1 |
WILL-O' |
"I Will Hope" |
single |
All these ungovernable powers have always been inside of us, |
2 |
YOUR LAST DIARY |
"This isn't good bye" |
single |
coiled in our lungs, holding vigil over our passing blood, |
3 |
MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS |
"You" |
You / Uta Wo Utaeba 2 |
waiting to rush out in any single urgent breath; |
4 |
NECRONOMIDOL |
"Tupilaq" |
single |
no wonder we are so quickly subsumed |
5 |
Asura |
"Kagen No Tsuki" |
A.M.S.S.P.A. |
in any story where our instinctive urges are granted token realms. |
6 |
MERRY BAD END |
"King For A Day" |
single |
We want to strike with unerring force, |
7 |
MAMESHiBA NO TAiGUN |
"Gardening" |
Start |
imbued with bright and inherent justice, |
8 |
FROZEN CAKE BAR |
"DARK HERO" |
single |
because anything else is so much more difficult. |
9 |
milet |
"Inside You" |
eyes |
We want to say All Lives Matter, because this is a way to not think, |
10 |
STEREOGIRL |
"Let's go to see the desert" |
Pink Fog |
to dismiss other people's lives by acknowledging them only as a pale, slow-moving sludge. |
11 |
Oceans of Slumber |
"A Return to the Earth Below" |
single |
We need to say Black Lives Matter because we need to demonstrate, |
12 |
Mezmerized |
"Rage" |
single |
each of us to ourselves and each of us to every other one of us, |
13 |
Moonlight Haze |
"Till the End" |
single |
that we are capable of applying the universal to the specific, |
14 |
Emerald Mind |
"Almagest" |
single |
both to specifics in general, and to this one right now. |
15 |
Woodscream |
"Водяной" |
Варево |
We need to take this stand, right now because now is the closest we can come to all the times we should have taken this stand already, |
16 |
The Power of the Pudú |
"Calentamiento Global" |
single |
because if you can put your knee on another human's neck, |
17 |
Operus |
"Ruin" |
single |
you can also take it off. |
18 |
Blade of Surtr |
"Ymir" |
HEATHEN |
You can stand up and shake centuries of exploitative cultural grime off of your skin, |
19 |
Romuvos |
"Skuodas (1259)" |
single |
and feel clean for a moment |
20 |
The Moon & The Nightspirit |
"Égi messzeségek" |
single |
until you remember to wonder how deeply you have been soaked in it. |
21 |
Bjarla |
"Курганы" |
single |
But we have always been creatures of ignorance, |
22 |
Vǫluspá |
"Nordstjerna" |
single |
mostly consumed with trivial questions of transient comfort, |
23 |
Wardruna |
"Lyfjaberg" |
single |
in the same way that a raven is an abyss of rumor |
24 |
Madmans Esprit |
"Mangtanshi - Kopanese Version" |
Mangtanshi 3 |
thrown into the air before an audience of gods |
25 |
Rhythmic Toy World |
"VITE" |
single |
united by their refusal to take any action against its fall. |
26 |
aint |
"As I wake up" |
single |
When it opens its wings, and its collected truths are scattered among us, |
27 |
EASTOKLAB |
"Hug" |
Fake Planets |
we must understand that we are innately conscripted against all of those gods |
28 |
RADWIMPS |
"cocorononaca" |
single |
and whatever others they send for in turn. |
29 |
La Habitación Roja |
"El Miedo Abierto" |
single |
We cede the heavens. |
30 |
David Bolzoni |
"Te Quiero Tanto" |
single |
We are above nothing. |
31 |
India Martinez |
"Cruz Verde de Vida" |
single |
We can disavow no guilt. |
32 |
Ventino |
"Por Qué Te Vas" |
single |
We have to stand up and say Black Lives Matter because we belong to a species and a civilization |
33 |
NINA |
"Unnoticed" |
Synthian (Deluxe Edition) |
that said "All Lives Matter" in the form of "all men are created equal" once, |
34 |
DYLYN |
"Call Me What You Want" |
