1 |
Elverlys |
"De Underjordiske" |
Natsværm 3 |
It rains on us all, but we choose whether to shelter |
2 |
Blanck Mass |
"Death Drop" |
Animated Violence Mild |
or emerge, |
3 |
Uniform |
"Vacancy" |
Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back |
and whether emergence is an act of resistance. |
4 |
Madder Mortem |
"Vigil" |
single |
Or rather, emergence is always an act of resistance, |
5 |
MUNA |
"Stayaway" |
Stayaway +2 |
but we choose whether to resist or embrace ourselves, |
6 |
Courage My Love |
"Harlequin Romance" |
single |
and from there other things do or don't become possible. |
7 |
Aimer |
"Torches" |
Torches 5 |
You have a lighthouse in your hands. Did you know? |
8 |
OYASUMI HOLOGRAM |
"Slow Dancer" |
single |
There is a purpose to this spinning. |
9 |
Once A Tree |
"Run" |
single |
There is a door. There are stairs. Did you imagine the lighthouse keepers were deposited by eagles? |
10 |
Kitten |
"Memphis" |
single |
To the landlocked, the lighthouse constrains the elevation of the sea |
11 |
Joseph |
"Good Luck, Kid" |
single |
right up until the moment the light goes out. |
12 |
Field Mouse |
"Black Hole, Son" |
Meaning |
How will you find your way home if your home is afloat? |
13 |
Cultdreams |
"Not My Generation" |
Things That Hurt |
You are not liberated from things just because they are submerged. |
14 |
Julia Why? |
"Holden On" |
single |
You can point a golf cart into the Potomac, but you can't scrape all of the hatred off the shore. |
15 |
Press Club |
"Separate Houses" |
Wasted Energy |
You have to live with it, or near it, |
16 |
Sleater-Kinney |
"Reach Out" |
The Center Won't Hold |
so you might as well check on it occasionally. |
17 |
Charli XCX |
"Cross You Out (feat. Sky Ferreira)" |
single |
The untenable is usually less terrifying than the unresolved, |
18 |
Bec Sandridge |
"STRANGER" |
single |
in the same way that the people you don't know can always be precious. |
19 |
Josie Pace |
"Play Pretend" |
single |
Their clothes are your costumes, |
20 |
Slayyyter |
"Cha Ching" |
single |
their currency not implicated in your debts. |
21 |
Leikeli47 |
"Bad Gyal Flex - A COLORS SHOW" |
single |
Your island will get your chance to explain that you are not for sale. |
22 |
clipping. |
"Nothing is Safe" |
single |
How much will you be ready to say? |
23 |
Mr Traumatik |
"Motorway 3Style Pt. 2" |
ThreeSixNine |
The conspiracy theorist believes at least in explanations. |
24 |
Rey Pila |
"Anxious" |
Anxious +2 |
There is a way of being wrong that prepares you to empathize with correctness, |
25 |
Miura Jam |
"Inferno (From "Fire Force: Enen no Shouboutai")" |
single |
somewhere between cargo cult and watching YouTube videos, |
26 |
Kotak |
"Growing Up (From "Gundala")" |
single |
but it only works if you think you've discovered truth, not asserted it. |
27 |
えっちゃん |
"自制心シンパシー" |
single |
The translation of bodies into avatars is not a disregard of biology, |
28 |
Minniva |
"Ameno" |
single |
but an isolation of their representative aspects. |
29 |
Kalidia |
"Circle of Six" |
single |
Legends note the things that will survive us; |
30 |
Bare Infinity |
"The End of Heartache" |
single |
anthems nominate the beliefs we will consume as fuel. |
31 |
Eternal Melody |
"Eternal Black" |
Eternal Black |
Eternity, like all counterfactual tropes, |
32 |
Twilight Force |
"Thundersword" |
Dawn of the Dragonstar |
allows us to begin mortal stories from within a structure pre-prepared with allegorical precedent. |
33 |
Freedom Call |
"Spirit of Daedalus" |
single |
To the lazy, this is briefly convenient, |
34 |
Battledragon |
"Back to the Future" |
single |
but the guides that take you into the future cheaply |
35 |
Hammerfall |
"Never Forgive, Never Forget" |
Dominion |
will leave you at a train station with a useless flag and all it is is tomorrow. |
36 |
Nemecic |
"Wardenclyffe" |
Wardenclyffe +1 |
You can wave the flag, but somebody's version of socialism built the trains. |
37 |
Foscor |
"Cançó de Mort" |
single |
Somebody's divided and recombined loyalty will help you with your bags. |
38 |
Diocletian |
"Degenerate Swarm" |
Amongst the Flames of a Burning God |
The ideologue believes at least in a deductive order. |
39 |
The Mirraz |
"The Days" |
single |
It weighs on us all, but we choose whether to hold the earth aloft |
40 |
Yutaka Furukawa |
"プラスティックレィディ" |
single |
or to roll it up the hill, |
41 |
NOTHING TO DECLARE |
"One In A Million" |
single |
whether we imagine this as a unique heroic act |
42 |
KNOCK OUT MONKEY |
"Highest Mountain" |
Highest Mountain +1 |
or our tiny contribution to building a castle on the soaring summit, |
43 |
Shinsei Kamattechan |
"Delay" |
single |
whether we think the goal of this is to reprimand the sky. |
44 |
the cibo |
"ESSENCE" |
HOPES-A Lost World- |
You have a universe in your hands. Do you care? |
45 |
Patternist |
"Feature's Dead, Angela" |
single |
There is a lesson in this power, |
46 |
Flying Colors |
"More" |
single |
and not much more. |
47 |
Red Raven Down |
"C4" |
single |
It is not unreasonable to be terrified, |
48 |
Mono Inc. |
"Louder Than Hell" |
single |
just unhelpful. |
49 |
Bauda |
"Global Mesmerize" |
Brvjo |
Diffidence gives you more time to react, |
50 |
Enter Shikari |
"Stop the Clocks (Single Edit)" |
single |
but less to repond. |
51 |
Montreal |
"Stockholm Syndrom" |
Hier und heute nicht |
Isolation procrastinates love. |
52 |
Jini Meyer |
"Es ist okay" |
Frei Sein |
This noise is what we came for. |
53 |
Off With Their Heads |
"You Will Die" |
Be Good |
We will not leave with less, |
54 |
Valor |
"Reflections" |
single |
but probably also not more, |
55 |
Pariisin Kevät |
"Pelon sydän" |
Reuna |
and where would we go, anyway? |
56 |
Citizens |
"Nothing Is Happening to Me" |
single |
The bridges freeze before the roads. |
57 |
Hillsong Worship |
"Quien Dices Que Soy" |
Hay Más |
The altars fall before us. |
58 |
Koffi Olomide |
"Papa Ngwasuma" |
single |
You have a civilization in your hands, |
59 |
LookLA |
"Out of Greed" |
single |
but only if you can admit how small they are. |
60 |
Blanck Mass |
"Wings of Hate" |
Animated Violence Mild |
New songs are always declarations of hope. |
61 |
Beverly Glenn-Copeland |
"Between the Veils" |
Primal Prayer |
Evil exists at the fleeting mercy of truth. |
62 |
Carolyn Miller |
"Summer Time" |
single |
We are abandoned at neglected stations of the future, but under perfect skies, |
63 |
YONAKA |
"You Need To Calm Down - Recorded At Abbey Road Studios, London" |
Spotify Singles 2 |
and with the giddy realization that we're not waiting for the train. This is where it was taking us. |