1 |
W O L F C L U B |
"All We Live For" |
single |
We invented the internet in time, |
2 |
Moonrunner83 |
"Paradise" |
Paradise (feat. Emma Rowley) 6 |
and synthesizers and streaming, |
3 |
The Birthday Massacre |
"Enter" |
Diamonds |
and disembodied aesthetics of resolve and rapture. |
4 |
Igorrr |
"Downgrade Desert" |
Spirituality and Distortion |
We were not ready, but we were ready enough to take our aspirational worlds inside with us, |
5 |
Not Secured, Loose Ends |
"Still Roaring" |
Still Roaring / REDERA 2 |
ready enough to be connected, in our isolation, to our imaginary alternate selves. |
6 |
工藤晴香 |
"Memory Suddenly" |
KDHR 6 |
I miss a hundred frivolous and unnecessary things, |
7 |
Excuse For An Exit |
"Take Me Out" |
Hot Mess |
and the thresholds of necessary have barely begun to rise in earnest, |
8 |
Ad Infinitum |
"Live Before You Die" |
single |
but there are still songs. |
9 |
Silentium |
"Unchained" |
single |
There will continue to be songs. |
10 |
Ravenscry |
"Maybe" |
single |
I believe that music is the thing that humans do best, |
11 |
Sacred Groove |
"Ghosts of Yesterday" |
single |
and this will not be the plague that takes our souls from us. |
12 |
Nevaria |
"Drowning" |
single |
We may be literally decimated by silence, |
13 |
Divitius |
"Phalanx" |
single |
but we will not be silenced. |
14 |
Lovebites |
"The Unbroken" |
single |
We may never go back to flying around the planet |
15 |
KEYTALK |
"サンライズ" |
single |
packed in tubes, |
16 |
Age Factory |
"1994" |
single |
believing ourselves capable of observing without contamination, |
17 |
illiomote |
"What is??" |
single |
but this was never as true as we pretended. |
18 |
Yabai T-Shirts Yasan |
"光のロック" |
single |
We always changed everything we touched. |
19 |
Wolpis Kater |
"Colors" |
40果実の木 |
Every breath is some particle or delusion's suicide mission from lung to lung. |
20 |
HEY-SMITH |
"Soundtrack" |
Life in the Sun |
Every year has some 1491 in it. |
21 |
SUPER BEAVER |
"ロックンロール イズ ノットデッド" |
サンボマスター究極トリビュート ラブ フロム ナカマ |
But in the year of this plague, |
22 |
THE ORAL CIGARETTES |
"Dream In Drive" |
single |
knowledge moves independently of ships, |
23 |
Nothing’s Carved In Stone |
"NEW HORIZON" |
single |
or germs or steel. |
24 |
BURSTERS |
"Once and for All" |
Once and for All |
Our love is not quarantined. |
25 |
EASTOKLAB |
"Rainbow" |
single |
The record stores close for a month, and our loss is measured in |
26 |
Unreqvited |
"Deadmoon" |
single |
affectation and talismans. |
27 |
Joshua Travis |
"4-24-20" |
single |
The concert halls close for a year, |
28 |
No Ostriches |
"Ostrich Nominalism" |
single |
and we are confronted with economic constraints |
29 |
Kreator |
"666 - World Divided" |
single |
that were already mostly prohibitive when they were open, |
30 |
Aeternam |
"Hanan Pacha" |
Al Qassam |
but not inherently existential. |
31 |
Okkultokrati |
"Kiss of Death" |
single |
We may never go back to contact sports in stadia, |
32 |
Wake |
"In the Lair of the Rat Kings" |
Devouring Ruin |
but there were no indie football players. |
33 |
WuW |
"Ce silence qui nous délivre de tout" |
Rétablir L'eternité |
Modern spectator sports are linear descendants of imperial gladiator contests |
34 |
Naglfar |
"Vortex of Negativity" |
single |
but modern popular music is an exponential extrapolation of royal court-music patronage. |
35 |
Ghostheart Nebula |
"Apathetic Lacrymae" |
single |
When Daniel Ek stakes Spotify to the goal of a million creators living off their work, |
36 |
Naked Identity Created by King |
"Border" |
Enemy 3 |
the quantity is ambitious, but the concept is not insane. |
37 |
Arise in Stability |
"Thoughts from a Wooden Statue" |
Dose Again |
There are five million artists on Spotify already. |
38 |
Noy |
"The faraway coordinate" |
single |
You never hear Roger Goodell talk about a million athletes living off of American football. |
39 |
Brutus |
"Sand" |
single |
The NFL has fewer than 2000 players. |
40 |
Lingua Ignota |
"O Ruthless Great Divine Director" |
single |
If we can't have stadiums any more, |
41 |
Cucina Povera |
"Salvia Salvatrix" |
Tyyni |
we'll figure out how to televise e-sports, |
42 |
TORRES |
"Wandering Star" |
single |
and dealing with the extra carpal tunnel treatments |
43 |
BABii |
"RGB" |
iii 3 |
will be a lot easier than the arthritis and concussions. |
