1 |
SHE'S |
"Your Song" |
single |
We walk with each others' ghosts, |
2 |
Eir Aoi |
"Story" |
Hoshiga Furu Yume 4 |
flash mobs forming and vanishing in between steps, |
3 |
WagakkiBand |
"Ignite" |
REACT 4 |
scents of purpose watching from the edges of buildings and parked cars and tethered dragons. |
4 |
XTEEN |
"LOST GIRLS" |
THE NEW BLACK 3 |
Feudal solitude will not be reclaimed by gerrymandering, |
5 |
Amiliyah |
"Beyond the sea" |
Beyond the sea |
nor justified by cloaked appeals to fear. |
6 |
Momoiro Clover Z |
"stay gold" |
stay gold +3 |
You can deport some of your enemies but none of your own memories. |
7 |
Amberian Dawn |
"Lay All Your Love on Me" |
single |
What you claim to hate grows from inside you, envy oxidizing as enmity. |
8 |
Stitched Up Heart |
"This Skin" |
This Skin |
Thus your desperation becomes your complexion, |
9 |
RedHook |
"Fake" |
single |
a shell contracting from contact with air. |
10 |
a crowd of rebellion |
"Alone//Dite" |
:12_White 4 |
Self-awareness starts with the realization that everybody but you sees the edges of your mask. |
11 |
Lucie,Too |
"Chime" |
single |
We walk with each others' regrets borne together, |
12 |
NoisyCell |
"Ouroboros" |
8. |
which is how closeness is leverage. |
13 |
postman |
"揺らめきと閃き" |
single |
You fill your gift-registry with useless ostensible metrics, |
14 |
PELICAN FANCLUB |
"Primary Colors" |
Primary Colors +2 |
and then count purchases expecting them to quantify your joy. |
15 |
LUNKHEAD |
"ENTRANCE" |
REACT2 |
Joy does not start with measurement, |
16 |
ASH DA HERO |
"Gatekeeper" |
single |
nor end with admission. |
17 |
Crimson Sun |
"Essence of Creation" |
single |
Joy is a motion, |
18 |
Human Fortress |
"Thunder" |
single |
a flourish not meant to denote possession |
19 |
Serenity |
"Set the World on Fire" |
single |
or outline regions of control. |
20 |
Coronatus |
"No Planet B" |
The Eminence of Nature |
You can have your own planet, any of these countless uninhabited worlds with which the sky overflows, |
21 |
Symphonity |
"Marco Polo (Pt. 2) - Crimson Silk" |
single |
but if you think isolation will be peace, |
22 |
Fen |
"The Dead Light, Pt. 1" |
single |
you haven't thought through the composition of the atmophere, |
23 |
Nero Di Marte |
"L'arca" |
single |
and if you think authority is affirmation, |
24 |
Öxxö Xööx |
"3ën" |
Ÿ |
you haven't absorbed what "uninhabited" means. |
25 |
Howling North |
"Deprivation" |
Diffusion |
Immunity to loss |
26 |
WAЯROCK |
"Perfect Triumph" |
Perfect Triumph +1 |
can be developed by an assiduous refusal to feel responsible for your own defeats |
27 |
KAMIJO |
"TEMPLE -Blood sucking for praying-" |
TEMPLE -Blood sucking for praying- |
or anybody else's incurred pain, |
28 |
Penicillin |
"九龍頭" |
九龍頭 6 |
in the same way that an immunity to breath |
29 |
Shiva |
"Tokyo Guernica" |
Tokyo Guernica +2 |
can be cultivated by a sufficiently expansive orbit. |
30 |
Triángulo Inverso |
"Seres en Movimiento" |
single |
"What goes around comes around", they tell you, |
31 |
Disillusion |
"Time to Let Go - Single Edit" |
single |
and you fake-grin and say "maybe in eons". |
32 |
Rei Yasuda |
"Not Enough" |
Asymmetry 4 |
And now you have eons to spend pondering the difference between deep states and deep space, |
33 |
zarya |
"Беги" |
Synthetic World 4 |
and we have something that looks a lot like the plans for an orrery of ourselves. |
34 |
clipping. |
"The Deep" |
The Deep +2 |
You can call anything a system if you're willing to reason with clarity about which inputs are used to change which outcomes. |
35 |
Sündenrausch |
"Sirenia" |
Zeitgeist |
AI is a system to shift social control from humanists to technologists, |
36 |
MONO |
"Exit in Darkness" |
single |
and technology is a system to separate authority from responsibility. |
37 |
Mobius |
"Akasha" |
single |
Government can be a system for using tenable rules to catalyze social grace, |
38 |
Digitalism |
"Panavision" |
single |
or a system to magnify and perpetuate transient inequities for the benefit of the advantaged. |
39 |
Milk Teeth |
"Destroyer" |
Destroyer +1 |
Dissent is a system for using truth to apply unsupportable load to defective assemblies, |
40 |
Neck Deep |
"Beautiful Madness" |
The Peace And The B Sides 2 |
but you can tell a lot about a heretic by whether they evaculate the temple before setting it on fire. |
41 |
The Wraith |
"Ballad of Aeon" |
Gloom Ballet |
Time is a system for gaining perspective on things from which you cannot walk away, or must. |
