1 |
Edenbridge |
"On the Other Side" |
single |
Portals to other worlds, made out of chords and words and internal logics: |
2 |
IKINÄ |
"Senkin millenniaali" |
single |
this isn't the only disruption capable of wielding power through music, but it's probably the primordial one. |
3 |
Metalite |
"Apocalypse" |
single |
It's certainly and uncertainly how the dire can be expanding, |
4 |
Chasing Embers |
"Spiritual" |
single |
how cathedrals can be atheist transmutation, |
5 |
Ethereal Kingdoms |
"Distance" |
single |
how revolution can be confirmational. |
6 |
Minniva |
"In Orbit" |
single |
We see others fight their versions of our battles, |
7 |
Transworld Identity |
"Part Maroon, Part Indigo" |
single |
and learn something about ourselves by relative disassembly. |
8 |
Stand Atlantic |
"Hate Me (Sometimes)" |
single |
We see a gate we imagine we could step through, |
9 |
VUKOVI |
"All That Candy" |
single |
and then we turn back to our own world knowing that we are not trapped in this. |
10 |
Yanakoto Sotto Mute |
"Cry Out" |
single |
This is only one of the countless astonishing realms, |
11 |
OYASUMI HOLOGRAM |
"Plan" |
1 |
and we in turn are instructive curiosities for vacationing angels |
12 |
AliA |
"realize" |
realize |
on their day-pass busses, |
13 |
Bray me |
"GRACE" |
single |
waving to us in a way that ought to tell us why they chose this place to visit, |
14 |
Narumi Shiina |
"Bokunankaniha Mottainai to Itte Furu Otoko" |
Kimi no Pantsu wo Tabetai 4 |
but even if we somehow guess it, it won't help us explain to ourselves why we chose it to live. |
15 |
Lucie,Too |
"Heart Wave" |
single |
The isolationist's error is looking through openness backwards and thus mistaking yearning for smugness, |
16 |
Mrs. GREEN APPLE |
"CHEERS" |
single |
sepia and oxidation for gold, |
17 |
Jam Fuzz Kid |
"Welcome to me" |
single |
privilege for accomplishment, |
18 |
Hollow Suns |
"Into the Water" |
Into the Water 5 |
swallowing seas for the emergence of Atlantis or Adria. |
19 |
NOTHING TO DECLARE |
"In Silence" |
single |
The nihilist says the same thing to every song we offer: it was silent before. |
20 |
In Mute |
"Chaos Breeder" |
single |
Of course you can argue that it was never silent, |
21 |
Earth Moves |
"Into the Ether" |
single |
since of course it was never silent, |
22 |
Nulbarich |
"Lost Game" |
single |
but the nilhilist is not hollowed by nostalgia, |
23 |
Dir En Grey |
"The World of Mercy" |
The World of Mercy +2 |
or inspired to undo our exquisite errors, |
24 |
DEXCORE |
"Without a Doubt" |
DON'T BE AFRAID 3 |
they are terrified of hope. |
25 |
SKÁLD |
"Ódinn" |
Vikings Chant |
The narcissist says "I alone can fix this", |
26 |
Ereb Altor |
"Avgudadyrkans Väg" |
Järtecken |
the nihilist says "I alone", |
27 |
Omnium Gatherum |
"Chaospace" |
Chaospace +1 |
which is a good demonstration of how you can be less wrong but still wrong. |
28 |
Syberia |
"Seeds of Change" |
single |
The one thing you can never be is alone. |
29 |
Leprous |
"Alleviate" |
single |
You can row to an island in between continents, and you'll find that they've had government there for a million years. |
30 |
HELGA |
"Into the Light" |
The Autumn Lament |
You can invest in the darkness, but every market moves in cycles. |
31 |
Dancing With Azerus |
"Ofelia, Together We Will Watch the Storm" |
Shelter in the Storm 4 |
You can buy a bigger bass drum, |
32 |
YYNOT |
"Wildest Dreams" |
Resonance |
but the waves still stop at zero and end somewhere out past your illusions. |
33 |
Fury Weekend |
"Sleepless Nights" |
Sleepless Nights (feat. PRIZM) |
You are not the first to lie awake, |
34 |
SelloRekt / LA Dreams |
"Sounds and Waves" |
Sounds and Waves +3 |
