1 |
CHVRCHES |
"Forever - Separate But Together" |
Forever (Separate But Together) 2 |
You can't hate anything forever, |
2 |
W O L F C L U B |
"Wave of Light" |
Runaways |
but you can squander any exquisite number of gossamer days in manic futility. |
3 |
W O L F C L U B |
"Rush" |
Runaways |
We awake into an unwanted era of desultory and performative masks, |
4 |
Dagny |
"Somebody" |
single |
and decide whether this makes us anonymous |
5 |
ARA |
"Himno de los no vencidos" |
single |
or cybernetic and interchangeably painted. |
6 |
Imogen Heap |
"Phase and Flow" |
single |
We are warned against attempting to rebuild the car while it is in constant motion, |
7 |
Annie Hamilton |
"Californian Carpark Concrete" |
Annie Hamilton EP 6 |
but the illusion of necessary inertia is most of what we are sold as "car". |
8 |
Gameboi |
"Stages" |
Stages 5 |
One day the economy came to a screeching halt |
9 |
MISOGI |
"Falseawakening" |
Falseawakening / RealitY Shift 2 |
so quietly. |
10 |
Fyfe |
"Stains" |
single |
Have you walked around? |
11 |
Namasenda |
"Dare (PM)" |
single |
It's quiet in town. I never used to hear the quiet before. |
12 |
recovery girl |
"recovery girl" |
recovery girl |
We are not trapped, we are waiting to recover. |
13 |
Aoi |
"LIVE HOUSE" |
Aoi Hasegawa flew in the sky 3 |
We are not recovering, we are sorting through |
14 |
梦然 |
"高飞" |
高飞 +1 |
our accumulations of anticipatory assumptions. |
15 |
SOMOSOMO |
"無課金ヘイト" |
single |
We thought we would need to know how to write VRML, |
16 |
miscast |
"Mythology" |
single |
or which direction of optical cable sounds warmer, |
17 |
Lily of the Valley |
"Sirius na kimi" |
single |
or how to make everything else in your home out of coffee filters. |
18 |
BenjaminJasmine |
"Saibou" |
BenjaminJasmine |
Then the coffee filter companies became aggregators of unease, |
19 |
ZETTAI CLUB |
"JUDGEMENT" |
JUDGEMENT +2 |
in order to sell adrenaline mitigation as a service, |
20 |
笹川真生 |
"エイプリル" |
single |
and now our email is dressed in our clan tartans and full of: |
21 |
Malcolm Mask McLaren |
"UNFINISHED" |
UNFINISHED 6 |
instructions for taking swimming classes from home, |
22 |
「Story of Hope」 |
"Historia (Remastered)" |
#Remastered |
diagnostic reports from strangers' vehicles, |
23 |
Age Factory |
"Merry go round" |
EVERYNIGHT |
assurances that you can still be undesirable and unprepared, |
24 |
Shellmy |
"Takahara kun" |
single |
repurposed peripherals in the superficial shape of current problems, |
25 |
LUNA SEA |
"Make a vow" |
single |
ways to feel grief on your skin, |
26 |
Alice Nine |
"CYAN" |
NIGHTLESS CITY EDEN |
clothes so advanced you might want to practice wearing them at home, |
27 |
WING WORKS |
"INFERNO" |
single |
packets of coarse dust that will make you taller. |
28 |
ROTH BART BARON |
"SPECIAL" |
single |
We have set our pike-lines, |
29 |
SMASH UP |
"Carry on" |
Carry on +1 |
but it's pointless defending your prejudices with a quivering spike |
30 |
Happy Heads NANIYORI |
"A Seed of Trouble Won't Bloom" |
Omedetai Atama de Naniyori 2 |
when all your intended enemies' incentives are to stay more than six feet away. |
31 |
THE ORAL CIGARETTES |
"Maze" |
SUCK MY WORLD |
I have felt the sweat of other humans, |
32 |
Paledusk |
"AO" |
HAPPY TALK 4 |
the press of their heels against the sides of my feet. |
33 |
The Unity |
"You Don't Walk Alone" |
single |
I have soared with them in boxes, |
34 |
Pop Evil |
"Let The Chaos Reign" |
single |
sharing air we brought with us specifically to share in joy and hope. |
35 |
Æther Realm |
"Goodbye" |
Redneck Vikings from Hell |
We have cultivated nomadic souls, |
36 |
Havok |
"Betrayed by Technology" |
V |
and purchased shoes optimized for the movements we hoped to be expected to make, |
37 |
Acârash |
"Below Ceremonial" |
single |
and now they sit by the door, |
38 |
Irdorath |
"Redeemer of the Heretics" |
The Final Sin |
with the deliveries we're insisting will be purified and consecrated |
39 |
Thrawsunblat |
"Until Ebb the Waters" |
Insula EP 4 |
if we spend 24 consecutive hours not touching them |
40 |
Salqiu |
"Orfeu II" |
Orfeu |
and endlessly washing our hands. |
41 |
Nordsind |
"Dvale" |
single |
In a moment we will return to normal. |
42 |
Reliqa |
"Mr. Magic" |
single |
In a moment we will send most of our normalities back in their unopened original packaging |
43 |
Ravenscry |
"The Gatekeeper" |
single |
because the machines that took those refills |
