| 1 | Gacharic Spin | "逆境ヒーロー" | ガチャっ10BEST 入門編 | I've been making these lists, for a while, by running a robot thing that finds me about 800 songs a week by artists I play or artists closely related to ones I play. |
| 2 | pure white canvas | "Good luck comes to the fighting gate" | Good luck comes to the fighting gate +2 | Then I delete vigorously until there are few enough left that I can actually listen to them, which is usually somewhere around 100. |
| 3 | 7xvn | "HeavyMetal!" | single | 800 songs is a lot, but I still kept discovering stray songs I liked each week, through other means, that hadn't been on the list. |
| 4 | Mercenaries | "Stakeout" | single | The robots try their best, but they're still robots. Ulimately it doesn't matter to them, and you can't entrust things that matter to you to anybody for whom they don't. |
| 5 | Sixthells | "Sadistic Love" | single | So this week I tried a new, more expansive robot-thing that gives me more like 3000 songs a week, but I have to actively pick songs by scanning it, instead of starting with 800 and deleting. |
| 6 | Rage Of Light | "Light" | Imploder | The bad news, for some sense of "bad", is that I easily found 200 songs I wanted to hear. |
| 7 | Forever Still | "Rewind" | Breathe in Colours | Extrapolating lazily from a single data-point, this suggests that I've been missing half of the music I want to hear. |
| 8 | A Brilliant Lie | "The Tarot" | Threads: Weaver 5 | Of course, extrapolating from every other kind of data I know about music suggests that music is effectively infinite, and measuring the amount of it I'm "missing" is an exercise in inherent epistemological futility. |
| 9 | Sabbath Assembly | "Ascend and Descend" | single | There's a vivid practical difference, though, between knowing abstractly that human creativity is uncontainable and actually seeing it listed, |
| 10 | Hands Off Gretel | "Kiss Me Girl" | I Want The World | between tolerating ignorance and consciously choosing it. |
| 11 | Andy Black | "The Promise" | single | You can retrain robots in an instant, |
| 12 | MØL | "Kathexis" | single | but then you have to retrain yourself to correspond. |
| 13 | Billie Eilish | "ilomilo" | WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? | Dismissing technology as dehumanizing is obtusely superficial. |
| 14 | Brooke Candy | "Happy" | single | Technology removes constraints, and thus offers more possibilities and incurs more responsibility. |
| 15 | Aly & AJ | "Church" | single | When a leader's direst weapons were cannons, the consequences of flawed electoral processes were technically limited. |
| 16 | Emmit Fenn | "Higher" | The Last Dance EP 3 | What music will you hear, and which artists will you support, if your channels for hearing are 4 radio stations, and your budget for support is an album a month? |
| 17 | Månegarm | "Hervors arv" | single | Now what if the radio dial never ever ends, and the same budget buys you everything? |
| 18 | Nightly | "Twenty Something" | single | What if you get to remake every conflicted decision you ever settled on? |
| 19 | Cappa | "I Do" | single | What if nothing to which you are reconciled is really lost? |
| 20 | Brutus | "Techno" | Nest | You don't discover a person's character until they have power over you, |
| 21 | Big Brave | "Sibling" | single | and then it's too late. |
| 22 | Holy Fawn | "Dark Stone" | Death Spells | The optimist is terrified, but prepared to be impressed. |
| 23 | SCANDAL | "マスターピース" | マスターピース / まばたき 3 | The pessimist is feverishly knitting useless armor. |
| 24 | Devin Townsend | "Spirits Will Collide" | Empath | The optimist says "Useless, sure, but don't I look awesome?" |
| 25 | Lacrimas Profundere | "Father of Fate" | single | The pessimist decides whether they feel cruel or merely disgusted. |
| 26 | The Anix | "Night Fighter" | Order / Disorder | But useless awesome armor is not new technology. |
| 27 | JAMBINAI | "Sawtooth" | single | We used to call it skin or aura, |
| 28 | Brightr | "Mark Strong" | single | and it protected us against tigers or lost love |
| 29 | In Her Own Words | "Rosé by the Ocean" | single | about as effectively as adding exclamation points to our passwords keeps us from being betrayed by our own yearning. |
| 30 | Hacktivist | "Spitfire" | single | Wars don't unhave themselves. |
| 31 | Lee McKinney | "A Clock Without A Craftsman" | Infinite Mind | The complexity you elide doesn't bow and go simplify itself. |
| 32 | Georgia | "About Work The Dancefloor - Edit" | single | The pessimist says "too much", and refuses to dance. |
| 33 | Pure Bathing Culture | "Ad Victoriam" | single | The optimist knows that the simplifications we make, today, to survive, do no lasting damage. |
| 34 | ELYELLA | "Dance Forever" | single | You can hear this song tomorrow. |
| 35 | Kuve | "Castillos de Fuego" | Castillos de Fuego | You'll walk into a shoe store in Peru or run into a friend on a train and this song will be playing. |
| 36 | Mulatto | "Big Latto Freestyle" | single | Somebody needed this more than whatever you had to play today. |
| 37 | Orations | "False Face" | Receiver | They needed kudzu gothic, |
