1 |
Gaahls WYRD |
"Ghosts Invited" |
single |
We are the avatars of our fragility, |
2 |
Drudkh |
"Autumn in Sepia" |
single |
our silhouettes delineated by the plumage of a reconciliatory denial of inevitability. |
3 |
Downfall Of Gaia |
"Guided Through a Starless Night" |
Ethic of Radical Finitude |
We are blasted repeatedly into voids, |
4 |
Yeruselem |
"Babel" |
The Sublime |
catalogued by our nemeses, |
5 |
Xenoblight |
"Descension" |
Procreation |
lowered into solvents. |
6 |
Imperia |
"Book of Love" |
single |
And yet we take this moment to fall in love, |
7 |
Against Myself |
"Unity" |
Unity |
to imagine our scattered selves as one, |
8 |
Beast In Black |
"Cry out for a Hero" |
From Hell with Love |
to imagine that the one is us. |
9 |
November-7 |
"Whole Lotta Love" |
single |
There are no new questions and no new answers, but innumerable permutations still awaiting. |
10 |
Echoes Of Eternity |
"Smoke and Mirrors" |
Ageless |
The only significant enemy of truth is the fear of error, |
11 |
Týr |
"Sunset Shore" |
single |
but this is an illusion based on the mistaken impression that truth and error oppose. |
12 |
Vanir |
"Svoldir" |
single |
We create temporary truths by bundling errors together in such a way that you slice through them in cross-section and reveal the knowing face of a forgotten god. |
13 |
The Interbeing |
"Depressor" |
single |
Thus one medium is used to render |
14 |
machineheart |
"Overgrown" |
People Change |
another. |
15 |
Kerli |
"Legends" |
single |
Thus are all of our fables structured. |
16 |
Labirinto |
"Divino Afflante Spiritu" |
Divino Afflante Spiritu |
For this reason did we leave the ocean, |
17 |
Nkisi |
"The Dark Orchestra" |
The Dark Orchestra +3 |
and so too for this reason does it remain, rising to reclaim us. |
18 |
Lobby Boxer |
"Grandpa Donut" |
Eugene's Preference 4 |
But today, for now, we're dry enough |
19 |
DESU.RABBITS |
"sotsugyou shoujo" |
single |
for our sparkledrones to circle. |
20 |
SHE'S |
"Used To Be" |
Now & Then |
It is our genius to choreograph exactly how we fall |
21 |
kankakupiero |
"落書きペイジ" |
落書きペイジ +2 |
in predetermined and necessary directions. |
22 |
Brett |
"Tenenbaum" |
single |
Then again, there is no cure. |
23 |
Periphery |
"Blood Eagle" |
single |
Character is how you welcome the invaders you can't repel, |
24 |
Dream Theater |
"Paralyzed" |
single |
whether they arrive in subtle darkness or superfluous motorcade. |
25 |
Atarashii Gakkou No Leaders |
"恋ゲバ" |
single |
"Leaders" is not a Japanese word, made of not-Japanese syllables. |
26 |
HYDE |
"ZIPANG - Japanese Version" |
ZIPANG 2 |
How do you hold yourself when you stand up in front of people you don't expect to understand you? |
27 |
MADKID |
"RISE" |
single |
Can you get them out of their seats? |
28 |
Aoi |
"思い出の匂い" |
single |
Can you get them to dance |
29 |
YUZUKINGDOM |
"Memento Mori" |
PANDEMIC 5 |
before it's too late? |
30 |
Be Forest |
"Atto I" |
Knocturne |
Of course they will look down, at first. |
31 |
HEALTH |
"BLACK STATIC" |
VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR |
Strangers are terrifying. |
32 |
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard |
"Yn Ol i Annwn" |
single |
If you stand up, what have you endorsed? |
33 |
NateWantsToBattle |
"99.9" |
single |
Other people's anthems are glorious; |
34 |
AmaLee |
"Touch Off (From "The Promised Neverland")" |
single |
other people's politics are weird. |
35 |
Parry Gripp |
"Hailing Taquitos" |
single |
Irony is a limited defense. |
36 |
Charly Bliss |
"Capacity" |
single |
So let it go. |
37 |
Ex Hex |
"Tough Enough" |
single |
When you stand up, you stand for your own reasons. |
38 |
Arisa |
"Una nuova Rosalba in città" |
Una nuova Rosalba in città |
I stand up for ancestry I mostly didn't know, |
39 |
Nek |
"Mi farò trovare pronto" |
single |
from spinning piazzas I have not yet been. |
40 |
Anna Tatangelo |
"Tutto ciò che serve" |
La fortuna sia con me |
I stand up for recognizing other people's joy, |
41 |
Irama |
"La ragazza con il cuore di latta" |
single |
and for pushing other people's ambivalence towards joy by defiant example. |
42 |
The Zen Circus |
"L'amore è una dittatura" |
