1 |
Straatligkinders |
"Goliat" |
single |
Speak to me in borrowed prayers |
2 |
Dave Hause |
"Paradise" |
Kick |
we are allowed to just hand back. |
3 |
Andy Black |
"Know One" |
The Ghost of Ohio |
Cover me in fewer skins, |
4 |
Ten Fé |
"Waterfalls" |
single |
more clothes; |
5 |
First to Eleven |
"Sweet but Psycho" |
single |
judgments reached faster but released more readily; |
6 |
LADYBABY |
"Riot Anthem" |
single |
identity as an act of deliberate commitment to the implausible |
7 |
Tokimeki Sendenbu |
"ときめき♡宣伝部のVICTORY STORY" |
ときめき♡宣伝部のVICTORY STORY / 青春ハートシェイカー 5 |
without any assumption of the inevitability of belief. |
8 |
Not Secued,Loose Ends |
"Helpless" |
exFallen |
Be what you are now, or last year, or any day you want to try again. |
9 |
7xvn |
"This Is Your Captain Speaking" |
Smile Kid Smile |
Be dissatisfied with all of your past and future selves, but only with one of them at a time. |
10 |
Stitched Up Heart |
"Lost (feat. Sully Erna)" |
single |
Agree to grant provisional divinity to one idea each day, |
11 |
Yours Truly |
"Delusional Paradise" |
Afterglow 5 |
in an exuberantly arbitrary rotation. |
12 |
Eat Your Heart Out |
"Spinning" |
single |
Looking for new ways to say things you already know |
13 |
Astral Doors |
"Night of the Hunter" |
single |
is only a waste of time if you're actually good at it, |
14 |
Steel Prophet |
"The God Machine" |
single |
and you probably aren't. |
15 |
Solarus |
"My Darkest Days" |
Darkest Days |
Music is a distillation of emotional experience, |
16 |
Numenorean |
"Horizon" |
Adore |
and thus the most portable form of empathy; |
17 |
Inter Arma |
"A Waxen Sea" |
Sulphur English |
not always the most intelligible, |
18 |
Waldgeflüster |
"Der Steppenwolf" |
Mondscheinsonaten |
but usually better for that same reason. |
19 |
Idle Hands |
"A Single Solemn Rose" |
single |
You cannot build an alien soul by assembling numbered cells, |
20 |
Dreadnought |
"Tempered" |
single |
but you can swallow its ghost, and become modulated by its immanent obsessions. |
21 |
Erebos |
"The Starless Vale" |
A Flame That Pierces With a Deadly Cold |
This is what happens when you fall in love, |
22 |
Belzebubs |
"Nam Gloria Lucifer" |
single |
with a moon queen or a promise of malicious immortality: |
23 |
Xaon |
"Monolith" |
Solipsis |
you become the implications |
24 |
Blame Me! |
"Trauma" |
single |
not of your constant retreat |
25 |
Kampfar |
"Syndefall" |
single |
but of the stands you could take. |
26 |
Helheim |
"Ísuð" |
single |
You assume citizenship of an invented realm, |
27 |
Abbath |
"Harvest Pyre" |
single |
naturally on the cusp of revolution, |
28 |
Voodoo KungFu |
"SAW" |
single |
triumph and dissidence gathered on a hill to pick complementary colors for their banners, |
29 |
Ville |
"New Way to Fight" |
single |
and they turn to you and say "Who goes first?" |
30 |
Gloryhammer |
"Gloryhammer" |
single |
In this moment you may win an argument with yourself about who you are. |
31 |
ヨルシカ |
"八月、某、月明かり" |
だから僕は音楽を辞めた |
Of course this is a potential property of any moment, |
32 |
dramastore |
"エンドロール" |
DRAMA STORE |
and almost always a false promise. |
33 |
postman |
"(A) throb" |
Night bloomer |
The fastest way to become certain is to be wrong, |
34 |
THE CHARM PARK |
"花が咲く道" |
single |
because once you're wrong you can continue being wrong in any necessary detail, |
35 |
Lebowsky |
"Dressed to Kill" |
single |
in any language, |
36 |
Ghost Ship Octavius |
"Ocean of Memories" |
Delirium |
sustainably, or at least self-sustainably. |
37 |
Hacktivist |
"Reprogram" |
single |
Truth is beyond fragile, a literalist illusion |
38 |
Merrow |
"Heart of the Sea Nymph" |
Reading the Bones |
limned in seduction |
39 |
Umpfel |
"Sphere of War" |
As the Waters Cover the Sea |
and disarray. |
40 |
In Her Own Words |
"Out of Focus" |
Steady Glow |
Speak to me in frayed sigils |
41 |
M'ANAM |
"Gunnarhólmi" |
single |
and the consequences of kin, |
42 |
Grand Magus |
"A Hall Clad In Gold" |
A Hall Clad In Gold +2 |
in oblique equations of resolvability |
43 |
Scarlet Valse |
"Metamorphosis" |
Metamorphosis |
and architectures of dismay. |
44 |
Ghostemane |
"Pink Mist" |
Fear Network 3 |
You cannot fight your way out of your own history, |
45 |
Snow Tha Product |
"Say Bitch" |
single |
or into anybody else's. |
46 |
