1 |
La Oreja de Van Gogh |
"Te Pareces Tanto a Mí" |
single |
Statues encode myth |
2 |
Varry Brava |
"Mi Mejor Momento" |
single |
through a one-way cypher |
3 |
GRAN ANGULAR |
"Verano en la Piel" |
single |
that metonymizes meaning |
4 |
Aleks Syntek |
"Corazones Invencibles - Desde Casa" |
Desde Casa 4 |
into a shell of irrelevant coincident features: |
5 |
Veintiuno |
"Salvavidas (feat. Pole.)" |
single |
a tired horse; |
6 |
Saurom |
"El Lazarillo De Tormes" |
single |
a waistcoat, color unspecified; |
7 |
Boreale |
"Tienila stretta questa felicità" |
single |
Robert E. Lee's mustache, |
8 |
Ricardo Arjona |
"El Invisible" |
single |
if we believe the sculptor had testimony to its volume and grain; |
9 |
Gina Gina |
"The One" |
single |
David's notorious penchant for lounging insouciantly against low tree stumps; |
10 |
Ithwasa Lekhansela |
"Ikhala Lentuthwane" |
Ikhala Lentuthwane +2 |
the way Columbus would stand near bodies of water, |
11 |
Avante |
"Ungalaleli Abantu" |
Eqalwe Nguwe |
his eyes twinkling, |
12 |
Manyelo Dafro |
"Ladon (feat. Bassekou Kouyaté)" |
single |
daring us to throw him in. |
13 |
Mpumi Mzobe |
"Uzobuya" |
single |
If defended properly against the corrosive effects of abstraction and modernism, |
14 |
MC Yallah |
"Kakana" |
Mama Waliwamanyii 4 |
a statue can tell an enduring story |
15 |
Ms Level |
"Umuntu Wami Lo" |
single |
of who owns the means of production |
16 |
Ms Level |
"Uthe Angeke" |
single |
of performative dignity. |
17 |
Krizbeatz |
"African Time" |
single |
Columbus left smallpox |
18 |
Karen Zoid |
"Indigo Girl" |
single |
and took potatoes, |
19 |
Jordan Brooker |
"Irish Rose" |
single |
and if you think statues are about history, |
20 |
Koe Wetzel |
"Sundy or Mundy" |
single |
tell me how he can just stand there, |
21 |
The Front Bottoms |
"montgomery forever" |
montgomery forever / everyone blooms / camouflage 3 |
saying nothing about guilt or consequences, |
22 |
SayWeCanFly |
"Nosebleed" |
single |
watching us struggle. |
23 |
nAvvvi |
"Android" |
single |
That is not why he is there, |
24 |
JACKIE EXTREME |
"THE BLUE" |
Present Time, Present Day 5 |
and not why we pull him down |
25 |
GAIKA |
"Kingdom of Slums" |
Seguridad |
and throw him into the water. |
26 |
NNAMDÏ |
"My Life" |
Black Plight EP 3 |
You can hardly call that un-American, |
27 |
VIKING_DEATH_TRAP.EXE |
"KVÆLT" |
single |
but it would have been much more American to have done it the day he arrived. |
28 |
Tokyo Jetz |
"FUXK IT" |
single |
He is there to mutely reiterate a power-structure. |
29 |
Vantana Row |
"Integrious / Verything - Live" |
Live in a Van |
We tear him down |
30 |
galen tipton |
"Courageous Grieving" |
goddexx 5 |
to remind ourselves |
31 |
Madge |
"Romeo" |
single |
that his silence is our power. |
32 |
Ollie Wride |
"Juliette" |
single |
Exactly none of the history in which he is implicated |
33 |
The Spider Accomplice |
"Crawl" |
single |
is evident in his features, |
34 |
NEVIAH |
"ROOTS MEAN SCARS" |
single |
and it is tempting to conclude that the statue is thus morally inert, |
35 |
Dark Sarah |
"Illuminate" |
single |
or that it sleeps with the dreams |
36 |
Reasons Behind |
"Binary Stars" |
single |
of those who share with it their own pure love. |
37 |
System Divide |
"Rise Again" |
single |
But put a rope around its neck, |
38 |
PassCode |
"MANTRA" |
single |
and pull with orthogonal purpose |
39 |
MY FIRST STORY |
"1,000,000 TIMES feat. chelly (EGOIST)" |
1,000,000 TIMES 2 |
until the stone cracks, |
40 |
GRAND FINALE |
"Fly To The Shangri-La" |
single |
and you will find out how his shell contains centuries |
41 |
ReoNa |
"Untitled world" |
single |
of fear, and dominance, and oblivious entitlement, |
42 |
CROWN POP |
"LIFE" |
single |
and public-health mismanagement, |
43 |
the mishmash |
"HERO" |
GOOD DAYS |
and trenchant lessons we keep forgetting |
44 |
えんそく |
"5時限目のSUMMER SUITS" |
5次元SUMMER SUITS 4 |
about the privatization of interrnational relations. |
45 |
MAN WITH A MISSION |
"Change the World" |
Change the World +1 |
A statue encases truth |
46 |
UNMASK aLIVE |
"Tao" |
single |
in the hopes of suspending a story |
47 |
Ray |
"fate" |
fate +2 |
at an advantageous point for its sponsor. |
48 |
Diaura |
"獄彩" |
single |
We put up a statue |
49 |
Rhythmic Toy World |
"HAME" |
single |
to claim, disingenuously, |
50 |
aint |
"Can't take back days" |
single |
that we have been delivered, by personal greatness, |
51 |
NOISEMAKER |
