1 |
Gang Of Four |
"The Dying Rays (2020)" |
single |
We will be remembered by our songs, |
2 |
Ardours |
"Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" |
single |
by how we sang in moments of despair or restoration, |
3 |
First to Eleven |
"Dance Monkey" |
Covers, Vol. 5 |
by how our voices could make any story enact any moral, |
4 |
NateWantsToBattle |
"Endless Possibility" |
Gotta Go Fast |
or breathe restlessness into any outline. |
5 |
Stand Atlantic |
"Shh!" |
single |
We will not be quiet. |
6 |
The Bombpops |
"Double Arrows Down" |
single |
We want to attribute this to the strength of our defiance, |
7 |
ReoNa |
"Till the End" |
single |
but defiance is an erratic power, |
8 |
IRONBUNNY |
"Black is the new innocence" |
single |
and what we're more consistently bad at is silence. |
9 |
KOTARO SAITO |
"Hello - feat. SAYUKI & 宮内 告典" |
single |
We can shut up, |
10 |
SCANDAL |
"Ceramic Blue" |
Kiss from the darkness |
but only one of us at a time. |
11 |
Seiko Oomori |
"アナログシンコペーション" |
大森靖子 |
Somewhere on the planet, right now, a human being has nothing to say. |
12 |
AKKOGORILLA |
"Meki Meki World (feat. Malawi kids)" |
Miracle Me e.p. 5 |
We are not that person. |
13 |
goomiey |
"118号線" |
single |
Somewhere a human has no sudden realization, |
14 |
Lovebites |
"Signs of Deliverance" |
Signs of Deliverance / When Destinies Align 2 |
no erupting joy, |
15 |
Stitched Up Heart |
"Straitjacket" |
Straitjacket |
no seething fury. |
16 |
Fourth Circle |
"The Truth" |
single |
And then their momentary death passes, and they shudder once and shout. |
17 |
Diabulus in Musica |
"One Step Higher" |
Euphonic Entropy |
We are not serene objects; |
18 |
Amaranthe |
"Do or Die" |
single |
we have no essential crystalline structure |
19 |
Seven Spires |
"Unmapped Darkness" |
Emerald Seas |
or single resonant frequency |
20 |
Emerald Mind |
"We Are One" |
single |
unless you count "once" and "never" as frequencies. |
21 |
ILLUMISHADE |
"Rise" |
Rise +1 |
Once we were the void; |
22 |
FAKE ISLAND |
"Just wanna live" |
single |
never again. |
23 |
Aiolin |
"Dusk Reaper" |
single |
While we are here, we are here forever, |
24 |
Demons & Wizards |
"Wolves in Winter" |
single |
disorganized immortals who always intended to unionize, |
25 |
Black Royal |
"Hail Yourself" |
Firebride |
complaining about the naive solutions proposed |
26 |
Blaze of Perdition |
"Królestwo Niebieskie" |
The Harrowing of Hearts |
to our hastily drafted declarations of entitlement. |
27 |
Dark Fortress |
"The Spider in the Web" |
single |
Our demons disavow us, |
28 |
Ihsahn |
"Telemark" |
Telemark 5 |
and we get up and walk to the other side of the gym, |
29 |
Myrkur |
"Leaves of Yggdrasil" |
single |
swirled in all the same contagions. |
30 |
Hitomi Yaida |
"Ring my bell" |
Keep Going |
Our best pandemics share the cadences of reprisal and reprise: |
31 |
Chara |
"Ainohi Mittsu Orange - 2020Version" |
Echo |
we have stood on this invisible brink before, |
32 |
LAZYgunsBRISKY |
"Stand Up!" |
single |
with these calculated condescensions brushing against our skin, |
33 |
I Break Horses |
"I'll Be The Death Of You" |
single |
waiting to feel the familiar stabbing needles of the next supposed cure. |
34 |
Moonrunner83 |
"The Last Time" |
The Last Time (feat. NINA) 4 |
We have been held here, |
35 |
GGOOLLDD |
"Success!" |
Here We Are |
on Earth, |
36 |
La Bouquet |
"Wear My Love" |
single |
by diagnostic uncertainty |
37 |
Bravo Fisher! |
"Proyectil" |
single |
and love for our own magnanimous helplessness. |
38 |
Irina |
"Rankka päivä" |
single |
We were majestic demigods |
39 |
Edurne |
"Despiértame Cuando Te Vayas" |
single |
until we forgot to wash our hands after roasting a pangolin. |
40 |
Matia Bazar |
"Es El Tiempo" |
single |
We thought we knew what love was, |
41 |
Esjava |
"El Incendio" |
Donde Nace la Luz |
a kind of fire made out of our yearning, |
42 |
