1 |
Charli XCX |
"forever" |
how i'm feeling now |
If we can feel tonight as if these quiet days have given up, |
2 |
Meet Me @ The Altar |
"Garden" |
single |
so too can we believe that contained noise reverberates until it explodes inside of us. |
3 |
小男孩樂團 |
"沒空" |
Everything |
We can envy those who will survive this, |
4 |
Fiona |
"Better Together" |
single |
and then we can join to become them. |
5 |
WACAVA |
"aLIEz (feat. Chalili) - Chinese version" |
single |
Time to play b-sides, time to translate passing thoughts |
6 |
Minniva |
"I'll Make a Man out of You" |
single |
into diorama drama, |
7 |
Soulspell |
"Ever Dream" |
single |
time to elaborate our dreams. |
8 |
OSAKA☆SYUNKASYUTO |
"Start Over" |
BRAVE SOULS |
Everything you ever tried or finished, |
9 |
MAMESHiBA NO TAiGUN |
"FLASH" |
single |
you are now allowed to start over: |
10 |
Derange |
"Forgotten" |
Senses, Pt. 2 5 |
journals of abandoned thoughts, |
11 |
Ravenscry |
"Leader" |
100 |
belief systems composed entirely of doubt, |
12 |
ILLUMISHADE |
"Tales Of Time" |
ECLYPTIC: Wake of Shadows |
lists of refuted mythologies and their enduring allegorical truths. |
13 |
Sertraline |
"2205" |
Clouded Minds & Silver Lines 5 |
Every life is a path through misfortune |
14 |
Lacey Sturm |
"The Decree" |
single |
and appeal, |
15 |
Firewind |
"Orbitual Sunrise" |
Firewind |
but so too through confetti |
16 |
Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall |
"Dreams and Scars (feat. Renan Zonta)" |
single |
and real and metaphorical blood. |
17 |
Kee Marcello |
"Starless Sky - Single Version" |
single |
You can look up and see nothing |
18 |
Vega |
"Don't Fool Yourself" |
single |
in a thousand cynical and convenient ways, |
19 |
Thessa |
"Dunes" |
single |
and change nothing about the teeming galaxies or our tenuous interruption |
20 |
Paradise Lost |
"Ravenghast" |
Obsidian |
of their magnanimity of void and light. |
21 |
Primal Fear |
"Along Came the Devil" |
single |
All these plagues were implicit in us. |
22 |
Hanging Garden |
"Welkin Aflame" |
single |
Without night, we would be other selves: |
23 |
Māra |
"Leaking Guilt" |
Self-Destruct. Survive. Thrive! 6 |
more corrupt, but maybe less beholden to our corruption; |
24 |
The Monolith Deathcult |
"Feet of Jeremiah" |
single |
buried in shallower soil, |
25 |
Okkultokrati |
"The Dying Grass Moon" |
La Ilden Lyse |
but exhumed by subtler shifts; |
26 |
Horn |
"Vom Tribock hohl geschossen" |
Mohngang |
explicated in denser verse |
27 |
Fellwarden |
"An Elder Reckoning" |
single |
but illuminated by cleanser bursts. |
28 |
Sinizter |
"Call From the Grave" |
Pure Fucking Trap Metal 5 |
Our biographers will politely scroll past our galleries of quarantine loaves |
29 |
fish narc |
"CLEANUP" |
single |
and ask "What did you invent while the rules were suspended?" |
30 |
7xvn |
"I Hate You" |
single |
We will flinch a little and say "Mostly we fought over whether to despair and hope |
31 |
Scarlxrd |
"ESCAPE." |
FANTASY VXID; INTRX. 3 |
in that order or some other one." |
32 |
slowthai |
"BB (BODYBAG)" |
single |
We held curtains just aside |
33 |
PEZZHEAD |
"Dark, Dark Thoughts" |
Freebourne Grove |
to peer out at streetlights and the presence or relentless absence of zombies. |
34 |
Armand Sauvage |
"Haze" |
single |
We felt like we were forgetting something ill-defined. |
35 |
LiL Lotus |
"Rigor Mortis" |
All My Little Scars, Vol. 1 4 |
We felt like we were rehearsing for crises to be performed later. |
36 |
Sinxi |
