1 |
The 2 Johnnies |
"Sinéad" |
single |
Glibness collapses into yearning. |
2 |
Poppy |
"Concrete" |
single |
Maybe there was never entirely a difference. |
3 |
The Menzingers |
"America (You're Freaking Me Out)" |
America (You're Freaking Me Out) +1 |
Punk rock was about love. Rebellion is about transcendence. |
4 |
18th & Addison |
"When I'm Alone" |
single |
We sing about loneliness, |
5 |
Cyan Kicks |
"Feathers" |
I Don't Love You |
and like everything else, it gives us away. |
6 |
Bronnie |
"Stay" |
single |
We have anthems imploring the hero not to go on a journey, |
7 |
Taylor Swift |
"Cruel Summer" |
Lover |
dance jewels waiting for a stranger who never comes. |
8 |
The Band CAMINO |
"What I Want" |
tryhard |
We say we sing about loneliness, |
9 |
Nemesea |
"White Flag" |
White Flag |
but like every other posture of nominal surrender, |
10 |
Elephant Gun Riot |
"Man Down" |
single |
we strike it fully aware of which lights will result in our casting which shadows. |
11 |
Kolokol |
"Fanfare" |
Fanfare +1 |
We are championed by matte waifs wielding bright swords, |
12 |
Minniva |
"Amongst Stars" |
single |
and whatever climbs out of the carapaces of the old gods. |
13 |
Kobra And The Lotus |
"Get the F*ck out of Here" |
Get the F*ck out of Here +1 |
We are marshaled for escape, |
14 |
MoonSun |
"Into the Fire" |
single |
but always going back. |
15 |
Visions of Atlantis |
"Nothing Lasts Forever" |
single |
Listen to your heart. |
16 |
Metalite |
"Far from the Sanctuary" |
single |
It has a resonant frequency; |
17 |
South Haven |
"Sweet Suffering" |
single |
you think you have limits. |
18 |
Koutei Camera Girl Drei |
"Be There" |
Be There EP 2 |
Both of these are negotiations |
19 |
Juliet Simms |
"100 Little Deaths" |
single |
considered with more earnestness |
20 |
Bat For Lashes |
"Jasmine" |
Jasmine +3 |
than perspective. |
21 |
SABINA |
"Biegnę przy Tobie" |
single |
Are you prepared to find a muse who sounds to you like she's singing backward? |
22 |
Kim Gordon |
"Sketch Artist" |
Sketch Artist +1 |
Or sideways? |
23 |
cadode |
"リメンバー feat.Melanie" |
single |
This has something to do with how you hold your head, |
24 |
Ivy to Fraudulent Game |
"blue blue blue" |
single |
but at walking speeds, less than you think. |
25 |
FERN PLANET |
"Ilusion" |
Bokurano Träumerei 6 |
We are cantilevered out over our censures of gravity, |
26 |
Survive Said The Prophet |
"Mukanjyo" |
Mukanjyo +2 |
falling as gracefully as we can tolerate, |
27 |
Blame Me! |
"What a Waste" |
single |
in order to sustain the illusion that tolerance is ours to bestow or withhold. |
28 |
Edenbridge |
"Live and Let Go" |
single |
When we let go, |
29 |
Ascend The Hollow |
"Vessels" |
single |
we are the thing that is being released. |
30 |
Freedom Call |
"The Ace of the Unicorn" |
M.E.T.A.L. |
Dundee's mistake was xenophobia. |
31 |
Eclipse |
"Viva La Victoria" |
single |
Dehumanizing the seekers is how you make zombies, |
32 |
REXORIA |
"Reach for the Heavens in Time" |
single |
righteousness is how you kill them: |
33 |
Equilibrium |
"Renegades - A Lost Generation" |
Renegades |
this is a well-conceived and self-sustaining industry |
34 |
Sonata Arctica |
"Cold" |
single |
motivated by fear it has the alacrity to externalize. |
35 |
Ewigkeit |
"Point of Origin" |
Starscape 2.019 |
Begin again, in the New World colonies. |
36 |
Massemord |
"Dust and Void" |
single |
This was, of course, our founding delusional nihilism. |
37 |
Fedrespor |
"Elementene brister" |
single |
You perpetuate it every time you go searching for things you believe are already yours. |
38 |
The Great Old Ones |
"Nyarlathotep" |
single |
Exploration requires unspecified goals for an unknown transit. |
39 |
