1 |
Robyn |
"Human Being" |
Honey |
Humanity has always existed in contrast to and context of math, |
2 |
P!nk |
"A Million Dreams" |
single |
even before we learned to count and measure dreams, |
3 |
YONAKA |
"Creature" |
single |
even before we figured out how to deploy quantification as scaffolding for choreography |
4 |
Stand Atlantic |
"Skinny Dipping" |
Skinny Dipping |
and vulnerability |
5 |
Gardenside |
"Bear On" |
single |
and defiant indecision. |
6 |
Mating Ritual |
"October Lover" |
single |
We are teased awake by pulsars |
7 |
Francesca Battistelli |
"You Belong" |
Own It |
and recurrent myth. |
8 |
Deaf Havana |
"Narcissus" |
single |
We are auteurs of counting to one, |
9 |
pronoun |
"you didn't even make the bed" |
you didn't even make the bed +2 |
and erratically ambitious beyond. |
10 |
Oh Pep! |
"What's The Deal With David?" |
I Wasn't Only Thinking About You… |
We have limited self-awareness, |
11 |
Dolores Haze |
"Play Hard Fuck Hard Love Hard" |
Play Hard Fuck Hard Love Hard |
but boundless capacity for interpolation. |
12 |
Softer Still |
"A Sadder Sound" |
single |
Our clocks twitch, |
13 |
Eir Aoi |
"Daylight" |
Iris 4 |
aching for other time-zones |
14 |
Diaura |
"Human Noise" |
MALICE[B TYPE] 3 |
that never call back, |
15 |
Sads |
"gone" |
FALLING Ultimate Edition |
never come around. |
16 |
Xmas Eileen |
"BAD BOYS BE AMBITIOUS" |
single |
In this way they take after us, |
17 |
JABBA DA FOOTBALL CLUB |
"i&i [Track by HIROKI TOYODA™]" |
single |
time in our image, |
18 |
The Winking Owl |
"Try" |
single |
or distilled from all the images superimposed. |
19 |
Kaela Kimura |
"COLOR" |
single |
Every second is a radiant hue. |
20 |
Konomi Suzuki |
"蒼の彼方" |
蒼の彼方(TVアニメ「ソラとウミのアイダ」EDテーマ) 4 |
Stories coil in our diversions and transpositions, |
21 |
Mashiro Ayano |
"Syoudou" |
Syoudou |
the eternal themes that our patterns form by extrusion into the next dimension up. |
22 |
Hotel Neon |
"Side A, Pt. 1" |
Inward |
Superficiality is an angle of view, not a quality of always-solid matter. |
23 |
Julia Holter |
"Turn the Light On" |
Aviary |
Half of this dizzy spinning is a bid to be seen from more than one angle, |
24 |
SRSQ |
"Procession" |
Unreality |
half of the other half an improvisational experiment in ways not to quite be seen. |
25 |
Sirenia |
"In Styx Embrace" |
Arcane Astral Aeons |
And then we explode |
26 |
Epica |
"Beyond the Matrix: The Battle (feat. Metropole Orkest)" |
Beyond the Matrix: The Battle (feat. Metropole Orkest) +1 |
and simmer, in combinatorial orders. |
27 |
Blackbriar |
"Let Me In" |
We'd Rather Burn EP 5 |
We have come from all of these stars; |
28 |
Kalidia |
"Black Sails" |
single |
we will return to them as pirates and heroes, |
29 |
Cryptopsy |
"Sire of Sin" |
The Book of Suffering - Tome II 4 |
basilisks and their idols, |
30 |
Cognitive |
"Omnicide" |
Matricide |
avengers and their diffident biographers, |
31 |
Lantern |
"In cambio di una pistola, Pt. 1" |
Ancóra |
confessions and cathartic battlements, |
32 |
Wolfhorde |
"Doctor of the Plague" |
single |
disconcerted breath |
33 |
Elderwind |
"Altay" |
The Colder the Night |
and its reconcerted air. |
34 |
Howling North |
"From Nothing to Eternity" |
single |
All these paths, regardless of your attempted direction of movement, |
35 |
Eneferens |
"Selene" |
The Bleakness of Our Constant |
lead past the same cairns |
36 |
THRON |
"Under a Bloodred Sky" |
Abysmal |
into the same twilit abysses. |
37 |
Hissing |
"Backwards Descent" |
Permanent Destitution |
The bleakest songs say "here we will camp", |
38 |
Haken |
"Nil by Mouth" |
Vector |
but every moment we survive here, a little more mechanism asserts itself. |
39 |
The Ocean |
"Cambrian II: Eternal Recurrence" |
single |
The dinosaurs had the kind of numerology you get from only being able to count to two; |
40 |
Poppy |
"X" |
single |
we are omnivorous and have the necks to see both of our hands at once. |
41 |
Alkonost |
"Тропа к весне" |
Октаграмма |
This is why they have fossils and we have legends |
42 |
Nothgard |
"Guardians of Sanity" |
Malady X |
and fortresses |
43 |
Rúnahild |
"Disir" |
Seidsang |
and fire. |
44 |
Ahnengrab |
"Katharsis" |
Schattenseiten |
And this in turn is why you have choices: |
45 |
Abstract Void |
"As I Watch the Sunset Fade" |
Back to Reality |
