1 |
Anomalie |
"Aurora" |
Integra |
Who says funeral doom metal has no singles? |
2 |
Evoken |
"Hypnagogia" |
Hypnagogia |
The apocalyptic is not inimical to concision, |
3 |
Ulthar |
"Entropy-Atrophy" |
Cosmovore |
to the sharpness of the abyss in your trachea, |
4 |
Psycroptic |
"As the Kingdom Drowns" |
As the Kingdom Drowns |
to the seductively gleaming gears of crushing machines. |
5 |
Four Stroke Baron |
"Cyborg, Pt. 2: The City" |
single |
Steel troops pour through the rifts, |
6 |
Cult Leader |
"Isolation in the Land of Milk and Honey" |
A Patient Man |
our fears shining in their lenses, |
7 |
Anal Trump |
"If You Wanted to Qualify for Health Insurance, Then Maybe You Shouldn't Have Gotten Raped?" |
The First 100 Songs |
our vanity against their blades. |
8 |
Lucifer's Child |
"Black Heart" |
The Order |
Dread and revulsion are powers; petulance is a weakness in the shape of power. |
9 |
NanowaR of Steel |
"Barbie, Milf Princess of the Twilight" |
Stairway To Valhalla |
You shouldn't take anything seriously if it always or never wants to be taken seriously, |
10 |
Veonity |
"Outcasts of Eden" |
single |
but any mixture is fine. |
11 |
Minniva |
"Demons" |
single |
The dragons do not imagine themselves, |
12 |
Reliqa |
"Hangman" |
single |
they know their own scalar mass, |
13 |
Flowerleaf |
"Firesoul" |
Stronger |
and live with the eternal aftertaste of breathing fire. |
14 |
V for Volume |
"Amnesia Lessons (Acoustic Live Session)" |
single |
We have the gift of forgetting half of all of this, |
15 |
LÉON |
"Falling" |
single |
and squander it on shoes for the feet we wish we had. |
16 |
Fyfe |
"Arashiyama" |
single |
All the flames we breathe come from outside of ourselves, |
17 |
Tourist |
"Someone Else" |
single |
not that that absolves us from responsibility, |
18 |
Ariana and the Rose |
"Night Owl" |
single |
or protects us from them, |
19 |
Cherry Glazerr |
"Daddi" |
single |
or them from us. |
20 |
Era Istrefi |
"A Po Don" |
single |
None of us are safe here, |
21 |
Can't Swim |
"Congratulations, Christopher Hodge" |
single |
but you can tell the dragons are fictional less from their contours |
22 |
Capstan |
"Stars Before The Sun" |
single |
than from the way they are not absorbed in dragon issues of no conseqence to anyone else, |
23 |
Castlefield |
"Joyless" |
single |
which is also how you can tell that a narcissist doesn't believe you're real. |
24 |
The Winking Owl |
"Dream Sailor" |
Try 3 |
The best band in the world right now is a pop-punk trio from Japan called The Winking Owl, |
25 |
BILLIE IDLE |
"エブリデイズ" |
NOT IDOL |
and not believing me doesn't make you a worse person, |
26 |
Kalafina |
"Sprinter" |
Seventh Heaven |
but not being able to believe me does, |
27 |
Daichi Miura |
"Blizzard" |
single |
as do all of these similar failures of openheartedness: |
28 |
Tokimeki Sendenbu |
"ドンフィクション" |
single |
writing off rock bands that look like idol groups, |
29 |
BATTEN SHOWJO TAI |
"BDM" |
single |
refusing to read anything written in dubious capitals |
30 |
Lovebites |
"ライジング" |
single |
or unfamiliar symbols, |
31 |
RUANN |
"There's No Ending" |
single |
escalators, |
32 |
Za Ninngenn |
"卑屈人間 踊ってみた" |
OSジャンクション |
assuming you know which establishment a rebellion is against, |
33 |
AA= |
"SAW" |
single |
assuming all resistance is rebellion, |
34 |
Johnny Marr |
"Spiral Cities" |
Call The Comet |
never getting lost somewhere in summertime |
35 |
whenyoung |
"Heaven On Earth" |
single |
or October. |
36 |
Muse |
"The Dark Side" |
Simulation Theory |
You chose this corner to write yourself into, so you get to declare its secret door, |
37 |
Sarah Longfield |
"Departure" |
single |
and thus the next universe into which it opens, |
38 |
Holygram |
"Signals" |
Modern Cults |
however morbidly serene |
39 |
Kaelan Mikla |
"Nornalagið" |
Nott eftir nott |
or martially eldritch. |
40 |
HEALTH |
"INNOCENCE" |
single |
We already live in a nightworld of lights, |
41 |
Marc Scibilia |
"WAITING ON YOU" |
single |
together, |
42 |
Haley & Michaels |
"Taking Off" |
single |
but the humanity of it is us. |
43 |
Nordic Union |
"My Fear And My Faith" |
Second Coming |
We misunderstand the color of the air as metaphor |
44 |
Artillery |
"Pain" |
single |
only until we inhale, |
45 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Black Core" |
Fiendish |
and yet we do, |
46 |
Vessel |
"Fantasma (For Jasmine)" |
Queen of Golden Dogs |
and we were kaleidoscope maelstroms all along. |
47 |
Swan Meat |
"Alucard" |