44 |
Jessica Wolff |
"Ella's Song" |
single |
no longer make things we consume fast enough |
45 |
Canterra |
"A Lifetime" |
single |
to justify manufacturing them ourselves. |
46 |
Moonlight Haze |
"The Rabbit of the Moon" |
single |
You have time to make bread, |
47 |
Lesoir |
"Mosaic" |
Mosaic |
if you want the baker's children to starve. |
48 |
Xordia |
"Stained" |
single |
You have time to decry the flaws in other countries' public-health policies |
49 |
Haken |
"Canary Yellow" |
single |
if nobody you love has been confirmed to be dying today. |
50 |
TEMPUS |
"Dettifoss" |
DABA |
If power can be generated cheaply enough that nobody fights over it, |
51 |
KYOTY |
"Isolation: Onus" |
single |
you can send the tourists away and test everybody you have left. |
52 |
Dawn Of Ashes |
"Sleep Paralysis" |
single |
This is the price for retrieving trivial dreams, |
53 |
ChuggaBoom |
"Chuggflix and Chill" |
single |
but do we actually need or want to buy back all the tawdry greatnesses we used to suffer? |
54 |
Armand Sauvage |
"Glide" |
single |
From six feet away, we can see each other pretty clearly. |
55 |
Lil Darkie |
"FUCK YOU I AM VERY ANGRY AND SERIOUS" |
single |
We used to infuse our differences into directable breath, |
56 |
6obby |
"It's Over" |
single |
and step forward to bring our faces too close together to even focus. |
57 |
Poppy Tears |
"Till Nothing's Left" |
Afterlife |
What we called conversation was mostly contagion and blur. |
58 |
Leo IV |
"He a Bad Guy" |
single |
We should always have stepped back, and were never willing, |
59 |
Wiley |
"Bruce Wayne" |
single |
and then suddenly somehow we mostly did. |
60 |
Durrty Goodz |
"Bar Code #8 Shadow of a G" |
single |
The jackass with his mask on his chin, |
61 |
Wrest |
"A Perfectly Spherical World" |
single |
walking nowhere near as close to his edge of the sidewalk as a decent person could, |
62 |
Namewee |
"我不變" |
single |
goes home and files a weekly report from his kitchen table, |
63 |
NOTHING TO DECLARE |
"Get Up" |
single |
and then does a Zoom call with his daughter and her grandparents. |
64 |
Comandante Twin |
"Hay una Luz (feat. Gabriel De la Rosa)" |
single |
They were going to go to Belize this summer, |
65 |
Dramarama |
"Beneath The Zenith" |
Color TV |
either the guy and his kid or the grandparents, I forget which. |
66 |
Kirkkovene |
"Ikuinen Vappu" |
single |
We all had plans formulated in naivety and extravagance, |
67 |
SCARLET |
"Friends" |
single |
and the thing about canceled plans is not the bags we won't pack, |
68 |
BLOXX |
"Lie Out Loud" |
single |
but the privileges we keep in them when they sit empty. |
69 |
High Waisted |
"Modern Love" |
single |
We have demonstrated that on our own we do not, in fact, know when to go out or stay in. |
70 |
Marcos y Molduras |
"La Rutina" |
Te Espero en Casa |
Our microhabits do not naturally compose a functioning macroeconomy, |
71 |
Retirement Party |
"Compensation" |
single |
never mind an inhabitable world. |
72 |
Bronnie |
"Where I Want to Be" |
single |
But we create our collective environments as much by how we stay still as by how we move. |
73 |
Dixie Chicks |
"Julianna Calm Down" |
single |
Put on your best shoes. Then take them off, because it's not time to go out again yet. But it helps, I think, to know they still fit. |
74 |
W O L F C L U B |
"Fade" |
Runaways |
You can't dread anything forever. |
75 |
Philip Glass |
"Two Pages" |
single |
Today's rules may still apply tomorrow, |
76 |
Mattia Cupelli |
"ARK" |
single |
we may still need to spend another day in these slow time-arks paddling barely forward, |
77 |
AG |
"Where Is My Mind" |
single |
but try this trick: put your feet on your floor and your head on another part of your floor and look up, |
78 |
Joan As Police Woman |
"Life's What You Make It" |
Cover Two |
at a ceiling fan, or skylights, or your baby held over your head, or yesterday's masks drying. |
79 |
Jimmy Eat World |
"Call to Love" |
single |
We have a hundred million ways to say that we will each learn at least ten things from this, and maybe nine will be methods for cooking things we used to buy cooked, or cleaning things we used to throw away. |
80 |
W O L F C L U B |
"Magnetic" |
Runaways |
But one of them, or maybe more of them or all of them or more than we could have dreamed without this nightmare, will be a different way to spend our resumed time together. |