1 |
Donovan Woods |
"Clean Slate" |
single |
Hating things is easy: |
2 |
Craig Cardiff |
"Yellowknife" |
single |
pick one quality of one thing you love, and hate everything else that lacks it; |
3 |
Lontalius |
"I'll Be The Rain" |
single |
pick one quality of one thing you fear, and declare a personal exemption to its appeal; |
4 |
nothing,nowhere. |
"clarity in kerosene - one take" |
one takes vol. 1 |
pick a moment in history, and hate everything in proportion to its relative displacement in time; |
5 |
Drippin So Pretty |
"Suicide" |
Back from Hell |
pick a way in which humanity is revealed or concealed, and stake yourself to its abhorence or necessity; |
6 |
Unknöwn Kun |
"ToT" |
Stay Forever 3 |
designate one note as a trigger or an inferred curse; |
7 |
Luca Fogale |
"Every Colour" |
single |
stipulate that everything unfamiliar is worse than whatever you know, |
8 |
Kevin Rudolf |
"Escape That's Ok" |
single |
and then apply yourself to assiduous forgetting. |
9 |
Nightly |
"not like you" |
single |
Hate weakness, or strength, or the texture of mango skin. |
10 |
Ketch Harbour Wolves |
"I Will Take Your Word for It" |
Avalon |
Hate the people who refuse to ask you to dance, and how they fill city after city in countries you will never go. |
11 |
Kathleen Edwards |
"Hard On Everyone" |
Hard On Everyone +2 |
Hate the songs they dance to without you, |
12 |
Kelsy Karter |
"Stick To Your Guns" |
single |
and if they turn and catch your eye, hate how long it took. |
13 |
Lauren Babic |
"Erase" |
single |
Everything that threatens to outlive you must love death more than it loves you, |
14 |
The Beths |
"Jump Rope Gazers" |
Jump Rope Gazers |
and this rejection is an alloy out of which you can make armor proof against its touch, |
15 |
Yours Truly |
"Together" |
Together +1 |
or sunlight, or the movement of air. |
16 |
Bully |
"Every Tradition" |
Every Tradition +1 |
Write down your first ten habits |
17 |
Throwing Muses |
"Bo Diddley Bridge" |
Bo Diddley Bridge +1 |
on clay. |
18 |
Team Dresch |
"Story of the Earth" |
single |
Writhe against anything that reaches your surface. |
19 |
Cö Shu Nie |
"FLARE" |
single |
Take a half-empty glass and turn it upside down: |
20 |
CYNHN |
"ごく平凡な青は、" |
single |
there's your "half full". |
21 |
KRD8 |
"Override" |
strobe edge |
Learn the rules of one comprehensive orthodoxy, |
22 |
Malcolm Mask McLaren |
"Sunrise" |
single |
but the rationales for only half of it. |
23 |
NEO JAPONISM |
"Carry ON" |
HERE NOW |
Bisect the world into those who inhabit the states you have left, |
24 |
FROZEN CAKE BAR |
"Ghost Town" |
SAMURAI 3 |
and those who have run out of whatever you can most effortlessly hoard, |
25 |
Mezmerized |
"Cyanide" |
single |
and then fold the earth along this line so that you stand by definition |
26 |
Raven Black |
"Hear Me Cry" |
single |
on the highest ground. |
27 |
Black Rose Maze |
"Maze" |
single |
Take short, begrudging breaths of contaminated air, |
28 |
Hamka |
"Suffering Ages" |
single |
and give them back flecked with judgment and blood. |
29 |
Ensiferum |
"Cold Northland (Väinämöinen Part III)" |
Thalassic |
Read only the beginnings of legends, |
30 |
Athanasia |
"Obelisk" |
single |
or better yet, have them paraphrased for you by termites, |
31 |
Oceans of Slumber |
"The Adorned Fathomless Creation" |
single |
and replace every seventh noun with the name of an unreciprocated crush. |
32 |
Veil Of Delusions |
"Prisoner" |
single |
Set hydras to guard the doors |
33 |
The Devil's Trade |
"Három Árva" |
single |