single |
so there's no way to pretend we didn't know, |
35 |
Silent Rival |
"Brain on Love" |
Brain on Love - EP 4 |
and yet we built and sustained an oligarchy of terrified hatred. |
36 |
Kite |
"Teenage Bliss" |
single |
These shimmery songs of joy and revenge are not escape from our responsibilities, |
37 |
TORRES |
"Too Big for the Glory Hole" |
single |
they are how we remind ourselves of the scope of our rights, |
38 |
Bronnie |
"R U the Same" |
single |
and what it sounds like when we apply them to a resistant surface. |
39 |
Peakes |
"Careless Creation" |
Pre Invented World 4 |
You cannot dance with your knee on another human's neck. |
40 |
Hinds |
"Take Me Back" |
The Prettiest Curse |
You cannot dance with another human's neck under another human's knee, |
41 |
Ishai Adar |
"Ana Belephoneq" |
Ana Belephoneq +1 |
and yet we have to dance, |
42 |
Kabza De Small |
"Dubai" |
Scorpion Kings |
like we need to exhale no matter how much bad breath we have layered around the planet's crust, |
43 |
Semi Tee |
"Stayla" |
single |
and this is how I know we are not quite doomed. |
44 |
Nídia |
"CHEF" |
Nídia 4 |
If we can prove that we understand that Black Lives matter, |
45 |
Ka Baird |
"The Unshown" |
Bespires 5 |
we earn the right to put down one brick, |
46 |
Noveller |
"Zeaxanthin" |
single |
in a place and orientation of our choosing. |
47 |
New Sylveon |
"пилообразные ангелы" |
ULTRA NEW ERA MUTANT DIVING |
The racists don't believe the Others are nonhuman, |
48 |
Justina Valentine |
"Hide & Seek" |
single |
although they'd rather you think they did, |
49 |
Scarlxrd |
"U.A.V FXR THE MANDEM." |
FANTASY VXID; WINTER. 4 |
because what they actually believe is that "human" is a zero-sum status |
50 |
Death Tour |
"P.I.S.S./U.S." |
single |
to which they are not necessarily entitled, |
51 |
Run The Jewels |
"pulling the pin (feat. Mavis Staples & Josh Homme)" |
RTJ4 |
and of which they thus must take possession by deception and hold by force. |
52 |
Terrace Martin |
"Pig Feet (feat. Kamasi Washington, G Perico & Daylyt)" |
single |
A society founded on theft and hoarding |
53 |
Bob Mould |
"American Crisis" |
single |
will inevitably invent "law enforcement" to stop what they imagine is a natural slide into anarchy |
54 |
José Feliciano |
"I'm America (feat. Virginia Union University Choir)" |
single |
after exactly one body length. |
55 |
Mickey Guyton |
"Black Like Me" |
single |
But this is the difference between justice and authority, |
56 |
Moor Mother |
"Vultures Laughing" |
Offering |
between a free market and bombing your neighbors from the air, |
57 |
Xordia |
"Neon Lights" |
Neolux |
between moral humility and seeing huddled masses yearning to breathe free |
58 |
The Anix |
"Die With You" |
Die With You |
and thinking "get the tear gas". |
59 |
Rosenfeld |
"The Witch" |
The Witch +1 |
We need to say Black Lives Matter right now |
60 |
Dawn Of Ashes |
"Pawns of the Wretched" |
single |
because it's not the only important truth we have to be able to collectively affirm, |
61 |
The Atlas Frame |
"Haven" |
single |
necessary but so plaintively far from sufficient, |
62 |
Frost* |
"Fathers" |
Others - EP |
but the magnitude of its should-be obviousness |
63 |
Hanging Garden |
"Perdition Melody (Rain)" |
Against the Dying of the Light 6 |
is as daunting as the depth of systemic betrayal to which we have allowed Black Lives to be subject. |
64 |
Red Mecca |
"The New Way" |
single |
We need to replace antagonistic policing with cooperative social support, |
65 |
Spunsugar |
"Happier Happyless" |
single |
