1 |
Joy Oladokun |
"mercy" |
single |
You are infinite. |
2 |
Beyoncé |
"BLACK PARADE" |
single |
Your steps define a parade |
3 |
Alicia Keys |
"Perfect Way To Die" |
single |
in memory of what you will have lost |
4 |
Teyana Taylor |
"We Got Love (feat. Ms. Lauryn Hill)" |
The Album |
or celebration of what you have retained. |
5 |
Teqkoi |
"I Need You Here" |
single |
A parade is a marshaling |
6 |
JUJ |
"How Could I Be Mad?" |
single |
of proud flaws in rapturous plumage |
7 |
Yung Heat |
"fuck 12." |
single |
or frantic insecurities hidden unmistakably in armored cars. |
8 |
POORSTACY |
"Choose Life" |
single |
All we ever ask is that you do not give up, |
9 |
OmenXIII |
"I Can't Breathe" |
single |
that you embrace your responsibility to breathe |
10 |
Lil Darkie |
"REVOLVER" |
single |
and your right to protect the universality of this power, |
11 |
Jasiah |
"Rebel" |
single |
that you learn the words of bad laws |
12 |
PRXJEK |
"2020 ENERGY" |
single |
before you eat them, |
13 |
ONI INC. |
"What Anime is This?!" |
single |
that you infer your own truths onto iconographies borrowed from their context, |
14 |
Discrepancies |
"Light up the Dark" |
single |
that you light one fire in each dark abandoned space. |
15 |
Anxiety Attacks! |
"idgaf about me" |
single |
All we ask is that you check the time |
16 |
MPG |
"Ygsmo" |
My Worst Birthday |
and see that it is not yet too late |
17 |
Musti |
"føler meg bedre" |
mellom høyblokkene 4 |
if the clocks have yet to melt. |
18 |
Marcus Connolly |
"2004 / Fall to Pieces" |
2004 / Fall to Pieces +1 |
The past is only glorious if you put in the effort |
19 |
Konshens |
"Badmind Dead" |
Badmind Dead +1 |
to forget everything but the joy. |
20 |
DYNO |
"Hasta Luego" |
single |
This trick works for the future, too, if you start right now. |
21 |
Helalyn Flowers |
"Metropolis Necropolis" |
Metropolis Necropolis +2 |
The past and future are both infinite, |
22 |
Djerv |
"Throne" |
single |
and thus unmanageable in myriad ways, |
23 |
Jessica Wolff |
"Perfect Kind of Wrong" |
Para Dice |
but the moment-width of right now is the ideal scale for action: |
24 |
Barbie Sailers |
"Decode" |
single |
for translating one bitter secret into one declarational love, |
25 |
Beyond The Black |
"Horizons" |
Hørizøns |
for recognizing one assumed limit as a perspectival mirage, |
26 |
Sellout |
"Всё как всегда" |
single |
for learning one new chord at one new volume setting, |
27 |
Elysian Gates |
"Shelter from the Storm" |
single |
for mastering the shape of "no" in the mirror |
28 |
Sascha Paeth's Masters Of Ceremony |
"Under Fire" |
Under Fire +1 |
before putting on your mask and going out to march, |
29 |
Operus |
"The Mirror" |
Score of Nightmares |
for asking your soul what it needs |
30 |
Primal Fear |
"I Am Alive" |
I Am Alive +1 |
in a moment when you are ready to hear it if it gives you an answer. |
31 |
Machine Head |
"Stop the Bleeding (Feat. Jesse Leach)" |
Civil Unrest 2 |
We attribute volition to violence, |
32 |
Lamb of God |
"New Colossal Hate" |
Lamb of God |
and thus blame to fear, |
33 |
Hail Spirit Noir |
"The First Ape on New Earth" |
Eden in Reverse |
because we know what kind of animals we are the bodies of, |
34 |
Ensiferum |
"Andromeda" |
single |
but our legends are not made of bodies |
35 |
Blot |
"Howl From the North" |
Howl From the North |
or their frostbitten surfaces, |
36 |
Fellwarden |
"Scafell's Blight" |
single |
they are made of the auras that linger |
37 |
Vile Creature |
"Apathy Took Helm!" |
Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! |
when the skin is gone. |
38 |
Expander |
"Hyper-Flesh Aedificium" |
single |
We are allegories composed of husks, |
39 |
SiM |
"No One Knows" |
THANK GOD, THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF WAYS TO KiLL ENEMiES |
so of course we recognize the omnipresent familiarity of ignorance. |
40 |
Lock The Basement |
"Come Back to Life" |
single |
You have made decisions, |
41 |
Nothing’s Carved In Stone |
"Dream in the Dark" |
single |
some earnest and others negligent, |
42 |
Mr.FanTastiC |
"Always the Best Day" |
single |
without knowing enough. |
43 |
youngoohara |
"A PAJAMAS DE' SEA" |
single |
We never know enough, |
44 |
ゼラ |
"霞時雨" |
キセルの華 5 |
but judgment is not the patience to wait for certainty, |
45 |
ircle |
"Ever green" |
single |
it's the self-awareness to approximate the contents of vacua |
46 |
シバノソウ |
"泳いでく" |
あこがれ |
without sending the defenseless pouring into them |
47 |
SHINGEKI |
"STAGE" |
single |
in whatever they were wearing, |
48 |
SILENT SIREN |
"Up To You" |
single |
and the foresight to plan your outfits |
49 |
eimie |
"Love song" |
single |
knowing that most of the time you are among them. |
50 |
Lucie,Too |
"ハミング" |
single |
You learn to sing songs in other langauges |
51 |
Dasu |
"Antidisestablishmentarianism" |
single |
not to assume their positions |
52 |
WANIMA |
"Milk" |
single |
or teach them your rituals, |
53 |
Unknöwn Kun |
"Stay Forever" |
single |
