1 |
Love |
"優しさの逆襲" |
Resonant Grace |
It begins and ends with love, |
2 |
Hidden Citizens |
"Hungry Like The Wolf - 2020 Remaster" |
single |
which is our ecliptical way of saying that love is our method of bounding time |
3 |
Feuerschwanz |
"I See Fire" |
single |
or organizing mythology |
4 |
Chaos Magic |
"Desert Rose" |
Desert Rose +3 |
or orbiting acceptance. |
5 |
Secret Rule |
"I Think I'm Paranoid" |
Quarantine: The Other Side of Us |
Every beginning is the beginning of someone's love for something, |
6 |
Halocene |
"Toxicity" |
single |
or the end, |
7 |
The Animal In Me |
"If The World Was Ending" |
single |
but never the end, |
8 |
Carina Dahl |
"Shallow (Så ekte nå)" |
single |
and never far from the end. |
9 |
Goldfinger |
"99 Red Balloons" |
single |
We see other people's lives through windows, |
10 |
First to Eleven |
"Blinding Lights" |
single |
or over the edges of our masks, |
11 |
UMC |
"Blinding Lights (Metal Version)" |
single |
or along the internal surfaces |
12 |
8-Bit Arcade |
"More Than a Feeling (8-Bit Computer Game Version)" |
The Ultimate Boston |
of cities domed with quiet, |
13 |
EdGE |
"Stand up or die on your knees" |
single |
and believe, usually incorrectly, that we have to have personal answers to universal questions. |
14 |
ONI INC. |
"Liu Kang" |
single |
But even the questions are optional, |
15 |
Sixthells |
"'Til Death" |
single |
and thus the answers settle nothing, |
16 |
SuiSai |
"Haiku" |
single |
but the forms in which we pose and deflect them betray us to our admirers. |
17 |
GARZI |
"COULDN'T SAVE YOU" |
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE 5 |
There will be days when we are not permitted contact, |
18 |
folda |
"folda" |
single |
and special numbers we will use once to measure how long those days last and then throw away, |
19 |
Papii Steez |
"Turn Me Up" |
single |
and thus statistical certainty that we will get through this, but maybe no comfort. |
20 |
PEZZHEAD |
"Leak" |
single |
You were never promised comfort, however often it was offered. |
21 |
Secrets Of The Moon |
"Mute God" |
Black House |
Hatred does not summon the virus, |
22 |
Biesy |
"Uwaga: świat" |
Transsatanizm |
but empty hearts will struggle to send it away. |
23 |
Winterfylleth |
"A Hostile Fate (The Wayfarer Pt. 4)" |
The Reckoning Dawn |
You may notice a correlation between narcissistic idiocracy and plague acceleration. |
24 |
Forgotten Tomb |
"Active Shooter" |
Nihilistic Estrangement |
When you think you can spot your enemies by the color of their names, |
25 |
Draconian |
"Lustrous Heart" |
single |
you build pale walls. |
26 |
Regardless Of Me |
"Obsidian" |
single |
And then one day you try to go out, and there's a wall there, so you order food, |
27 |
Joachim Witt |
"Schmerzende Welt" |
Rübezahls Rückkehr |
and they leave it for you on the other side of the wall. |
28 |
Tokyo Motor Fist |
"Youngblood" |
single |
We are saved not by walls or zealot bombast, but by predictable bureaucracy |
29 |
Fairyland |
"The Hidden Kingdom of Eloran" |
single |
and effusive legends and discrete math. |
30 |
Saurom |
"Amanecer" |
single |
We fly imaginary grandeurs like kites, |
31 |
Within Temptation |
"Entertain You" |
single |
from upstairs windows. |
32 |
Serpentyne |
"Away from the World - Single Mix" |
single |
We are not hiding, we are watching. |
33 |
Woodscream |
"Василиса" |
single |
Our stories about this time |
34 |
Cyan Kicks |
"Wish You Well" |
single |
will tell of sincerity |
35 |
YOHIO |
"LIGHT MY WAY" |
single |
at war with the outdated faith that air has no agency, |
36 |
heidi. |
"玉響" |
玉響 +2 |
and we will see that "this time" has been long underway. |
37 |
The Guzmania |
"Glow" |
single |
This is the era of the painful slow replacement of invisible majestic authority |
38 |
Wienners |
"起死回生の一発" |
single |
with magnificently mundane functional magic. |
39 |
Amelia Khor |
"Brave Heart" |
single |
We had heroes of faith, made tautologically heroic by our faith in their righteousness. |
40 |
Ayumikurikamaki |
"Yumenotsuduki" |
Grateful 6 |
