1 |
Moonrunner83 |
"Lovers In A Dangerous Time" |
Lovers In A Dangerous Time |
We kick at the darkness because we believe there is light inside of it. |
2 |
Zola Jesus |
"Changes" |
single |
Some weeks, persistence and a defiant belief in unevident human potential feel like basically all we have. |
3 |
BRATS |
"自虐性Loop" |
single |
We suffer from a social system that treats "law and order" as a framework for retribution instead of a collaborative goal, |
4 |
Pimm's |
"BE ALL RIGHT" |
single |
a president who would tear-gas protesters in order to walk across the streeet to have his picture taken with a bible and no god or body involved stops him, |
5 |
Harumi |
"Believe In Myself" |
single |
a pandemic that's about to get worse again because we forgot to learn how to make collective decisions based on literal constraints instead of ideological ones, |
6 |
PARADISES |
"TWINKLE TWINKLE" |
single |
an economy based on arbitrage of human lives and pyramid-scheme consumption of our own futures, |
7 |
SALTY DOG |
"Collapse Of The World" |
single |
a system of assigning imaginary public self-esteem based on recursive internal metrics of our bookkeeping, |
8 |
Takanori Nishikawa |
"Libra" |
Libra +2 |
a mass media optimized for amplifying disingenuity and fear, |
9 |
DIAMANTE |
"Ghost Myself" |
single |
a social media optimized for propogating cynical opportunism across networks of self-satisfaction, |
10 |
Jessica Wolff |
"Superhero" |
single |
a spiritual infrastructure monopolized by maintaining obsolete power-structures, |
11 |
Smackbound |
"Those Who Burn" |
single |
a guy blocking the sidewalk with his mask down on his chin so he can smoke, |
12 |
Black Sun |
"Resist" |
single |
a million micro-cultures that tolerate macro-aggressions |
13 |
Graveshadow |
"Gwynnbleidd" |
single |
and innumerable macro-cultures that without micro-aggressions for energy would have to be towed by ducks. |
14 |
Silentium |
"Truth - Single Version" |
single |
We elected a bloated ass who doesn't know what to do because all of the important problems affect people and he doesn't know or care about people. |
15 |
Binary Creed |
"Mother" |
single |
We might improve upon this by electing a genial comforter who is at least demonstrably capable of loving other humans, |
16 |
Mrs. GREEN APPLE |
"アボイドノート" |
single |
and realizes he's better off when he shuts up and listens, |
17 |
Novelbright |
"Believers" |
WONDERLAND |
and if we're extraordinarily, ahistorically, undeservedly lucky, |
18 |
Migimimi sleep tight |
"ROMANTIC CASTLE" |
single |
we might get a vice-president who sees a problem and thinks not "what should I say?" |
19 |
mama. |
"Ningensikkaku" |
Ningensikkaku |
but "how would that be fixed?" |
20 |
DISREIGN |
"VEXED" |
single |
Trump said "I alone can fix it", |
21 |
Scarlxrd |
"QUICK XNE." |
FANTASY VXID; AUTUMN. 4 |
and despite it sometimes seeming like Elizabeth Warren actually might fix it all if we could get out of her way, |
22 |
PRXJEK |
"CUT THE GRASS (FREESTYLE)" |
single |
ultimately the problem with Trump is not his moral corrosion and complete uselessness for all valuable purposes, |
23 |
BVDLVD |
"WHY U SO MAD" |
LUNATIC |
but how the political process has become a factional Hunger Games |
24 |
BVDLVD |
"PUNK!" |
LUNATIC |
instead of a mechanism for how we operate an inhabited planet as a shared and finite space. |
25 |
Backxwash |
"Adolescence" |
God Has Nothing to Do With This Leave Him Out of It |
We face seemingly hard decisions |
26 |
Mimi Barks |
"Transient" |
single |
because we accepted ridiculous assumptions and followed their implications too far, |
27 |
Zheani |
"Skitz Cunt" |
The Zheani Sparkes EP |
instead of being willing to say "No, this is wrong, and if we do this thing wrong when we all know it's wrong, |
28 |
LiL MiK_e |
"Ghost" |
single |
we will keep doing increasingly significant wrong things when we all know they're wrong, |
29 |
Wstdyth |
"Solitaire" |
single |
because our own silence convinces us the last one went OK." |
30 |
Saint Slumber |
"it's okay to be afraid - unplugged" |
it's okay to be afraid (unplugged) 3 |
But it didn't. You are correct to be afraid. |
31 |
Young Ejecta |
"Crayon Cactus" |
single |
You can put your mask on correctly and that in itself won't solve anything, |
32 |
The Pheromone Syndicate |
"Next Level" |
single |
but it will keep you from saying at least some of the most ignorant things you might have been about to say, |
33 |
The Foxies |