| 38 | Sólveig Matthildur | "Utopian Girl" | single | you needed ice. |
| 39 | Tacocat | "Hologram" | Hologram +1 | Technology means all of these songs can be everywhere, |
| 40 | Supercrush | "Lifted" | Never Let You Drift Away | and also love. |
| 41 | Dreamhouse | "Without Me" | single | If you choose not to decide, yet, |
| 42 | NateWantsToBattle | "Here With Me" | single | you will have more choices. |
| 43 | Karliene | "Winter's Come" | single | Only a few things are as dire as they sound, |
| 44 | Jo Blankenburg | "Last Man Standing" | Petrichor | which is exactly why dire-sounding is an imperative art. |
| 45 | KÁRYYN | "BINARY" | The Quanta Series | Your city probably won't be bombed into rubble today, |
| 46 | Miriam Bryant | "Du Med Dig" | single | probably won't vote for self-destructive intolerance, |
| 47 | Magnus Carlsson | "Från Barbados Till Gamla Stan - Edit" | Från Barbados Till Gamla Stan 2 | probably won't repeat history without a knowing smile, |
| 48 | Avalanch | "El Peregrino" | El Secreto | probably won't mistakenly think any crisis is over for good. |
| 49 | Starflyer 59 | "Young in My Head" | single | Every rare mistake you don't make today qualifies you for the relief effort. |
| 50 | Fragile Animals | "Melbourne" | Only Shallow // Only More 5 | Every morning you don't awaken in rubble begins a day when you can help others, |
| 51 | Sutekh Hexen | "E Siel Enna Lehcim" | Sutekh Hexen | or bear witness, |
| 52 | Gang Of Four | "Change The Locks - Edit" | single | or transmute something nostalgic into something alive. |
| 53 | Apex Manor | "Asked & Answered" | single | Everything hums, |
| 54 | Aspen | "Numbers" | single | waiting for your harmony. |
| 55 | Vertical Worship | "Yes I Will" | Yes I Will - EP 5 | Every faith awaits your liberating heresy, |
| 56 | Newsboys | "This I Know" | single | every complacent certainty your soaring doubt. |
| 57 | Sadness | "Eye of Prima" | Circle of Veins | The old gods watch you, knowingly; |
| 58 | Nicole Atkins | "A Man Like Me" | single | did you ever notice how you never see the old gods and the new gods in the same place? |
| 59 | V for Volume | "Jueves Remix" | single | Or at all? |
| 60 | Mdou Moctar | "Kamane Tarhanin" | Ilana (The Creator) | This, too, is explicated in forgotten legends, |
| 61 | Eman | "Giuda" | single | which explains our eternal appetite for new theories, |
| 62 | Caleido | "Polaroid" | single | or new images of old tableaux, |
| 63 | Angelique Kidjo | "Bemba Colorá" | single | or something new to wear to go dancing tonight. |
| 64 | Koffi Olomide | "Élégance" | single | Discovery is an act of self-improvement, |
| 65 | Fast Animals and Slow Kids | "Non potrei mai" | single | not a gift to the discovered, |
| 66 | rovere | "silenzio" | disponibile anche in mogano | who have been here quietly all along, |
| 67 | Richard Barbieri | "Vibra" | single | and hardly quiet. |
| 68 | Chat Noir | "Blisters" | Hyperuranion | Quiet is a word for what you don't hear, |
| 69 | Orchards | "Mature Me" | Young/Mature Me 2 | orations in other people's orchards, |
| 70 | Elessär | "Afraid" | Kósmos | other universes coruscating while you were asleep, |
| 71 | Vetrar Draugurinn | "Hinterlands" | Hinterlands | or cuddled with some equally bad excuse. |
| 72 | Niña Dioz | "Ratatá (Leave No Trace) - from the Netflix Original Series On My Block" | single | Of the two elemental stories, the hero takes a journey and a stranger comes to town, |
| 73 | Dezza | "Apollo" | Cosmos | one is epic |
| 74 | Stunde Null | "Wir sind bei dir" | single | and the other hubris. |
| 75 | Marathonmann | "Schachmatt" | single | Or I guess, really, both are hubris. |
| 76 | Santropia | "La Última Fiesta" | single | Storytelling is a hubristic impulse capable of occasional unlikely revelation. |
| 77 | Aslay | "Nyang'anyang'a" | single | You are no hero, and the people you haven't met are not thus strange. |
| 78 | USEME | "Amit Érdemelsz" | single | There were four other songs I decided not to put here, and this one gains no gravity from their unconsenting sacrifices. |
| 79 | Wintersleep | "Surrender" | In the Land Of | Curation is an illusion of conservation of signifcance. |
| 80 | Amon Tobin | "Fooling Alright" | single | Curiosity can be augmented, but never approach the power of disregard. |
| 81 | FTISLAND | "Remember" | EVERLASTING | It takes a lifetime to remember, an instant to forget. |
| 82 | Jus2 | "TAKE" | HE IS PSYCHOMETRIC (Original Television Soundtrack), Pt. 1 2 | These lists are conflations of substrates, |
| 83 | Agent blå | "Child's Play" | single | machines of pretending to not let go, |
| 84 | Marina Fages | "Piedra Marea Fuego" | Epica & Fantástica | elaborate notes on how to hold swords you aren't ever going to swing. |
| 85 | Kodes | "Efsane" | single | 87 songs is a lot. Too many. Every song of mine you play is a song of yours that you lose. |
| 86 | Rota | "Alttan Almaz" | single | But then, with days as with songs. |
| 87 | M¥SS KETA | "BATTERE IL FERRO FINCHÉ È CALDO" | PAPRIKA | The pessimist understands the limits and transience of everything we have done. The optimist knows this, too, but still wonders insatiably what next? |