| 1 | yetep | "Gravity" | single | We know, of course, that these particles do not technically generate their own light: |
| 2 | Carly Rae Jepsen | "Party For One" | single | dust motes and emotion, |
| 3 | Yumi And The Weather | "Find Another" | Yumi And The Weather | rain and how we run through it, |
| 4 | Glades | "80 Miles" | To Love You | songs that remind us of other songs, |
| 5 | Poppy | "Iconic" | Am I A Girl? | songs that remind us of other lives other people might have lived, |
| 6 | Linney | "Substance" | single | slow resolution, |
| 7 | Former Vandal | "Babyboy" | The Grieving Young | apologies. |
| 8 | Nord & Syd | "Stockholm" | single | We know so many things that don't help us not feel helplessly illuminated |
| 9 | SUMif | "Know You" | single | by the joy that pours out of incidental cracks in ordinary things. |
| 10 | Zealyn | "Airline Wine" | single | We have centuries of history, |
| 11 | Sylvaine | "Severance" | Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone | and then it falls away out of our reach |
| 12 | Azusa | "Fine Lines" | single | and we are left in these present moments with only whatever we are holding right now: |
| 13 | envy | "Dawn and Gaze" | Alnair in August 2 | each other, our future, |
| 14 | Minniva | "Home" | single | how we remember things better than they were, |
| 15 | Raven Quinn | "Alchemy" | single | or at least grander, |
| 16 | Cellar Darling | "Insomnia" | single | or part of stories we've had time to compose in redolent retrospect. |
| 17 | Battledragon | "Bailando" | single | This is another of the thousand ways to delineate belief systems of fear or hope. |
| 18 | Persona | "Skeleton Dance" | single | Fear sorts realities into that which much be distorted and that which must be denied. |
| 19 | Sunflower Bean | "Come For Me" | single | Hope integrates all of these oppositions and resonances into drafts of the legends we will write to make sense of them one day. |
| 20 | Chromatics | "Camera" | Camera | This is how dystopias can be hopeful, by extrapolating the narrative logics of terror backwards into paths we can choose not to walk down. |
| 21 | Desperate Journalist | "Cedars" | single | This is how exhaustion and desperation can sing to sleepers, |
| 22 | Pedro The Lion | "Yellow Bike" | single | heartlands inside of our hearts, |
| 23 | The Animal In Me | "Your Love" | single | frenetic universes coalescing in our dreams, |
| 24 | Panic! At The Disco | "The Greatest Show" | single | visions for instants of collapse. |
| 25 | LANDMVRKS | "False Reality" | Fantasy | It is not enough to fight only for truth. |
| 26 | Breathe Atlantis | "My Supernova" | single | Liars do not necessarily lack belief. |
| 27 | Cardio Kazan | "Pyro" | Masque Ellipse | Joy is not a result of what exists, |
| 28 | Uni/Vs | "Smile" | Smile 6 | but of how gently we disassemble it |
| 29 | Katy Perry | "Waving Through A Window - Bonus Track" | Dear Evan Hansen (Broadway Cast Recording) | to find the radiance it contains. |
| 30 | Peter Hollens | "Rewrite the Stars" | The Greatest Showman A Cappella | Gently with hammers and tongues, |
| 31 | SiM | "DiAMOND" | single | gently with venom and vertigo, |
| 32 | Aimer | "凍えそうな季節から" | single | we know there is no light in this dust, |
| 33 | Wasuta | "KIRA KIRA ホログラム" | GIRLS, BE AMBITIOUS! | but we have secret ways in which it can be enough to see by, |
| 34 | BIGMAMA | "YESMAN" | -11℃ | and we are the living archives of these unhidden secrets, |
| 35 | SHE'S | "The Everglow" | single | and so far, at least, we have always reached these moments |
| 36 | Hysteric Panic | "ノット・イコール" | Hypnotic Poison | when we gently resort to revolutionary overwhelming hope. |
| 37 | YOU'LL MELT MORE | "Never Give Up Drunk Monkeys" | NEVER GIVE UP DRUNK MONKEYS 3 | The nominal manuals for revolution are crammed full of useless non-causal rules from past struggles we have probably misattributed, |
| 38 | MUTANT MONSTER | "走り出せ!" | 猫かぶり | and whatever happens now, we will probably blame and credit just as misleadingly. |
| 39 | Julia Kent | "Imbalance" | single | But at least we have this day of fleeting, defiant suspension of panic. |
| 40 | Kelly Moran | "Autowave" | Ultraviolet | We have not rendered our doom uninevitable, |
| 41 | Eternell | "Inner Song" | Still Light | but for one night, watching numbers not fail to count up to the decisive figure, |
| 42 | The Algorithm | "Superscalar" | Compiler Optimization Techniques | we can see how we might slowly win. |
| 43 | The Ocean | "Ordovicium: The Glaciation of Gondwana" | Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic | Hate turns lumberingly upon itself, |
| 44 | Toska | "Congress" | Fire by the Silos | but we can offer swords in advance of its teeth. |
| 45 | Marsheaux | "Hanging on (and on)" | single | We can hold the cameras of witness on the dark and light in splitscreen. |
| 46 | Lightfoils | "This Time Is Up" | single | We can refuse to reduce gradients to color rules. |
| 47 | Black Light Discipline | "Faded" | single | We can have the courage to answer simple questions. |
| 48 | Huora | "Koditon" | Kosto elää! | We can hold systems to account for their willful misconstructions until they disintegrate |
