1 |
Rico Nasty |
"Sandy" |
single |
It's OK to let music lose you, |
2 |
ITSOKTOCRY |
"Lil Lock Pick" |
single |
to know when trends have retired qualities you depend on, |
3 |
Scarlxrd |
"STFU" |
single |
to recognize the inimical properties of an approaching aesthetic |
4 |
NXSTY |
"CAN'T STOP" |
single |
and step aside. |
5 |
SinceWhen |
"Bitter (feat. Brennan Savage)" |
Wishing For The Worst |
This is a short-term timidity, |
6 |
Dkoolpharaoh |
"Nihilus" |
single |
but also an excellent long-term tactic for being surprised later by returning joy. |
7 |
7xvn |
"Rock'n" |
Warning! 2 |
The things you think you need are conditional properties of context. |
8 |
Pyrxciter |
"Neuro Boy" |
single |
It is excruciatingly hard to disassemble your own home |
9 |
Wiley |
"Don't Bread Me" |
single |
one cherished piece at a time, |
10 |
YOOKiE |
"Apocalypse" |
single |
but easy to walk into a museum of the inexplicable. |
11 |
Mux Mool |
"Some Diggity" |
single |
Curiosity is the capacity to appreciate the planet |
12 |
Batuk |
"Dahomey Warrior" |
Dahomey Warrior +2 |
as a whirling constant gallery of the other. |
13 |
flor |
"slow motion" |
single |
You are not being offered polite gifts to carry away, |
14 |
Sam Fender |
"Hypersonic Missiles" |
single |
you are being given the chance to see how the people who live this way live. |
15 |
Little Comets |
"The Sneeze" |
single |
You are being shown how to talk to strangers, |
16 |
Charly Bliss |
"Chatroom" |
single |
about things you both helplessly love, |
17 |
Sophie Ellis-Bextor |
"A Pessimist is Never Disappointed (Orchestral Version)" |
A Pessimist is Never Disappointed (Orchestral Version) 6 |
even though and exactly because |
18 |
Sigrid |
"Don't Kill My Vibe" |
Sucker Punch |
you don't understand them the same way, |
19 |
tiLLie |
"whole wide world" |
LOUD MOUTH EP 4 |
and thus maybe not at all. |
20 |
Marshmello |
"Here With Me" |
single |
Atheists visit churches, too. |
21 |
The Foxies |
"Dreaming" |
Dreaming +1 |
You don't have to believe these stairs ascend to heaven |
22 |
Cellar Darling |
"Drown" |
single |
to climb them to reach a vantage point |
23 |
Grimgotts |
"The Last Dragon Warriors" |
single |
from which mortal decisions have been informed. |
24 |
Thormesis |
"Sonnen" |
The Sixth |
You only have to come back down, |
25 |
Inter Arma |
"The Atavist's Meridian" |
single |
and walk away, |
26 |
Sâver |
"Dissolve to Ashes" |
They Came with Sunlight |
and know that no decisions in your power are final. |
27 |
Black Anvil |
"Miles" |
Miles +3 |
Recoil with generous abandon, just know that every violent aversion |
28 |
Evalyn |
"Heart of Glass" |
Turn Her Up |
is a protective distorting shell around a possible love. |
29 |
Meg Myers |
"Running Up That Hill" |
single |
The moments you aspire to steal |
30 |
Linney |
"I Think We're Alone Now" |
Turn Her Up |
are already yours. |
31 |
Fly By Nightcore |
"Saturday Nights" |
single |
Turn the volume up, and the speed, |
32 |
KANA-BOON |
"Haguruma" |
Haguruma +1 |
and the drama and whatever else you can reach. |
33 |
kankakupiero |
"ARATA - ANATA" |
ARATA - ANATA +1 |
All of these gauges measure energies with escape powers, |
34 |
HYDE |
"MAD QUALIA - Japanese Version" |
single |
not their escape but yours, |
35 |
NoisyCell |
"透明" |
Focus |