"sunset" |
single |
We felt slow, like we had become slower than time. |
37 |
Becko |
"Crawling" |
Self Destruction |
Only later did we realized that time felt the same way about us. |
38 |
DIMLIM |
"Joy" |
Emotions 4 |
But under questioning, or perhaps some kind of hypnosis known only to future interrogators, |
39 |
THE NOVEMBERS |
"rikaisha" |
single |
we will admit that however assiduously we tried to individually inhabit our collective pain, |
40 |
BIGMAMA |
"セントライト" |
single |
there were minutes when we forgot. |
41 |
NOTHING TO DECLARE |
"In This Together" |
single |
We walk in mourning in rhythm. |
42 |
Street Story |
"アオゾラビート" |
single |
We fall in love with and behind masks. |
43 |
Foad |
"Belong To The Sky" |
Returner |
We take pictures of tiny triumphant breakfasts |
44 |
RANDS |
"The Angelus" |
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans 4 |
and make up words with mostly these same sounds. |
45 |
Awoken By Silence |
"Fade to Gray" |
single |
We draw ourselves up for conjectural portraits of ourselves surviving this, |
46 |
UNMASK aLIVE |
"__REM." |
single |
which we always imagine in the pallete of magazines |
47 |
Stand Atlantic |
"Wavelength" |
Wavelength +3 |
long ago retired. |
48 |
Dive In |
"If You Want It (Come and Get It)" |
single |
Whatever we understood or mistook, |
49 |
小男孩樂團 |
"心中的圖畫" |
Everything |
we had this time to inhabit. |
50 |
Tatiana Hazel |
"IN MY ROOM!" |
single |
Storms still picked towns to swallow, |
51 |
Charli XCX |
"7 years" |
how i'm feeling now |
but we shuddered and emerged |
52 |
Perfume Genius |
"Nothing at All" |
Set My Heart On Fire Immediately |
and went back to holding our breath. |
53 |
Amnesia Scanner |
"AS Tearless (feat. Lalita)" |
single |
The agonizing irony of this trial |
54 |
AKKOGORILLA |
"SayHello" |
single |
is that we must each hold only our own breath, |
55 |
Dua Saleh |
"hellbound" |
single |
and that was kind of the only thing we were reliably prepared to carry for each other. |
56 |
Tkay Maidza |
"Shook" |
single |
Isolation is the first technique of control. |
57 |
Zheani |
"DIRT ON THE NAME OF STEVEN" |
single |
You need a picture of an enemy |
58 |
Tokyo Jetz |
"No Love Story" |
Stimulus Package 5 |
to hold up to pictures of your enemies |
59 |
Melii |
"BDE (with Smoove’L)" |
single |
when they aren't allowed to come to your door, |
60 |
Stunna Girl |
"Like I Said Tho" |
single |
except to put the food down and back away |
61 |
Charli XCX |
"detonate" |
how i'm feeling now |
and text you from a car bought for getaways |
62 |
小男孩樂團 |
"沒關係" |
Everything |
but used now for deliveries because bank robberies aren't allowed again until phase 3. |
63 |
Logan Murrell |
"Lonely as Hell" |
single |
Among the secrets we will admit to history |
64 |
Nora Collins |
"Neon Healing" |
single |
is that most of the quiet days were serene. |
65 |
Calamity Jane |
"The Chase" |
single |
We took turns on sidewalks, |
66 |
Lauren Davidson |
"Compass" |
single |
guardians of each other's solitudes, |
67 |
Mission House |
"Bet All I Have" |
Bet All I Have +1 |
silent as if N75 were enough to stop small particles of talk. |
68 |
The Beths |
"I'm Not Getting Excited" |
I'm Not Getting Excited +1 |
Unseen couriers brought us still-warm soup |
69 |
Spielbergs |
"Go!" |
single |
and presents for birthdays we expected to reach faster than the end of this. |
70 |
Retirement Party |
"Ebb" |
Runaway Dog |
We tried to learn to have, in 20 screen-boxed video-call minutes, |
71 |