corrode or effervesce; |
46 |
Hatchie |
"Adored" |
single |
defer or devote; |
47 |
Public Service Broadcasting |
"C-Q-D" |
White Star Liner 4 |
stay or set sail; |
48 |
Bob Mould |
"Sunshine Rock" |
single |
dissemble into shards, or become an architect of fragments; |
49 |
Cole Rolland |
"Home" |
single |
press against the wall or dance over; |
50 |
Lauren Babic |
"IDOL" |
single |
infer a language from your resonant frequencies |
51 |
Gold Route |
"Void" |
Prosper |
or tell no one your name; |
52 |
Anakin |
"Rocket" |
@-2 2 |
awake or awake. |
53 |
Luca Longobardi |
"Évocation II" |
Évocation II +2 |
Close your eyes and see colors, |
54 |
Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society |
"The Desert Beckons" |
Wow and Flutter |
but open your heart and hear songs. |
55 |
Really Slow Motion |
"Mechanical Heart" |
Existentia |
We are swept up by our nurturing machines, |
56 |
Phil Rey |
"One Star Further" |
single |
and their impetuous dreams, |
57 |
Songs To Your Eyes |
"I Remember" |
When They Arrive |
and do we recognize them as our own? |
58 |
Crywolf |
"FALLOUT [antagonïzer]" |
single |
Have they ever really been under our rueful control? |
59 |
Man Without Country |
"Remember the Bad Things" |
Infinity Mirror |
Is "control" even the most apposite metaphor |
60 |
Daniele Celona |
"HD Blue" |
Abissi Tascabili |
tonight |
61 |
Ida Redig |
"Det här är frihet" |
single |
to bind these islands? |
62 |
Rebecca & Fiona |
"Stupid" |
Art of Being a Girl |
Sea floor below, bridges above: |
63 |
Anne Marie Almedal |
"Sheltering Sky" |
Lightshadow |
every elevation argues against isolation, |
64 |
The End Of The Ocean |
"bravado" |
single |
for loneliness as a manufactured edge, |
65 |
Benne |
"Zu früh, zu spät" |
Im Großen und Ganzen |
for the time you need, |
66 |
Social Repose |
"Mr. Brightside" |
single |
against dogma, |
67 |
First to Eleven |
"Head Above Water" |
single |
for joyous profusions of conjecture from every fact, |
68 |
Klara & Jag |
"Poetic" |
single |
for heartbeats accelerating, |
69 |
Street Sects |
"269 Soulmates" |
The Kicking Mule |
for souls in black masks, |
70 |
Hamlet |
"Eclipse" |
single |
for choosing life in moments of darkness. |
71 |
Skull Fist |
"Witch Hunt" |
Way of the Road |
Witch hunts are allegories of reified intolerance. Unless you actually find witches, |
72 |
Icarus Witch |
"Lightning Strikes" |
Goodbye Cruel World |
in which case they are love stories. |
73 |
Warrel Dane |
"Madame Satan" |
Shadow Work |
The palaces and dungeons of the gods were laid out by the same planners. The lighting changes, the rituals proceed. |
74 |
Lotus Eater |
"The Fear" |
single |
Different paths approach, the same roads leave. |
75 |
Invocation |
"Vigilia" |
En El Nombre De La Muerte 4 |
We huddle between the infinite and the finite, |
76 |
Aethere |
"Ouroboros" |
Open My Wounds |
but both of those are models of possibility: |
77 |
Palmy |
"ซ่อนกลิ่น" |
single |
there is endless wonder in every direction and at every distance, |
78 |
The Korea |
"Снегопады" |
single |
or we have the power to find awe inside every rock we have the courage to smash. |
79 |
Soap&Skin |
"Athom" |
From Gas to Solid / You Are My Friend |
Do you pack parchment for mapmaking, |
80 |
Nosowska |
"Goń" |
BASTA |
or hammers? |
81 |
Megaton Leviathan |
"Take the Fire" |
Mage |
Fleet shoes or slow armor? |
82 |
Bryde |
"On the Subject of Breathing" |
single |
Promises filled with love when likelihood runs out, |
83 |
Нуки |
"Страна" |
single |
or sluiced into moats when our aspirations overflow? |
84 |
Blood On The Dance Floor |
"Haunted (Cursed to Feel)" |
single |
We have always believed in both our omnipotence and our doom, |
85 |
Naela |
"Para Repetirlo" |
Renacer |
and written letters home to our own younger and older selves, |
86 |
Larregi |
"Begiratu" |
Loreak desertuan 6 |
saying "there is more love than you can ever feel in a single moment", |
87 |
Season of Ghosts |
"Astero (Id)" |
A Leap of Faith |
saying "environmentalism is a rehearsal for living among the stars", |
88 |
Dardem |
"Gilipollas" |
single |
saying "close your windows, but open your doors". |
89 |
Téfiret |
"Aura" |
Alquimia |
Stories leak out of our closed or open hands alike, |
90 |
Residente |
"Rap Bruto" |
single |
saying "gravity does not believe in kings". |