1 |
Vreid |
"One Hundred Years" |
single |
Take the textures with which you have covered yourself, invert them, and find out how the seams were sewn. |
2 |
Anomalie |
"Aurora" |
single |
Find out where your blood goes after it leaves the surface. |
3 |
Behemoth |
"Wolves Ov Siberia" |
single |
Attempt a variant cartology of anything, |
4 |
Sylvaine |
"Mørklagt" |
single |
in which any desperate quality is transposed into joy. |
5 |
Monstrosity |
"The Proselygeist" |
The Passage of Existence |
Stipulate that you have won or lost the next fight, |
6 |
Karg |
"Petrichor" |
single |
and are left to recover for a month in a modernist island complex, |
7 |
Slegest |
"Undergangens Tankesmed" |
single |
surrounded day and night by macaws and wolves. |
8 |
Psycroptic |
"We Were the Keepers" |
single |
If you radio for help, |
9 |
Arsis |
"Tricking the Gods" |
single |
you will reach it, but also demonic acolytes who are less organized but closer. |
10 |
Evoken |
"Valorous Consternation" |
single |
All art balances on the fulcrum between calling out and staying safely hidden. |
11 |
The Ocean |
"Permian: The Great Dying" |
single |
You can detect hints of this terror and thrill in all the classic dinosaur novels from just before the fall, |
12 |
Leaves' Eyes |
"Riders on the Wind" |
Riders on the Wind +2 |
but you hear it so much more vividly in their music. |
13 |
Seventh Wonder |
"The Everones" |
single |
It's easier to imagine their end coming quickly, of course, |
14 |
Sins In Vain |
"Gold (Is Just a Colour)" |
single |
but in reality the meteor hung in the sky for days, |
15 |
Manimal |
"Traitor" |
Purgatorio |
sinking lower and larger. |
16 |
Minniva |
"Square Hammer/April Rain" |
single |
They knew, |
17 |
The Unity |
"The Storm" |
single |
and it's true, of course, that many panicked, |
18 |
Outloud |
"I Am the One" |
single |
but not all, and naturally it is their music, their last songs, |
19 |
Speedy Ortiz |
"Blood Keeper" |
Blood Keeper +1 |
that survived the fire. |
20 |
Colleen Green |
"Green My Eyes" |
Casey's Tape / Harmontown Loops |
Playing them now, we get to choose what we hear. |
21 |
Bad Moves |
"Crushed Out" |
single |
Fear can be shattered along a thousand different seams of frailty; |
22 |
Haiku Salut |
"Occupy" |
There Is No Elsewhere |
despair accumulates in patterns; |
23 |
Arc Iris |
"Turn It Up" |
single |
given one last moment, some will always choose to finish their own pending thoughts. |
24 |
Basement |
"Disconnect" |
single |
You can only dwell in fear for so long before it turns rueful, |
25 |
Stand Atlantic |
"Lavender Bones" |
single |
romantic, |
26 |
The Ninth Wave |
"A Wave Goodbye to the People Who Said I'd Win" |
single |
objectified and trophyized. |
27 |
Petal |
"You Got Lucky" |
single |
There is no fundamental difference between nostalgia and memorial. |
28 |
Strange Ranger |
"New Hair" |
single |
We remember the nights we roamed the plains, |
29 |
Swearin' |
"Future Hell" |
single |
chewing the tender parts in between the bony shield-plates of our enemies-- |
30 |
Upper Wilds |
"Mars" |
single |
"enemies" of course not quite right. |
31 |
Direct Hit! |
"Welcome to Heaven" |
single |
We had to eat somebody, after all. |
32 |
NHK yx Koyxen |
"Passing" |
Reflexes |
It avails not to rail against the kind of teeth you were given, |
33 |
Oliver Coates |
"Faraday Monument" |
Shelley's on Zenn-La |
or to envy your own predators, in turn, their kaleidoscopic plumage. |
34 |
Penelope Trappes |
"Carry Me" |
single |
We all balance our necks with tails, as they say. |
35 |
Kelly Moran |
"Helix (Edit)" |
single |
We stand in front of the kinetic sculptures in our airports, |