| 49 | Maija Vilkkumaa | "Teini" | single | into spectral topologies of material for something new and a little less broken. |
| 50 | Cameran Nelson | "Fast Enough" | Third Gear 4 | We can see the strength behind an unthinking fist, |
| 51 | Carter Winter | "Skylines" | Temptation | or the space behind the bloat of rage where acceptance might have collected, if there had been enough of it. |
| 52 | Erik Ekholm | "Notorious" | single | We can be heroes |
| 53 | Vessel | "Paplu (Love That Moves the Sun)" | single | who also know how to dance. |
| 54 | Prayer | "Goodbye" | Goodbye EP 3 | We can remember that the actual heroes always know how to dance, sometimes in choreographed stillness, |
| 55 | Marco Carta | "Una foto di me e di te" | single | sometimes in a slow walk down a specific street, |
| 56 | Io e la tigre | "Dammi le mie chiavi" | GRRR POWER | sometimes in ebullient riot. |
| 57 | AmaLee | "Adamas" | single | We can be saved by cartoon guardians, |
| 58 | Megami33 | "Adamas (SAO Alicization)" | single | again and again, |
| 59 | 柯有倫 | "Power to Drive (電視劇《極速青春》插曲)" | single | until we notice that they are us, |
| 60 | Hjerteslag | "Det Raymond Sa" | single | and have always been most intensely human in their abstraction. |
| 61 | Alibiet | "Lyset der eg bor" | Lyset der eg bor | There is always darkness encroaching somewhere on this careening planet, but that doesn't preclude light where you live. |
| 62 | Gåte | "Åsmund Frægdegjæva" | Svevn | We are knotted in wonder as tightly as in doom, |
| 63 | Tides from nebula | "Dopamine" | single | and maybe this is even the composition of our armor. |
| 64 | Integrity | "Bark at the Moon" | single | We have done so much out of misguided reverence, but not much stays holy forever. |
| 65 | Wincent Weiss | "Hier mit dir" | Hier mit dir +1 | We are here, after all, together, |
| 66 | Montreal | "15 Jahre für die Punchline" | single | the disillusioned |
| 67 | Simple Minds | "Alive and Kicking - Symphonic Version" | single | and the assured, |
| 68 | Morrissey | "Back on the Chain Gang" | single | the deliriously deluded |
| 69 | Skepta | "Neighbourhood Watch" | single | and the imminent, |
| 70 | Meridian Dan | "Fatality" | single | the threatened |
| 71 | Professor Green | "Photographs (with Rag'n'Bone Man)" | single | and the freed. |
| 72 | Faze Miyake | "Nothing II Something" | single | We have muttered the solutions to ourselves, |
| 73 | Rosanne Cash | "8 Gods Of Harlem" | She Remembers Everything | or written it in journals we keep closed lest the endangered honesty drain out. |
| 74 | Sündenrausch | "Kontrolle" | single | But love is not like penguins: |
| 75 | Fally Ipupa | "Code d'amour" | Control | melt its habitat and it multiplies, |
| 76 | Västerbron | "Nya Sverige" | single | go around the world and find it waiting, |
| 77 | Crashing Atlas | "Monster" | single | dread its beak and you get fables of other imaginary things we have learned how to not fear. |
| 78 | Fury Weekend | "Another Brick In The Wall" | single | Every tragedy will be recapitulated as farce, and then again as atmosphere, |
| 79 | Ideas | "Till The End Of Time" | Till The End Of Time +2 | and this is how after unimaginable horror we can still breathe. |
| 80 | MARGE | "Rúzs" | single | This is how we can wake up to racists wearing our flag and remember how many flags there are, |
| 81 | Cronómetrobudú | "El Día de los Muertos" | single | and that all of them fly over realms of the dead and transcended |
| 82 | Dead Can Dance | "ACT II: The Mountain" | Dionysus | as much as over the living. |
| 83 | Asylums | "Graveyard Tourism" | Alien Human Emotions | A nation is an extended rejection of natural failure, |
| 84 | The Monolith Deathcult | "Dawn of the Planet of the Ashes" | single | and these reckonings, for empire and teleology alike, are the difference between society and theme park. |
| 85 | Laïoung | "Nero Su Nero" | single | Trump is the worst character from the worst American theme park, beligerent ignorance in an asshole suit, but it pointless trying to pretend he isn't us. |
| 86 | Harlem Spartans | "Still on the O" | single | Hate is many things, but none of them invented anew for the purpose. Hate is not creative. |
| 87 | Lurka | "A1" | Fringe White EP 3 | This is another way literary anti-heroes betray their essential heroism: |
| 88 | All Tvvins | "Infinite Swim" | single | their palaces are cruelly magnificent, evil as comprehensive fractal obsession instead of shitty taco bowls and an escalator for lowering the bilious and somebody's name on the outside to show the next owner where to put theirs. |
| 89 | Colin Self | "Foresight" | Siblings | Sauron didn't rally the orcs with panicky improvised promises of a 10% tax cut when the Nazgul weren't even in session, |
| 90 | Silver | "Take it Away" | single | he offered them molten ground and the tenderest parts of the necks of all decent creatures. |
| 91 | Across the Wasteland | "Valhalla" | Road to Euphoria | And so I offer you not so much these small triumphs of legislative margins and subpoenas and demanded recusals, |
| 92 | For I Am King | "Home" | single | but the truth, even though it's only the beginning of what has to happen, that this hate-poisoned place will one day again feel like our home. |