1 |
Earlyguard |
"Identity Lost" |
A Postmodern Requiem |
In unfamiliar cities, I am thrilled to wander. |
2 |
Blanck Mass |
"House Vs. House" |
single |
There's a department of what? "Structure"?! With bike racks? Fabulous and now inevitable. |
3 |
Wreck and Reference |
"Sturdy Dawn" |
single |
Is this the street I wanted? No? Well, where does it lead? Maybe that's where I should have been going. |
4 |
Sinizter |
"Scent of Death" |
single |
Look up, above the fifth-floor windows: lions! Are they lions? With curly horns? |
5 |
7xvn |
"Cowboy" |
single |
Oh, this place is closed. Too bad. What's the word for Friday? Dumplings, maybe? With treacle? |
6 |
Sixthells |
"$icker" |
single |
On a clear day, all rivers shimmer. |
7 |
Yizzy |
"3 Minutes to Live" |
Welcome to Grime Street |
What have they transcended, here? |
8 |
Sampa the Great |
"Final Form" |
single |
Who dances in these streets? |
9 |
Sookee |
"Wallflower Boogie" |
single |
What walls were built here and torn down again? |
10 |
MUNA |
"Number One Fan" |
single |
Could I live here? People live here, walking around with headphones, lost in virtual world we share, so probably I could, too. |
11 |
Swimming Girls |
"I Don't Wanna Get to Heaven" |
Existential Fears 4 |
These could be my new enemies. This could be the corner where I turn. |
12 |
The Y Axes |
"Nevertheless" |
No Waves |
This could be me here already. |
13 |
Sløtface |
"Telepathetic" |
single |
Airplanes change my mode, or I allow them too. I should be able to do it without machines. |
14 |
AURORA |
"The River" |
A Different Kind Of Human (Step II) |
Last week my job moved offices. |
15 |
Karine Polwart |
"Machines" |
single |
The old one was 3 miles and one town away from my house. |
16 |
Salad |
"Under The Wrapping Paper" |
single |
The new one is 2 miles and one town in the other direction, |
17 |
Courage My Love |
"Teenagers" |
single |
in a building I've walked past dozens of times, so it shouldn't make much difference, |
18 |
Fiona |
"Little Talk" |
single |
and maybe after a few more weeks it won't, |
19 |
The Winking Owl |
"君のままで" |
single |
or when it gets cold again, |
20 |
uijin |
"アンリミッター" |
アンリミッター +1 |
or all of this has drowned. |
21 |
NON |
"Yamanai Girl" |
single |
I've been here on weekends, |
22 |
Shonen Knife |
"My Independent Country" |
Sweet Candy Power |
eaten in other branches of the same cafes |
23 |
BOYS END SWING GIRL |
"Wonder Light" |
FOREVER YOUNG |
or from these same trucks in other plazas. |
24 |
BLUE ENCOUNT |
"Predator" |
Sick(S) 6 |
I've lived in places tourists come to take pictures of things. |
25 |
Unknöwn Kun |
"ブループリント" |
Unknöwn Kun 2 6 |
Now a couple blocks of the Freedom Trail are part of my commute. |
26 |
Halo at Yojohan |
"メイライト" |
from NOVEL LAND |
Now I can walk down to the ocean. |
27 |
heidi. |
"HALATION" |
HALATION +2 |
Now I can put on headphones and walk around my own town listening to songs of yours. |
28 |
Apulanta |
"Lokin päällä lokki" |
Make Nu Metal Great Again 4 |
These Finns were teenagers when they started this band. |
29 |
The Anix |
"Talking In My Sleep (feat. Emmanuella)" |
Talking In My Sleep (feat. Emmanuella) |
Are those donuts any good? |
30 |
The Agonist |
"In Vertigo" |
single |
Would you eat those sandwiches if you had to go outdoors to get here? |
31 |
Memoremains |
"Inferno" |
single |
What do all those people do for a bank? |
32 |
Chaos Magic |
"I'm Your Cancer" |
single |
I should have come here half an hour earlier. |
33 |
Tigersclaw |
