1 |
Temperance |
"Let It Beat" |
Viridian |
Some weeks we think we know a lot of things, and some weeks we suspect that most of these things are either wrong or alternate ways of saying "Fall in love with everything." |
2 |
Allen/Olzon |
"Worlds Apart" |
single |
A frantic tension between breadth-wise obsession and depth-wise obsession |
3 |
Crimson Sun |
"Virtual Reality" |
Fates |
holds us temporarily in place or focus, |
4 |
Elegy Of Madness |
"Apnoea" |
Invisible World |
and we form transient guilds around conjectural permanence |
5 |
Revolution Saints |
"Million Miles" |
Rise |
of coincident bonds. |
6 |
Megaraptor |
"Thunderhorse" |
single |
The viridian impulse is a belief in joy |
7 |
Temperance |
"I Am the Fire" |
Viridian |
as a transformational response to catastrophe, |
8 |
ACME |
"ROTTEN ORANGE" |
WE ARE VISUALKEI |
a willingness to understand the meagerness of nostalgic glories, |
9 |
Xmas Eileen |
"PATH" |
PROTOTYPE 5 |
the realization that the habits we are forced to abandon were mostly always bad. |
10 |
TOTALFAT |
"マイルストーン" |
MILESTONE |
We meant well, |
11 |
postman |
"OLD TALE" |
迷信.ep 3 |
but our idea of our potential |
12 |
MEMAI SIREN |
"image _____" |
image _____ +2 |
is always mostly determined by the limits we assume we have inherited. |
13 |
TrySail |
"Free Turn" |
Free Turn +3 |
We set out to dream, |
14 |
RAISE A SUILEN |
"DRIVE US CRAZY" |
DRIVE US CRAZY +1 |
and end up retelling each old story |
15 |
YEN |
"The moon has lost her sadness" |
DEPTH 5 |
with one new character, |
16 |
VUKOVI |
"Aura" |
Fall Better |
where the new character is almost always us |
17 |
Revel in Romance |
"For a Minute" |
single |
in unconvincing masks and wigs. |
18 |
Glacier Veins |
"Everything Glows" |
single |
The word for imagining a future that differs from the present |
19 |
Dolly Style |
"FRKN PERFECT" |
FRKN PERFECT +1 |
in more than one dimension |
20 |
Ekali |
"Fairy Tale" |
A World Away |
is heroism. |
21 |
Thy Catafalque |
"Vető" |
Naiv |
Anticipated apocalypse is an optional interpretation of catalysis, |
22 |
Dawn Of Solace |
"Choice" |
Waves |
and collapse is only one of the possible ways in which our behaviors could change. |
23 |
The Great Old Ones |
"Lost Carcosa" |
Cosmicism (Deluxe Edition) |
Some days we feel like we have run out of hope, |
24 |
OvO |
"You Living Lie" |
single |
and it is true that we sometimes run out of things: |
25 |
Mitochondrial Sun |
"The Great Filter" |
single |
oat milk, |
26 |
Nero Di Marte |
"Sisyphos" |
Immoto |
moral senators, |
27 |
Scars of Solitude |
"Drown" |
single |
ways to excuse power, |
28 |
Quinto Elemento |
"Tensiones y Tinieblas" |
Retroalimentación 5 |
time, |
29 |
Caspian |
"Wildblood" |
On Circles |
patience. |
30 |
Maserati |
"Wallwalker" |
single |
But all of these things are infinite quantities delivered in finite packages |
31 |
Slowly Slowly |
"Race Car Blues" |
single |
by erratic conduits. |
32 |
Solkyri |
"Pendock & Progress" |
single |
Hope will be restocked. |
33 |
Pyogenesis |
"Survival of the Fittest" |
A Silent Soul Screams Loud |
The pessimist imagines chewing abjectly on bugs. |
34 |
Andromida |
"Abstraction" |
single |
The futurist imagines new tacos |
35 |
Temperance |
"Nanook" |
Viridian |
that fly to us on their own delicious wings. |
36 |
Mila Mar |
"Hyaene" |
single |
Some days we feel like we have finally used up the old carton of hopes, |
37 |
Kinga Bán |
"Geboren" |
single |
not quite stale enough to justify discarding, |
38 |
Kaija Koo |
"Onnellinen loppu" |
single |
in a flavor we chose before we fully appreciated its aftertastes. |
39 |
tiLLie |
"I.R.L." |
single |
Now we get to make a new choice. |
40 |
Les Amazones d'Afrique |
"Sisters" |
Amazones Power |
Every moment, something runs out |
41 |
Doja Cat |
"Boss Bitch" |
single |
and you get to make new choices: |
42 |
Zdot |
"Quick to Forget" |
single |
new songs, |
43 |
P Money |
"The Calling" |
single |
new gods you invoke when people ask you the same question, |
44 |
Lowkey |
"Iraq2Chile" |
single |
new things you could eat for breakfast, |
45 |
GILA |
"Rider 1 (Darq Windows)" |
single |
new ways to temporarily live forever. |
46 |
Emptyset |
"Sepal" |
single |
The seas rise; |
47 |
Alphaxone |
"Dusk Wings" |
Shadows of Forgotten Legends |
imagine how much work it would have been to lift all that water with buckets. |
48 |
Heldom |
"Nágrindr" |
single |
Viridian nostalgia reinstantiates precautionary myths |
49 |
Mono Inc. |
"Shining Light" |
The Book of Fire |
as immersive fantasies, |
50 |
A Life Divided |
"Confronted" |
single |
regressive politics |
51 |
Unzucht |
"Jenseits der Welt" |
single |
as dystopian escape games, |
52 |
Marathonmann |
"Dein ist mein ganzes Herz" |
single |
pandemics as literal shared pain |
53 |
JMF |
"Die 90's" |
single |
and cartography of our illusions of distance. |
54 |
October Drift |
"Cherry Red" |
Forever Whatever |
You can't fall in love with just one thing, love doesn't work that way. |
55 |
Dagames |
"Sky High" |
single |
When you breathe, all sorts of things get inside of you: |
56 |
Creeper |
"Annabelle" |
Annabelle +1 |
songs you can't hear, |
57 |
Hidden Citizens |
"Nothing Is As It Seems" |
single |
songs you think you can't hear, |
58 |
Knogjärn |
"Ingenting vackert" |
single |
the viruses that other people misdiagnose as beliefs, |
59 |
Trad.Attack! |
"Tehke ruumi!" |
single |
new and old bugs, |
60 |
EMMA6 |
"Überwintern" |
Möglichkeiten 4 |
things you imagined you had breathed out forever. |
61 |
Crimson Sun |
"The Prison" |
Fates |
You can't breathe wrong. Or rather, of course you can, but it doesn't help to think about it that way. |
62 |
Temperance |
"Viridian" |
Viridian |
We might be doomed, but it won't help to think we're doomed. |
63 |
Jorn |
"Winning" |
Heavy Rock Radio II - Executing The Classics |
Better to believe that we, like all of these songs, |
64 |
Thunder And Lightning |
"Hungry Eyes - Metal Version" |
single |
are immortal and continuously reconstituted. |
65 |
Militant Me |
"Sweet Child O' Mine" |
single |
Some weeks this reinvention may feel like regression and defeat, |
66 |
8-Bit Misfits |
"Highway to Hell" |
8-Bit Versions of AC/DC |
but sometimes we try to fall a little bit in love with something that seemed shallow from above, and instead find ourselves falling triumphantly all the way through. |