Now we have diminutive immunologists with breaking voices |
41 |
eimie |
"KLAXON" |
Kill your ANTHEM 5 |
and quiet siren truths. |
42 |
cosMo@bousouP |
"COLORFUL VOICE" |
Gossip Sea |
Now we have time to hear how people sound when they talk to themselves. |
43 |
Österreich |
"I'll take you everywhere" |
single |
We are not waiting, we are listening: |
44 |
Puscifer |
"Apocalyptical" |
single |
to competing models of our own doom, |
45 |
Ruusut |
"Haamuasema" |
single |
to the recriminations of our notional ghosts, |
46 |
Tei Shi |
"Die 4 Ur Love" |
single |
to how longing heals when you stop smashing it against things for a month, |
47 |
Tatum |
"Bloodsport" |
single |
to what we actually miss from things we thought we knew why we loved, |
48 |
FLORIO |
"I Don't Want to Be the Reason" |
single |
to the clicks of what we can personally control |
49 |
Little Simz |
"might bang, might not" |
Drop 6 5 |
or at least calibrate, |
50 |
Snow Tha Product |
"Pressure" |
single |
to what scares us when the zombies stay home, or cross the street to give us enough space. |
51 |
Nyemiah Supreme |
"Breach" |
single |
Our moral supply chains adjust faster than the ones for flour or hats. |
52 |
Kitten |
"My House" |
single |
You can get terrible advice online. |
53 |
Ötzi |
"Eight Cups" |
single |
You can organize it with adaptive implementations of superstitious resignation. |
54 |
Kari Rueslåtten |
"Svever" |
Sørgekåpe |
We were not assigned these cities by random, |
55 |
Eini |
"Valitsen sut" |
single |
or these human languages, |
56 |
T'Pau |
"Be Wonderful" |
single |
or these patterns of falling or staying in love. |
57 |
Morain |
"I Don't Mind" |
single |
I am looking at pictures of empty places I have stood, |
58 |
Feeny |
"Better Off" |
Between the Bookends |
and scrutinzing graphs, |
59 |
When the Sun Sets |
"Transparent" |
Transparent |
and trying to find a fulcrum between panic and surrender, |
60 |
Kincaide |
"The Gallows" |
single |
or between inevitable conceptions of defeat and |
61 |
Hide at Six |
"Parang Awa" |
single |
premature simplifications of victory. |
62 |
Mayonnaise |
"Nais Lang Kitang Saktan / Tama Na Yan" |
single |
There are places I had not yet accepted I would never go, |
63 |
A Story Told |
"Now Now Now" |
single |
but we have people there, |
64 |
I Break Horses |
"Baby You Have Travelled For Miles Without Love In Your Eyes" |
Warnings |
we can ask them what things they grew up knowing have turned out to be less important than true. |
65 |
Zealand the North |
"Organic Structure" |
single |
We can try their recipes while playing their songs. |
66 |
Antethic |
"I Glow" |
single |
Our love is more easily renewed |
67 |
Fire-Toolz |
"It's Now Safe to Turn Off Your Computer" |
Rainbow Bridge |
than our belligerent mistakes, |
68 |
Hailee Steinfeld |
"I Love You's" |
Half Written Story 5 |
more easily translated |
69 |
Demi Lovato |
"I Love Me (feat. Travis Barker) - Emo Version" |
single |
than our isolationist dismissals, |
70 |
Sia |
"Saved My Life" |
single |
more easily saved than the currency |
71 |
Charli XCX |
"i finally understand" |
single |
in which we thought we were earning our freedom. |
72 |
G Flip |
"Hyperfine" |
single |
It begins and ends with simmering noises, |
73 |
Buhlebendalo |
"Mdali" |
single |
and is punctuated by skin briefly, carefully, touching skin. |
74 |
Meryem Saci |
"All in" |
All In 6 |
It would be different if this was our sentimental first of many planets, |
75 |
Pantayo |
"Eclipse" |
Pantayo |
these only the original nostalgic bodies we loved before we knew how hard they are to maintain, |
76 |
Anna Lux |
"Alles gut" |
single |
collected for their novelty, instead of numbered for their horrifying fragility. |
77 |
Fast Animals and Slow Kids |
"Come conchiglie" |
single |
On days without enough wind for kites, we use the windows for songs of delirious deliberation and eventual escape. |
78 |
Love |
"1000日の夏" |
Resonant Grace |
It would be different if tomorrow were not the first of as many days of love as it takes to surround another thing we will have survived. |