1 |
Lakker |
"A Juggling of Numbers" |
Época |
Those who stole our sacred geometry live among us still. |
2 |
Tensal |
"Opticon" |
Unequal Struggle EP 4 |
Civilization is an intimate truce between the shapes in our minds and the uneven surfaces onto which we must project them. |
3 |
Setaoc Mass |
"Leave no trace" |
53 Degrees North (Part One) 4 |
Our clocks tick into turbulent air, |
4 |
Caterina Barbieri |
"Fantas" |
single |
and return to us refracted and reencoded. |
5 |
Ben LaMar Gay |
"O Desfile Da Madu" |
Confetti in the Sky Like Fireworks (This Is Bate Bola OST) |
Our joy is not formulaic, |
6 |
Sissel Wincent |
"Flood On Drizzle" |
Assorted Lights 4 |
but it can be triangulated with ecstatic math. |
7 |
Kilchhofer |
"Flor" |
Moto Perpetuo |
Our cathedrals enshrine symmetry |
8 |
Sote |
"Artificial Neutrality" |
single |
and the careful defiance of gravity |
9 |
Vieo Abiungo |
"Picked Down to Its Bones" |
The Dregs |
long after they have ceased to serve as beacons |
10 |
Internazionale |
"Life And Liberation" |
Avatar In Life |
shining ruefully after the dwindling engines of the departing gods. |
11 |
KÁRYYN |
"TILT - Edit" |
single |
We are alone here with nothing but each other for heartbroken company, |
12 |
Holly Herndon |
"Eternal" |
single |
and an anthropogenic mechanism |
13 |
Obongjayar |
"Frens" |
single |
and a lot of nitrogen. |
14 |
Ammar 808 |
"Zawali Fitness Club" |
single |
We are called to nowhere, or to where we already are: |
15 |
Ifriqiyya Electrique |
"Mashee Kooka" |
single |
new ways over old paths. |
16 |
Scarlxrd |
"NX ADVICE" |
INFINITY |
We want to believe they stole our sacred geometry because they recognize its power and truth, |
17 |
7xvn |
"So Long and Goodnight" |
single |
but sometimes it's just that they were sick of fucking hearing about it all the time. |
18 |
Danheim |
"Ragnarok" |
Hringrás |
Legends can be written backwards from the end of time towards us, |
19 |
Allegaeon |
"Extremophiles (B)" |
single |
coallescing through immanent wreckage |
20 |
Waldgeflüster |
"Von Winterwäldern und Mondscheinsonaten" |
single |
instead of always emerging out of memorial mist. |
21 |
Numenorean |
"Adore" |
single |
We are the descendants of our future better selves and their more perfect love, |
22 |
Sinmara |
"Úr Kaleik Martraða" |
Hvísl Stjarnanna |
governed by parliaments chartered by continents not yet formed |
23 |
Bethlehem |
"Niemals mehr leben" |
single |
and thus intrinsic to contested ground. |
24 |
Fallujah |
"Last Light" |
Undying Light |
A fascination with death and endings |
25 |
Origin |
"Mind Asylum" |
single |
is also a willingness to face forward. |
26 |
Inclination |
"When Fear Turns to Confidence" |
When Fear Turns to Confidence 5 |
"Confidence" is a fancy word for "I don't know, but whatever it is, it can't be better to hit it ass-first". |
27 |
Leverage |
"Wind of Morrigan" |
single |
We may look ridiculous in this armor and plumage, |
28 |
Sertraline |
"Relapse" |
single |
but it's better than following a slowly retreating coward |
29 |
Devin Townsend |
"Evermore" |
single |
in a hat worthy of no heraldry. |
30 |
Eluveitie |
"Ambiramus" |
single |
Carry us in your arms. |
31 |
Asylum Pyre |
"Sex Drugs and Scars" |
single |
We dream of the opposite of innocence, |
32 |
Forever Still |
"Is It Gone?" |
single |
the opposite of believing we were greater in some lost age, |
33 |
Ex Libris |
"The Motherland" |
Ann - Chapter 2: Anastasia Romanova 3 |
the opposite of each inheriting exactly one place. |
34 |
Amy Lee |
"Bring Me To Life" |
single |
We are untethered, |
35 |
AmaLee |
"Beautiful Cruel World (From "Attack on Titan")" |
Nostalgia VI |
and then left to internalize the consequences |
36 |
Fly By Nightcore |
"A Million Dreams" |
single |