single |
I stand up for preserving grudges gently as you move them to well-lit museums. |
43 |
Shade |
"Senza farlo apposta" |
single |
I stand for ceremony |
44 |
Ojete Calor |
"Mocatriz" |
single |
and paranoid urgency |
45 |
Amistades Peligrosas |
"Amor Que Entiende" |
Pacto de Sal |
and tradition as costume |
46 |
Blender |
"Shallow" |
single |
and costumes as skin. |
47 |
Jill Johnson |
"Is It Hard Being A Man" |
single |
None of these things are exactly easy, |
48 |
Susanna |
"Wilderness" |
single |
or come to us instinctively. |
49 |
Meridian Dan |
"Vegan Chat" |
single |
Do you know who you want to be? |
50 |
Yizzy |
"Yeah" |
single |
How many choices have been taken from you by institutionalized assumptions, |
51 |
Merely |
"Mystery Garden" |
single |
and how can you resurrect them as variations on the ones you are supposedly allowed? |
52 |
As December Falls |
"Bad for You" |
As December Falls |
I will accept any number of bands that sound exactly like this. |
53 |
Calling All Captains |
"Out of My Head" |
Nothing Grows Here 5 |
Our emotions are complex and usually tinged with awareness of too much, |
54 |
Awaken the Giant |
"Miles Away" |
single |
too close. |
55 |
Pet Shop Boys |
"What are we going to do about the rich?" |
Agenda 4 |
We try to stay serious about our so-real crises, |
56 |
Ruby Fields |
"The Unguarded Moment - triple j Like A Version" |
single |
but god, we remember how we felt when we heard this song originally, |
57 |
Niniola |
"Designer" |
single |
or some other song with the same wheezy exuberance, |
58 |
Moonlight Cove |
"Stay Forever Away" |
Orphans of the Storm |
in some other moment we wanted to never end. |
59 |
Pera |
"Sorarım Hayatı" |
single |
We hear a question we're not supposed to be answering, and think "Wait, what if?!" |
60 |
Steve Earle |
"L.A. Freeway" |
single |
We drive down the narrow path between incendiary hills |
61 |
Kaotiko |
"Vamos a Volar" |
Aprende Violencia |
that leads away. |
62 |
Barilari |
"Infierock" |
Infierock |
November rain will put all this fire out. What month is it now? |
63 |
Max Corbacho |
"The Invisible Embrace" |
single |
Oh. Hmm. |
64 |
MZ. 412 |
"Öppna Hegrind" |
Svartmyrkr |
So you either wait, or you stare down the fire with avenging empathy. |
65 |
Blood Command |
"Afraid Of Water" |
single |
I will accept one more band that sounds exactly like this. |
66 |
Hannah Georgas |
"Love Is A Stranger" |
single |
After Brexit, of course, all Eurythmics songs must be remade by non-British artists. |
67 |
Francisco el Hombre |
"CHAMA ADRENALINA" |
single |
Obviously this has appoximately already happened, and at this point happens again every 7 minutes. |
68 |
Lakker |
"A Whisper in Your Ear" |
single |
We fear to lose anything, but we could reconstruct a full human culture from scratch in a day. |
69 |
Jo Black |
"Voel Jy Die Genade" |
Voel Jy Die Genade |
We have it each inside of us, |
70 |
Tullycraft |
"Has Your Boyfriend Lost His Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight_" |
The Railway Prince Hotel |
Svalbard seed banks in our hearts, |
71 |
Sisters of Suffocation |
"The Machine" |
single |
and the schematics for robots that ache to take over, |
72 |
Xavier Boscher |
"Polar Fox" |
Zoologica Duodecim #2 : Pack Ice 5 |
yearn to drive us north and then across the icy water. |
73 |
Orla Gartland |
"Why Am I Like This?" |
single |
How did we end up this way? |
74 |
Emarosa |
"Hell Of It" |
Peach Club |
It kind of doesn't matter. |
75 |
Ifriqiyya Electrique |
"He Eh Lalla" |
single |
It's now now. |
76 |
Now or Never |
"Song of Hope" |
Bright Again 3 |
Thus are our fable pages cleared blank again. |
77 |
JABBA DA FOOTBALL CLUB |
"i&i" |
DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY 4 |
"Once" we start, and then how are we going to live? |
78 |
The Anix |
"TECHUNTER" |
single |
What rules will we write for the purposes of subverting, |
79 |
Bob Mould |
"Thirty Dozen Roses" |
Sunshine Rock |
and which ones are important? |
80 |
Pyrxciter |
"Black Sacrament" |
single |
We crunch the glittering shards of our shot-down sparkledrones as we walk, as we stand, even as we try to hold still and still end up standing for something. |