not the first to memorize nightlit geometry, |
35 |
3FORCE |
"Future Frame" |
Future Frame |
not the first to try to theorize your own sleep. |
36 |
Man Without Country |
"Forever Endeavour" |
single |
Shadows are portals; and synthesizers, |
37 |
The Anix |
"Digital Bath" |
Digital Bath |
and dissidence, |
38 |
Orbit Culture |
"Nensha" |
single |
and cargo-cult dissidence set aflame, |
39 |
Noctem |
"Sulphur" |
single |
and the kind of hopelessness that you achieve by letting go. |
40 |
Estuarine |
"The Pain Never Dulls" |
single |
It's rational enough to fear hope: |
41 |
7xvn |
"And Down We Go" |
Paper Cut 2 |
Hope invites change, |
42 |
Paledusk |
"9 SMILES" |
9 SMILES +1 |
and if you start letting your guests bring friends, your party becomes a community. |
43 |
NVDES |
"That's It" |
single |
You can get a party dancing with a phone and a decent playlist. |
44 |
Iglooghost |
"Teef Chizzel" |
XYZ |
Animating a community requires a network |
45 |
iskwē |
"Sweet Tuesday" |
single |
and culture, |
46 |
Slayyyter |
"Devil" |
Slayyyter |
taboos and thieves, |
47 |
Hannah Diamond |
"Part of Me" |
single |
syncretic graffitti |
48 |
Eléonore |
"Tesoro" |
single |
written on old walls, |
49 |
Overcoats |
"Leave If You Wanna" |
Leave If You Wanna / Keep The Faith 3 |
open gates |
50 |
Millie Turner |
"Ride This Train" |
single |
and a schedule for how you get from here to any other place. |
51 |
Kitten |
"Goodbye Honeymoon Phase" |
Goodbye Honeymoon Phase +1 |
Closing time: you can long for home, but you haven't been here that long, either. |
52 |
Mia. |
"KopfÜber" |
single |
Long enough to still yearn for new lands. |
53 |
Georgia |
"Never Let You Go" |
single |
Long enough to think we will never want to leave, |
54 |
A Certain Smile |
"Cherry Bomb" |
Bae 3 |
or that reasons to leave are also reasons to never return. |
55 |
Clock Opera |
"Be Somebody Else" |
single |
Long enough to mistake ourselves for these other people, |
56 |
Larkins |
"Not Enough Love" |
single |
and to mistake "not my problems" for "not problems". |
57 |
Lonely Avenue |
"Watermelon Squirt" |
Attack on Robot Pirate Island |
Long enough that the portals are among us and forgotten, |
58 |
The Menzingers |
"Strangers Forever" |
Strangers Forever +2 |
until the day one opens and they start pouring through: |
59 |
Donovan Woods |
"Way Way Back" |
single |
wanderers who make eye contact, |
60 |
Kalie Shorr |
"F U Forever" |
single |
the people you earnestly betrayed, |
61 |
17 Memphis |
"Creatures Of Habit" |
single |
the ones you thought you would be |
62 |
Sarahbeth Taite |
"Up All Night" |
single |
and the ones you find yourself with, |
63 |
Chelsea Gill |
"Starlet" |
single |
the ones willing to lead you |
64 |
Faun |
"Spieglein, Spieglein" |
single |
and the ones willing to help you tell the story of how you came to an ensigiled glade without armor. |
65 |
Dragonfly |
"El Guardian del Tiempo" |
single |
We fight half of our battles for an audience of darkness, |
66 |
Debler |
"Adictium" |
single |
half for the sound of striking metal |
67 |
Eveth |
"Entre las Sombras" |
Puerta Áurea |
out here where we have agreed not yet to sleep. |
68 |
Bon Vivant |
"Cuentos y Retratos" |
single |
Portals to other worlds in which all things but one are the same, |
69 |
Alvin és a Mókusok |
"VILÁGVÉGE" |
single |
which is how you learn one thing about yourself. |
70 |
Malva |
"Todo Lo Que Me Juraste" |
single |
Diverting a culture requires astronomical force, |
71 |
Paleowolf |
"Tree" |
Megalitheon |
or tectonic, |
72 |
Faizal Ddamba Mostrixx |
"Village Bass" |
Kuhamahama 3 |
or whatever you call the attractors that pull our feet back to the ground with every ecstatic step. |