and externalize the implications: |
37 |
uijin |
"transit" |
transit +1 |
untethered to fly, |
38 |
BATTEN SHOWJO TAI |
"6STARS" |
single |
dressed to march, |
39 |
GARNiDELiA |
"Rebel Flag" |
Rebel Flag +3 |
hooded in the brightest camoflauge, |
40 |
SABOTEN |
"ストーム" |
single |
spun and drenched, |
41 |
CROSS VEIN |
"TRUE CASTLE" |
TRUE CASTLE / EXISTENCE 4 |
lifted. |
42 |
Heavenstamp |
"Spark" |
single |
She used to sail the oceans, |
43 |
DreamNote |
"My Hobby is you" |
Dream:us 5 |
and someday I will visit those glittering towns |
44 |
sleepyhead |
"meltbeat" |
meltbeat +3 |
and hear their songs. |
45 |
Devlin |
"Triton" |
The Outcast |
You are not always welcome or even relevant where you go, |
46 |
Lady Leshurr |
"Horrid" |
single |
but your relevance is not the project of openness. |
47 |
Lowkey |
"Goat Flow" |
single |
A song is a machine for listening. |
48 |
Slim |
"Pablo" |
Still Working |
Turn it on. |
49 |
Francisco el Hombre |
"CHÃO TETO PAREDE :: pegando fogo" |
RASGACABEZA |
This one works differently, grinding and clattering, something loose and fluttering and plaintive inside. |
50 |
The LaFontaines |
"All In" |
single |
Indignant Scottish rap-rock, |
51 |
Wildways |
"Страх" |
Нью Скул |
soaring Russian neon pop punk, |
52 |
Moderntears' |
"Thousand Times" |
single |
percussive Tuscan screamo, |
53 |
WVNDER |
"Artorias" |
single |
plangent Maryland neo-alt-rock, |
54 |
Beach Slang |
"AAA" |
MPLS 2 |
almost-paralyzing self-consciously reverent American post-post-post-grunge: |
55 |
Kayak Jones |
"The Mess I've Made" |
single |
these small hopes and grand choruses are a redemption program |
56 |
Lastkaj 14 |
"Tjuvtricks och rackarspel" |
Stormar |
disguished as a restless rebellion. |
57 |
Nomy |
"Los Angeles is burning" |
single |
We come waving one-word banners, but carrying backpacks full of detailed plans. |
58 |
Davina Michelle |
"Skyward" |
single |
We are incipient flashmobs |
59 |
Oakland Rain |
"Muse" |
single |
in every unguarded space, |
60 |
Emeli Sandé |
"Sparrow" |
single |
singing songs you think you've heard a thousand times |
61 |
Despistaos |
"Lo que quedaba del invierno (con Bely Basarte)" |
Estamos enteros |
until the third and fifth and seventh echoes reach you, |
62 |
GionnyScandal |
"Dove Sei (feat. Giulia Jean)" |
single |
and you realize for the first time how the walls that form this courtyard |
63 |
Sõpruse Puiestee |
"Värav - radio edit" |
single |
think of themselves as mainly performing other jobs: |
64 |
Indochine |
"Karma Girls - Radio Edit" |
single |
remembering the legacies of defunct institutions, |
65 |
Colossal |
"Found You" |
single |
shaping the rage or passion of riots against or in favor of power, |
66 |
Dallas Smith |
"Rhinestone World" |
The Fall 6 |
mistaking the innumerable forms of each single truth for a world with only one truth, |
67 |
Rob Dekay |
"Je Hoeft Het Niet Alleen Te Doen" |
single |
dancing quietly in wooden shoes, |
68 |
Pierre Rossouw |
"Blame It on Me" |
single |
returning simple shapes to the civilizations not yet ready to have faith in themselves. |
69 |
Youssou N'Dour |
"Habib Faye" |
single |
Legends can be written to explain why your arrival here was ordained, |
70 |
Bryce Dessner |
"Haven" |
single |
or to remind you that you are not bound. |
71 |
Urmas Sisask |
"Benedictio" |
Scandinavian Choir Music |
Old walls are vessels of ancient resonance, |
72 |
Erik Ekholm |
"World Breaker" |
single |
not cages for our children. |
73 |
Kirin J Callinan |
"The Whole Of The Moon" |
single |
Legends can be diligent preserved, or cheerfully rewritten. |
74 |
Headstones |
"The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" |
single |
Does anyone know where the love goes? Yes. We all know. Nowhere. It's here. It never goes, it was never lost. |