to rooms of your own home. |
34 |
Aseitas |
"Behemoth's Dance" |
False Peace |
Misspell the names of your aspirational enemies. |
35 |
Korgonthurus |
"Kuolleestasyntynyt" |
Kuolleestasyntynyt |
Break the handles off of your cookware; |
36 |
Rebel Wizard |
"Magickal Mystical Indifference" |
Magickal Mystical Indifference |
goad corrosion into your sleep; |
37 |
Mora Prokaza |
"Blacker Than Black" |
By Chance |
learn to say only "no" in all of the languages. |
38 |
Theotoxin |
"Golden Tomb" |
single |
And yet, |
39 |
Drouth |
"An Apiarist" |
single |
if you do all of this, |
40 |
Enslaved |
"Jettegryta" |
Jettegryta +1 |
hate can become your temporary resonant wavelength |
41 |
Veonity |
"Graced or Damned" |
single |
but never quite your blood-type |
42 |
Dimitriy Pavlovskiy's Powersquad |
"Book of Myths" |
single |
or your blood. |
43 |
Tokyo Motor Fist |
"Winner Takes All" |
Lions |
Every thing you hate is a love you have acknowledged by rejecting. |
44 |
The Midnight |
"Deep Blue" |
Monsters |
The world is full of things, |
45 |
Fury Weekend |
"Only In My Dreams" |
Only In My Dreams (feat. King Protea) |
and it's easy to hate them one at time, |
46 |
Migimimi sleep tight |
"AS USUAL" |
single |
but you're never actually done. |
47 |
3D Stas |
"Deep Scars" |
Redneck Technology |
There were 76,031 new releases on Spotify last week. |
48 |
Glitch Black |
"Onslaught" |
Mechanical Perfection |
Even if you take the reasonable shortcuts of dismissing the jazz ones without listening to them |
49 |
Gregorio Franco |
"Unforgiven" |
single |
and hating just one represenative track from each album, |
50 |
ZIZ |
"Konsui Kalpa" |
single |
you have to hate another one about every 5 seconds, for 16 hours a day, every day. |
51 |
LIPHLICH |
"STRAY STAR" |
KEREN-LOCOMOTIVE 2 4 |
You can't stop and say "Wait, WHAT?" |
52 |
m!sa |
"3AM" |
single |
You can't land on a 5 seconds that's 2.5 seconds of desperate screaming and 2.5 seconds of ethereal swoon, |
53 |
Anamanaguchi |
"Kei" |
single |
and want to know how this apposition resolves. |
54 |
NVDES |
"24/7" |
single |
You can't let a song make you think about what Charli XCX learned from Toyah. |
55 |
POPSTARBILLS |
"POSTED WITH THE GAS PACK!" |
single |
You can't pause to wonder what Atom would have done with a better Package. |
56 |
100 gecs |
"745 sticky (Black Dresses Remix)" |
1000 gecs and The Tree of Clues |
You can't get distracted drafting letters to holdouts. |
57 |
Senses |
"System Fail" |
single |
You can't suddenly realize that gimmicks you thought you'd dismissed have become their own genres. |
58 |
blackwinterwells |
"OLDD" |
single |
You can't hesitate on the way to the Skip button because it sounds like the song or maybe the world might be disintegrating on its own. |
59 |
Rosesleeves |
"Only Allowed a Crush" |
single |
You can't hear yourself in the catch of another human's voice. |
60 |
nappy 01' |
"what you need" |
single |
You can't be sorry or not-sorry, |
61 |
Sudan Archives |
"Black Vivaldi Sonata - A COLORS ENCORE" |
single |
or trapped between history and preconception, |
62 |
Ashnikko |
"Daisy" |
Daisy +1 |
or even momentarily invested in other people's speculative power-structures. |
63 |
Snow Tha Product |
"On My Shit (Freestyle)" |
single |
Snow can do this faster than you can play it. |
64 |
Faouzia |
"How It All Works Out" |
How It All Works Out +2 |
There are Moroccans hiding in Canada. |
65 |
Miss Eaves |
"Belly Bounce" |
How It Is 4 |
There are anthems for every one of your reticences, |
66 |
BAER |
"Pussywhip" |