36 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Black Core" |
single |
dreaming of clockwork universes engineered to such internal coherence, |
37 |
Dan Bull |
"Spiderman! Spider Man! Hyphenated as Spider-Man!" |
Spiderman! Spider Man! Hyphenated as Spider-Man! +1 |
and then get on a plane that will take us to some other helpless place that needs saving |
38 |
WagakkiBand |
"細雪" |
オトノエ |
or infrastructure, |
39 |
Synthphonia |
"Golden Lines" |
Lines |
and it almost always seems initially like it must be both, |
40 |
Celestial Aeon Project |
"Predator" |
Ghost Story |
but hardly anywhere actually needs you to save it |
41 |
Drenge |
"Fades to Black" |
Fades to Black +2 |
(unless something serious has happened to the infrastructure). |
42 |
The Mountain Goats |
"Song for Ted Sallis" |
Hex of Infinite Binding EP 4 |
You will be tempted to measure recovery-speed, |
43 |
Llovers |
"Go Get Her, Go Getter" |
single |
but the worst storm-damage is the way old problems get submerged instead of solved, |
44 |
PassCode |
"Taking you out" |
single |
and how vicarious self-awareness wilts into pity. |
45 |
GOLDEN BOMBER |
"近所の奥さんを支配する" |
タツオ・・・嫁を俺にくれ 4 |
Somewhere a storm descends, |
46 |
MAN WITH A MISSION |
"Ano Kanewo Narasunowa Anata" |
single |
vengeful and relentless and beautiful; |
47 |
Q'ulle |
"EMOTION" |
EMOTION +1 |
but ten other suns rise into clear skies over emotional disasters. |
48 |
EMPiRE |
"EMPiRE originals" |
EMPiRE originals 5 |
The tarmacs of forgotten regional airports hold pallets of choruses, |
49 |
the pillows |
"Spiky Seeds" |
FooL on CooL generation |
earnestly unkeepable promises, |
50 |
Sads |
"freely" |
single |
costumes for dressing up as the lost, |
51 |
ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D |
"リバイバル" |
single |
championship shirts printed in spasms of optimism for the eventual runners-up. |
52 |
Rob Scallon |
"Piece by Piece" |
Sunday Uke Group 2 2 |
Even ukuleles are lined with metal, or close enough. |
53 |
Madder Mortem |
"Liberator" |
single |
Metal is a methodology of triumph, |
54 |
Kingcrow |
"Drenched" |
The Persistence |
and in this way the same as religion, |
55 |
Cold Night For Alligators |
"Canaille" |
single |
or team-building seminars, |
56 |
Novo Amor |
"Utican" |
single |
or a kiss. |
57 |
Stam1na |
"Enkelinmurskain" |
single |
Are we rehearsing for what it will feel like if we ever win? |
58 |
Metric |
"Now or Never Now" |
single |
Or is this itself the thing? |
59 |
Kilo Kish |
"Like Honey" |
mothe 6 |
Look around you and guess how each of these people will answer. |
60 |
Jillian Jacqueline |
"Priorities" |
Side B 6 |
It is an artifact of your position that people seem to walk past you, at all, |
61 |
Delta Rae |
"Do You Ever Dream?" |
single |
but it is not your interference that determines whether they are fleeing or on their way. |
62 |
Will Hoge |
"Stupid Kids" |
single |
You didn't curse them with these implacable guitars, |
63 |
Korpiklaani |
"Korpikuusen kyynel" |
Kulkija |
or these centuries of soil. |
64 |
Uriah Heep |
"Take Away My Soul" |
Living The Dream |
It's not like you ever set out to become exactly this old, |
65 |
Rod Stewart |
"Look In Her Eyes" |
single |
but here you are, and thus there are ways to make sense of how it happens. Bad ways, many of them. |
66 |
Written by Wolves |
"Oxygen" |
single |
But then most of the air is useless gas, |
67 |
Degreed |
"Body of Work" |
single |
and we still find ways to dance through it. |
68 |
Shinova |
"El Álbum" |
single |
When in doubt, adrift in the world, |
69 |
Don Tetto |
"Barco de Papel" |
single |
put on headphones, |
70 |
Los Daniels |
"Uno para el Otro" |
Universo Paraíso |
so that somebody may look at you and think |
