1 |
Fly By Nightcore |
"Mr. Brightside" |
single |
The screen freezes silently, sometimes, in between frames, |
2 |
Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus |
"Tie uuteen kotiin" |
Mahdoton yhtälö |
and we have learned, unintentionally, to pause in furious sympathetic silent sync. |
3 |
Heaven Shall Burn |
"Children of a Lesser God" |
Of Truth and Sacrifice |
You have had days in which maybe the world continued, but you did not check to see, |
4 |
Epsilon Zero |
"Solar Flame" |
Solar Flame +3 |
so a day of stasis is beneath remark, |
5 |
Eternal Delyria |
"Dying to Live" |
single |
between notice, |
6 |
Katatonia |
"Behind the Blood" |
single |
behind us even as it begins: |
7 |
Turmion Kätilöt |
"Kyntövuohi" |
single |
Forgettable, |
8 |
Kamara |
"Tämäkin vielä" |
single |
and all we have to do in the morning is forget the number of days, |
9 |
Hecate |
"Fragment d'ether" |
Ode au désert suspendu |
and the one before, and do this one simple tenable tolerable exhausting thing |
10 |
Serpent Column |
"Pantheoclasm" |
Endless Detainment |
again. |
11 |
Regardless Of Me |
"My Bloody Eyes" |
single |
The cats observe my emotional state with the same perpetual patronizing pity as always. |
12 |
Azusa |
"Kill / Destroy" |
Kill / Destroy +3 |
"All cat days are exactly like this, but the food is worse and we poop in a tray." |
13 |
Kirkkovene |
"Epäröimättä Hetkeekään" |
single |
Afterwards, they sleep, |
14 |
In This Moment |
"As Above, So Below" |
As Above, So Below / Hunting Grounds / The In-Between 3 |
but sleep is disregard, and I have not their trust, |
15 |
SinHeresY |
"Immortals" |
single |
nor their ability to permit animal fatalism to be anthropomorphized as trust. |
16 |
Atlántida |
"3.2.5.12.5.2.3.24" |
α 3.2.5.12.5.2.3.24 Ω 3 |
At dinner our daughter demands Rose/Bud/Thorn, |
17 |
Ani Lo Projekt |
"Walk Alone" |
A Time Called Forever |
and I know she doesn't want to hear |
18 |
Miracle Flair |
"The Untold" |
single |
We Didn't Die Today/ |
19 |
Dylem |
"Eye of the Storm" |
Eye of the Storm 5 |
Someday Not Dying Today Will Again Not Be So Obviously the Rose/ |
20 |
ILLUMISHADE |
"Crystal Silence" |
single |
Tomorrow Will Not Be That Day. |
21 |
Skarlett Riot |
"Human" |
single |
The roses hear us out and then say "But spring!" |
22 |
Devil ANTHEM. |
"①②③④⑤" |
Hang Out With Sound |
There are new songs out along the wires. |
23 |
SALTY DOG |
"ANTI-LIAR" |
single |
It isn't just that we have survived worse than this, |
24 |
Yanakoto Sotto Mute |
"Afterglow" |
single |
it's that when we survive this we return to worse than this already in progress, |
25 |
BRATS |
"Ms. Downer" |
single |
at once more painfully aware of our fragility |
26 |
Haru Nemuri |
"愛よりたしかなものなんてない" |
LOVETHEISM |
and more desperately attached to whatever superstition we credit with our fortune. |
27 |
ZETTAI CLUB |
"ZETTAI SIZYOSYUGI" |
KIRIFUDA 5 |
I want to believe that when the last strand of this virus has been disentangled from the last lung |
28 |
HYDE |
"INTERPLAY" |
single |
it will be obvious to every human that we are at the point with climate change now, on Earth, |
29 |
UNiTE. |
"ANOMiE?" |
single |
that we were with the coronavirus in January, in Wuhan. |
30 |
FAKE STANCE |
"Sprout" |
single |
I want to believe that, in a near- to mid-term future without quarantines, |
31 |
Royz |
"DAYDREAM" |
DAYDREAM +3 |
someone will say, after looking around to see if it's a trap and deciding incorrectly that it isn't, |
