1 |
Taylor Swift |
"Cornelia Street - Live From Paris" |
single |
Half the robots are humans in powersuits, |
2 |
yonige |
"11月24日" |
健全な社会 |
half in reluctant armor; |
3 |
Harumi |
"answer" |
Pride 5 |
all of the machines are alternate grammars for apology |
4 |
PassCode |
"Tramonto" |
STARRY SKY 4 |
and declaration. |
5 |
sui sui |
"konomama" |
konomama +1 |
Here we are, in chairs, waiting to see what summer solves or unravels: |
6 |
miscast |
"ENDLESS SUMMER FANTASY" |
single |
invitations to redemptive flashmobs, |
7 |
ラトゥラトゥ |
"時のメロディ" |
時のメロディ/妄想ディーバ 4 |
marching songs for marches that don't have to end at houses of state |
8 |
Kandia |
"4 Walls" |
single |
or stores on fire. |
9 |
Dark Sarah |
"All Ears!" |
single |
The quieter it gets, the more you hear, |
10 |
Against Myself |
"The Tempest" |
single |
but the louder you turn up the quiet noises, |
11 |
Nemesea |
"Wake up!" |
single |
the more of them get inside you. |
12 |
Raven Black |
"Darkest Pit" |
single |
"You breathe it in, and it changes you from the inside" is the biography of both insidious plagues |
13 |
Tigersclaw |
"Walpurgis Night - Single Edit" |
single |
and salvational revolutions. |
14 |
Natural Spirit |
"Гори, палай!" |
Під серпом часу |
We are born defenseless, |
15 |
Fate DeStroyed |
"Crave" |
single |
and mostly accumulate rationalizations |
16 |
Feminazgul |
"Bury the Antlers With the Stag" |
No Dawn for Men |
for things we have long been ready to discard. |
17 |
Vermilia |
"Taivas hiljaa huutaa" |
Keskeneräisiä tarinoita 4 |
We have elaborate schemes designed to conceal our most obvious faults, |
18 |
One Desire |
"Godsent Exstasy" |
Midnight Empire |
and thus suitable for nothing but eventually letting go. |
19 |
Caligula's Horse |
"Salt" |
Rise Radiant (Bonus Tracks Version) |
Only a few of the things you think you need are actually elemental: |
20 |
Enslaved |
"Homebound" |
single |
a sense of place that isn't limited to the one where you find yourself, |
21 |
Fairyland |
"Of Hope and Despair in Osyrhia" |
Osyrhianta |
some story of your destiny that you can tell yourself without worrying that it will end before it takes you far enough, |
22 |
Feral Light |
"Hex of Inverses" |
Life Vapor |
a map between pains and painful truths, |
23 |
Scarlxrd |
"FXRTUNE." |
FANTASY VXID; SPRING. 3 |
a capacity to recognize gifts |
24 |
Eric North |
"A_PERFECT_WORLD" |
single |
and accept them graciously, |
25 |
ONI INC. |
"RUN IT UP" |
single |
an origin myth |
26 |
ВУЛЬФ |
"ДОМ (prod. by veno)" |
single |
from a broken mythology, |
27 |
SuiSai |
"Oil Spill" |
single |
a hat for sunny days, |
28 |
familypet |
"never see you again" |
single |
some rubric for distinguishing regret from anticipation. |
29 |
TOTALFAT |
"夜明け待つ" |
single |
Your first level of wisdom is recognizing how many of your affronts |
30 |
Novelbright |
"時を刻む詩" |
single |
are actually invitations to transform, |
31 |
Carolina Durante |
"El Parque De Las Balas" |
single |
disguised as extinct birds you think represent ideas you have outgrown. |
32 |
Jorge Elbrecht |
"Tuesday Morning" |
single |
Your second level is realizing that all of them can be, |
33 |
We Are The In Crowd |
"Perfect Reason" |
Weird Kids B-Sides 2 |
and that the things you fight against take root inside of you. |
34 |
HAIM |
"Don’t Wanna" |
Don't Wanna 6 |
Don't give up. |
35 |
Kathleen Edwards |
"Options Open" |
single |
Characters can die during the intermission, |
36 |
The Naked And Famous |
"Death" |
Death +3 |
but their acts cannot be undone in this way. |
37 |
Foxes |
"Love Not Loving You" |
single |
Everything suspended will resume, |
38 |
Dagny |
"Let Me Cry" |
Strangers / Lovers 6 |
but some inertiae will be forgiven, |
39 |
Carly Rae Jepsen |
"This Love Isn't Crazy" |
Dedicated Side B |
some debts forgotten. |
40 |
Tove Lo |
"sadder badder cooler" |
Sunshine Kitty |
We have these months of remote learning to discover unfounded certainties. |
41 |
Ellie Goulding |
"Power" |
single |
Our empty office-buildings will find ways to reconfigure spaces we would have filled |
42 |
Nightly |
"you should probably just hang up" |
single |
with questionable air. |
43 |
Fear Of Tigers |
"Ocean of Love" |
single |
A cat walks across my desk for the fifth time, |
44 |
recovery girl |
"it's love" |
single |
