1 |
iskwē |
"Breaking Down" |
single |
We are native to artifice, |
2 |
AliA |
"SLIDE SUNSET" |
single |
instantiated in choruses |
3 |
PEZZHEAD |
"High Tide" |
single |
and given form or not effectively prevented from taking it. |
4 |
Kobra And The Lotus |
"Burn!" |
single |
We assemble authority into shimmery glass towers, |
5 |
Nemesea |
"Fools Gold" |
single |
and then walk to the other side of the room holding rocks. |
6 |
The Agonist |
"Burn It All Down" |
single |
Your day will come. |
7 |
Lacuna Coil |
"Layers of Time" |
single |
You wait for your day to come, |
8 |
Roses Unread |
"Rapture" |
single |
but of all the angles its plane could take to yours, |
9 |
Neverlight |
"Gatherer" |
Nova Red (Expanded Edition) |
all the relative velocities, |
10 |
The Animal In Me |
"Never Really Over" |
single |
all you can really say is that most of the time they intersect |
11 |
As December Falls |
"I Think We're Alone Now" |
single |
oddly, not crossing so much as entangling and then extracting. |
12 |
Of Monsters and Men |
"Róróró" |
FEVER DREAM |
You will have more congruencies and adjacencies than destinies, |
13 |
Bat For Lashes |
"Feel For You" |
Feel For You +1 |
decent moments unbounded by perfections, |
14 |
Tegan and Sara |
"I'll Be Back Someday" |
single |
little satisfying crunches. |
15 |
Sūrya |
"Anthropocene" |
Solastalgia |
You will walk to the end of the world and look over the edge, |
16 |
Warkings |
"Sparta (feat. The Queen of the Damned)" |
single |
and then notice, to the left, a bit below you on the outer wall, |
17 |
Dire Peril |
"Godzilla" |
single |
a spray-tagged quote from a movie you had almost forgotten. |
18 |
SinHeresY |
"What Makes Us Human" |
Out of Connection |
Did somebody climb down there to paint that? |
19 |
Equilibrium |
"Path of Destiny (feat. The Butcher Sisters)" |
Path of Destiny (feat. The Butcher Sisters) +1 |
Would you suspend yourself over the abyss just to repeat somebody else's joke? |
20 |
Head Phones President |
"Until I Die" |
Respawn |
What else are abysses for, I guess. |
21 |
DAOKO |
"千客万来" |
NO SLEEP TILL TOKYO |
Most of what we carry, we picked up somewhere. |
22 |
Fujifabric |
"Golden Time" |
Golden Time +2 |
We picture Columbus arriving with bioweapons and European sceptres and the supremacist blueprints of a New World Order, |
23 |
LUNKHEAD |
"朱夏" |
plusequal |
but imagine him alone in his hotel room at night, after a day of negotations and exploitation, |
24 |
Sunrise In My Attache Case |
"Freedom" |
single |
sticking a battery pack in a coat pocket and heading back out into the city to take pictures in the dark and hunt for regional Pokémon. |
25 |
the HIATUS |
"Hunger" |
Our Secret Spot |
Every villain has an inner life, |
26 |
Suspended 4th |
"97.9hz" |
GIANTSTAMP |
except the puffy shells of demons that have rotted hollow from the core outwards |
27 |
Leo Imai |
"夏の日の午後" |
6 Japanese Covers |
almost to the surface. |
28 |
Daisuke Ariga |
"teardrop" |
Re:boot 3 |
Love is a verb in every language. |
29 |
the twenties |
"+PUS" |
+PUS?! 3 |
This is why willful illiteracy amplifies loneliness, |
30 |
えんそく |
"その後のペテン師" |
終演後のペテン 4 |
until you're yelling at the television when you think it isn't talking about you, |
31 |
Hitomi Shimatani |
"Brilliant Ways" |
brilliant |
and yelling at everybody else when you think it is. |
32 |
SWANKY DANK |
"Removes" |
single |
Trust nobody who says "When I'm President..." as an applause ploy. |
33 |
Ivy to Fraudulent Game |
"模様" |
single |
Trust no supposed wand-maker who won't let you hold the wand. |
34 |
Wormwood |
"The Achromatic Road" |
Nattarvet |
The end is coming, |
35 |
The Great Old Ones |
"The Omniscient" |
single |
but all movement is relative to apocalypse. |
36 |
Imperium Dekadenz |
"Frozen in Time" |
single |
