1 |
Terror Jr |
"Have You" |
Unfortunately, Terror Jr |
Love is not the opposite of machines. |
2 |
The Band CAMINO |
"Something To Hold On To" |
single |
Every drum is a machine |
3 |
Future Unlimited |
"Falling" |
single |
for remembering a particular heartbeat |
4 |
Swallow The Sun |
"Here on the Black Earth" |
When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light |
and how it could have ended |
5 |
Numenorean |
"Regret" |
single |
differently. |
6 |
Altarage |
"Sighting" |
The Approaching Roar |
Blood roars through us, |
7 |
A Secret Revealed |
"The Downfall" |
Sacrifices |
barely contained, |
8 |
Slow |
"The Drowning Angel" |
IV - Mythologiae |
and thus we relentlessly hum. |
9 |
Vessel of Iniquity |
"Invocation of the Heart Girt with a Serpent" |
Void of Infinite Horror 5 |
We are impressionist clouds of roughly shaped chaos |
10 |
Ancient Bards |
"Oscurità" |
Origine (The Black Crystal Sword Saga, Pt. 2) |
encased in perfect shiny armor, |
11 |
Evergrey |
"A Secret Atlantis" |
The Atlantic |
and the implied interstices between sinuous fables. |
12 |
Avantasia |
"Moonglow" |
single |
Our talismans fill our subjective sky; |
13 |
Secret Rule |
"Dream" |
The 7 Endless |
our powers seethe |
14 |
Autumn |
"Old Fuel" |
Stacking Smoke |
in rueful inadequacy |
15 |
Max Cooper |
"Phi" |
One Hundred Billion Sparks |
but irrepressible joy. |
16 |
GIRLI |
"Deal With It" |
single |
It is enough. |
17 |
Black To Comm |
"Fly on you" |
Seven Horses For Seven Kings |
We are conduits of noise. |
18 |
DON BROCO |
"Half Man Half God" |
single |
We still have rock bands, |
19 |
Anteros |
"Drive On" |
single |
defiance is not the opposite of system. |
20 |
Blood Red Shoes |
"Elijah" |
Get Tragic |
Art was always calculated, only the precision has changed. |
21 |
Sunflower Bean |
"Fear City" |
King Of The Dudes 4 |
If you tune your instrument, you are siding with math against ignorance, |
22 |
Chapter and Verse |
"Magazines" |
Glow |
with hope against inertia, |
23 |
go!go!vanillas |
"No.999" |
single |
with the idea that the best songs have not all been written |
24 |
秋山黄色 |
"猿上がりシティーポップ" |
single |
yet, |
25 |
BILLIE IDLE |
"そして、また、、" |
そして、また、、 +1 |
with the world. |
26 |
Koutei Camera Girl Drei |
"Speed Test" |
Dawn by Flow |
You are not the opposite of people you don't yet know, |
27 |
League of Legends |
"Awaken" |
single |
or of people who don't even exist, |
28 |
Fujifabric |
"Hagan" |
F |
or of people you think you are fighting not to become. |
29 |
NOISEMAKER |
"NAME" |
RARA |
Or maybe you are, in the same way that you are all the opposites of yourself. |
30 |
Mio Yamazaki |
"un-speakable" |
un-speakable |
Every alias is a possible self you have just discovered |
31 |
秋山黄色 |
"やさぐれカイドー" |
single |
but always been. |
32 |
Asako |
"アップルティー" |
single |
No wonder these strange clothes turn out to fit: |
33 |
Pkew Pkew Pkew |
"I Don't Matter at All" |
single |
they were torn off mannequins and resewn to your exact size |
34 |
Small Talks |
"Teeth" |
single |
with elastic thread |
35 |
Colin Stetson |
"The Rain Like Curses" |
single |
and gradient descent. |
36 |
Robert Scott Thompson |
"Pluviophilia" |
single |
We are the hypothetical creatures our ancestors have learned to imitate, |
37 |
Korpiklaani |
"Kaljaa" |
single |
and their maleficient spirits, |
38 |
Fenrir |
"A Red Sun Rises" |
Legends of the Grail |
and whatever wilderness we preserve as metaphor. |
39 |
Minas Morgul |
"Niedergang" |
single |
The ice accumulates in towers, |
40 |
SKÁLD |
"Gleipnir" |
Le chant des Vikings |