"Better Days" |
H.U.E. |
through struggle into a peaceful afterworld, |
52 |
FOMARE |
"ARUBA" |
ME WO TOJIREBA |
and should remember the names and hairlines of our benefactors |
53 |
postman |
"蒼" |
HOPEFUL APPLE |
as a courtesy. |
54 |
Age Factory |
"CLOSE EYE feat.Kamui" |
CLOSE EYE (Reboot) 2 |
Thereafter, it stands in judgment, |
55 |
Wintaar |
"So Be It" |
I Am Ruin, I Am Death |
practicing the exact petty opposite of stewardship, |
56 |
Satylus |
"Brightness" |
Brightness +1 |
waiting to see how long it will take us to decide to blame it |
57 |
Ars Magna Umbrae |
"Oracle of Luminous Dark" |
single |
for exactly what it is guilt of. |
58 |
Vhäldemar |
"Afterlife" |
single |
Tearing it down releases its truth again, |
59 |
Varus |
"Die Letzte Schenke" |
A New Dawn |
and returns all of us to its point of irresolution. |
60 |
Second to Sun |
"L" |
single |
The story is unsuspended. |
61 |
Imperial Triumphant |
"City Swine" |
single |
We can talk about reparations |
62 |
Limos |
"Rise to Arms" |
Tales of the White Eye 4 |
for things done by our distant ancestors, |
63 |
Myridian |
"Light Is Lost" |
Light in the Abyss |
because they didn't have that talk. |
64 |
Profane Sanctum |
"Soldiers Epitaph" |
single |
We can print new copies of every treaty Trump petulantly tore up |
65 |
Doomcave |
"The Illumination" |
The Illumination |
because it didn't mention his name anywhere, |
66 |
Highborne |
"Inquisitor of Frailty" |
single |
and resign ourselves to repairing his damage. |
67 |
Samael |
"Transcendence" |
single |
A standing statue is a power lesson; |
68 |
Balance Breach |
"Bad Blood" |
Dead End Diaries |
a fallen one, that is the history lesson. |
69 |
Pain of Salvation |
"ACCELERATOR" |
single |
History beats power: |
70 |
Gazpacho |
"Fireworker" |
single |
this is the thing history always learns, |
71 |
Lonely Robot |
"Keeping People as Pets" |
single |
and power never does. |
72 |
Jet Jaguar |
"No Surrender" |
single |
All of us are flawed, but some of us are trying to improve the world and/or ourselves anyway, |
73 |
DevilDriver |
"Iona" |
single |
and some of us are trying to be adored for existing, |
74 |
Jesu |
"Never There for You" |
Never |
and you can recognize the second kind pretty easily by their penchant for putting their name on things they pretend to think will outlive them, |
75 |
sleepmakeswaves |
"pyramids" |
Out of Hours 4 |
and then obsessively coming back to check on them. |
76 |
Liturgy |
"Antigone" |
single |
History prefers books to statues; |
77 |
Rabbit Junk |
"Prismatic" |
single |
power doesn't read in public because it doesn't like people to know it has to use glasses to see what the words are, |
78 |
Beverly Glenn-Copeland |
"River Dreams" |
single |
and then when it sees what they are is too vain to ask anybody what they mean. |
79 |
Aleah |
"Vapour - Acoustic" |
Aleah |
History wants to talk with us about the future; |
80 |
Emma Ruth Rundle |
"Staying Power" |
single |
power wants to lie to us about the past. |
81 |
Charlotte Clark |
"Disarray" |
single |
History knows we have never been modern, but knows that modernism at least shows intent; |
82 |
Dream Wife |
"Old Flame" |
So When You Gonna... |
power thinks it is the thing that made us civilized, and thus conflates debris with purpose. |
83 |
Holy Esque |
"Attach Yourself Today" |
Isolation 3 |
We have not yet been great, |
84 |
Stanley Odd |
"FUWSH" |
single |
and this will probably not turn out to have been the year we became great. |
85 |
Montreal |
"N.Y." |
single |
Trump wants to fill a garden of American heroes. |
86 |
Rota |
"İblisler" |
single |
When all you have is a shovel for digging yourself in deeper, |
87 |
Max Cooper |
"Swarm" |
single |
every open space looks like a good place for a new cemetary. |
88 |
Robert Scott Thompson |
"Suspended in Stasis" |
single |
Take the statues, leave the gravestones. |
89 |
Alex Yarmak |
"She Is Young, She Is Beautiful, She Is Next" |
single |
Some of the people who have lived come to stand, |
90 |
GAIKA |
"Iron Cut" |
Seguridad |
in death, for the stories that took place around them. |
91 |
Ingrid Witt |
"Can’t Help Falling In Love" |
single |
But it is their stories we need to remember, not their particular tired horses or their stupid hats. |
92 |
Main-De-Gloire |
"Someone You Loved" |
single |
Throwing them into the water solves nothing, but making them also solved nothing, and now we have another empty pedestal to remind us of our unfinished work. |