32 |
Kiyoharu |
"Outsider" |
Japanese Menu / Distortion 10 3 |
"Well, we beat the virus, and we'll beat climate change", |
33 |
Four Get Me A Nots |
"Beautiful" |
KEEP THE FLAME |
and that it will be obvious to every other human that we should have won the last fight without flooding every country's heathcare system, |
34 |
WOZNIAK |
"Waves" |
single |
and that it would be a lot better to win the next one without flooding Miami, |
35 |
Danheim |
"Aesir" |
Skapanir |
New Orleans, |
36 |
Nytt Land |
"Ar Hotan Imi" |
Cvlt |
New York, |
37 |
Myrkur |
"Tor i Helheim" |
Folkesange |
Jakarta, |
38 |
Amanda Aalto |
"Fróðleikr" |
Alku |
Osaka, |
39 |
Eluveitie |
"The Call of the Mountains" |
The Call of the Mountains & Ambiramus in Russian 2 |
Alexandria, |
40 |
Tomorrow's Eve |
"Imago" |
single |
Rio de Janeiro, |
41 |
Exlibris |
"Shadowrise" |
single |
Shanghai |
42 |
Paralydium |
"Finding the Paragon" |
single |
and the moon. |
43 |
The Third Grade |
"The Lost" |
Of Fire and Ashes (Pt. 2) |
But previously, in this halucination of collective rationality, |
44 |
Posthumanbigbang |
"Homebound II" |
Jungle Eyes |
I have wanted to believe in the obviousness of a lot of other obvious things. |
45 |
Shattered Skies |
"Born of Solder" |
single |
The virus has the advantage of nominal invisible omnipresence, |
46 |
Firewind |
"Rising Fire" |
single |
while the seas are unmistakable. |
47 |
Conception |
"By the Blues" |
single |
We can't simply bluff them into retreat by closing some food courts for a month. |
48 |
Deep Purple |
"Throw My Bones" |
single |
Take this moment, though, to think about what you actually need. |
49 |
The Jerry Cans |
"On the Rocks" |
single |
If your job puts people at risk in a pandemic, |
50 |
downy |
"鮮やぐ視点" |
第七作品集『無題』 |
think about whether it puts their cities or their countries in the way of water or fire. |
51 |
underscores |
"trustfall!" |
single |
What you canceled when you had to, |
52 |
Maya Ricci |
"Mother Seed" |
single |
ponder before you renew. |
53 |
City |
"Piloted" |
Trance Cult Metal 2 |
What you continued because it was allowed, |
54 |
Hydrant House Purport Rife On Sleepy |
"Everlasting changes giving effects(slosh_effort)" |
One Dive |
consider what could convert it from harmless to responsive. |
55 |
LATASHÁ |
"Who I Am" |
single |
This will not be our last pandemic. |
56 |
Olly Anna |
"Shut It Down" |
single |
This is not our only crisis. |
57 |
tētēma |
"Soliloquy" |
single |
But isolation is not our only superpower. |
58 |
Sun Glitters |
"UUnnrreeaall" |
UUnnrreeaall +1 |
We have physics and other numinous algebras. |
59 |
fish narc |
"NEW MEDiCATiON" |
single |
We have immunity compromises and glyphs with power over very specific evils. |
60 |
Carl Stone |
"Au Jus" |
Au Jus / The Jugged Hare 2 |
We have sparkling lights |
61 |
Nihiloxica |
"Tewali Sukali" |
single |
and rituals for transmuting coruscation. |
62 |
Igorrr |
"Camel Dancefloor" |
single |
We can reach any point by walking west from somewhere. |
63 |
MASTER BOOT RECORD |
"ANSI.SYS" |
Floppy Disk Overdrive |
We can extrapolate from nearby coordinates in the distant past, |
64 |
DJ Krush |
"Incarnation - [Album Ver.]" |
TRICKSTER |
along labyrinthine paths |
65 |
It's for us |
"You Are The One" |
single |
into bleary destinies. |
66 |
Restive Plaggona |
"Fall and Free, You and Me" |
Sadness Party |
We have machines for refining hope out of awe. |
67 |
