1 |
Emerald Mind |
"Genetic Paradise" |
single |
There are no neutral fonts, no neutral voices. |
2 |
Cellar Darling |
"Pain" |
The Spell |
Everything you say carries an inherent lineage of failure and misguided attempts at dominance |
3 |
MoonSun |
"Hearing Your Screams" |
single |
and every kind of love we ever halfway learned. |
4 |
Battle Beast |
"Unbroken" |
No More Hollywood Endings |
All language is heraldry, |
5 |
Frozen Crown |
"In The Dark" |
Crowned In Frost |
and "anthem" is what they call a song when they want to believe you believe something they need. |
6 |
Bloodbound |
"Skyriders And Stormbringers" |
Rise Of The Dragon Empire |
But this is true of all words, and all worlds. |
7 |
Rage Of Light |
"Battlefront" |
single |
We exchange connected needs thinly disguised as phonemes that exist somehow between us, |
8 |
Aephanemer |
"Prokopton" |
Prokopton |
pretending to be isolated by air |
9 |
Aoratos |
"Of Harvest, Scythe and Sickle Moon" |
Gods Without Name |
when of course air is exactly what unites us. |
10 |
Novarupta |
"Mare Tranquillitatis" |
single |
Hatred aspires inchoately to both displace and hoard the atmosphere, |
11 |
Ghost Ship Octavius |
"Turned to Ice" |
Delirium |
which is why it turns your face bad colors. |
12 |
Full Of Hell |
"Burning Myrrh" |
single |
The living fetishization of death is a longing for release from this complexity, |
13 |
Little Comets |
"Alive at All" |
single |
for a solipsist's redemption in which your eternal reward depends on no other person's heresies or weaknessnes, |
14 |
Anteros |
"Afterglow" |
When We Land |
only your own. |
15 |
Ex Hex |
"Another Dimension" |
It's Real |
You can imagine a universe that works like this, |
16 |
Sleeper |
"Paradise Waiting" |
The Modern Age |
if you aren't that good at imagining. |
17 |
pronoun |
"temporary tantrum" |
single |
But there's a reason that no cult's idea of heaven has ever sounded like it would be interesting for longer than three minutes. |
18 |
The Dollyrots |
"Everything" |
Everything +1 |
We can think of a million worlds worse than this, |
19 |
Mecca Normal |
"Revival of Cruelty - Live" |
Brave New Waves Session |
and practical methods to bring half of them about, |
20 |
Geographer |
"Stolen Liquor" |
New Jersey |
but given a bucket of bare atoms and told to set them into a divine orbit, |
21 |
Roosevelt |
"Everywhere" |
single |
we make heartbroken homages to how we used to think we wanted to feel, |
22 |
BLACKNAZARENE |
"stray straight" |
single |
and allegories of the limits of symmetry, |
23 |
WILL-O' |
"Identity" |
single |
and towers to nowhere, |
24 |
SCANDAL |
"マスターピース" |
single |
and that's how we got these cities. |
25 |
HYDE |
"HONEY" |
MAD QUALIA 2 |
"Anthem" is a name for what you feel when somebody hits a drum and you think "Yes, better to be alive than dead, so far, |
26 |
Maneki Kecak |
"さよならなんて" |
いつかどこかで / ワンチャンス |
with all of these frailties and confusions and constant losses, |
27 |
Reol |
"たい" |
文明EP 4 |
but moments of dizzy certainty |
28 |
Lizzo |
"Tempo (feat. Missy Elliott)" |
Tempo (feat. Missy Elliott) +2 |
and blunt elegance." |
29 |
Amon Amarth |
"Raven's Flight" |
single |
Are your transformations intended for hunting enemies or gathering information? |
30 |
The Animal In Me |
"11 Minutes" |
single |
The things you push away collect around you in concentric circles, |
31 |
Halocene |
"Bury a Friend" |
single |
gradually poisoning your breath; |
32 |
Yours Truly |
"I Can't Feel" |
I Can't Feel +2 |
the things you pull close grab your hand and lift you into the open sky, |
33 |
SAINTE |
"Back 2 Me" |
single |
out of all clutches. |
34 |
Dave Hause |
"Saboteurs" |
single |
Our masterstroke will be their heart attack. |
35 |
Martha |
"The Void" |
single |
Their abyss will be our hidden valley. |
36 |
Tamaryn |
"Path to Love" |
single |
Our delirious haze will be their agenda of dismay |
37 |
Veronica Maggio |
"Kurt Cobain" |
single |
and performative betrayal, |
38 |
Nightcore Reality |
"Clarity" |
single |
but we do not have to bear this weight. |
39 |
Crywolf |
"MEPHISTOPHELES" |
widow [OBLIVIØN Pt. I] |
That is not how our gravity is organized. |
40 |
Roulette |
"Never Enough" |
Now! |
The narcissist has one answer for every one of our questions, |
41 |
Sarah Longfield |
"Now" |
single |
which is the most pitiful of impoverishments, |
42 |
Pathogenic |
"Suicide Itch" |
single |
self-deprivation crudely relabeled as self-confidence. |
