1 |
Alphaxone |
"Frozen Light" |
Dystopian Gate |
Sometimes you open your eyes in darkness |
2 |
Francisca Valenzuela |
"Ven a Buscarlo" |
La Fortaleza |
and have to believe that the light will come again. |
3 |
Rina Katahira |
"Sunny - Album Mix" |
Ichinenju |
It has before, and aren't you at least that optimistic? |
4 |
ReoNa |
"Ougon no Kagayaki" |
single |
The light has been blasting across millions of miles at its top, and indeed only, speed just to reach you |
5 |
Roselia |
"約束" |
約束 +1 |
blinking in your splendid bed |
6 |
Mashiro Ayano |
"Alive" |
single |
to say "yes, let's do this again". |
7 |
悠木 碧 |
"Unbreakable" |
Unbreakable +3 |
And you say "ok, maybe, probably, but let me savor this taste of resignation for a moment". |
8 |
Superfly |
"Gemstone" |
0 |
What if it were all over? You know how you've been worrying about the end of the world? You can stop worrying. |
9 |
été |
"High Hopes" |
episode 5 |
And if you could stop worrying in the face of imminent apocalypse, |
10 |
Cidergirl |
"飛行船" |
SODA POP FANCLUB 3 |
can't you do it at will? |
11 |
KAMI WA SAIKORO WO FURANAI |
"Juvenile Ni Sasagu" |
single |
We have this magnificent tormented moment. |
12 |
Survive Said The Prophet |
"Your head" |
Inside Your Head |
We have, apparently, the collective ability to reconstitute the entirety of musical potential every week, |
13 |
Serenity |
"My Kingdom Comes" |
single |
or every day, |
14 |
We Sell The Dead |
"Carved in Stone" |
Carved in Stone / Black Sleep / Across the Water 3 |
and thus probably every moment. |
15 |
Victorius |
"Astral Assassin Shark Attack" |
Space Ninjas From Hell |
I'm at least half serious. |
16 |
Amberian Dawn |
"Looking for You" |
single |
Or maybe at most. |
17 |
Crimson Sun |
"The Last Day on Earth" |
single |
Seriousness, like certainty, is an artifact of constrained perspective |
18 |
Ann My Guard |
"V0Id" |
single |
and interrupted time. |
19 |
DIAMANTE |
"Obvious" |
single |
The glass has and will have had every amount of water. |
20 |
Darktribe |
"Voici l'homme" |
Voici l'homme |
We have or will have sung every possible song. |
21 |
Sabaton |
"Angels Calling" |
single |
But this, this is the perfect moment when we sang this song in particular, |
22 |
Dark Fortress |
"Isa" |
single |
basked in its shameless or complicated lineage, |
23 |
Erebos |
"Nighted and Abysmal Secrets of the Infinite" |
single |
allowed ourselves to be gnawed by its fears, |
24 |
Karg |
"Tod, wo bleibt dein Frieden" |
single |
howled at its fate or on behalf of its victims. |
25 |
Godthrymm |
"The Sea as My Grave" |
single |
We walk among the entombed, |
26 |
Black Royal |
"Firebride" |
single |
taking our turns or giving them back. |
27 |
Tombs |
"The Dark Rift" |
single |
Sometimes you close your eyes in darkness, |
28 |
Porta Nigra |
"Die Entweihung von Freya" |
Schöpfungswut |
not to compound absence but to disentangle yourself from inevitability, |
29 |
envy |
"A faint new world" |
single |
however partially or briefly. |
30 |
Irdorath |
"Serca Raskolata" |
single |
Tradition is the slow thought-experiment of inferring motive |
31 |
Myrkur |
"Ella" |
single |
to environment. |
32 |
Hayley Kiyoko |
"she" |
I'm Too Sensitive For This Shit 5 |
But then, so is revolution. |
33 |
Fickle Friends |
"Pretty Great" |
Pretty Great +1 |
So is dancing; |
34 |
Courage My Love |
"Girls" |
single |
so are the roles we pick for ourselves, or imagine have been selected for us; |
35 |
The Naked And Famous |
"Bury Us" |
Bury Us / Sunseeker 2 |
so are our defeats; |
36 |
Tritonal |
"Long Way Home" |
Long Way Home +1 |
so are our journeys. |
37 |
Khymera |
"Walk Away" |
