1 |
Lyndsie Alguire |
"Demeter Weeping" |
The Horizon Kisses You Til There's Nothing Left |
This is the breath that you have been holding your breath for. |
2 |
Ozzy Osbourne |
"It's A Raid (feat. Post Malone)" |
Ordinary Man |
This is what it feels like when you hit a wall and it falls over. |
3 |
Lil Darkie |
"SPUNK" |
single |
Neither of these is a strategy. |
4 |
Smokeasac |
"Insomnia" |
single |
Not sleeping, that's a strategy. |
5 |
LiL Lotus |
"I Don't Even Like U" |
single |
Not letting anybody tell you the truth, |
6 |
d1v |
"pieces" |
single |
starting with yourself: |
7 |
Drawn To The Sky |
"I Sea Sirens" |
single |
this is a strategy, |
8 |
ONR |
"Sober (feat. Carina Jade)" |
single |
but then, so is never being home when they land, |
9 |
Blood Command |
"Saturday City" |
single |
betting on invasion when they arrive with cures, |
10 |
Kolokol |
"Pale Star" |
WONDERLAND |
never counting stars or suns, |
11 |
Mashiro Ayano |
"Kodo" |
Alive 4 |
never hoping for or being willing to taste salt. |
12 |
Ryokuoushoku Shakai |
"Sorani Utaeba" |
Shout Baby 4 |
You are not protected by your intentional flaws. |
13 |
Hold out Hope |
"Ash" |
single |
You are not assembled by dreaming hands. |
14 |
04 Limited Sazabys |
"Jumper" |
single |
You are neither a product of panic |
15 |
YUZUKINGDOM |
"Celebrate Your Victories" |
single |
nor a factor. |
16 |
BLACKNAZARENE |
"Ibaranokanmuri" |
ADMIRATION |
It can seem in some pictures like everybody else believes this more deeply than you, |
17 |
goomiey |
"本人" |
single |
and that this confers vicarious immunity |
18 |
ONEPIXCEL |
"Go My Way" |
single |
or justifies lascivious inattention. |
19 |
TossaGirls |
"กราบงามๆ" |
single |
Like any other game, this one has patterns of incongruous rewards |
20 |
Jasmine Cain |
"Be Brave" |
single |
and legends that persist mainly as metaphor |
21 |
Lucifer |
"Midnight Phantom" |
single |
until somebody is too tired to take them any way but literally. |
22 |
In This Moment |
"Hunting Grounds (feat. Joe Cotela of Ded)" |
Hunting Grounds / The In-Between 2 |
Exhaustion is a form or catalyst of rebellion, |
23 |
Allen/Olzon |
"Never Die" |
single |
a cathartic forfeiture of collaborationist resilience. |
24 |
Demons & Wizards |
"Invincible" |
lll (Deluxe Edition) |
Stop and turn around. |
25 |
Semblant |
"Murder of Crows" |
single |
Bring the meteor down, |
26 |
Exlibris |
"Hell or High Water" |
single |
the seas up, |
27 |
Grimgotts |
"For the Power" |
single |
the greatness back, |
28 |
Fallcie |
"A Martyr Is Born" |
single |
apocalypse or rapture. |
29 |
Winterfylleth |
"The Reckoning Dawn" |
single |
All of these deliverances and disasters are the same. |
30 |
Blut Aus Nord |
"Anthosmos" |
Hallucinogen |
All of these corrupt cosmologies preach alien exceptionalisms |
31 |
VETUR |
"Gandreið" |
Vist |
attributed to volumes that itemize, in fact, our indelible estate of ebullient literacy and familial habit. |
32 |
Verikalpa |
"Peikon Kieli" |
Tuoppitanssi |
All of these scriptures codify benedictions |
33 |
Solkyri |
"Shambles" |
single |
where what we really need is blank space and an hour. |
34 |
On Thorns I Lay |
"Ouranio Deos" |
Threnos |
We imagine our robots as marionettes on wireless strings, |
35 |
Wardruna |
"Grá" |
single |
and then stand waiting crossly for the trees to move. |
36 |
Kracauer |
"112" |
Diferencia y Repetición |
Our moment comes, and we are caught speechlessly declaring our definitive triumph |
37 |
Dance Gavin Dance |
"Prisoner" |
single |
while our plumage ignites. |
38 |
Ithaca |
"Clsr." |
single |
There is so much less of ourselves than we think left, |
39 |
KAMI WA SAIKORO WO FURANAI |
"Yurameitesoro" |
kotowari 5 |
and we are mostly held in place by our feet pressing wildly down. |
40 |
FAKE STANCE |
"Iris" |
single |
If you were to tell this story in drums and water, |
41 |
Telefon Tel Aviv |
"The Means Whereby Lovers Are Waylaid" |
single |
it would have to begin with regret, |
42 |
Saytr Play |
"Future" |
single |
but it would have to let regret go. |
43 |
Empty Country |
"Marian" |
single |
You cannot fight gravity or entropy |
44 |
Archers Of Loaf |
"Raleigh Days" |
single |
with marginal notes towards nominal editions. |
45 |
The Last Confidence |
"Sole Autunnale" |
Dove Sei Ora |
This is your story right now. |
46 |
Piero Pelù |
"Gigante" |
Pugili fragili |
The way you move, when you move, is your dance. |
47 |
PJ North |
"Afraid of the Dark" |
single |
The things you reject accumulate on you like essential dust or inessential oil. |
48 |
17 Memphis |
"Happy" |
single |
Each fury consumes one unit of your soul |
49 |
Karin Park |
"Shape Of A Child" |
single |
that you never get back. |
50 |
Alanis Morissette |
"Smiling" |
Smiling +1 |
Each true invocation conjures one beatific or ironic gift. |
51 |
Ella Vos |
"Turbulence" |
single |
This is the breath you have been gathering to give away |
52 |
Grimes |
"Darkseid" |
Miss Anthropocene |
with an imperious wave |
53 |
San Mei |
"Cherry Days" |
single |
or a shirt in a color you'd forgotten to wear. |
54 |
Purpleshoes |
"Laban" |
single |
Ana Ng sends you love from quarantine, |
55 |
L-Space |
"Karoshi" |
single |
far from her home but farther from yours. |
56 |
Lanterns on the Lake |
"Blue Screen Beams" |
Spook The Herd |
She is tired of this but OK. They will try to sell us hope or change or safety or danger or retreat, |
57 |
Mila Mar |
"Ismare" |
single |
and all we can be sure of is that we won't know which of these was worth our voices until we sing. |
58 |
UUTAi |
"Theme 9 (Unicorn)" |
Meditation. Live. Part Two |
We are less plausible the more accurately we are described. |
59 |
Kodes |
"Ters Köşe" |
single |
There are questions you have not answered forthrightly, about metabolism |
60 |
Cockroach Clan |
"A New England" |
single |
or loneliness, |
61 |
Nightcore Reality |
"Bring Me the Night (Switching Vocals)" |
single |
or what dissipates if you are brave enough to look straight at it and close your eyes. |
62 |
Nightcore God |
"Godzilla" |
single |
We have been given a crystal hospital and a bin of mental blocks and told to build a wall. |
63 |
First to Eleven |
"Numb" |
single |
A wall is not a strategy. A song is a strategy. Singing your enemy's song is a strategy. Replacing enemies with songs is how we cure this. This is what it feels like when you touch a wall and it lets you in. |