All static positions are relative to the void. |
37 |
Vagrant |
"Blinded by Destiny" |
The Rise of Norn |
The periodic ascension of evil is the moral component of our orbit. |
38 |
Finsterforst |
"Zerfall" |
single |
We are the distraction spirits, |
39 |
Myrone |
"Subroutine" |
single |
and thus our automata are caricatures of purpose, |
40 |
Perfect Plan |
"Stay" |
single |
and thus our malignancies begin as cysts of ceaseless need. |
41 |
Lacrimas Profundere |
"I Knew and Will Forever Know" |
Bleeding the Stars |
We bemoan the reduction of discourse to epigrams, |
42 |
Wounds of Recollection |
"Fog Over Appalachia" |
You Were a Garden of Empyrean Light |
but Roy Batty's complete death speech fits into a tweet. |
43 |
The Band CAMINO |
"Honest" |
Honest/Daphne Blue/See Through 3 |
Time to admit that nothing was greater before. |
44 |
TR/ST |
"Iris" |
single |
It was cold before fire. |
45 |
Röyksopp |
"Rescue (Lost Tapes)" |
single |
To create, we must destroy. It's unrealistic to expect them to always remain in proportion. |
46 |
LIZ |
"Diamond in the Dark" |
single |
Victories over entropy are local by defintion. |
47 |
The 69 Eyes |
"Cheyenna" |
Cheyenna +1 |
Once you smash a glass, |
48 |
The Chain Gang Of 1974 |
"From Here Who Knows" |
single |
how full it was becomes a question of nostalgia. |
49 |
MYTH & ROID |
"PANTA RHEI" |
TV SERIES ”ISEKAI CHEAT MAGICIAN” OPENING THEME「PANTA RHEI」 4 |
The trick of optimism is applying nostalgia proactively, |
50 |
NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST |
"shonenjidai" |
UNLEASH |
forgetting the bad parts of the things that haven't happened yet. |
51 |
Rides In ReVellion |
"INNOVATOR" |
Re:Vellion【初回限定盤】 |
All inventions are manipulations of the accumulation of memory, |
52 |
Walking Across Jupiter |
"Eschatology" |
single |
or at least maybe that's how it will come to seem, |
53 |
Uneven Structure |
"Innocent" |
single |
as we retreat inside arcologies, |
54 |
Beverly Glenn-Copeland |
"In the Image" |
single |
and remember all these tiny heroic details from a single evening's walk: |
55 |
Gothic Tropic |
"Drunk on a Rhythm" |
single |
backpacking tourists asking in careful English about the price of a single piece of pizza; |
56 |
Rico Nasty |
"Time Flies" |
single |
following a cartoon girl through narrow streets, hoping at each stop that she will say "wait" and ask you your name; |
57 |
GAIKA |
"HEADLIGHTS AND HEATERS 8 - Radio Edit" |
HEADLIGHTS & HEATERS 8 2 |
getting lost only in the middle of blocks, because the landmarks are too visible from the cross-streets; |
58 |
Caroline Polachek |
"Ocean of Tears" |
single |
the courage or awareness to sunbathe in a bikini 15 feet from a city sidewalk; |
59 |
Potty Mouth |
"Hang On Me" |
The Wild Honey Pie Buzzsession 2 |
the different courage or maybe unawareness to circle crowded blocks in barefoot |
60 |
Dude York |
"Unexpected" |
Falling |
with your shoes and maybe everything you own under a tree |
61 |
Underline The Sky |
"Miss Identity" |
single |
15 feet from a city sidewalk; |
62 |
Paradise Fears |
"Color" |
Color +1 |
the singlemindedness to spend half an hour sitting in the grass taking close-up pictures of yourself with a selfie stick, |
63 |
Infant Annihilator |
"Three Bastards" |
single |
instead of watching all these other fascinating people; |
64 |
8-Bit Misfits |
"Old Town Road" |
8-Bit Hits 2019 |
history repainted to sell history; |
65 |
As I May |
"What a Waste" |
My Own Creations |
new anonymous marginalia rebranded as the consequence of legend. |
66 |
Young Spray |
"Goodness Gracious" |
single |
These are all shithole countries. |
67 |
Professor Green |
"Matters of the Heart" |
single |
We made some of them worse by taking people away and not letting them go back, |
68 |
Novelist |
"Way 2 Hot" |
single |
