1 |
The Winking Owl |
"Thanksラブレター" |
Thanksラブレター |
The new album by the best band in the world could begin exactly this way. |
2 |
raymay |
"reset summer" |
reset summer / jokers 2 |
There could be a best band in the world, why couldn't there be? |
3 |
majiko |
"エミリーと15の約束" |
寂しい人が一番偉いんだ |
They could be from Japan as likely as anywhere. |
4 |
BATTEN SHOWJO TAI |
"Number Shot" |
BGM |
They could make an album, people still make albums sometimes, we can fall in love in somersaults. |
5 |
Omoi |
"Teioh Education" |
single |
It could have singing and guitars and the feeling that gravity is only a habit with which we've become too comfortable. |
6 |
GANG PARADE |
"本当に僕が生きたかったのはこんなんじゃ無え!" |
THE MUSIC AND THE GAME CREATES MAGIC 4 |
It could win the World Cup, it could be our next president or our next 6 presidents. |
7 |
WANIMA |
"夏のどこかへ" |
single |
Tomorrow could be beautiful, |
8 |
a crowd of rebellion |
"MALIGNANT" |
Black_24: 6 |
we are not yet done with beautiful days. |
9 |
fudanjuku |
"Excuse You!(Extra Long Version)" |
Excuse You!(Extra Long Version) +1 |
You could have a dream in which you have the power to channel starlight into stones, |
10 |
Aiolin |
"Venom" |
Fate-Hope-Side |
and in defeat 30,000 people will lift you back up as heroes. |
11 |
Laura day romance |
"Sad number" |
Sad number/ランドリー 2 |
You will wear out your favorite shoes. |
12 |
THE FOREVER YOUNG |
"ミッドナイトライナー" |
ミッドナイトライナー +2 |
You will get some of the things you have fought for, |
13 |
Pirokalpin |
"人生計画" |
人生計画 +1 |
and then have to decide what you want from your next pair. |
14 |
YAJICO GIRL |
"NIGHTS" |
single |
You will walk in the space between supercars and terrified rabbits, |
15 |
Naohito Fujiki |
"Speed★Star" |
20th‐Grown Boy‐ |
as a prophet of inexplicable nostalgia and construct potential. |
16 |
The Winking Owl |
"Night & Day" |
Thanksラブレター |
A perfect album will have 12 songs, |
17 |
Follow The Cipher |
"The Pioneer" |
single |
but you will have an uncountable number. |
18 |
Revel in Romance |
"Young" |
single |
You are at the beginning of whatever is left, |
19 |
Sleeping With Sirens |
"Leave It All Behind" |
single |
and thus as free as you are willing to not look back. |
20 |
Stitched Up Heart |
"Darkness" |
Darkness +1 |
Take a shot into a tangle of bodies, into undergrowths and undergrounds. |
21 |
Drown This City |
"In Your Image" |
single |
The future looks solid, but then particles pass right through it. |
22 |
Ardours |
"Truths" |
single |
The right ways seem blocked until you take a defiant step. |
23 |
Tarja |
"Railroads" |
single |
The distinction between ornament and foundation is an anthropism. |
24 |
Minniva |
"The Red Baron" |
single |
Weaponry is a failure-mode of toolmaking, |
25 |
Moonlight Haze |
"Odi et amo" |
De Rerum Natura |
design frustrations corroding into hate. |
26 |
Snow Black Sunday |
"Misled" |
Snow Black Sunday |
You are the beginning of a necessary confession. |
27 |
Celtian |
"La Musa del Bosque" |
En Tierra de Hadas |
Somebody must begin, so it could be you. |
28 |
Freedom Call |
"111 – the Number of the Angels" |
single |
All decent excuses for redemption are arbitrary; |
29 |
Sonata Arctica |
"A Little Less Understanding" |
single |
all the indecent ones are rooted in ignorance, |
30 |
Dunedain |
"A un Paso del Cielo" |
Memento Mori |
but anything rooted in something is capable of growth. |
31 |
Valis Ablaze |
"The Convincer" |
single |
Erroneous beliefs are a form of exercise, |
32 |
Anup Sastry |
"Story of Us" |
Illuminate |
a way of preparing yourself to lift heavier truths if you find them, or when. |
33 |
Berried Alive |
"Legendberry" |
single |
Daylight is a muscle you are preparing to misflex |
34 |
Rabea Massaad |
"Cthulhu" |
Grinding Gears, Vol. 2 |
less misguidedly tomorrow. |
35 |
Glare Of The Sun |
"IV" |
Theia |
Count up, not down. We don't know where it ends. |
36 |
Halls of Oblivion |
"Vanishing Woods" |
Endtime Poetry |
Our images of hell are painted from safe distances |
37 |
Temple of Demigod |
"Him Who Is Not to Be Named" |
Onslaught of the Ancient Gods |
covered by imagination and oil. |
38 |
Enthroned |
"Silent Redemption" |
Cold Black Suns |
We are saved from only the most fractional damnations. |
39 |
Immortal Bird |
"Avolition" |
single |
You will exhaust your chosen gods, |
40 |
Devourment |