Spoek Mathambo |
"Bumaye" |
single |
until we realized that we have no idea how to extinguish it. |
43 |
NNAMDÏ |
"Flowers To My Demons" |
single |
It expands in airlessness, |
44 |
Sunset Sweatshop |
"Aye" |
single |
permeates membranes, |
45 |
The Jerry Cans |
"Havava" |
single |
explains itself in inconvenient languages. |
46 |
Mdou Moctar |
"Ibitlan" |
single |
It attaches itself to our blood cells |
47 |
Casero |
"Los planes contigo" |
single |
with insidious sequences |
48 |
Votum |
"Void" |
single |
and a cold sure grip. |
49 |
Nicumo |
"Time Won't Heal" |
single |
We have belated vaccines, |
50 |
Shakra |
"Fireline" |
single |
slow election cycles, |
51 |
Harem Scarem |
"Change the World" |
single |
obsolete promises |
52 |
Ani Lo Projekt |
"A Time Called Forever" |
single |
and oversimplified fables. |
53 |
The Bunny The Bear |
"Visions" |
single |
We learn to require magic |
54 |
Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus |
"Kolme vuotta sitten" |
single |
in order to spurn mere grace, |
55 |
Hora Zulú |
"De-Que-Rer-Ser" |
single |
and then wonder why heroism seems like |
56 |
Kvelertak |
"Discord" |
Splid |
a transience that augurs guilt. |
57 |
THICK |
"Bumming Me Out" |
Bumming Me Out +1 |
We engender demagogues who tell us our frailties are simple, |
58 |
Beach Bunny |
"Cuffing Season" |
Honeymoon |
when what we need is people willing to itemize the fascinations of complexity. |
59 |
Ratboys |
"Anj" |
Anj +2 |
We need a plan |
60 |
Mo Troper |
"Your Boy" |
Natural Beauty |
more than we need a country. |
61 |
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit |
"Be Afraid" |
single |
You cannot disentangle Israel and Palestine |
62 |
The Smith Street Band |
"Big Smoke" |
single |
by giving every other person different color hats and then photographing them from above. |
63 |
Sam Fender |
"Hold Out" |
single |
You cannot get out of a love into which you have fallen |
64 |
Carly Pearce |
"Dashboard Jesus" |
Carly Pearce |
with half a tank of gasoline, |
65 |
Robyn Ottolini |
"Girl Next Door" |
single |
a half-self-aware promise, |
66 |
Cam |
"Till There's Nothing Left" |
single |
an ardent fatalism |
67 |
Lanterns on the Lake |
"When It All Comes True" |
single |
and an electric car. |
68 |
LEDGER |
"My Arms" |
single |
But here's the thing it says, in secret ink, |
69 |
Foreign Forest |
"Hole In My Heart" |
single |
on the inside of that desperate feeling they prey on: |
70 |
Wstdyth |
"Bummer" |
single |
loss is a rotational coordination of conviction, |
71 |
Mary Mortem |
"AsTheSunRisesAndBleedsThrough" |
Deserve Nothing |
in the same way that fear is a placeholder for understanding. |
72 |
Voina |
"Uragani" |
Ipergigante |
A song you don't yet know |
73 |
Puta Volcano |
"Black Box" |
Black Box - Single 2 |
is your heart's way to remind you that there is a person who is correct about everything, |
74 |
Képzelt Város |
"True of Voice" |
Samizdat |
and thus has nothing left to learn from surprise, |
75 |
Talk to Her |
"Innocence" |
Love Will Come Again |
and that person is not you or anyone for whom you will ever get to cast a vote. |
76 |
Tiny Leaves |
"Siba" |
single |
We will not be remembered, |
77 |
Hidden Citizens |
"Swan Lake - Epic Trailer Version" |
Revivals, Vol. 2 |
but our songs will be sung, |
78 |
Peter Hollens |
"Into the Unknown (From "Frozen 2")" |
single |
or the songs our songs kissed on a plague ship. |
79 |
First to Eleven |
"You Oughta Know" |
single |
We will be given essential repeated lessons, |
80 |
Nightcore by Halocene |
"Shut up and Dance" |
Nightcore Cene: V5 |
and leave them on table in the hall when we hear an urgent weird sound from up the stairs. |
81 |
Fly By Nightcore |
"Payphone (Switching Vocals)" |
single |
Did I already say that we're bad at silence? What is that? |
82 |
Parry Gripp |
"I'm a Burrito" |
single |
Did I already say it again? Do you hear it too? |