1 |
CHVRCHES |
"Death Stranding" |
single |
Poetic machinery operates not by simulation but by extrapolation, |
2 |
SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] |
"Tranquility (feat. Anly)" |
Tranquility / Trollz 4 |
not by replication but by implication, |
3 |
Anna Meredith |
"Inhale Exhale" |
single |
not in words and commitment but in numbers and escape. |
4 |
Wonderful★opportunity! |
"KASHI" |
ワン☆オポ!VOL.15 |
An emotional appeal from a system is a violation of human trust |
5 |
Bronnie |
"Not Too Late to Be Okay" |
Dream or Nightmare |
disingenuously mediated by structure. |
6 |
Thyla |
"Two Sense" |
single |
Or else, maybe, human need eating through the seals, |
7 |
Great Grandpa |
"Bloom" |
Bloom +2 |
the conscience of skin emerging in exoskeleton discolorations, |
8 |
Poppy |
"I Disagree" |
I Disagree +1 |
the microflows of hope slowly etching incomplete legends into the edges of support pillars. |
9 |
Bec Sandridge |
"W MY EX" |
TRY + SAVE ME |
We catch our electric cars in the garage at night texting combustion first-loves in half-charge haze. |
10 |
bülow |
"Own Me" |
The Contender 5 |
We catch ourselves missing slow consoles and dim boxes with 9V snaps. |
11 |
Ah-Mer-Ah-Su |
"On (Acapella)" |
Incandescent Body |
We were simpler shells over the same complexities, |
12 |
Josie Cotton |
"Everything is Oh Yeah" |
Everything is Oh Yeah |
the same infinite aspirations dithered to whatever available colors. |
13 |
Angel Olsen |
"New Love Cassette" |
All Mirrors |
We have the discarded carapaces of molted certainties, |
14 |
Kathryn Joseph |
"Whole" |
single |
and the tempting urge to regard them as proof of death, |
15 |
Kaylee Bell |
"Wasted On You" |
single |
but of course it's the opposite: |
16 |
LJ |
"Vegas" |
single |
these ghosts are the deaths peeled off of some new promises |
17 |
BLOXX |
"Go Out With You" |
single |
and some things we only imagine. |
18 |
Doja Cat |
"Bottom Bitch" |
single |
You want something for one night, |
19 |
clipping. |
"Blood of the Fang - Single Edit" |
Blood of the Fang 3 |
but the night's boundaries are elusive. |
20 |
NAH |
"Synthetic Feelings Don't" |
World |
This teleological apparatus converts time into leverage, |
21 |
Scarlxrd |
"WINNING" |
IMMXRTALISATIXN |
or would if it ever kept working long enough. |
22 |
7xvn |
"Show Me God" |
single |
What kind of god would endow their creatures with so much power and so little calibration? |
23 |
Gost |
"Ligature Marks" |
Valediction |
We catch ourselves standing closer together, |
24 |
Tony Njoku |
"NAIVE & APPREHENSIVE" |
YOUR PSYCHE'S RAINBOW PANORAMA |
needing some combination of reminders of humanity and humidity, |
25 |
Crywolf |
"QUIXOTE - SWARM Reimagination" |
OBLIVIØN [Reimagined] |
or diffuse warmth and the initiating sensation of blades. |
26 |
Ember Falls |
"Divine" |
single |
We are exactly that kind of god, |
27 |
IKINÄ |
"En tullu pysähtyy" |
single |
making endless uncontrollable chaos-engines |
28 |
REXORIA |
"Roaring" |
single |
shaped grandly like noise. |
29 |
Dreamhouse |
"All In" |
single |
It would be foolish to bet on us, |
30 |
Lacuna Coil |
"Save Me" |
single |
but also pointless to bet against us, |
31 |
Eleine |
"Enemies" |
single |
which is how knowledge keeps losing to purpose |
32 |
Apocalyptica |
"Ashes Of The Modern World" |
single |
despite any amount of preparation or attention to tactics. |
33 |
Alfahanne |
"Lovers Against the World" |
Atomvinter |
Once you have learn to write a love song about death |
34 |
Necronomicon |
"The Thousand Masks" |
single |
you are invested with an unruly power, |
35 |
Cattle Decapitation |
"Bring Back the Plague" |
single |
with the tension between a measurement of the depth of your own darkness |
36 |
Vukari |
"Abrasive Hallucinations (Reality Hemorrhaging)" |
Aevum |
and the knife that was used to poke stars in the sky. |
37 |
In Mourning |
"Hierophant" |
Garden of Storms |
You have replays of destruction, |
38 |
Insomnium |
"Wail of the North" |