as we needed to when the police wore red coats and the signets of a monarch, |
66 |
Secret Treehouse |
"Ice Turns To Ash" |
single |
as we need to when they assemble like cheap toy centurions rebranded by a cowering con man. |
67 |
RAMZi |
"coeur dodu" |
cocon |
Everything is entailed. |
68 |
Colin Stetson |
"Forest Fire" |
Barkskins (National Geographic Original Series Soundtrack) |
If you cannot grasp why we have to say "Black Lives Matter" aloud, louder, at this historical moment, |
69 |
Kcin |
"Freedom Capital Exchange" |
Bushmaster |
then you cannot be trusted to make decisions about anything. |
70 |
Caustic Reverie |
"Cathedral Dust" |
The Flooded Assembly |
We are not immune, we are not chosen or blessed. |
71 |
KYOTY |
"Isolation: Respite" |
single |
Those of us who have been allowed to live non-Black lives |
72 |
Sinius |
"Items Disappearing" |
The Eternal Silence of These Infinite Spaces 4 |
have to say that Black lives matter because if one neck doesn't matter, |
73 |
Catafalque |
"Sepulcre" |
single |
every other neck will be next. |
74 |
Myridian |
"Babylon" |
single |
We are creatures of genocide and hereditary royalty |
75 |
Störte.Priester |
"Skrupellos und Kriminell" |
single |
and the people who have a ready word for a trashcan thrown through a store window, |
76 |
Moses Metro Man |
"Lief & Leed" |
single |
but not for a pharmaceutical company multiplying the price of a required medication by 56. |
77 |
Lionville |
"Nothing Without You" |
single |
We are the creatures who will protest against our own public health measures. |
78 |
Palm Lakes |
"Nothing To Me" |
single |
We are the creatures who will hand power to obvious sociopaths because they demanded it in prerogative tones. |
79 |
Volunteer |
"To Be Young" |
single |
But we are also the creatures of counterattack, |
80 |
The Shabs |
"I Feel Alive" |
single |
the creatures of mourning, |
81 |
Robbie Wessels |
"Plaasjapie" |
single |
the creatures willing to put on or take off masks |
82 |
The Waterboys |
"My Wanderings in the Weary Land" |
single |
based on the composition of our air |
83 |
Raja Hasan |
"Yaar Bina" |
single |
or the maturity of our conscience. |
84 |
uCevuzile |
"Ngizobaxolela" |
single |
We are dancers. |
85 |
Umdumazi |
"Nginesikhalo Hulumeni" |
I-Perfume Yami |
We came from Africa. |
86 |
Gadla Nxumalo |
"Idixa Lolimi" |
Idixa Lolimi |
Without Black lives there would be no lives. |
87 |
Busi Mhlongo |
"Babhemu - Iq Musique Remix" |
single |
Without Black music there would be no music. |
88 |
Clannad |
"Forces of Nature - From "Warriors of Virtue"" |
Forces of Nature (From "Warriors of Virtue") 4 |
And thus every song says that Black Lives are beloved and cherished and indispensable among all our lives. |
89 |
June 1974 |
"Euphoria" |
Post Pop Decadent Euphoria 6 |
Every song transmits as much truth as we are brave enough to release, but contains all of it regardless. |
90 |
Fly By Nightcore |
"Blinding Lights" |
single |
A racist hoards lies |
91 |
JACKIE EXTREME |
"BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE" |
single |
under the misconception that lies can be passed for truths in darkness. |
92 |
Poppy |
"All The Things She Said" |
single |
A narcisist hoards fear, |
93 |
First to Eleven |
"Intentions" |
single |
because death begins at their skin, and whirls like omen into their mouth. |
94 |
Inter Arma |
"March of the Pigs" |
March of the Pigs +1 |
A fascist hoards order |
95 |
Thou |
"Endless Nameless" |
Blessings of the Highest Order |
because they fear their own life doesn't matter on its own. |
96 |
. |
"In Memory of George Floyd" |
single |
We gather breath. |