Charli XCX |
"anthems" |
how i'm feeling now |
conversations we would have had in 35 seconds in a hallway in a swirling cloud of each other's weaknesses. |
72 |
Emma Blackery |
"Wolves" |
My Arms Are Open 4 |
We wrote idle poems of perseverance |
73 |
KEiiNO |
"Bed with the Wolf" |
OKTA |
in the acrostic titles of emails to administrators replying from bed in their underwear. |
74 |
Cariño |
"Te Brillan" |
single |
Work From Home was professionality's clever ruse to see inside our personal lives, |
75 |
DJ KEIKO |
"Just for You" |
Just for You +1 |
but love is contagious for as many days before the symptoms manifest |
76 |
C Z A R I N A |
"Enemies Inside" |
single |
as there are. |
77 |
Christia Visser |
"Kaal Voor Jou" |
single |
The spaces we leave empty |
78 |
小男孩樂團 |
"It's Up To You" |
Everything |
learn quickly that they relied on us believing they validated us by our presence, |
79 |
Lights & Motion |
"Sypher" |
The Great Wide Open |
when of course it was always the other way around. |
80 |
Sun Glitters |
"BBeetttteerr DDaayyss" |
SSoofftt TToouucchh |
These are weeks of abject stasis, |
81 |
Gregorio Franco |
"Weaponized Flesh" |
Judgment |
definitional interregna, |
82 |
Maenad Veyl |
"Moving Heat" |
Reassessment |
and yet I can only barely reduce this self-forgotten week |
83 |
Naevius |
"Nebiusu" |
single |
to fewer than 100 sigils. |
84 |
KYOTY |
"Isolation: Languish" |
single |
We will say this: We were not silenced. |
85 |
Blue Americans |
"Cathy, I Don’t Listen To The News!" |
single |
Our quietest days overflowed with music. |
86 |
Saint Slumber |
"i'll wait for you" |
i'll wait for you +1 |
They sent us home, but we brought home everything we knew from the outside, |
87 |
Biffy Clyro |
"Tiny Indoor Fireworks" |
Tiny Indoor Fireworks +2 |
and noise-canceling headphones calibrated for open-plan offices, |
88 |
FigureItOut |
"Envious Colors" |
single |
and VPNs into elastic clusters, |
89 |
Abril 88 |
"Más Difícil Que" |
Un Poco de Ti |
and at home I have more cats |
90 |
Tulenkulkijat |
"Hylättyjä haaveita" |
single |
than motivational mission-statement posters, |
91 |
The Jerry Cans |
"Qaumajuujusi" |
Echoes |
and more unread books than I thought I'd ever have time for, but now I'm not so sure, |
92 |
Mama Sissoko |
"Niama Toutou" |
Soul Mama |
and every outside place is suddenly exactly as far away. |
93 |
Lxg |
"Alhaji" |
single |
Put on a fucking mask when you go out and be grateful if you didn't already have to do this for Ebola. |
94 |
DAY6 |
"Day and Night" |
The Book of Us : The Demon |
Be grateful this spinning rock hasn't flung you face-first into the dry nightside of the moon. |
95 |
Mattia Cupelli |
"Ark" |
Ark // 2 |
We can remember the hearts of those who didn't survive this, |
96 |
Triptykon |
"Rex Irae (with Metropole Orkest - Chapter One: Overture - Live at Roadburn 2019" |
Requiem (Live At Roadburn 2019) (with Metropole Orkest) |
and the deliberate lies of those who could have saved them by grabbing hold of self-evident truths. |
97 |
Charli XCX |
"visions" |
how i'm feeling now |
Time to make new plans, to swear in new leaders who know the difference between vision and visions |
98 |
First to Eleven |
"The Middle" |
single |
and self-portraits painted with self-awareness and then given away with love. |
99 |
Per Gessle |
"Ros - Demo Januari 1984" |
The Per Gessle Archives - På väg - Demos 1982-86 |
Nothing you have lost has gone far. Nothing we love and do not yet start again tomorrow is thereby lost. |