42 |
Cattle Decapitation |
"One Day Closer to the End of the World" |
Death Atlas |
Apocalypse is a system for replacing systems. |
43 |
Echo Machine |
"Headlights" |
single |
We sit with each others' ghosts in temporary fortresses of darkness, |
44 |
Jade Holland |
"Dream Wild" |
single |
and this is not a system, |
45 |
Kvelertak |
"Bråtebrann" |
single |
not a path from one thing we already know to another. |
46 |
Massemord |
"Chaos Within You" |
Luciferi Imperium |
We are not trophies for each other, |
47 |
NINA |
"Automatic Call" |
Automatic Call (Single EP) |
not content to be curated for commodified moods. |
48 |
Fleddy Melculy |
"De Wereld Is Wondermooi - feat. Sven DC from Aborted" |
single |
Today is not a day of rest. |
49 |
Y Cyrff |
"Cymru, Lloegr a Llanrwst" |
Yr Atgyfodi 5 |
Maybe there are days of rest, maybe not. |
50 |
Reism |
"This Reality" |
Dysthymia |
It is hard to categorize hypothetical afterlives, |
51 |
Raven Tide |
"Born Killer" |
single |
as well as pointless. |
52 |
familypet |
"black mass" |
single |
But we do not need to number our Elysia |
53 |
Gyllene Tider |
"Detektiv" |
single |
to know with delirious certainty that we are not among them. |
54 |
Oto Hiax |
"Dapple" |
Two |
We do not need to resolve the frequency of celestial hum |
55 |
Dawn Of Solace |
"Lead Wings" |
single |
in order to compose anthems of defiance. |
56 |
LION |
"第一眼" |
美麗、醜與我 |
We are dressed as each others' demons and mentors, |
57 |
Nemzeti Hang |
"Leszek az angyal, leszek az ördög" |
Legyetek hangosak |
just by each getting up and putting on our usual clothes. |
58 |
I miei migliori complimenti |
"Raggio laser" |
Le femmine i maschi 5 |
Choruses are a system to triangulate our positions in gradual catharses. |
59 |
Debajo Del Promedio |
"La Medicina" |
single |
Catharses are a system of infinite second chance. |
60 |
BRDigung |
"Walking Dead auf XTC" |
single |
You can make any mistake for three minutes, |
61 |
Grizzly |
"Angry Little Boys" |
Movement |
which is not a warning so much as a contest. |
62 |
VON WELT |
"Verschwende deine Jugend" |
single |
None of those minutes or mistakes are wasted, |
63 |
Penitence Onirique |
"La cité des Larmes" |
single |
as long as you have a system for converting combinations of mistake and rue into different mistakes, |
64 |
Arno Carstens |
"Out of the Blue" |
single |
or falling asteroids into astroelectric power. |
65 |
Yeng Constantino |
"Sana Na Lang" |
single |
We walk with future ghosts, |
66 |
Osi And The Jupiter |
"Lœradr" |
Nordlige Rúnaskog |
who will hold us as accountable as our ancestors for whatever doom we have failed to avert. |
67 |
Magica |
"My Sweetest Sentinel" |
single |
Vigilance is a system for separating recrimination from justice. |
68 |
Kali Mutsa |
"CORO de DAENA" |
MADRE del AGUA |
You cannot disguise Luddite nihilism as restoration just by tricking the rock giants into smashing your parents' dubious gifts to your abstracted idols instead of doing it yourself. |
69 |
Kaunis Kuolematon |
"Tuhottu elämä" |
single |
The forest spirits do not exist to be retained for change-management consulting. |
70 |
Exploring Birdsong |
"The Sinking Question" |
The Thing with Feathers 6 |
They do not exist for any purpose of yours, of course, nor at all, |
71 |
BURSTERS |
"Savage" |
single |
but the versions of them in your mythologies exist to show you that it is possible to invert your subjective relationship to an environment, |
72 |
Jaclyn Kenyon |
"Daddy's Got a Shotgun" |
single |
and thus, sometimes, to assert some control over what constitutes an environment, |
73 |
龍崎一 |
"Torch lighter" |
single |
and thus over how much we will lose in whatever we have most recently set on fire. |
74 |
Marillion |
"Seasons End" |
With Friends from the Orchestra |
We will tell our children that their new songs are as great as our old ones, |
75 |
Gary Numan |
"Pray for the Pain You Serve - Live at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester" |
Pray for the Pain You Serve 2 |
and then watch their faces to try to learn how that is true. |
76 |
Howie Lee |
"Mountain Song in a Jar - Alex Wang Remix" |
Tiān Dì Bù Rén |
We will seek ways to disconnect consequence from force, |
77 |
First to Eleven |
"Bring Me to Life" |
single |
and hopelessness from both silence and roar. |
78 |
Halocene |
"Everything I Wanted" |
single |
We will hold our own ghosts' hands when it is time to die, so that this time we are holding them from the beginning as we come alive again. |