44 |
Qveen Herby |
"Check" |
single |
Or maybe less sports, more music. |
45 |
Vanessa Carlton |
"I Can't Stay the Same" |
Love is an Art |
Empty the temples, |
46 |
Forget Basement |
"Love Thee" |
The Elephant Tree |
fill the headphone factories. |
47 |
Milk Teeth |
"Flowers" |
Milk Teeth |
We have supported unsustainable idolatry for long enough, too long. |
48 |
Brass Against |
"Pull the Trigger" |
single |
The new priests use the halls for server farms, |
49 |
The Anix |
"Give It Up" |
Give It Up |
not congregational super-contagion. |
50 |
Havok |
"Post-Truth Era" |
single |
There is a message about churches |
51 |
Nicumo |
"Dark Rivers" |
Inertia |
and the vulnerability of throngs. |
52 |
Chief State |
"Try Hard" |
Tough Love |
The faiths that survive this will be the ones structurally capable of confessing |
53 |
Ready Steady Steroids |
"Songs I Wrote About You" |
single |
that their old organizations served their mortal, not moral, shape. |
54 |
Lastkaj 14 |
"Gråa vardagar" |
Speglar och rök |
The mythologies that outlive this will be the ones that don't have to explain |
55 |
Sapphire Eyes |
"Magic Moment" |
single |
how invisible beings gathered people together in order to spread invisible sickness. |
56 |
The Brevet |
"Roses" |
single |
The true forms always offer joy without condition of punishment or judgment. |
57 |
Down for Whatever |
"Megfagytál" |
single |
Every critical job increases the world's net joy, |
58 |
VON WELT |
"Ein Komet" |
single |
and this plague is only a partial basic lesson in which things actually have to be done. |
59 |
Fuimadane |
"Aepte" |
Hundruði Hljóða |
We need to eat, we need to keep things clean, we need to heal the wounded. |
60 |
Lainey Wilson |
"WWDD" |
WWDD +1 |
We need to tell each other stories. |
61 |
Holley McCreary |
"Running" |
single |
We don't actually need to buy and sell stocks. |
62 |
Oakman |
"Naufragé" |
single |
We don't need to impose artificial misfortune and then sell bets against luck. |
63 |
Lizzy Farrall |
"Yellow Paint" |
Bruise |
We don't need all of those chemicals, all of that coal or smog. |
64 |
Peakes |
"A Sacred Place" |
single |
We don't need most of those airplanes or cars, |
65 |
Bendik |
"Eg må videre" |
Sove |
or oligarchs. |
66 |
Edurne |
"Lo Que Perdí al Perderte" |
single |
The regimes that survive this will be the ones that never fell for their own bluffs. |
67 |
Mia. |
"Sorgenfalter" |
Limbo |
We invented democracy in time, |
68 |
Silbermond |
"Machen wir das Beste draus (homerecordings)" |
single |
and socialism almost soon enough. |
69 |
Helga Weiss |
"Schwanensee" |
single |
We had wires for warning signals, |
70 |
Mission House |
"Behold" |
Behold +1 |
and we wrote down the messages in both our newest and oldest inks. |
71 |
Pretenders |
"Hate for Sale" |
single |
We freshly rechalked our borders and our exceptionalist self-images, |
72 |
Unique Salonga |
"Lamang Lupa" |
Pangalan |
and they saved us from nothing. |
73 |
Wstdyth |
"By My Side" |
single |
Warning reached us faster than the virus, |
74 |
yesterday |
"NO TAKING IT BACK" |
single |
but acceptance slower than justice. |
75 |
brakence |
"dropout" |
punk2 |
The air is clear, the streets are quiet. |
76 |
Lil Darkie |
"banana pie" |
single |
The grace of our pathetic fragility |
77 |
Mercenaries |
"Panzer" |
single |
is that we cannot just resume. |
78 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Strong" |
single |
We may still escape this plague without millions dead, |
79 |
Tamikrest |
"Anha Achal Wad Namda" |
Tamotaït |
but only by admitting that however bad this gets, |
80 |
Simmy |
"Ngihamba Nawe (feat. Sino Msolo)" |
single |
it could trivially have been orders of magnitude worse. |
81 |
Earlyguard |
"Always Unfinished" |
single |
We may get to touch strangers again, |
82 |
In This Moment |
"Fly Like An Eagle" |
Mother |
but only by admitting that anybody whose breath reaches your throat is the same as you. |
83 |
Halocene |
"I Love Me" |
single |
We found each other in time, and we stand six feet apart and meet each other's eyes. |
84 |
Evynne Hollens |
"Into the Unknown (From "Frozen 2")" |
single |
We don't know what happens next, but we have a thousand fears to keep us awake and a million dreams to drive them away. |
85 |
Peter Hollens |
"The Hand Washing Song (COVID-19 Medley)" |
single |
Wash your hands and get ready. |