"Tigersclaw, Vol. 2 - Radio Edit" |
single |
Some of these buildings are actually quite nice. |
34 |
Iron Heade |
"At the Mountains of Madness" |
The Queen's Cuts 5 |
Not the one I look at out our office window, which is the helmet Darth Vader would have worn if he had channeled his malevolence into bureaucracy. |
35 |
MØL |
"Sundrowned" |
I/II |
But some of the other ones have details, or grandeur, or space in front of them for food trucks. |
36 |
Batushka |
"Wieczernia" |
single |
We used to have an elevated highway down the middle of this, and now there's a sunlit park, |
37 |
Abbath |
"Outstrider" |
single |
so don't believe that you are doomed by past mistakes. |
38 |
Glare Of The Sun |
"XI" |
single |
We dumped tea in the harbor rather than pay taxes, |
39 |
Enthroned |
"Hosanna Satana" |
Cold Black Suns |
and now we pay it back in coffee. |
40 |
Vingulmork |
"Ytterst" |
Avgrunn 4 |
The vikings didn't make it this far south, |
41 |
Esoctrilihum |
"Thar-Voknargh" |
The Telluric Ashes of the Ö Vrth Immemorial Gods |
the old gods never cursed this place. |
42 |
Varg |
"Wolfszeit" |
Wolfszeit II |
You never feel entirely certain that if the wolves come, this place will be defended, |
43 |
Aether |
"Wildfire Within" |
In Embers |
but also, maybe, like this is not where they would choose to attack. |
44 |
Bloodred Hourglass |
"The Unfinished Story" |
single |
I live in the 57th largest metro area in the world, |
45 |
Heilung |
"Traust" |
single |
right behind Bandung, Indonesia, and ahead of Randstad, Netherlands. |
46 |
JAMBINAI |
"Square Wave" |
ONDA |
I suspect there are more people in this city than there are people in world who know all three of Bandung, Boston and Randstad. |
47 |
The HU |
"Shoog Shoog" |
single |
We have a pretty good aquarium here, and the internet, and have you heard this Mongolian rock/throat-singing band? |
48 |
Tanzwut |
"Reden ist Silber" |
Seemannsgarn |
We have ill-conceived streets, but we filled them to reiterate that we didn't vote for Trump. |
49 |
Andromida |
"Transcend" |
Soulseeker |
We know that the food that used to be other people's is better than the food that used to be ours, |
50 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Cymatic" |
single |
except we're good with chowder, |
51 |
Degrees of Truth |
"The Remedy" |
Time Travel Artifact |
and translations of chowder into other media. |
52 |
Twilight Force |
"Night of Winterlight" |
single |
The subway barely runs, but you can walk along a lot of the harbor now. |
53 |
Elvenking |
"Under the Sign of a Black Star" |
single |
We have dour icons, but makeshift legends of survival. |
54 |
Unruly Child |
"Living in Someone Else's Dream" |
single |
Our soccer team is 0 of 4 in championship games, but somebody has to be 57th. |
55 |
THE NEW DEATH CULT |
"True Eyes" |
single |
The place I grew up is 61st, and their soccer team is 0 of 1 in championship games, |
56 |
Free Worship |
"Nunca Dejaré De Cantar" |
Cumplido Está |
but the churches here are smaller, and we didn't vote for Trump. |
57 |
Marco Carta |
"I Giorni Migliori" |
single |
We are the center of a margin, and I am cartoonishly reinvigorated by a different routine view of our marginalia. |
58 |
Red Mecca |
"Every1's a Winner" |
Every1's a Winner +1 |
You don't need a whole different life, |
59 |
Bastille |
"Those Nights" |
single |
you just need one small change that reminds you |
60 |
Zayde Wølf |
"The Boys of Summer" |
single |
of whatever you want to be after whatever you want to be over is done. |