Alcest |
"Protection" |
single |
If you think you know what you're going to come home with, the thing you're on is not a quest, it's an errand, |
40 |
Alfahanne |
"Atomvinter" |
single |
and doing errands in armor is errant errantry. |
41 |
Necronomicon |
"Paradise Lost" |
single |
We are defied not by what we have lost, but by what we characterize as loss. |
42 |
Cloud Rat |
"Wonder" |
single |
Despair, too, collapses into yearning. |
43 |
Djevel |
"Illoyegd foedt som Satans barn, paa ferd uden spor af menneskeverd" |
single |
Maybe there was never really a difference. |
44 |
The HU |
"The Great Chinggis Khaan" |
single |
Legends or cautionary tales, |
45 |
WINGTIPS |
"Accidental Effigies" |
Exposure Therapy |
they can all be colated somehow. |
46 |
Pom Poko |
"Leg Day" |
single |
Remember that time you saved the world in one hour? |
47 |
Meridian Dan |
"My Angel (Freestyle)" |
single |
It's an hour later now, what's the rest of your plan? |
48 |
Faze Miyake |
"Eyes On Me" |
single |
Bluster evaporates into remorse. |
49 |
Mugxtsu |
"The End of the World" |
single |
We sing about hopelessness, |
50 |
ShiGGa Shay |
"if i," |
single |
like we sing about other treasures we will never afford, |
51 |
Barny Fletcher |
"CROPS" |
single |
to mark ourselves as the kind of creature who hopes, |
52 |
Mura Masa |
"I Don’t Think I Can Do This Again (with Clairo)" |
single |
especially in moments when we aren't sure, ourselves, of ourselves. |
53 |
Anna Meredith |
"moonmoons" |
single |
These abstracted iconographies are how we accept responsibility |
54 |
Jenna Paulette |
"Blue Jeans" |
single |
for a method of forgiveness based mostly on contact of skin. |
55 |
Brittany Ray |
"Leather Jacket" |
single |
We have all these solvents that dissolve bad decisions and leave behind consolation instead of cognizance. |
56 |
Courtney Marie Andrews |
"Downtown Train" |
single |
We have these nighttimes punched full of holes, and the lazy conviction that nobody else sees through them. |
57 |
Karen Zoid |
"DONKER NAG" |
single |
Your heart can switch into waltz time, |
58 |
Jess Chalker |
"Dance in the Rain" |
single |
the drum machines can count to anything; |
59 |
Ash King |
"Ho Jaa Awara" |
single |
everything hard about unfamiliar rhythms has to do with what you have claimed you embody. |
60 |
Leander Kills |
"Boldogság virág" |
single |
None of that is real. |
61 |
Alter Bridge |
"Take the Crown" |
Take the Crown +2 |
We sing about faith and power and resilience |
62 |
New Model Army |
"The Weather" |
From Here |
and all the times history has sagged under their weight. |
63 |
Cim Dahlle |
"Åtta Tio" |
single |
We sing about the small islands we're from, |
64 |
Faspitch |
"Flame" |
single |
in whatever climate, |
65 |
Rich O'Toole |
"California" |
single |
separated from notional mainlands by water or regret. |
66 |
The Beatmotors |
"Don Don Tokei ha Don't Stop !" |
single |
Pastiche solidifies into statuary, or is drawn out into wires. |
67 |
Saily |
"Lupakan!" |
Transition 4 |
Guitars are about love. |
68 |
Hoang Thuy Linh |
"Tu Phu" |
single |
Synthesizers are about love. |
69 |
Halocene |
"Señorita (Rock)" |
single |
Our songs about songs of love are about love. |
70 |
First to Eleven |
"Royals" |
single |
Out of this love, we have memorized each other's anthems of indifference. |
71 |
Death Valley High |
"Here Comes The Rain - Death Valley High Vs. Chris Connelly" |
Duel |
Out of this love, we sing about helplessness and nostalgia for helplessness and what yearning felt like when it was closer to all we had. |
72 |
Ceres |
"A Thousand Miles (triple j Like A Version)" |
single |
Out of or into this love, we have walked a thousand miles to fall down at this one specific door. |