single |
Gravity holds you where you are, |
38 |
Sacrilegio |
"Quien Te Ayudara" |
...Y Se Te Va la Vida [Vinyl Remastered] |
but gently, glad for whatever time you have together, |
39 |
Magnum |
"Madman or Messiah" |
The Serpent Rings |
always knowing you are taller and stronger than this surface, |
40 |
Oniromantic |
"Saturn" |
Chaos Frames |
than any whirling surface. |
41 |
Mobius |
"Bhati" |
single |
Every separation is context for a potential reunion, |
42 |
Divitius |
"Memento Mori" |
single |
every kiss a proactive farewell, |
43 |
Stömb |
"Dimension Zero" |
single |
every universe in line to have us sign a copy |
44 |
The Anix |
"If This World Is With You" |
If This World Is With You +1 |
of their book of laws. |
45 |
SONIKKU |
"Remember To Forget Me" |
single |
Sometimes you manufacture a darkness with your gaze |
46 |
Lil Darkie |
"COLOSSAL CONFLICT" |
single |
in order to prove or discover how your skin glows. |
47 |
nascar aloe |
"IRAQ (IWRECK)" |
single |
It always glows, though. |
48 |
Eric North |
"WORLD_OFF" |
BOOST-MODE |
You aren't fighting for your freedom. |
49 |
Bearded Legend |
"I Came" |
single |
Your freedom exists for its own reasons, and does not need to be validated or defended. |
50 |
TWENTYTHREE |
"A CHANGE OF WEATHER" |
single |
We fight about how to coexist, |
51 |
Gafacci |
"Trotro" |
Face the Wall 5 |
and mostly over whether to coexist together or apart, |
52 |
Bugzy Malone |
"Cause A Commotion (feat. Skip Marley)" |
single |
which is mostly a proxy fight over whether coexisting apart is possible |
53 |
Hollowman Jendor |
"New Shipment" |
London to Prague |
or genocide of every distinction but one is permissible. |
54 |
Deena Abdelwahed |
"Lila Fi Tounes" |
Dhakar 4 |
No and no. |
55 |
Emma |
"Fortuna" |
Fortuna |
Sometimes you open your heart and find that the darkness you fear has been trapped inside, |
56 |
Jannette Chao |
"Avalancha" |
single |
and the rest of the times you discover that your fears were miscalibrated. |
57 |
Coàgul |
"Jo regnaré" |
Jo regnaré, àngel de la guarda 2 |
Either way there is always darkness, |
58 |
Aphonnic |
"Zurda Oveja Negra" |
La Reina |
and thus the first reason to open your heart is always self-preservational. |
59 |
Milk Teeth |
"Transparent" |
Transparent +2 |
But as the darkness surges out, |
60 |
Bacchae |
"Hammer" |
single |
other things crash in: |
61 |
Secret Treehouse |
"At Sunrise" |
single |
how we fall in love with the accents of people who we know are only speaking normally, |
62 |
Sissel Marie |
"Når tida e inne" |
single |
how we dreamily infer elegiac poetry into unknown languages, |
63 |
The Still Tide |
"Keep It" |
Between Skies |
how we backsolve how we would have been if we hadn't always feared what we finally learn not to dread, |
64 |
Lauran Hibberd |
"Bang Bang Bang" |
single |
how we feel when we get an unexpected second chance |
65 |
The Bombpops |
"Notre Dame" |
single |
or something we love catches fire but doesn't quite completely burn, |
66 |
Cayetana |
"Hot Dad Calendar" |
Nervous Like Me |
how the coiled spaces our departing fears leave behind |
67 |
Sobranie 8 18 |
"Angels Fight" |
single |
can be used as molds to mass-produce totems |
68 |
Azusa |
"Memories of an Old Emotion" |
single |
and souvenirs of redemption. |
69 |
AvAciA |
"Vihermaa" |
single |
You open your eyes, and for a moment you have no idea how much time has passed. |
70 |
Fleddy Melculy |
"De Hel Niet Gezien" |
single |
This is a gift. |
71 |
Dan Deacon |
"Become a Mountain" |
Become A Mountain 2 |
What if you slept so long that every problem you knew has been solved? |
72 |
Mo Troper |
"Potential" |