single |
and eye-trackers to see what you thought about clicking. |
67 |
Venus Hum |
"Where You Are" |
single |
Bands you conflate only become twice as productive. |
68 |
Levante |
"Sirene" |
single |
We are the diaspora of everywhere into everywhere else. |
69 |
Gloria Trevi |
"Demasiado Frágiles" |
single |
Today the invisible defeats us, |
70 |
Rozalén |
"Que No, Que No" |
single |
but tomorrow we can play all of these songs again. |
71 |
Ricardo Arjona |
"No Es el Momento" |
single |
We have to take another breath, |
72 |
Deep Purple |
"Nothing at All" |
Nothing at All +2 |
and the difference between continue and begin again |
73 |
Jefferson Starship |
"It's About Time" |
single |
is less about whether we remember how we built this city, |
74 |
Acceptance |
"Midnight" |
Midnight +1 |
and more about how it shines in the dark. |
75 |
LET US PREY |
"Ghost Echoes" |
single |
The things you think you hate are ghosts of unnecessary regrets, |
76 |
The Dangerous Summer |
"Fuck Them All" |
single |
or the consequences of decisions you let other people make for you, |
77 |
Ready Steady Steroids |
"Social Anemia" |
single |
or friends you didn't recognize in those hats. |
78 |
Betontod |
"Komm in meine Arme" |
single |
This terrible moment is filled with great music. |
79 |
Saltatio Mortis |
"Loki" |
single |
You are not a god, but you can see what became of the gods anyway: |
80 |
Versengold |
"Märchen von morgen" |
single |
they are action figures, and motifs for T-shirts and masks, |
81 |
Celtica Pipes Rock! |
"Celtic Spirits" |
Celtic Spirits |
and interchangeable flavors of our elemental spirits. |
82 |
Wolfgang Ziegler |
"Millionen Herzen" |
single |
They had self-referential origin myths, we have hearts we don't remember ever not beating. |
83 |
Jorge Elbrecht |
"Ancient Grief" |
single |
They claimed stern definitional divinity, |
84 |
CLOUDLAND |
"Walking Away" |
single |
but we have helplessly plaintive magic. |
85 |
Nathi |
"Corona" |
single |
Our own origin myths are still being written. |
86 |
Mnqobi Yazo |
"Sabela" |
single |
The gods are complete; we are still becoming what we are. |
87 |
David Jones David |
"Bebe" |
single |
Will you dance? Will you dance with us? Your heart beats, we can see you moving. |
88 |
Skandi Kid |
"Chineke" |
single |
We're not dancing without you. We're not doing anything without you. |
89 |
Amanda Aalto |
"Rinki" |
single |
Write your first ten habits on the air; |
90 |
Julianna Barwick |
"Nod" |
Healing Is A Miracle |
now they are gone, and you may choose new ones. |
91 |
KTL |
"Silver Lining" |
VII |
Every terrible moment is a detent between continuing times. |
92 |
Inter Arma |
"The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill" |
Garbers Days Revisited |
Hating things would be easy if they held still, |
93 |
Joan As Police Woman |
"Let It Be" |
single |
or ever only intended one lie or one truth. |
94 |
First to Eleven |
"Take on Me" |
single |
You can't stay safe by refusing to be sorry. |
95 |
Of Monsters and Men |
"Circles" |
single |
Make up your mind, that's all it takes. |
96 |
Aubrie Sellers |
"Wicked Game" |
single |
Pick up the glass, fill it halfway with something you haven't drunk before, |
97 |
DIAMANTE |
"Iris" |
single |
or just didn't think you liked. |
98 |
Karen Zoid |
"Impi" |
Republiek van Zoid Afrika |
Sing songs of peace during wartime, and vice versa. |
99 |
Kurt Darren |
"My African dream" |
single |
Separate the world into the people who come from where you come from, and the dust on the moon. |