"Cognitive Sedation Butchery" |
single |
or you will be exhumed from their embrace. |
41 |
Eeviomorfia |
"Ex Umbra in Solem" |
single |
Hope is always in motion relative to the canvas, |
42 |
Slough Feg |
"Headhunter" |
New Organon |
or anything else we thought we knew. |
43 |
The Winking Owl |
"片想い" |
Thanksラブレター |
The way back from the brink of anything could begin exactly like this. |
44 |
Ariana and the Rose |
"True Love" |
single |
Let the notes carry you up, higher, |
45 |
Alex Winston |
"Miss U 1000000" |
single |
until everything you have lost is spread out below you, |
46 |
La Oreja de Van Gogh |
"Haizeaz Fidatu - Versión Euskera" |
Elcano y Magallanes, La Primera Vuelta al Mundo 3 |
like a self-charted map of your heart. |
47 |
Klara & Jag |
"2.0" |
single |
You don't have to repeat any error, |
48 |
Nord & Syd |
"Det som aldrig var, det som aldrig blev" |
single |
you can make it differerenly every time until the rules give up on you. |
49 |
Imogen Heap |
"The Quiet" |
The Quiet +2 |
No defeat is ever entire, and you might as well be part of what survives. |
50 |
Chelsea Wolfe |
"The Mother Road" |
single |
What doesn't kill you becomes stronger, |
51 |
Poppy |
"Choke" |
single |
which is another of Hamilton's 51 hypocritical arguments against dueling, |
52 |
Hatchie |
"Keep" |
Keepsake |
but not against crossing a river at dawn. |
53 |
Virginia Wing |
"Pale Burnt Lake" |
Pale Burnt Lake |
Take a boat into low but rising light. |
54 |
Donatachi |
"Crush On U" |
single |
The vikings had airships powered by great scoop-shaped oarsails |
55 |
Bali Baby |
"Saudi Arabia" |
Hood Bratz : The EP 5 |
made from the skins of imported dragons, |
56 |
Dance Gavin Dance |
"People You Knew" |
People You Knew / Perfect 2 |
sadly and ironically flammable. |
57 |
Ghostemane |
"Omnis" |
HUMAN ERR0R 3 |
It's easy to be sure what you're against, but even easier to be unsure but clear, |
58 |
Black To Comm |
"Eden-Olympia" |
single |
until all of that excitingly explodes. |
59 |
Holy Similaun |
"Apeous" |
Hegenrax 4 |
We are inhabitants of solvent atmospheres, |
60 |
Rafael Anton Irisarri |
"Decay Waves" |
Solastalgia |
dissolving undulatingly, |
61 |
Siavash Amini |
"A Recollection Of The Disappeared" |
single |
asserting absent outlines |
62 |
Blank Embrace |
"Ocean of Voices" |
Daydream Harmony |
of things we can now claim to have been |
63 |
Erinome |
"Remnant I" |
single |
without responsibility or price. |
64 |
The Winking Owl |
"The Tears Turn To A Rainbow" |
Thanksラブレター |
The new album by the best band in the world costs you nothing, |
65 |
Veintiuno |
"Cabezabajo (feat. Zetazen)" |
single |
costs them nothing, |
66 |
Los Punsetes |
"Idiota" |
single |
costs us nothing to believe. |
67 |
Nôa |
"Herida de la Tierra" |
Herida de la Tierra |
You are not confined by your pain, or in it. |
68 |
I Botanici |
"Nottata" |
single |
All you have to believe is that a band you've never heard could be better than all the ones that told you all of us are doomed, |
69 |
Perfect Plan |
"That Was Yesterday" |
single |
and then all things are possible. |
70 |
The Cult |
"Libertine" |
single |
She pushes through the crowd and puts her hand on your mouth and says "Don't be an asshole. |
71 |
Kirin J Callinan |
"Vienna" |
Return To Center |
This means at least seven different things, |
72 |
Gender Roles |
"You Look Like Death" |
single |
starting with we are not yet done here." |
73 |
Hatari |
"Klefi / صامد" |
single |
There are walls to not build, and walls already built to be torn down. |
74 |
Big Heath |
"Dear Diary" |
Call Me Big 6 |
You haven't felt panic until you've lived on an island in rising seas, |
75 |
Mixtape Madness |
"Next Up - S2-E30" |
single |
or noticed that all of us do. |
76 |
Meursault |
"Beaten" |
Crow Hill |
We awake to find our idols missing, to realize that our empathy and heartache did not keep them safe, |
77 |
Koe Wetzel |
"One and Only" |
Harold Saul High |
to maybe finally understand that this was never a power or purpose of our love. |
78 |
Our Last Night |
"Old Town Road" |
single |
We dream until we can't any more, |
79 |
Lil Nas X |
"Bring U Down" |
7 EP |
and then we wake up and try what we've learned |
80 |
The Winking Owl |
"Flame Of Life" |
Thanksラブレター |
and it's not enough and explains nothing and too short and perfect. |