Potential +1 |
What if you slept so peacefully and restoratively |
73 |
Lizzy Farrall |
"Addict" |
Addict +3 |
that the unintended consequences of "solving" the things you thought were problems |
74 |
Forever Starts Today |
"Reckless" |
single |
have themselves long since been mitigated? |
75 |
Point North |
"Into The Dark (feat. Kellin Quinn)" |
single |
What if, as you slept, a cult arose around precepts mistakenly attributed to you, |
76 |
Aubrie Sellers |
"Haven't Even Kissed Me Yet" |
single |
and this is how the world was saved, |
77 |
Ashley McBryde |
"Martha Divine" |
Martha Divine +1 |
both by and without you, |
78 |
Lindsay Foote |
"Don't Go Changing Without Me" |
single |
but still you slept, |
79 |
The Shires |
"Lightning Strikes" |
Lightning Strikes +1 |
and generations later, the world is still hopelessly perfect but nobody remembers why. |
80 |
Tori Deal |
"Love Is Cruel" |
single |
You open your eyes in light, |
81 |
Naneum |
"First Visit" |
Life Cycle |
responsible for everything |
82 |
Hatari |
"Nunquam Iterum, Op. 12" |
Neyslutrans |
but held accountable for nothing. |
83 |
Glows |
"Turn Fast" |
single |
Every color has been given a new name, unburdened by empires, |
84 |
Mura Masa |
"Teenage Headache Dreams (with Ellie Rowsell)" |
R.Y.C |
and each one is a word you thought was only found in transcripts of your internal self-doubt. |
85 |
Sullii |
"Moonlight" |
single |
Your most self-righteous metaphors have been meticulously reindexed |
86 |
Wstdyth |
"Bad Habits" |
single |
by people you always thought were lazy, |
87 |
The Boy with the Lion Head |
"Implodes" |
A Half Remembered Dream |
with a self-defeating combination of jealousy and vindictiveness, |
88 |
The Good The Bad and The Zugly |
"The Kids Are Alt-Right" |
Algorithm & Blues |
and now all operate as synecdoche for breath. |
89 |
Nomy |
"Gone Away" |
Gone Away |
All the places you thought you would never go |
90 |
Aphonnic |
"Necios" |
La Reina |
have been sublimated into comfort-food |
91 |
Orchards |
"Sincerely Overwhelmed" |
single |
and insinuated into the path from your home to whereever you like to stand and think. |
92 |
YOKKO |
"Diamonds" |
Soliva II 5 |
Your canon has dispersed, |
93 |
Leshy |
"Przeniewierstwo" |
Psychopomp |
a diaspora of what you thought meaning meant, |
94 |
VIKING_DEATH_TRAP.EXE |
"BÆNG_RETT_I_BRYNE" |
single |
and now every city has a different statue that looks at you with your own eyes. |
95 |
Igorrr |
"Very Noise" |
single |
You arrive unrecognized |
96 |
Hatari |
"Niðurlút" |
Neyslutrans |
but welcome |
97 |
Wiley |
"Mazza (feat. Scruffizer)" |
single |
on an unnumbered morning, |
98 |
Obongjayar |
"God's Own Children" |
single |
but just in time for breakfast. |
99 |
Zakes Bantwini |
"Amanga - Europe Edit" |
Amanga 2 |
Breakfast here is something made of tesseracts and locust wings, |
100 |
Meryem Saci |
"Eyes on Me" |
single |
but they eat it with tiny donuts, and coffee with Oatly, |
101 |
Francisca Valenzuela |
"Ya No Se Trata De Ti" |
La Fortaleza |
and halfway through they get up and dance a little, distractedly, like they could tell you why if it were important but maybe it isn't. |
102 |
Rina Katahira |
"Jump" |
Ichinenju |
You open your eyes in light, in new but familiar light, |
103 |
Sherol Dos Santos |
"Self Control" |
single |
and say "yes, again, but I have some other things to try this time". |
104 |
Halocene |
"Xanny" |
single |
We're pretty bad at learning, |
105 |
First to Eleven |
"Beautiful People" |
single |
but pretty good at denial, and if we refuse to be our worst selves enough times, eventually we become nearly perfect. |