1 |
Muncie Girls |
"Jeremy" |
Fixed Ideals |
There is reason, and there is the desperate ache to stab a guitar through a hated thing you would rather have loved. |
2 |
Kitten |
"Secrets" |
Secrets +1 |
There is the way waves elegantly destroy themselves, |
3 |
Francesca Battistelli |
"Royalty" |
single |
and the way it is possible to allow yourself to be convinced that there is another realm where they are never broken, |
4 |
Betty Who |
"The Other Side (From "Sierra Burgess Is a Loser")" |
single |
and we are lifeguards set to watch over the roiling spaces between these interpretations of water. |
5 |
Broods |
"Eyes A Mess" |
single |
There is the way air can wind itself around your throat, |
6 |
Ruusut |
"Glitchit" |
Ruusut |
so that every breath is a sculpture about imminent extraction |
7 |
Slayyyter |
"Ghost" |
single |
and a machine for converting emotional loss into rueful kinetic energy. |
8 |
Beyond The Black |
"Hysteria" |
Heart Of The Hurricane |
All storms are metaphors, |
9 |
Warrel Dane |
"Disconnection System" |
single |
but so are we. |
10 |
A Forest Of Stars |
"Decomposing Deity Dance Hall" |
single |
Do not let anybody tell you that metaphors do not live rich internal lives. |
11 |
Aborted |
"Vespertine Decay" |
single |
Just like you, we are exalted in stained glass |
12 |
Omnium Gatherum |
"Over the Battlefield" |
The Burning Cold |
and weighed down by lead |
13 |
Wolfheart |
"The Saw" |
single |
and cut out of webs. |
14 |
Iskald |
"Offer Av Livet" |
Innhøstinga |
We march at the heads of ghost-armies, |
15 |
Helrunar |
"Blutmond" |
single |
and at the feet of mountains. |
16 |
Bliss Signal |
"Surge" |
single |
We are organisms of blur, |
17 |
Nachtlieder |
"Claws and Bone" |
Lynx |
released in darkness, |
18 |
Void Eater |
"Hul" |
II |
left to assign our own identities to "abandoned" or "delivered", |
19 |
Norrsköld |
"Embrace the light" |
Fear the light 2 |
feared |
20 |
Fatherson |
"Reflection" |
single |
or envied. |
21 |
Empire |
"Miss Fortune" |
single |
We are lonely heroic endings, |
22 |
Mass Gothic |
"Call Me" |
I've Tortured You Long Enough |
making spreadsheets of possible stories, |
23 |
Lyla Foy |
"Try My Heart" |
single |
their qualities and limitations |
24 |
Haken |
"The Good Doctor" |
single |
and incompatibilties, |
25 |
Beyond Creation |
"Algorythm" |
single |
hoping plaintively for a method where we know there is ultimately only love. |
26 |
Frostbitt |
"Magma" |
single |
We are distributed across the abyss between ice and fire, |
27 |
Better Than Never |
"Sharks" |
Something Left To Talk About 4 |
between present humility |
28 |
SHXCXCHCXSH |
"SHULULULU" |
SHULULULU 5 |
and abstracted immunity, |
29 |
Hainbach |
"We Are Impermanently" |
Violin Forms |
between our internal current |
30 |
heidi. |
"逆回転シンドローム" |
ケセラセラ |
and our most electrifying clothes. |
31 |
Esprit D'Air |
"Serafine" |
single |
There is the catalog of all the things that air can lift, |
32 |
SoundWitch |
"Celluloid Queen" |
CELLULOID QUEEN 4 |
and a blank page waiting for you, |
33 |
THE SxPLAY |
"コバンザメ" |
single |
or for something you can take off and live without. |
34 |
Kinokoteikoku |
"東京" |
フェイクワールドワンダーランド |
People you thought lived far away are now the voting majority of a town where you once ate linguini in a delicate cream sauce out of a deliberately oversized bowl. |
35 |
HITT |
"Arigatou Aishiteru" |
Arigatou Aishiteru +2 |
They have their own fetishes, which which you can fall in love without knowing what they were meant to mean. |
36 |
Swingin' Utters |
"Dubstep" |
Peace and Love |
They have their own meanings for words you thought were yours, |
37 |
Lollia |
"Odd Future" |
single |
but you lose control over your vocabulary as soon as you say it aloud, |
38 |
Alkonost |
"Vrata Zimy" |
single |
or write it on stones or bark, |
39 |
