| 1 | Walk Off the Earth | "Me!" | single | "I'm the only one of me / Baby, that's the fun of me." Is this an astonishingly terrible song, or a cleverly refreshing recontextualizing of adolescent vernacular to evade jaded adult romance tropes? |
| 2 | The Animal In Me | "Me" | single | It kind of sounds a little like Tigger hitting puberty. So I'm leaning towards "terrible". Also the super-repetitive melody lines in the original. Bad? Nursery-rhyme trap recased as pop? |
| 3 | First to Eleven | "ME!" | single | But maybe we're in the era of no bad songs, only bad versions. |
| 4 | DCCM | "Break up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" | single | Or no bad anything, just things your own microcultures haven't adapted yet. |
| 5 | The Beautiful Monument | "Stay" | single | A culture of abundance shifts the tastework from learning to tolerate what you're given to learning how to locate your obscure joys. |
| 6 | whenyoung | "The Others" | single | Raise your standards so you can see farther. |
| 7 | V for Volume | "Terrorista" | single | Don't be an American idiot: your next favorite bands are writing songs for you in Bogotá and Manila and Tokyo. |
| 8 | YONAKA | "Don't Wait 'Til Tomorrow" | single | The new music is happening right now. |
| 9 | Eat Your Heart Out | "Daydream" | Florescence | Pealing guitars can unpeel the world in a single peace if we're not afraid of it spinning in our hands. |
| 10 | The Dollyrots | "In Your Face" | single | I always thought "Everclear" seemed like a better name for something fizzy than something deadening. |
| 11 | Carly Rae Jepsen | "Want You In My Room" | Dedicated | Swim back in from the breakers. The world hasn't died just yet. |
| 12 | Megan Thee Stallion | "Realer" | Fever | End times? We're still in beginning times. |
| 13 | Nadia Tehran | "Something New" | Dozakh: All Lovers Hell | This apocalypse will be our next origin story. |
| 14 | 陳忻玥 | "Nobody Ever Wonders" | single | This will be how we became unlike the dinosaurs, |
| 15 | BATTEN SHOWJO TAI | "Killer Killer Smile" | single | better than helpless and brutal, |
| 16 | The Ocean Cure | "Huntress" | single | how we learned to turn destruction against entropy, |
| 17 | Liv Sin | "Blood Moon Fever" | single | how we clove strength from barbarism, |
| 18 | Reality Suite | "Kiss the Ring" | single | how we externalized defiance as a shared response to adversity instead of nihilist/narcissist infighting. |
| 19 | Starkill | "Fly With Me" | Gravity | This is how we escape from the forces we inherited. |
| 20 | Degrees of Truth | "The Void Within" | single | Our triumphs over airlessness are seeded by our willingness to release our own gnawing emptinesses, |
| 21 | Pythia | "Ghost in the Woods" | The Solace of Ancient Earth | to share them as curious obelisks instead of hollow hearts, |
| 22 | Hollow Haze | "It's Always Dark Before the Dawn" | single | to believe inane excuses for hope |
| 23 | Majesty | "Wasteland Outlaw" | single | and comic-book stories of who we have been. |
| 24 | Diablo | "Grace Under Pressure" | single | Other things could have killed us. |
| 25 | Voodoo KungFu | "Only Gods Can Judge Me" | single | Survivor bias is an enemy of understanding, but a friend of survival. |
| 26 | Frijgard | "Falling Stars" | single | The falling stars are a perspective effect of our rise; |
| 27 | Batushka | "Polunosznica" | single | this is obviously idiotic and false and dangerous, |
| 28 | Bethlehem | "Verdaut in klaffenden Mäulern" | Lebe Dich Leer | but the passageways that lead to truth are most densely packed in the oldest cities accreted of reverent paradoxes and centuries of earnestly incompatible delusions. |