Fightmilk |
"I'm Starting To Think You Don't Even Want To Go To Space" |
single |
We have dreams that don't actually die when we let them go. |
68 |
Empty Country |
"Becca" |
Empty Country |
We have BPA-free bottles of quiet grace |
69 |
All Tvvins |
"Hope It Don't" |
single |
that we left in the freezer last night, |
70 |
Twinnie |
"I Love You Now Change" |
I Love You Now Change |
with hopefully enough air that they won't have exploded |
71 |
Milk Teeth |
"Given Up" |
Better 4 |
in excruciating frozen slow-motion |
72 |
Laveda |
"L" |
single |
as we slept, |
73 |
COLLAPSE |
"DROWN" |
single |
hoping to wake up and not need to stay inside today. |
74 |
San Mei |
"Cry" |
Cry +3 |
We crawled out of the oceans once, |
75 |
Pretenders |
"The Buzz" |
single |
and we can probably do it again if we have to, |
76 |
Viitasen Piia |
"Hyvään maahan" |
single |
but it's not our most recent accomplishment. |
77 |
Nieves |
"A Place to Hide" |
single |
We learned to believe in things we couldn't see, without requiring them to be imaginary. |
78 |
The Parlotones |
"Beautiful Life" |
Beautiful Life +1 |
We have vacuum-cleaner and car companies that could learn to make ventilators, |
79 |
Jannette Chao |
"Invierno en Primavera" |
single |
so we probably also have coal miners who could learn to rebury dimaonds, |
80 |
Delta Rae |
"Burning In Carolina" |
The Light |
and day-traders who could ride bioinformatic monitors. |
81 |
Mahotella Queens |
"Kazet" |
single |
The business trips we don't take in April, we can not take again in May |
82 |
Loki Rothman |
"Op My Pad" |
Op My Pad |
without any two points on the surface of the world growing materially further apart. |
83 |
Mia. |
"No Bad Days" |
single |
We have suspended rules, |
84 |
Last Heroes |
"Underneath The Waves (feat. Monika Santucci)" |
single |
and thus demonstrated their weightlessness. |
85 |
World's End Girlfriend |
"himitsu" |
single |
We were given quiet, and found that we had more than enough noise. |
86 |
Leaaves |
"Hospital Dream" |
We are Beginning to Look Like our Fathers / We are Learning to Love Like our Mothers |
We are given our tenuous alveoli |
87 |
NERATERRÆ |
"Virtues of the Dawn" |
Scenes from the Sublime |
and a satchel of miscellaneous powders compounded for other purposes, |
88 |
RADWIMPS |
"Light The Light" |
single |
and a list of all the other names on Earth. |
89 |
Lucy Mason |
"The Man" |
single |
For now, so briefly however long it takes, we wait. |
90 |
Gouge Away |
"Wave of Mutilation" |
Consider B/W Wave of Mutilation 2 |
We didn't die today, those of us who did nothing but hold still and not die. |
91 |
A Brilliant Lie |
"Africa" |
single |
Our moonlit wings reflect the stars. |
92 |
First to Eleven |
"Face Down" |
single |
One of these suns will rise, and we will reclaim our refusal to drown. |
93 |
Halocene |
"When the Party's Over" |
single |
Maybe we have learned to internalize the discreteness of glitches so that we can let them interrupt our velocity without altering our inertia. |
94 |
Missing Persons |
"Images of Heaven" |
Dreaming |
Or maybe we haven't. After all, we have learned many lessons without somehow learning the one we needed this time. Maybe we can't just resume. Maybe we hope we can't just resume. Some of the gone silences will not be missed. There are new songs out along the wires, still breathing, calling us forward, singing that anything you can't resume is a way to begin again. |