forcefield paths that lead from your traps to your dreams |
36 |
Wasuta |
"PLATONIC GIRL" |
CAT'CH THE WORLD |
and then through and away. |
37 |
TK from Ling tosite sigure |
"P.S. Red I" |
P.S. Red I +2 |
We fear the unknown |
38 |
SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Takanori Nishikawa |
"NOISEofRAIN" |
R∃/MEMBER |
with the same glands and muscles that mark and grip the known. |
39 |
Atarashii Gakkou No Leaders |
"迷えば尊し" |
若気ガイタル |
The feeling of being lost is a broken relationship with where you were, |
40 |
DEVIL NO ID |
"サバイバー" |
Devillmatic |
carried desperately with you to places that have caused you no harm, |
41 |
Hatari |
"Hatrið mun sigra" |
Söngvakeppnin 2019 |
that are happy and baffled to see you. |
42 |
Korpiklaani |
"Bier Bier" |
single |
Come in! We were just about to dance; |
43 |
Kalle Päätalo |
"Lukupää (feat. Vesku Jokinen)" |
single |
weren't you? |
44 |
Týr |
"Álvur Kongur" |
Hel |
You can have sailed here from only so far away: |
45 |
Nightrage |
"Wolf to Man" |
single |
half a world, at most, |
46 |
Folkstone |
"Astri" |
Diario di un Ultimo |
the stars laughing at us in what we absurdly think of as emptiness. |
47 |
Children Of Bodom |
"Glass Houses" |
Hexed (Deluxe Version) |
You can have safety or a view, |
48 |
Helheim |
"Kaldr" |
single |
except for safety; |
49 |
Atlas Pain |
"Kia Kaha" |
single |
redemption or reward, |
50 |
Holding Absence |
"Your Love (Has Ruined My Life)" |
Holding Absence |
either flavor of defeat. |
51 |
Better Off |
"Reap What You Sow" |
Reap What You Sow |
What if the only thing I were to really believe I know |
52 |
Rage Of Light |
"Away With You" |
single |
is how to delete things without declaring enmity, |
53 |
PYLOT |
"Lost" |
Lost +1 |
or how to arrive at coordinates without having departed, |
54 |
MEMBA |
"Schools Out" |
single |
which of course is also how to fall in love without falling, |
55 |
Paolo Vallesi |
"Ritrovarsi ancora" |
single |
and how to have any idea where or who you are, |
56 |
Barbara Cola |
"A quando l'amore?" |
single |
and how to negotiate ceremonially with time. |
57 |
Ligabue |
"La cattiva compagnia" |
Start |
We occupy an analogic universe |
58 |
Luna |
"Donna Domani (feat. Chadia Rodriguez)" |
single |
in which all concepts are structurally isomorphic |
59 |
Deportees |
"Bright Eyes" |
single |
but completely uninterchangeable. |
60 |
Haley & Michaels |
"Hail Mary" |
single |
Every purported truth is the visible metaphor, |
61 |
First Signal |
"Tonight We Are the Only" |
single |
rising above the surface, |
62 |
Violet Janine |
"War is Over" |
single |
of a tendril of fire coiling out of the incendiary core |
63 |
All Your Sisters |
"Self-Medicating" |
single |
of your heart. |
64 |
Andy Black |
"Ghost of Ohio" |
single |
We are elected to stand guard |
65 |
YOKKO |
"Wondering Heights" |
single |
over notional towns |
66 |
Kali Mutsa |
"Casita de Merengue" |
single |
during inscrutable holidays |
67 |
Fiddler's Green |
"The Freak of Enniskillen" |
Heyday |
for which we can only be certain we are inappropriately dressed. |
68 |
Malos Vicios |
"Mi día de Furia" |
Grietas |
Or maybe we were invited, not engaged to proctor but to mosh, |
69 |
Mägo de Oz |
"Te traeré el horizonte (feat. Ara Malikian)" |
Ira Dei |
not costumed to ward but to make up the colors under which we march. |
