1 |
Ashley McBryde |
"One Night Standards" |
single |
The best country songs are about how dust settles inside of your heart. |
2 |
The Ballroom Thieves |
"Tenebrist" |
single |
The best hearts sing about how we extricate ourselves from this dust through patient repetition. |
3 |
Beat The System |
"Reach the Light" |
single |
It is not coincident that we fall in love with radios attached to engines, |
4 |
For Tracy Hyde |
"Can Little Birds Remember?" |
Can Little Birds Remember? / Girl's Searchlight 2 |
or enter into shared spaces in headphones and rapture. |
5 |
Miniature Tigers |
"Manic Upswings" |
single |
We are baffled |
6 |
Paraluman |
"Ikaw At Ako" |
single |
but willing to disregard all the confused spaces between us, |
7 |
Bronnie |
"Lost and Found" |
single |
ready for anthems of effectively holding ground, |
8 |
Eir Aoi |
"Tsuki O Ou Mayonaka" |
Tsuki O Ou Mayonaka +3 |
in line for the next available joy. |
9 |
ReoNa |
"Kaibutsu No Uta" |
Null 3 |
These are our careful steps, |
10 |
Unleash The Archers |
"Northwest Passage" |
single |
our abstruse genuflections to the gods of chaos and fear. |
11 |
Visions of Atlantis |
"Release My Symphony" |
Wanderers |
We go in search of paths off the surface of our limits, |
12 |
Tarja |
"Goodbye Stranger" |
In the Raw |
expecting darkness, |
13 |
Darksense |
"Fearless" |
single |
and discover luminous realms |
14 |
Kassogtha |
"Pale Horizon" |
single |
awaiting demons or stewards. |
15 |
Karen Zoid |
"SWARTSKAAP" |
single |
We imagine ourselves reviled, |
16 |
Ivy Crown |
"Our Worst Days" |
single |
like idolization without vertigo, |
17 |
Sumo Cyco |
"Run with the Giants" |
single |
or the power of flight without the resposibility of navigation. |
18 |
Edge Of Paradise |
"Universe" |
single |
We imagine worlds simplified to this tension between power and conscience, |
19 |
Pentastone |
"Keep Falling" |
single |
but making a moral choice is the easy twitch |
20 |
Derange |
"Higher" |
single |
at the hypothetical instant where you understand the implications of your possible actions. |
21 |
The Mirraz |
"Dagger" |
single |
You cannot balance on the edge of a blade that whispers straight through you. |
22 |
NoGoD |
"絶色" |
single |
You cannot negotiate with absence. |
23 |
AIRFLIP |
"Days In Avenue" |
Meaning / Days In Avenue 2 |
Summer ends. You break into a run. |
24 |
.(dot)any |
"スマイル" |
single |
The best hearts pump blood into the outer muscles, |
25 |
KEYTALK |
"Catch The Wave" |
single |
and we try to move so that our skin stays outside and a millimeter ahead. |
26 |
Age Factory |
"HIGH WAY BEACH" |
single |
We fall in love with grinding noises, and the triumphant gifts of erosion and fire. |
27 |
SIX LOUNGE |
"幻影列車" |
single |
We find two vantage points from which everything seems productively and irreconcilably different, |
28 |
Miura Jam |
"The Beautiful Brave (From "Saint Seiya: Saintia Sho")" |
single |
and build trains between them. |
29 |
AmaLee |
"MUKANJYO (from "Vinland Saga")" |
single |
There were people here before us, under different misapprehensions. |
30 |
YOHIO |
"Silent Rebellion" |
single |
We are defined by our defiance, |
31 |
Perfect Plan |
"Didn't Know It Was Love" |
single |
but willing to be convinced in restrospect by trivial ahistories. |
32 |
Night Winds |
"Nature" |
single |
We are mesmerized by whooshing noises |
33 |
A/C St. Clair |
"Runnning on Empty" |
single |
and poetic despair. |
34 |
Sophie Lloyd |
"Bulletproof Revolver" |
single |
You do not ever need to negotiate with the void: |
35 |
DragonForce |
"Heart Demolition" |
single |
it surrenders to the touch, to the breath, |
36 |
Elvenking |
"Heathen Divine" |
Reader of the Runes - Divination |
to toy swords wielded with elan, |
37 |
Fjøsnisse |
"Sorgens Flamme" |