leaves behind barren shores |
41 |
Nytt Land |
"Pusel Ov Aki's Song" |
single |
and faded glades, |
42 |
Rúnahild |
"I Dødens Favn" |
Seidhjallar |
invites us to temporary caverns and ineffective rituals. |
43 |
Gomma |
"Strade" |
SACROSANTO |
We hide, but our songs emerge. |
44 |
Punkreas |
"Marta" |
Inequilibrio Instabile |
We issue forth, but our songs yearn for shelter. |
45 |
Gazosa |
"Ogni giorno di più" |
Inseparabili |
We have been here forever, starting now. |
46 |
GRMLN |
"Devotion" |
single |
Every day our lowest fidelities increase, |
47 |
Chain Wallet |
"World I Used to Call Mine" |
single |
spiraling wistfully, |
48 |
MONO |
"Meet Us Where the Night Ends" |
Nowhere Now Here |
until we are effectively immortal in each moment. |
49 |
Yungen |
"Comfortable (feat. Dappy)" |
Project Purple |
We imagine our identities; |
50 |
Lowkey |
"The Return of Lowkey" |
single |
we are the creatures defined by our obsessive recursive identity dreams |
51 |
María José |
"Hábito de Ti (feat. Vanesa Martín) - Radio Single" |
single |
in centripetal acceleration until something sends us arching into the sky. |
52 |
Ekhymosis |
"El Mensaje en la Botella" |
single |
We are innumerable translations of one essential message: |
53 |
Motel |
"Tú y Yo" |
single |
do you see me? |
54 |
As December Falls |
"No Money" |
single |
Love is not the opposite of method, |
55 |
Forever Starts Today |
"Family Tradition" |
single |
it is the sound our faith makes when we pour it into aspirational molds |
56 |
Swervedriver |
"Mary Winter" |
Future Ruins |
only to watch it assume familiar shapes. |
57 |
Press Club |
"Crash" |
Late Teens |
Every song is a tool for reducing potential |
58 |
L'âme Immortelle |
"The Spell - Bonus Track" |
Letztes Licht |
until it looks like something you could bear to touch. |
59 |
Xotox |
"Silent Shout" |
Silent Shout |
We are palindromes of silence |
60 |
Makthaverskan |
"Demands" |
single |
layered over inhalations and doubt, |
61 |
Pink Milk |
"Heart of Fire" |
single |
serene fantasies of immolation, |
62 |
Helevorn |
"Goodbye, Hope" |
Aamamata |
relinquished immunities |
63 |
Kaotiko |
"Aleluya" |
single |
in candy shells. |
64 |
Puppy |
"Vengeance" |
The Goat |
Truth is not a rebranding of solemnity, |
65 |
Renate |
"Kuuseis" |
single |
any more than these trees worry or talk about our axes. |
66 |
Craig Cardiff |
"Boy Inside the Boat, Pt. 2" |
Boy Inside the Boat 2 |
We derive, |
67 |
Sponge Cola |
"Meron Ba?" |
Meron Ba? / Promises 2 |
and call it navigation. |
68 |
Chicosci |
"Daylight" |
single |
This is how we move, |
69 |
SWANKY DANK |
"Tell Me" |
WHITE FLAGS 6 |
and most of why. |
70 |
Анита Цой |
"Новая я" |
Новая я +2 |
You want to be something new, |
71 |
Skerryvore |
"Soraidh Slàn & The Rise" |
single |
and we have so many things you haven't been yet. |
72 |
Nayt |
"Animal" |
single |
We are afraid of everybody, and yet we don't want to be alone. |
73 |
Hecate Enthroned |
"Temples That Breathe" |
Embrace of the Godless Aeon |
Alone we become our own monsters, |
74 |
Steve Hackett |
"Under the Eye of the Sun" |
At The Edge Of Light |
left adrift in topographic oceans, |
75 |
Kate Miller-Heidke |
"Zero Gravity" |
single |
not defying gravity so much as defending it in the abstract. |
76 |
Romix |
"Lonely Go" |
single |
We start over, |
77 |
Find Me |
"True Believer" |
single |
but this is all we know. |
78 |
Jay Mitta |
"Mchuma Bet" |
Tatizo Pesa |
We start over with what little we can hold, and then throw each piece of it away until we are whole again. |