Theudho |
"Waar Kraaien de Ondergang Bezingen" |
De Roep Van Het Woud |
or entrust it accidentally to messengers or deliberately to spies. |
40 |
Carrie Underwood |
"Love Wins" |
single |
The most emphatic foreign signatories go home to a point on the surface of the same globe, |
41 |
Jillian Jacqueline |
"Sad Girls" |
single |
to another town with zoning problems |
42 |
Helion Prime |
"A King Is Born" |
Terror of the Cybernetic Space Monster |
and invasive species |
43 |
Manimal |
"Purgatorio" |
single |
and subversive doubts |
44 |
Ethernity |
"Grey Skies" |
single |
and majestic gates. |
45 |
Rhian Sheehan |
"Soma Dreams" |
single |
They dream of days, or hours, circumscribed by joy, or peace. |
46 |
Astron |
"Calm Before the Storm" |
single |
They have illusory legends of implausible eras when these days or hours were routine, |
47 |
Titiyo |
"Som ingenting" |
single |
and ways of dressing that evoke those stories |
48 |
Silence Wang |
"曠夢 Sisyphus" |
克制兇猛 2 |
or defy their gravity |
49 |
Slow Crush |
"Shallow Breath" |
single |
or seek out the obliterating comfort of their weight. |
50 |
Pastel Ghost |
"Mercury" |
single |
They have devices that will carry you along specific paths, |
51 |
Son Volt |
"Jet Pilot" |
Okemah and the Melody of Riot |
and fightsongs that will edge into the center of your field, |
52 |
I:Scintilla |
"Swayed" |
Swayed +1 |
and taxonomies of nihilist opulence. |
53 |
Eva Weel Skram |
"Du e alt eg treng" |
single |
They have quiet moments, we all do. |
54 |
Betontod |
"Zusammen" |
Vamos! (Deluxe Version) |
We are terrified to let them define us, |
55 |
Rosenstolz |
"Wenn es jetzt losgeht" |
single |
guarded when we should be most awed, |
56 |
Veintiuno |
"Cabezabajo" |
single |
panicked at every glorious acceleration. |
57 |
The Veer Union |
"Man into Machine" |
Decade II: Rock & Acoustic |
This is how we become bibliographers of dystopian verse, |
58 |
Störte.Priester |
"Geheilt durch Deutschrock" |
single |
and rehabilitators of anything we've ever had the patience to properly dread. |
59 |
Scarlet Dorn |
"Hold on to Me" |
Lack of Light |
This is how we all become concurrently alone. |
60 |
Heatbeat |
"Stadium Arcadium" |
single |
This is why, when we set robots as sentries, they are instantly and perpetually alarmed. |
61 |
Enoch |
"Pieces" |
Killing Starts Where Hate Begins 4 |
You would be alarmed, too, if you knew what we know. |
62 |
Puppy |
"Black Hole" |
single |
We know nothing, and this is the one thing you can never get robots to do for you. |
63 |
The Secret |
"Cupio Dissolvi" |
Lux Tenebris 3 |
We have seen plays about Galileo, |
64 |
Ibeyi |
"Rise Up Wise Up Eyes Up" |
single |
and written revisionist histories of how the stars would have prospered without his interference, |
65 |
Västerbron |
"Döda vinklar" |
single |
and somehow consented to constellational tattoos of their truths misspelled. |
66 |
Sara |
"Ethän vielä kuole" |
single |
We are organisms of edges and thorns, |
67 |
Diztord |
"Too Little Too Late" |
single |
forgotten in clockwork. |
68 |
Softer Still |
"Turtle Bay" |
single |
We are the perfect creatures with which clockwork falls perpetually in love. |
69 |
Appearance of Nothing |
"Storm" |
single |
We are definitively perpetual, |
70 |
The Moth & The Flame |
"Beautiful Couch" |
single |
in grand scattered unintelligible moments. |
71 |
Andrew Bernstein |
"Broken Arc" |
single |
We are systems of non-Eucliean suspension, interpolating rebellions into forgotten digits of pi. |
72 |
Leto. |
"Zahn der Zeit" |
Vor die Hunde |
We are reluctant discredited nostalgic half-solutions brought back to life as symbolic half-reveries of recurrence. |
73 |
The Blue Hour |
"Dust in the Wind" |
single |
And although the halves don't match, and can't be reassembled, that's how you ever make anything new. |