
8 |
Habitants |
"Soul Traveller" |
One Self |
You cannot boycott the planet's spin, |
9 |
Meg Myers |
"Jealous Sea" |
single |
or the way moving blood magnifies fear, |
10 |
Pale Waves |
"Noises" |
single |
or the moment in history when you were abandoned here among us. |
11 |
Deaf Havana |
"Hell" |
single |
Look back on your most precious moments |
12 |
Sun Glitters |
"Nothing's the Same" |
single |
and you will see typos, |
13 |
How To Dress Well |
"Vacant Boat (shred) | Nonkilling 1 | The Anteroom | False Skull 1" |
Land of the Overflowing Urn 2 |
errors of framing, |
14 |
Charli XCX |
"No Angel" |
Focus / No Angel 2 |
the places where you now know the cracks would eventually start. |
15 |
Prayer |
"Fear" |
Vital 4 |
You get to decide whether joy is invalidated in retrospect |
16 |
Annisokay |
"Unaware" |
single |
or borne up on its own precipitous perpetual impossibility. |
17 |
Mitski |
"Nobody" |
single |
You get to decide whether you are alone. |
18 |
Free Cake For Every Creature |
"In Your Car" |
single |
As with many powerful freedoms, of course, |
19 |
The Joy Formidable |
"The Wrong Side" |
single |
there are many categories of choices, and most of them are bad. |
20 |
Scandroid |
"Red Planet" |
Red Planet +1 |
All narrowly defensible paths through despair were discovered by accident, |
21 |
Phil Rey |
"A Good Day in Hell" |
single |
or charted by dubious lunatics, |
22 |
Trophy Eyes |
"More Like You" |
single |
or properly lead nowhere but are impossible to follow closely enough to reach there. |
23 |
Oh, Weatherly |
"I Think I Want You" |
single |
It is easy to give up, |
24 |
Gesu No Kiwami Otome |
"オンナは変わる" |
single |
easy to oversimplify; |
25 |
BiSH |
"Life is beautiful" |
Life is beautiful / HiDE the BLUE 2 |
harder to believe without recourse to faith, |
26 |
HYDE |
"AFTER LIGHT" |
single |
harder to apprehend complexity without disassembling it. |
27 |
THE GALLO |
"PLUTO" |
PLUTO +2 |
You get to decide which planets you would annex in hypothetical ages of empire, |
28 |
D |
"Revive 〜荒廃都市〜" |
Revive 〜荒廃都市〜 +3 |
and what people wear in their radiant arenas |
29 |
Taichi Mukai |
"HERO" |
LOVE 5 |
and quiet corridors. |
30 |
Gyze |
"龍吟" |
ザ・ライジング・ドラゴン 5 |
You have your choice of masks, |
31 |
THE SxPLAY |
"わたしだけのアイリス" |
single |
and choreographed evasions, |
32 |
Night Verses |
"Trading Shadows" |
From the Gallery of Sleep |
and you get to decide whether the roles within the range of your casting can justify defiant serenity, |
33 |
Alee |
"Don't Make Me Miss You" |
single |
or motivate momentary transcendence, |
34 |
Elijah Bisbee |
"(S)" |
I S O L A T I O N (S) |
or hold any single variable constant for long enough to record its value. |
35 |
Nanne Grönvall |
"C’mon" |
Drama Queen |
At least, this is all true if you believe that joy is earned. |
36 |
Sofie Svensson & Dom Där |
"Vill du följa med mig" |
single |
But you get to decide if you believe that. |
37 |
Emma Ruth Rundle |
"Fever Dreams" |
single |
You can be haunted; every creature who has ever died offers you ghosts. |
38 |
Sleep Dealer |
"Winter II" |
Memories |
You can be pinioned, crushed by blankets, |
39 |
Whale Fall |
"Decades" |
Sondersongs |
or held safely. |
40 |
Them Are Us Too |
"Floor" |
Amends |
Or not safely, or not even exactly held, |
41 |
Ovlov |
"Stick" |
single |
but connected to something amidst and despite the void. |
42 |
Astro Bunny |
"我只是你的夢境" |
single |
You choose to seek joy as an elusive treasure, |
43 |
Oslo Ess |
"I fritt fall" |
Frie radikaler |
or fail to contain it as a irrepressible force, |
44 |
Saltatio Mortis |
"Heimdall" |
single |
an elemental fountaining inner divinity. |
45 |
Big Country |
"Hardly a Mountain - Why the Long Face - Bonus Tracks" |
Why the Long Face |
We come and go like we always will: |
46 |
Information Society |
"Nothing Prevails" |
Nothing Prevails +1 |
hopelessly, |
47 |
The Alarm |
"Coming Backwards" |
Equals |
but maybe not needing hope, precisely. |
48 |
Ital Tek |
"Blood Rain" |
single |
It is viscerally satisfying to demand change, |
49 |
Iglooghost |
"Niteracer" |
single |
buoyant to demand hope; |
50 |
Celest |
"Entre Bien y Mal" |
single |
but we got here somehow. Where? And how? |
51 |
DJ Maphorisa |
"iWalk Ye Phara" |
single |
You get to choose whether you chase futures, |
52 |
Seyi Shay |
"The Mic" |
Seyi or Shay |
or take the duration of the present to try to understand what it is. |
53 |
Black Tusk |
"Burn the Stars" |
single |
You get to decide whether art is an idiom of distraction from vertigo |
54 |
Council of Nine |
"Red Alert" |
Exit Earth |
or a centrifuge of clarity. |
55 |
Day6 |
"어쩌다 보니 Somehow" |
Shoot Me : Youth Part 1 6 |
You get to argue about dancing, or dance. |
56 |
Electrodomesticos |
"La Ciudad se Fue" |
Ex la Humanidad |
You get to choose whether your arguments keep you from dancing, |
57 |
Malú |
"Contradicción" |
single |
or are dances, |
58 |
Hannah Peel |
"Particle G1" |
Particles In Space |
and thus whether they matter. |
59 |
Bedroom Audio |
"สภาวะสมองไม่สั่งการ" |
single |
You get to decide if you believe the translation computers that this Thai song is about love as essential anatomy, |
60 |
Malik Montana |
"Trajkotka (Prod.Olek + oil beatz)" |
single |
but they translate "trap" on this Polish rapper's bio to "gangway", |
61 |
Peggy Zina |
"Anthropi Monahi - New Version" |
single |
so maybe the old gods had their reasons for sending us here. |
62 |
Puppet |
"Orange Against The Blue" |
single |
You get to decide how much explanation you require or allow. |
63 |
Nadia Gattas |
"Atmosphere" |
single |
You get to decide whether any of this matters, |
64 |
Cepeda |
"Me Da Igual" |
Principios |
which sounds powerful, and is powerful, |
65 |
Little Dead Bertha |
"Day of Your Life" |
Age of Silence |
but neither answer precipates joy. Joy is the substrate, not the solution. |