| 29 | Enthroned | "Vapula Omega" | single | Where our own mortality paralyzes us, |
| 30 | This Gift Is A Curse | "Monuments for Dead Gods" | single | the mortality of our gods will restore to us our will. |
| 31 | Full Of Hell | "Haunted Arches" | Weeping Choir | Fear is a nutrient, but you have to chew it properly. |
| 32 | 7xvn | "Jxck's Revenge" | single | "I'm the only one of me" is an explication of terror. |
| 33 | Sannhet | "Short Life" | Short Life +1 | No other blood can replace yours, and thus the smallest wound will begin your collapse. |
| 34 | Cvlt Ov the Svn | "The Pit" | single | We are each other's storms, |
| 35 | Bloody Hammers | "From Beyond the Grave" | single | and only truly united in non-existence. |
| 36 | Dool | "Love Like Blood" | Love Like Blood Ep 3 | And yet, we dream of promised lands and fields, and they are different fields every time. |
| 37 | Keep Shelly In Athens | "Fight" | Sunny Day 5 | We go where the streets have no names, and we name them. |
| 38 | Spray | "Astronomical" | Failure is Inevitable | We will name ironic streets on the moon, |
| 39 | Kami-sama, I have noticed | "オーバータイムオーバーラン" | 20XX | labrynthine arcology corridors lined with alternating stalls of kamaboko and taikayi, |
| 40 | SIX LOUNGE | "天使のスーツケース" | 天使のスーツケース +2 | traditionalist boulevards in manufactured towns, |
| 41 | MO MOMA | "Nights Wave Comes" | atmo 3 | streets created by the pathways of artificial lights through darkness, |
| 42 | BOYS END SWING GIRL | "フォーエバーヤング" | single | dreams of vertigo brought down to our surfaces, |
| 43 | ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION | "Liberated Zone" | Dororo / Liberated Zone 2 | of days with enough time to listen to each other sing about everything and nothing |
| 44 | LUNKHEAD | "小さな反逆" | single | until we can hear how nothing is ever actually about nothing or everthing. |
| 45 | GBOYSWAG | "K.O. (華視《最佳利益》片頭曲)" | single | You declare your own state, |
| 46 | Moloch | "The Lighthouse" | single | and the implications of its technocracies, |
| 47 | Erik Ekholm | "Sentient" | single | and then you become its humanity. |
| 48 | Ki:Theory | "Lying in State" | Centrifugal 5 | Machines are your memory and your memorials, |
| 49 | PILLARS | "Dissolution" | Cavum | your present unravelling and its history and grace, |
| 50 | James Ferraro | "Embryo" | Requiem for Recycled Earth | the way you begin again with an inertial soul, |
| 51 | Palmistry | "Venom" | Afterlife | the way you coalesce out of vapor. |
| 52 | Petrels | "The Hermit King" | single | You cannot exempt yourself from court intrigue |
| 53 | Tshegue | "M'Benga Bila" | single | or the exercise of authority, |
| 54 | Saltarello | "Duna" | Unnuaq | but you can try to trace their origins |
| 55 | Sirgaus | "Cipro 1570" | La bales de canon | to whatever it was we once dreamed and have long since achieved. |
| 56 | Varien | "Hush the Storms Away" | single | Half the things you fear belong to an ancient past we no longer inhabit or obey, |
| 57 | Cornerstone Worship LIVE | "Nothing Is Impossible (Live) [feat. Jeremie Payne]" | Encounter | half to a future we long ago stopped needing. |
| 58 | Free Worship | "Otros Nombres Pasarán" | Otros Nombres Pasaran 3 | We have mastered prayer, and are afraid to relinquish our masteries, |
| 59 | Scott Hensel | "Angels from the Realms" | Improved | but this is a moment for new myths, fragile and unproven. |
| 60 | Tycho | "Pink & Blue" | Pink & Blue +1 | This is when we take apart the pieces of all the shiny things we have learned to make without effort or belief, |
| 61 | WVNDER | "Hourglass" | Nothing Stays | and allow ourselves to have new difficult yearning ideas about what they will become. |