71 |
This Will Destroy You |
"Go Away Closer" |
single |
"oh, right: music". |
72 |
Leech |
"Melide (Radio Edit)" |
single |
Half of empathy is reminding each other of the obvious. |
73 |
Gåte |
"Bannlyst" |
single |
Into the headphones, play this song. Any song, really, but if you're going to listen to any song, it might as well be what you get, both stylistically and geographically, if you cross CHVRCHES and Nightwish. |
74 |
Ari Mason |
"Lucy" |
single |
Because the night belongs to us, |
75 |
Leæther Strip |
"99 Luftballons" |
Æppreciation III Deutsche Wælle |
German enough or not, |
76 |
Hämatom |
"Palmen an der Wand" |
Lichterloh 4 |
trapped or free, |
77 |
Gazelle Twin |
"Gallows" |
Glory 2 |
at rest or becalmed in purgatory. |
78 |
Adip Kiyoi |
"The Agent" |
single |
You can dance anywhere, but definitely anywhere with lazers, |
79 |
Andie Case |
"He Could Be the One" |
single |
or worn floors, |
80 |
Guerilla Toss |
"Come Up with Me" |
single |
or private obsessions. |
81 |
Seinabo Sey |
"Breathe" |
I'm A Dream |
The way you smile when you believe in your future is different, |
82 |
Cursive |
"Under the Rainbow" |
single |
and this is how every fairy tale functions, |
83 |
Revolverheld |
"Liebe auf Distanz (feat. Antje Schomaker)" |
single |
but also every metaphor |
84 |
Stilla Havet |
"Verklighet och fantasi" |
Verklighet och fantasi +2 |
and every simple machine that instantiates beliefs about coffee, |
85 |
Ímar |
"White Strand" |
single |
and every folkway. |
86 |
Poets of the Fall |
"Dancing on Broken Glass" |
Dancing on Broken Glass +2 |
History and fantasy arise from the same impulses, |
87 |
Alter Bridge |
"Slip to the Void" |
Live at the Royal Albert Hall Featuring the Parallax Orchestra |
from the same gnawing fear of incompleteness, |
88 |
Mayonnaise |
"Kung Di Rin Ikaw" |
single |
from the same inability of economies to substitute for cultures. |
89 |
György Ligeti |
"Continuum for Harpsichord" |
Ligeti, Joplin, Martinu & Holewa: Works for Harpsichord |
Somebody had to invent phones, but we already had ringtones. |
90 |
Wolfgang Rihm |
"Das Gehege: Wir sind ja unter unsern Kleidern sehr, sehr bloß" |
Rihm: Das Gehege - Beintus: Le Petit Prince Suite |
After all, we already learned how to talk to eagles, |
91 |
Darius Milhaud |
"Symphony No. 8 - "Rhodanienne": IV. Rapide et majestueux - Studio" |
Honegger: Symphony No. 3 & Milhaud: Suite Provencale, Symphony No. 8 |
in order to argue about the vocabulary for the courses of rivers |
92 |
Hans Leo Hassler |
"Si bona suscepimus de manu Domini" |
Florilegium Portense |
in negotiated terminology |
93 |
Andrew Bernstein |
"Boogie Woogie Phase" |
single |
for prescribed syllogisms. |
94 |
Alice Merton |
"Why So Serious" |
single |
But no matter how long you can hold an audience rapt, |
95 |
Mira Luoti |
"Harakiri" |
single |
they will still walk home |
96 |
Bengalfuel |
"Beaming" |
single |
through whatever surrounds your theater, |
97 |
Halo |
"Hamuj - Single Version" |
single |
and thus whatever you held at bay. |
98 |
Line & Circle |
"Full Disclosure" |
single |
Every victory is a concession to the nature of loss. |
99 |
Sadikbeatz |
"Inception" |
single |
The measure ends, that's what defines it, |
100 |
Sadness |
"Absolution" |
Rain |
but not what defines you. |
101 |
Attan |
"Catalyst Divine" |
End of |
Time expires; love explodes. |
102 |
Yumi And The Weather |
"Without You" |
single |
Places conspire; joy suffuses. |
103 |
Makeup And Vanity Set |
"Go!" |
Shadow Circuit |
Seconds pass. We remain. |
104 |
Majestic |
"kuirubekiha yowaki onoreni" |
ALL COLOR 6 |
Fear stabs, and we move with tongues and glory and become the glittering blade. |