and then we made some of them better by not sending people back when they came on their own, |
69 |
K-Trap |
"Mad About Bars - S4-E20 P2" |
single |
but these are directions of flow, |
70 |
Coco |
"What Can You Do?" |
single |
not hereditary rights. |
71 |
Squingy |
"Behind Bars Freestyle" |
single |
You can't send anybody anywhere you won't go with them. |
72 |
POPZZY ENGLISH |
"No Deal (Prod. by MoJoe)" |
single |
You don't understand a person's weakness until you've ridden a mile in their golf cart. |
73 |
Young Guv |
"Patterns Prevail" |
Patterns Prevail +2 |
Young Guv is not a rapper, |
74 |
Vistas |
"Like An American" |
Hello - EP 4 |
and we aren't fooling anybody. |
75 |
SHEARE |
"Nightmare Baby" |
single |
Every morning you elect yourself an identity for a day: |
76 |
Only Shadows |
"Keep Strong" |
Brothers |
today you will treat every other human as your own blood, |
77 |
Cantus Levitas |
"Ferne Ufer" |
single |
which is the only sensible way to understand blood; |
78 |
Wömit Angel |
"Flesh Necrotic Lunacy" |
Under Sadistic Pressure |
today you will absorb and digest anger as an energy; |
79 |
Hillsong Worship |
"Hermoso Nombre" |
single |
today you will think about alien orthodoxies as if they are merely alternate languages of the soul, |
80 |
Lauran Hibberd |
"Frankie's Girlfriend" |
single |
and about souls as if they are a weird way the kids react to stress; |
81 |
Miriam Bryant |
"Du Med Dig, Akustisk" |
single |
today you will hire an orchestra to follow you into the waves; |
82 |
Maxida Märak |
"Lova ingenting" |
single |
today you will hear the rhythms shared between the rhetoric of your preferred leaders and the rage of your enemies; |
83 |
Fawn Limbs |
"The Rigid Mute" |
single |
today you will meet their hyperbolic rage with hyperhyperbolic rage, so it sees what it looks like; |
84 |
小男孩樂團 |
"Rise and Shine" |
第三個願望 |
today you will fall in love with yet another country's pop-punk bands, |
85 |
陳忻玥 |
"Hands Up" |
single |
another country's fight songs, |
86 |
Stefanie Sun |
"守護永恆的愛" |
single |
another set of places you end up after a key-change in the bridge sends you through a wormhole; |
87 |
Lara Liang |
"光耀 (電視劇《親愛的, 熱愛的》插曲)" |
single |
today you will pick up a guitar or one of the other simple machines |
88 |
Control the Storm |
"Darkest Fantasy" |
Forevermore |
and prove or displace something elemental; |
89 |
Ty Herndon |
"Walking in Memphis" |
single |
today you will render the implicit explicit, |
90 |
Valerie Ponzio |
"Orale" |
single |
and thus show us a quality in ourselves that we thought we imposed on others; |
91 |
CHROMA |
"See Me in the Dark" |
single |
today you will tear something apart; |
92 |
Montreal |
"Malaria und Heimweh" |
single |
today you will move cities around the map and write stories about how they've always been there; |
93 |
Leander Kills |
"Kicsiny falum" |
single |
today you will be majestically stern |
94 |
Belinda Carlisle |
"Both Sides Now" |
single |
and majesterially euphoric; |
95 |
Campbell's Wild |
"Painting Pictures" |
II 5 |
today you will be descended from the clans and islands, |
96 |
Renate |
"Kella Seitsmeks" |
single |
and tomorrow someplace newly freed; |
97 |
New Model Army |
"Never Arriving" |
single |
today you will stop waiting; |
98 |
First to Eleven |
"Helena" |
single |
today you will stop singing other people's songs. Or start. |
99 |
Manntra |
"Murter - Croatian Version" |
Oyka! |
Everything you say or do has a hundred other versions. |
100 |
The Beatmotors |
"Dote" |
single |
You don't believe one thing, you believe a resonant frequency shared by other people and objects and ways of hearing. |
101 |
Massemord |
"Goddess of Perversion" |
Massemord |
You don't believe one thing, |
102 |
Luminar |
"Teardrop" |
single |
you believe every other thing it can become. |