70 |
Salduie |
"Las Crines de Epona" |
Viros Veramos |
Ask not for whom these songs were written, |
71 |
Onslaught |
"A Perfect Day to Die" |
single |
because we can't hear you. They're too loud |
72 |
Bethel Music |
"Raise a Hallelujah (Studio Version)" |
single |
when they're played at the proper volume, |
73 |
Planetshakers |
"Only Way" |
single |
their echoes too shared among all of us after they subside. |
74 |
Vineyard Worship |
"Doxology Anthem (Lord We Praise You)" |
Legacy - Live From Ireland |
Atheists photograph churches, too. |
75 |
Troum |
"Droneuary LXIX - Bhereg" |
single |
We have our own textural relics |
76 |
Flowers for Bodysnatchers |
"Looking for Bernard Herrmann" |
Alive with Scars |
and rumored absences of breath, |
77 |
Ossian |
"Hangzavarban a Harmóniát" |
single |
and if we sometimes look disappointed when we discover there are no T-shirts of your gods, |
78 |
Chris Forsyth |
"Tomorrow Might as Well Be Today" |
Tomorrow Might as Well Be Today / Mystic Mountain 2 |
we know that sometimes the instrumental is the only version. |
79 |
Mdou Moctar |
"Tumastin" |
single |
You have these legends about what you find in the desert, |
80 |
Seka Aleksić |
"Zakuni se u kurvu" |
single |
and what a city means if you come to it from all over, |
81 |
Justus Proffit |
"Closed View" |
L. A.'s Got Me Down |
and we have these endless suburbs filled with garages, |
82 |
Black Mountain |
"Future Shade" |
single |
but the sand and the roads will find each other eventually, |
83 |
Mustan Kuun Lapset |
"Eksyneet" |
Valo |
and realize neither one has veered far from their naïve plans. |
84 |
Nicumo |
"Who You Are" |
single |
Naïve plans are the only ones with intriguing scope, |
85 |
ANTHEM |
"Black Empire" |
single |
the only ones shaped like incipient legend, |
86 |
Moon Tooth |
"Omega Days" |
single |
the only ones sincerely motivated by a particular kind of envisioned apocalypse. |
87 |
Lonely Robot |
"Ancient Ascendant" |
single |
Does your Wikipedia page detail the colors of your guitars? Not yet? |
88 |
Arno Jordaan |
"Kom Ons Doen Dit" |
Kom Ons Doen Dit |
How far would you go to join dancers who weren't anticipating visitors? |
89 |
Blaqk Audio |
"Caroline In the Clip" |
single |
Caroline lives in the place in the center of our lives where nothing is ever whole. |
90 |
Snow Ghosts |
"Rip" |
single |
We reach her in the midst of a storm, |
91 |
Sambassadeur |
"Stuck" |
Stuck +1 |
our lights glittering |
92 |
Carina Dahl |
"Du og Æ" |
single |
and our arms outstretched, |
93 |
Waterstrider |
"Breed" |
single |
and this is exactly what we imagined we would say |
94 |
Ten Fé |
"Isn't Ever A Day" |
Future Perfect, Present Tense |
to explain why we have been so long gone: |
95 |
Kings Destroy |
"Fantasma Nera" |
Fantasma Nera |
we had to learn to lose you, and this doomed and enchanted moment, |
96 |
Switchkicker |
"Suburban" |
single |
not to be allowed to return, because we were never forced to leave, |
97 |
Antropomorphia |
"Womb Ov Thorns" |
single |
but to return without feeling cursed for everything we ever left, |
98 |
Murdryck |
"Sea Spirit of the Night" |
single |
and be thus entitled to invite you to come away again with us in the morning or right now without waiting to see what ghosts surrender with the dark. |