Heart Like a Grave |
and somewhere there is always something breaking apart on camera. |
39 |
Nemuer |
"Yggdrasil Trembles" |
single |
They say the cameras didn't cause this, but there's a reason Odin didn't have infinite ravens, |
40 |
Diaura |
"FINALE" |
FINALE -Last Rebellion- (通常盤) C Tyte 3 |
or why infinite ravens chose to materialize only in pairs. |
41 |
DEZERT |
"Bakemono" |
single |
It is not necessary to use all of your power at once, |
42 |
Rikugo |
"弛まぬは銀" |
饒彩万輝 |
but you'll make bad decisions if you don't at least roughly know its extent, |
43 |
raymay |
"Godo" |
single |
which of course you don't, |
44 |
ReaL |
"Genjyou Destruction" |
Unchain My Heart 2 |
and so ridiculous overkill is another way of saying that you believe: |
45 |
DESU.RABBITS |
"Tokyo no Sukima" |
single |
in collective action through formal social structures, |
46 |
All Good Soldiers |
"Overcome Yourself" |
single |
in cathartic displacement as a kind of love, |
47 |
Unknöwn Kun |
"How Beautiful You Are" |
Whö is Me? 6 |
that matching humans to lines teaches you about tolerance |
48 |
Have a Nice Day! |
"Night Rainbow" |
single |
in the same haphazard way that waiting for rainbows teaches you about paint, |
49 |
Mrs. GREEN APPLE |
"Attitude" |
Attitude |
that transporting air and water through the same intake is an overefficiency |
50 |
TK from Ling tosite sigure |
"melt (with suis from Yorushika)" |
single |
we only get away with because we do ultimately need to sing more than we need to drink, |
51 |
Cocco |
"願い叶えば" |
スターシャンク |
that the only truths we fully recognize are the ones we wanted |
52 |
Marsella |
"Histeria de Lo Nuestro" |
single |
but that dreaming is free. |
53 |
Viva Suecia |
"Será" |
El Milagro |
We have replays of destruction, |
54 |
Los Punsetes |
"Una Persona Sospechosa" |
Aniquilación |
but then we set them to music, |
55 |
Silver Sphere |
"can’t sleep in" |
yikes! |
and they downshift into slow motion of their own involition, |
56 |
Flying Colors |
"The Loss Inside" |
Third Degree |
and now we have another elegy to impermanence. |
57 |
Exploring Birdsong |
"The River" |
single |
Even the immortal are subject to erosion. |
58 |
Emptyset |
"Blade" |
single |
"In a sense," Time corrects us, "only the immortal are subject to erosion." |
59 |
Ka Baird |
"Spiritus Operis" |
single |
We are convulsed by the exact relationship of shoreline and ocean; |
60 |
Nihiloxica |
"Diggi Dagga" |
Biiri 4 |
Time says "All of this was once Atlantis, |
61 |
Causa de Muerte |
"Ecos de Fuego" |
single |
but I still had the knife I had used to poke stars in the sky, |
62 |
Dragonfly |
"Alter Ego" |
single |
and I wrote a song about how the world could be rendered." |
63 |
The Menzingers |
"High School Friend" |
Hello Exile |
We remember nights when we wanted less; |
64 |
Swim Deep |
"0121 Desire" |
Emerald Classics |
Time says "You never wanted less, |
65 |
White Ring |
"Shaken to Sleep" |
Slow Burned 2 |
you were just worse at explaining it to yourself, |
66 |
Levante |
"Reali" |
Magmamemoria |
and more easily distracted by temporary and placatory envies." |
67 |
I Botanici |
"Camomilla (feat. Lo Stato Sociale)" |
single |
We thought we had cyphers of surrender, |
68 |
Ákos |
"Idősziget" |
Idősziget |
but in translation those turned out to be anthems, too. |
69 |
Alter Bridge |
"Dying Light" |
Dying Light 5 |
We had attempted farewells that just keep starting over. |
70 |
Syberia |
"After the Uprising" |
Seeds of Change |
We had cycles of rebellion and reversion, |
71 |
Nomy |
"The Kids Aren't Alright" |
The Kids Aren't Alright |
and entropy tore at our clothes |
72 |
Vineyard Worship |
"All The Ways" |
single |
until we thought of enough reasons to give up. |
73 |
Anti-Flag |
"Christian Nationalist" |
single |
We wrote them all down, and when you come for books to burn, we can start with that. |
74 |
Bronnie |
"Ageing" |
Dream or Nightmare |
Time says "The books never take long to burn. I always win". And we smile say "So far." |