Charly Bliss |
"Hard to Believe" |
single |
The first step of empathy is realizing exactly how much this leaves you no worse off. |
47 |
Slow Mass |
"Siren" |
Music for Ears 1 2 |
Hell is a box in the corner |
48 |
Tiny Blue Ghost |
"Euphoria" |
Mend Again |
you will fail to fit yourself in, |
49 |
P!nk |
"Can We Pretend (feat. Cash Cash)" |
single |
and then afterwards your cat will sit on it, |
50 |
Emma Bunton |
"I Wish I Could Have Loved You More" |
My Happy Place |
and then your child will turn it into a puppet theater |
51 |
SHIKLAMEN |
"BRAND NEW DAY" |
single |
and then a tiny castle named Coffee |
52 |
Alberich |
"No Reference to the Absence of Allegory" |
Quantized Angel |
and then a crypt for her collection of your expired museum cards |
53 |
Palais Ideal |
"The Programme" |
The Programme +1 |
and your collection of words she says wrong that are better that way. |
54 |
Pure Bathing Culture |
"All Night" |
single |
Each new box is a different resource to her, |
55 |
Break My Fucking Sky |
"The Letters We'll Never Send" |
single |
but the same opportunity for the cat, and which of them are you? |
56 |
Terribly Happy |
"It's Been a Wile, Coyote!" |
single |
Speak to me in inside jokes I should remember, but don't, |
57 |
Maná |
"Rayando El Sol (feat. Pablo Alborán)" |
single |
from afternoons we spent suspended, |
58 |
The Mountain Goats |
"Sicilian Crest" |
single |
elaborating our supposed ancestry |
59 |
UNSECRET |
"Heroes Never Die" |
single |
on graph-ruled velum |
60 |
JVNA |
"First Storm" |
single |
with mechanical pencils coiled to transform into guardian exoskeletons |
61 |
Marianas Rest |
"Unsinkable" |
single |
at the sheerest warning of resonance or grace. |
62 |
The Blanko |
"Soul to Soul" |
single |
Our safety is encoded in slow journeys over short distances |
63 |
Novo Amor |
"I Make Sparks" |
single |
and the optional rules of hypothetical games, |
64 |
Hökartorget |
"Cosa Nostra" |
single |
in stone fountains |
65 |
Emerald Mind |
"Children of the Damned" |
single |
and incandenscent spires, |
66 |
Vaura |
"Basilisk (The Infinite Corpse)" |
single |
in fates stipulated |
67 |
Sühnopfer |
"Je vivroie liement" |
single |
and obviated, |
68 |
Sadness |
"In the Distant Travels" |
I Want to Be There |
in quests for grief |
69 |
Cary Brothers |
"Blend" |
single |
and maps of the layers already embedded beneath us. |
70 |
Oakland Rain |
"Yellow Dress" |
Yellow Dress - EP 4 |
We wind ourselves in ribbons until they take on our shape and we notice ourselves standing to the side, curiously imitating their pose. |
71 |
SKAAR |
"24" |
single |
There is a town in Norway with the same name as that tiny searing pain you feel when think about all the things you can't protect. |
72 |
Blood Command |
"No Thank You, I'm More in to Fake Grindcore" |
Return of the Arsonist 5 |
Speak to me in glass stained with blood and heresy and fire. |
73 |
Embracing Soul |
"Alien" |
single |
Loss is, definitionally, a way of talking about things we still have or inhabit. |
74 |
Jenny Wilson |
"VEM ÄR RÄDD FÖR VEM" |
TRAUMA |
Pain is a category of catalyst, |
75 |
Brolin |
"All I Think About Is You" |
single |
or an orthodoxy for sufficient exclusion |
76 |
Oceandvst |
"Isn't Love Supposed to Be a Good Thing?" |
single |
that you can fit an anthem around what's left. |
77 |
Press Club |
"Get Better" |
single |
Speak to me in the reassembled fragments of something that you sought in vain |
78 |
Clowns |
"Soul for Sale" |
Nature / Nurture |
until somebody who had one left it broken on the sidewalk |
79 |
Toyah |
"Lesser God" |
In the Court of the Crimson Queen (Deluxe Edition) |
on a street you don't usually walk down any more |
80 |
Uniklubi |
"Huojuva silta" |
single |
to reach the bridge that would carry you to permanence |
81 |
Highlight |
"Is she" |
Elements 4 |
if you didn't stop in the middle. |
82 |
I Wear* Experiment |
"Impatience" |
Ott Tänak: The Movie (Original Music by I Wear* Experiment) 3 |
Be balanced in this unclaimed, deferred space, |
83 |
Earlyguard |
"Hidden Sun" |
Sequential Drones For Starving Minds |
where we have all come imagining pretexts for answers, but learning only that once you agree to change a single mind, everything you know has to be reconstituted from unknowable principles, a series of benificent contradictions, and the available air. |