on her way from retreat to exploration, |
45 |
LLLL |
"Yes" |
Impure |
unimpressed by our quarantine flourishes. |
46 |
Kotomi |
"Devotion" |
Devotion / a Good Thing 2 |
The cats only left the house for medical reasons in the first place, |
47 |
Nasty Cherry |
"I Am King" |
single |
and yet they are consistently imperious. |
48 |
Prinze George |
"Garden in the Sky" |
single |
If your needs are brought to you by courier, |
49 |
Rozalén |
"Este Tren" |
single |
you are indistinguishable from royalty. |
50 |
Even |
"Cuidas" |
single |
The courier finishes a shift and goes home to their own doorstep full to the eaves with packages. |
51 |
Leona |
"Presa" |
single |
Our cities are become our courts. |
52 |
Ruadh |
"Embers" |
The Rock of the Clyde |
Outside the wolves gather loosely, |
53 |
Love Like Fiction |
"Misery Maintenance" |
single |
in woolen masks pulled pointlessly down over their chins. |
54 |
Mattyyym |
"Gurenge" |
single |
We are cartoons of diligence, |
55 |
Loveless |
"For You" |
single |
performing rituals of resentment or respect, |
56 |
Ötzi |
"Outer Bounds" |
Storm |
depending on which of these we were raised to accept on faith. |
57 |
Dream Wife |
"So When You Gonna..." |
single |
The wolves will learn, too late, that defiance broadcasts your ignorance of and to your real enemies, |
58 |
Secret Sight |
"By the End" |
Borders |
and the followers of wolves will learn, even laterer, that a wolf will bite the tube with which you're trying to fill its lungs. |
59 |
Kirkkovene |
"Et Ois Vielä Huominen" |
Et Ois Vielä Huominen +1 |
At the conclusion of this pandemic you will have the option to complete a brief survey |
60 |
Die Heuwels Fantasties |
"Mis Oor Die See" |
2021 |
so that we can measure your performance. |
61 |
Blender |
"Vi ses på min balkong" |
single |
Don't you want to improve? We have assigned each of you individual goals |
62 |
Jah Prayzah |
"Miteuro" |
Hokoyo |
which will be revealed after assessment. |
63 |
RAINASH |
"Decay for Bloom" |
Decay |
We could trust you to make your own decisions about how you will have spent this time, |
64 |
Hajime Uchiyama |
"Mother Spaceship - feat. Charlotte is Mine, 宮内告典" |
single |
and you could trust us to have remembered everything you had almost earned, |
65 |
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness |
"Slow Burn" |
single |
or else we could be honest and anew. |
66 |
Owen Pallett |
"A Bloody Morning" |
Island |
Some of these emptied rooms will not be refilled. |
67 |
Vandelux |
"It's All in Your Head" |
single |
Some of these habits were self-destructive. |
68 |
Echotape |
"Back Streets of America" |
single |
We have lived to see insurance companies sending us some of our dollars back |
69 |
The Airborne Toxic Event |
"Brother, How Was The War?" |
Hollywood Park |
because we didn't have a chance to crash the expected number of our cars. |
70 |
Karen Zoid |
"Tyd Om Te Trek" |
single |
We have lived to see billionaires stripped of frequent-flyer privileges, |
71 |
Christine Ott |
"Darkstar" |
Chimères (pour ondes Martenot) |
reduced to googling "sourdough starter supposed to smell like socks?" |
72 |
KYOTY |
"Isolation: Rift" |
single |
and "vacuum cleaner brush spins no suction". |
73 |
CloZee |
"Winter Is Coming" |
single |
We have seen the difference between office-holding and government. |
74 |
El-P |
"this is Al that's left" |
single |
We have been given the chance to look at ourselves in the same mirror, morning after morning, |
75 |
8-Bit Arcade |
"Forever (8-Bit CHVRCHES Emulation)" |
By Request, Vol. 82 |
and accept full responsibility for whether anything has changed. |
76 |
Morning in May |
"Without Me" |
single |
You will find out which person would read all those books you've been saving, |
77 |
First to Eleven |
"Dirty Little Secret" |
single |
as long as it's you or nobody. |
78 |
Everfrost |
"Die Young" |
Die Young 5 |
You will find out exactly what you truly miss, |
79 |
UMC |
"In Your Eyes (Metal Version)" |
single |
as long as you happen to have discovered it before now, instead of after. |
80 |
Ankor |
"Lose Yourself" |
single |
You will find out who is inside your own armors and powersuits |
81 |
Wild Strawberries |
"It's the End of the World as We Know It" |
single |
as long as it has always been you. |