"Hyper Hypo" |
Growing Up Is Dead 6 |
like there is nothing that can hurt us in this air, |
34 |
The Chain Gang Of 1974 |
"Do You Mind?" |
Honey Moon Drips |
or you cherish other people's freedoms just as tightly as you cling to your own, |
35 |
TeamMate |
"Landlocked" |
single |
or the bad things are over now. |
36 |
shallow pools |
"Turnaround" |
single |
You can smugly decry virtue-signaling, but "signaling" is just another way of saying "saying", |
37 |
FAKY |
"Re:Candy" |
single |
and "virtue" is just another way of saying |
38 |
Raketklubben |
"Vi är slut" |
single |
you care what happens to the little glistening droplets of meaning |
39 |
Sarah Reeves |
"Heart First" |
single |
after they come flying out of your mouth. |
40 |
Kate Miller-Heidke |
"This Is Not Forever" |
single |
Most of these rules will not remain suspended for long, |
41 |
Frida Sundemo |
"Backbone" |
Sounds in My Head 5 |
and too many of them not for long enough, |
42 |
Cady Groves |
"Crying Game" |
Bless My Heart 5 |
and that means you have to reassume your own responsibility. |
43 |
Cam |
"Redwood Tree" |
single |
Pence and Esper aren't going to take Trump out with the 25th amendment or the 2nd or the 23rd, |
44 |
Per Gessle |
"Pappa" |
Mamma / Pappa 2 |
we're going to have to vote him out ourselves, all of us who put him there or didn't together, |
45 |
Gang Of Four |
"Forever Starts Now" |
single |
and that's the end of the short list of necessary changes we have to make |
46 |
Vistas |
"Everything Changes in the End" |
Everything Changes in the End |
that we can make by simply coloring in a dot that stands for "Yes, let's start by not being awful and doomed." |
47 |
VON WELT |
"Tränenreich" |
single |
Everything else is harder. |
48 |
Betontod |
"Der König" |
single |
Everything else involves rebuilding complex structures from far beneath their current foundations, |
49 |
Vaya Futuro |
"((O))" |
single |
not just evicting their current squatters and wiping down the chairs. |
50 |
Elysian |
"Beyond The Comfort Zone - Extended Mix" |
Beyond The Comfort Zone 2 |
Everything else requires you to recognize that your own comfortable house is built on a hundred layers |
51 |
LeBrock |
"Hollow" |
Hollow |
of human suffering and improperly discard coolant, |
52 |
Boisson Divine |
"Lo Pèla Pòrc" |
La Halha |
on elaborated superstition and laws you are willing to proofread as long as they don't apply to you, |
53 |
Cvlt Ov the Svn |
"Twilight" |
single |
on altars of temples of love lacquered with indigenous blood, |
54 |
Colin Stetson |
"Awake You Sleepy Hearts" |
single |
on threats couched as promises and promises conditioned on debt. |
55 |
Waxwolf |
"Covetous (Civitas Solis)" |
single |
The escape routes are convoluted, |
56 |
MASTER BOOT RECORD |
"Dangerous Corp." |
VIRTUAVERSE.OST |
and we carry fragile unarticulated totems with turning radii larger than these corridors. |
57 |
Antethic |
"To Move a Mountain" |
Mythographer |
The way out is not an escape via routes. |
58 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Extinction" |
Extinction 5 |
The way out is recognizing that we can't live inside of these same spaces any more. |
59 |
sleepmakeswaves |
"batavia" |
No Safe Place |
An actually-safe place is different from a pedestal we take turns climbing on top of to drop bricks on each other. |
60 |
KYOTY |
"Isolation: Faith" |
single |
Take however many months you need to learn that from your solitude. |
61 |
Behemoth |
"Shadows Ov Ea Cast Upon Golgotha" |
A Forest 4 |
We have to prepare for floods, |
62 |
Imperial Triumphant |
"Rotted Futures" |
single |
not by rotating our misaligned cities so they're 5' higher and the onramps run perpendicular to the ley lines that connect us to Cumbre Vieja, |
63 |
Acârash |
"Descend to Purity" |
Descend to Purity |
but by turning them inside out so that they serve the goal of giving all of us a shared home. |
64 |
Almyrkvi |
"Asomatous Grove" |
Almyrkvi / The Ruins of Beverast Split |
We have tried to punish other people's bodies for the transgressions of our own souls, |
65 |
The Ruins Of Beverast |
"The Grand Nebula Pulse" |
Almyrkvi / The Ruins of Beverast Split |
and to glue together souls all broken the same way by blaming their identical fractures on the variety of bodies. |
66 |
DAI DAI DAI |
"BORONOISE" |
∅ |
But all of our varied bodies are the same, and we are all filled with beaming light, and what if we can get our fingers into these cracks and pull? |