but because lengths of time are fixed and sealed |
54 |
BBHF |
"Retake" |
single |
but breadths are halable. |
55 |
HIRAIDAI |
"EndlessSky" |
single |
You are a tiny infinity amidst innumerable tiny infinities, |
56 |
Pol 3.14 |
"Bipolar" |
single |
lost or freed as you choose to believe, |
57 |
Aleks Syntek |
"Intocable - Desde Casa" |
single |
except that you cannot walk away, |
58 |
Monica Naranjo |
"¡Hoy No! (Never Trust a Stranger)" |
single |
because there is no away, no realms of the dispensable, |
59 |
Mœnia |
"Solo Lastimaste" |
single |
no fortress of immunity to your own flesh. |
60 |
Elefante |
"Sobran las Palabras" |
single |
All of this flesh is yours, |
61 |
Ricardo Arjona |
"Sobrevivirás" |
single |
all of these walls built out of atoms borrowed from permanent trust |
62 |
8485 |
"i want the song 2 never end" |
single |
for temporary decorative expedience. |
63 |
Amnesia Scanner |
"AS Going (feat. LYZZA)" |
Tearless |
You cannot make yourself less wrong by speaking louder, |
64 |
Ashnikko |
"Cry (feat. Grimes)" |
single |
in the same way that you cannot dispel pandemic ignorance by subjecting it to fewer tests. |
65 |
Julianna Barwick |
"In Light" |
In Light +1 |
If your soul is hollow, |
66 |
Alexa Melo |
"Evergreens" |
single |
your words will echo inside you whether your mouth is open or closed. |
67 |
Hannah Georgas |
"Dreams" |
Dreams +2 |
Your steps will define a perpetual gnawing retreat. |
68 |
HVDES |
"Subsurface" |
single |
You will fear yourself watched, |
69 |
Dream Wife |
"Temporary" |
single |
and dread either truth too much to find out which it is. |
70 |
SABINA |
"Miejskie Historie (Akustycznie)" |
single |
The only way to evade implication by parable |
71 |
Jessie Frye |
"The One" |
single |
is to coccoon yourself in meaningless noise. |
72 |
The Heels |
"A Man Like You" |
single |
Of course we have whole channels for this, |
73 |
Caitlyn Shadbolt |
"Porcelain" |
single |
whole traditions of distraction and make-believe exemption, |
74 |
Shannen James |
"Arrows" |
single |
ways to claim allegiance to defeated causes |
75 |
Inkos'yamagcokama |
"Asenzele Bona - Extended Version" |
single |
as if they should ever have been taken up. |
76 |
The Killers |
"My Own Soul’s Warning" |
single |
But you are not watched over by statues of discredited supremacy. |
77 |
Acceptance |
"Cold Air" |
single |
You are not wrapped in the blankets of dismantled empires, |
78 |
Lonely The Brave |
"Distant Light" |
single |
or you are and still not warm. |
79 |
Ready Steady Steroids |
"Undercover" |
single |
You cannot lead an orderly march into craven myth |
80 |
Point North |
"Brand New Vision (feat. DE’WAYNE)" |
single |
if you can't walk down a slight incline |
81 |
Balance Breach |
"November" |
single |
and can't see clearly past your own swollen eyelids |
82 |
Medicated |
"Fallen One" |
Descension |
and can't explain anything about your utopia but its flag. |
83 |
Honeymoon Suite |
"Find What You're Looking For" |
single |
You are infinite, but infinity is only wealth if you don't know what anything would cost you if you had to buy the next one yourself, |
84 |
Ketch Harbour Wolves |
"Exodus" |
single |
nor what it has cost all of us to dig anything valuable out of the rock below our feet, |
85 |
Shred Kelly |
"Rising Sun" |
Like a Rising Sun |
nor what it will cost us to realize that most of our triumphant strikes of acquisistion were depletions of resources upon which we should not have come to depend. |
86 |
Agsunta |
"Sa Huling Pagkikita" |
single |
Your steps leave marks for where your apologies would begin |
87 |
Guerilla Toss |
"Human Girl" |
Human Girl +1 |
if it were as simple as regret and forgiveness, |
88 |
Lonely Robot |
"Spiders" |
single |
if the harm you did were confined to the span of your hands, |
89 |
Kyros |
"Rumour" |
Celexa Dreams |
or produced by their work if they did work. |
90 |
AvAciA |
"Halua minua" |
single |
Your steps and the steps of the parade diverge. |
91 |
The Moon & The Nightspirit |
"A szárny" |
Aether |
You only find out whether you have a destination when you accept the courage to walk away |
92 |
J2 |
"Dawn of Destiny" |
Dawn of Destiny |
even though there is no apparent away, |
93 |
Alex Yarmak |
"Outrun This" |
single |
when you realize you have assumed your life matters and thus spent it making everything else matter less, |
94 |
Shackleton |
"Primal Drones" |
single |
when you understand that time in its natural form never runs out, but you bought yours, and the only bits of time for sale are the ones that no longer flow. |
95 |
Hilary Woods |
"N.I.B." |
single |
Purchased brutality can never be more than statuesque. |
96 |
The Animal In Me |
"Crawling In The Dark" |
single |
We will always forget everything but joy, and this is why there is no joyless immortality. |
97 |
Halocene |
"Killing in the Name" |
single |
This is why statues can be pulled down in a minute of ecstatic truth, despite having stood for centuries of impassive and entitled lies. |