Heksedreper 5 |
to wasteland regard, |
38 |
Kultasiipi |
"Mahtaja" |
Mahtaja |
to footsteps. |
39 |
Imperium Dekadenz |
"Transcendence" |
When We Are Forgotten |
The trolls brandish the unknown because that's what they fear. |
40 |
Tides From Nebula |
"Ghost Horses" |
single |
We counter with loneliness, |
41 |
TOOL |
"Pneuma" |
Fear Inoculum |
but this is the one error on which nihilists and narcissists agree. |
42 |
Dance Gavin Dance |
"Jesus H. Macy" |
Acceptance Speech 2.0 |
Remand them to the judgment of their supposed gods; |
43 |
Leprous |
"Below" |
single |
they just think "Those guys love me. |
44 |
Marble |
"Pygmalion speech" |
single |
I have the best prayers, probably ever. Nobody is prayer than me." |
45 |
Vanden Plas |
"The Ghost Xperiment" |
single |
And the gods sigh, and go back to designing cosmologies, |
46 |
Restive Plaggona |
"Goodbyes Are Long" |
Trouble Sociale |
thinking "Next time, bodies that are better at metabolizing fat |
47 |
Fire-Toolz |
"Clear Light" |
Field Whispers (Into the Crystal Palace) |
and ignorance." |
48 |
The Anix |
"Renegade" |
Renegade |
The best songs of darkness gleam. |
49 |
Voicians |
"Vault" |
Vault 6 |
We collect gadgets with glowing colored lights. |
50 |
Andromida |
"Dimensions" |
single |
It does matter what they do, but less than it probably should. |
51 |
coldrain |
"MAYDAY (feat. Ryo from Crystal Lake)" |
THE SIDE EFFECTS |
We are illuminated, |
52 |
Puppet |
"Already Dead" |
single |
as if we've forgotten how much light already pours out of us, |
53 |
Somos |
"The Granite Face" |
Prison on a Hill |
as if we ever learned how to hold it in. |
54 |
DJ KEIKO |
"JUST FOR YOU (Mixed)" |
This is Mix mixed by DJ KEIKO |
We were given gods of chaos and fear, |
55 |
bis |
"(I Wanna Go Out With) Someone Else" |
single |
and traded them for tattoos of their sigils. |
56 |
Charli XCX |
"Warm (feat. HAIM)" |
single |
We thought we were so careful, |
57 |
ヨルシカ |
"憂一乗" |
エルマ |
when all we ever really were is slow: |
58 |
Elane |
"River Narne" |
single |
slow to notice gradual changes, |
59 |
Sam Rosenthal |
"Blood on the Snow I (feat. Nick Shadow & Steve Roach)" |
The Gesture of History |
slow to realize that everything we were waiting for has passed, |
60 |
Dark Model |
"Tougher Than Steel" |
Flashback |
slow to rise, |
61 |
The Ninth Wave |
"Imitation" |
single |
slow to relent. |
62 |
Elevation Worship |
"Love Won't Give Up" |
At Midnight - EP |
We concur on nothing, but our antagonistic convictions are exactly and resoundingly the same. |
63 |
Robert Scott Thompson |
"Le Rayon-vert" |
Pluviophilia, Vol. 3 |
Chapels of silence, chapels of noise. |
64 |
Matt Borghi |
"Eternity Before You" |
The Still Guardian |
The best truces are soaring averages of the disembodied and the uncontainable. |
65 |
Occams Laser |
"The Rapture" |
Occult 89 |
The simplest explanation is mostly likely true, |
66 |
Anamanaguchi |
"Lorem Ipsum (Arctic Anthem)" |
single |
which is thus the baseline against which all the more-complex explanations will be measured. |
67 |
ANTIHELD |
"Präsidenten" |
Goldener Schuss |
You are right to be scared of hatred, |
68 |
Sponge Cola |
"Ang Ating Tagumpay" |
single |
and right to expect darkess, |
69 |
Comandante Twin |
"Tulum" |
single |
but they will discover, as you already know, that darkness swallows hatred, too. |
70 |
Rheostatics |
"Vancouver" |
single |
Of course we fall in love with harbors and edges. |
71 |
Yemi Alade |
"Night And Day" |
Woman Of Steel |
Come closer, emptiness. You have plotted to trap us with our memories. |
72 |
Rupert Hine |
"Best Adventures" |
Fighting Apathy with Shock: The Best of Rupert Hine as "Thinkman" |
And now we twitch again, as we have practiced so many times, and you are left holding them, and we are free. |