43 |
El Lado Oscuro de la Broca |
"Las Naves de Tolosa" |
Oeste 3 |
The proper goal of question-answering is forming empathy with doubt, |
44 |
831 |
"一事無成的偉大" |
「一事無成的偉大」自選作品輯 |
which is how conversation can transcend idiom, |
45 |
Kedr Livanskiy |
"Ivan Kupala (New Day) (Иван купала)" |
single |
and idiom can transcend language, |
46 |
Warforged |
"Voice" |
single |
and language can transcend divinity. |
47 |
Ida Jenshus |
"That Morning" |
single |
Memory and hope are rotations of a single imperative, |
48 |
ISÁK |
"Máze" |
Ealán |
which is how maps can exhort you into unknowns |
49 |
Grand Magus |
"Brother of the Storm" |
Brother of the Storm +1 |
without revealing the location of your rebellion's base. |
50 |
GOLD |
"Taken by Storm" |
single |
We tender offers to chaos, |
51 |
Aseethe |
"No Realm" |
single |
knowing its reponses are not subject to our consent, |
52 |
Sasha |
"Polaroid - Radio Mix" |
single |
because terrifying surprises are better than thinking there's nothing more |
53 |
Seraphim System |
"Mark of the Void" |
Xibalba |
than what we already know. |
54 |
Touch Sensitive |
"Unconditional" |
single |
These are our brandished secrets, |
55 |
Toyah |
"Telepathic Lover" |
single |
and the volumes written about what they conceal, |
56 |
Brutus |
"Django" |
single |
and the implied consumed libraries |
57 |
Blood Command |
"S01E02.Return.Of.The.Arsonist.720p.HDTV.x264" |
single |
we notionally architect to take this seriously |
58 |
Only Shadows |
"Cowboys" |
single |
so that we can not do that long enough to walk outside before it starts raining, |
59 |
Tanzwut |
"Gib mir noch ein Glas" |
single |
or during, |
60 |
Stahlmann |
"Vom Himmel verloren" |
Kinder der Sehnsucht |
in the giant boots we've been saving for just this day. |
61 |
UMC |
"Without Me (Metal Version)" |
single |
The ways to be lonely are factorials of permutations of everything possible. |
62 |
MajorVoice |
"Shot in the Silence" |
The Newer Chapter |
The ways to be awed are additive and multiplicative and relentless. |
63 |
Death Angel |
"Humanicide" |
single |
If you really believed in doom, you wouldn't spend a month learning a guitar solo, |
64 |
AstroPilot |
"Inverted Worlds" |
Solar Walk II |
or ten minutes inside the substructure of a single note, |
65 |
DJ Arafat |
"Lékilé" |
single |
or three minutes in somebody else's dreams. |
66 |
Futurecop! |
"We Belong" |
Voltrana |
But you do, |
67 |
All Tvvins |
"Better Than Here" |
single |
this and a hundred other helpless wards against hopelessness, |
68 |
Kardinal Synd |
"Svåra år" |
single |
invoked by your slightest movements, |
69 |
Spotlights |
"The Particle Noise" |
single |
scattering trolls to the margins of firelight |
70 |
Moon Tooth |
"Awe at All Angles" |
single |
or weak attractors, |
71 |
Mozgi |
"Digitalization" |
single |
proving that, despite our elaborate systems of denial, we care a lot. |
72 |
Amon Tobin |
"Vipers Follow You" |
single |
Anxiety can be productive, |
73 |
Windfaerer |
"A Glimpse of Light" |
Solar |
which is like saying that light can be illuminating, |
74 |
The Range |
"Carole" |
Providence 4 |
but you can't live on darkness, |
75 |
Lafawndah |
"Storm Chaser" |
Ancestor Boy |
and anyway those things we call darkness are mostly made out of light anyway. |
76 |
The Great Discord |
"Afterbirth" |
Afterbirth +3 |
Everything begins in triumph, |
77 |
The Foreign Resort |
"Obsessing" |
single |
but eventually gets more relevant than that. |
78 |
Destrage |
"The Chosen One" |
single |
A good travel guide would say "Go there. Leave this book at home." |
79 |
K-X-P |
"Hex Bag - Single Edit" |
single |
and then try to answer some practical questions about the use of your time and the environmental impact of airplane fuel. |
80 |
Parting Gift |
"Pale" |
Ensom 5 |
There's a square with a fountain. All fountains are kind of the same, but none of them are neutral, |
81 |
PYLOT |
"Alice" |
Solai |
and the more of them you sit beside, the less neutral you become. |
82 |
Dominanz |
"Let The Death Enter" |
Let The Death Enter |
The didact wants to be right, the narcissist wants to be central, the nihilist wants to be left; |
83 |
7xvn |
"Smxle" |
single |
I just want to be happy, or some shattered thing we call Happy as a rueful pet name. |
84 |
RVNSXMWVRE |
"I GOT IT" |
single |
This is a strange way to live, but also the one that every desperate blaring noise is trying to explain to us at once. |