single |
We have built our houses in crevices of fire and water |
48 |
TSVI |
"Realm of Jabarut" |
Inner Worlds |
because that's what we had, |
49 |
الحساس |
"شفتك" |
single |
but we've built them in these particular exquisite untenable ways |
50 |
Jin |
"イマジナリーリロード" |
メカクシティリロード |
because that's how we are. |
51 |
Hjerteslag |
"Sang 31" |
Nattseileren |
We will probably be these same ways |
52 |
The End Of The Ocean |
"desire" |
single |
in the disappointed suburbs of Mars |
53 |
Aerial |
"No Hope" |
single |
and the tense streets of Io. |
54 |
Unhold |
"Deeper In" |
Here is the Blood |
The interesting thing about our self-threatened existence |
55 |
Softer Still |
"Priorities" |
Nuances |
was never its inevitable precarity. |
56 |
Postiljonen |
"Chasing Stars" |
single |
Ironic, maybe, to drown ourselves on the thin surface of a molten orb, |
57 |
Faze Miyake |
"Game Of Death" |
single |
but the dinosaurs had no chance to recast survival as politics. |
58 |
1280 Almas |
"La Ruta del Asteroide" |
Marteko Euriak |
The most pathetic thing about climate-change denial is not the ignorance, it's the denial itself. |
59 |
Ximena Sariñana |
"Si Tú Te Vas" |
single |
"Everything is fine." Nothing was ever fine. |
60 |
We Are the Catalyst |
"The Code" |
single |
There's no greatness to revive or retreat to, |
61 |
Elis Paprika |
"Mi Corazón" |
single |
there is only the love that got us this far despite ourselves, |
62 |
DreamNote |
"DREAM NOTE" |
Dreamlike 6 |
and all the things in space. |
63 |
BTS |
"FAKE LOVE - Japanese ver." |
FAKE LOVE/Airplane pt.2 3 |
"Real" is a subcategory of artifice |
64 |
cupcakKe |
"Quiz" |
Eden |
defined and distinguished by our commitment. |
65 |
Linn Koch-Emmery |
"Waves" |
Waves +3 |
In a moving world, |
66 |
Gritando en Silencio |
"Mi último cartucho" |
Material inflamable |
taking a position is an act of inherent resistance, |
67 |
Miss Octubre |
"Usar y Tirar" |
Demasiado (S) Humanos |
but you still get to choose the way you stand here. |
68 |
Alphaxone |
"Unveiling the Script" |
Aftermath |
Imagine the line you trace through orbital space, and then think about how the space feels. |
69 |
Shibalba |
"La Ra" |
single |
We whirl through it over and over, and yet it never gets less empty. |
70 |
Cisfinitum |
"Riaiimi" |
Monochrome |
We have powerlessness, and will; |
71 |
Efence |
"Starchaser" |
Galaxy´s End |
would you want it the other way? |
72 |
Jorge González |
"El baile de los que sobran" |
single |
The asteroids have loneliness or impact, and don't even get to chose. |
73 |
As Cities Burn |
"2020 AD" |
single |
We at least have tonight, |
74 |
Spell |
"Never Enough" |
Full Moon Sessions |
and the memories of the nights |
75 |
Lo-Fang |
"88" |
single |
we may or may not |
76 |
Puppy |
"World Stands Still" |
single |
have left. |
77 |
Zonoma |
"99 Red Balloons" |
single |
We have sadness we can try to |
78 |
Adikia |
"Kopperfield" |
single |
shake off without hurting it, |
79 |
Karol Conká |
"Bem Sucedida" |
Ambulante |
because it will return to us exactly half-recognizable |
80 |
Teto Preto |
"Em D+Ìvidas" |
Pedra Preta |
as joy. |
81 |
Shooglenifty |
"Hichki" |
Written in Water |
Sinuous dancers pour through the rifts, |
82 |
Lia Mice |
"Human Being" |
The Sampler as Time Machine |
our dreams fluttering in their readouts, |
83 |
Sarah Brightman |
"Sky And Sand" |
Hymn |
our shivering earnestnesses against their skin. |
84 |
Nanahira |
""Oshietekudasai, goshujinsama"" |
Nanairo Ribbon |
We are so small, |
85 |
Luca Marino |
"Credici" |
single |
and smaller still inside our feathery preening, |
86 |
Полина Гагарина |
"Меланхолия" |
single |
until the dancelights come up and somebody |
87 |
ROTH BART BARON |
"Innocence" |
HEX |
grabs your hand with a hand, |
88 |
Old Wounds |
"Your God v. Their God" |
Glow |
and your blood is so close to their blood, |
89 |
Louna |
"Shadow Kingdoms" |
single |
and you will both see morning |
90 |
Maraton |
"Mosaic" |
single |
or neither. |
91 |
Miracle Of Sound |
"My Odyssey" |
single |
These are our important journeys, made of inertia and spun into eccentric exclusions, |
92 |
Kelly Clarkson |
"Never Enough" |
single |
and hopeless, and perfect. |
93 |
G.E.M. |
"毒蘋果" |
毒蘋果 +2 |
Theorems and exceptions threaten to seal all the best rifts up again, |
94 |
New Years Day |
"Skeletons" |
single |
but we have this trick where we slingshot around the wells of death |
95 |
Flor de Toloache |
"Indestructible" |
single |
and crash back through at the speed of song. |