| 1 | BT | "No Warning Lights" | No Warning Lights +1 | I'm not saying BT doesn't know how to structure a trance song, but if I had a song with Emma Hewitt singing on it, I would not wait 1:15 to have her start. |
| 2 | Dark Sarah | "The Chosen One" | Grim | But then, trance is about meticulous modulation, not continuous frenetic catharsis, |
| 3 | Unleash The Archers | "Soulbound" | single | which is probably why I fall in love with an average of .25 trance songs a week when Emma isn't involved, |
| 4 | MoonSun | "Lost in a Dream" | Lost in a Dream +1 | but seem to have basically no resistance at all to convulsive gothic symphonic metal |
| 5 | ReoNa | "ANIMA" | single | or sparkle-twitchy Japanese punk-pop. |
| 6 | Roselia | "Re:birth day" | Wahl | We will emerge from mindless pandemics and heartless government |
| 7 | BiS | "イミテーションセンセーション" | ANTi CONFORMiST SUPERSTAR 3 | through the accumulations of diligent attention and slow time, |
| 8 | SCANDAL | "SPICE" | single | not sequences of isolated moments of ebullient blasting rapture, |
| 9 | BLACKNAZARENE | "The beginning" | single | not arpeggios of revelation, |
| 10 | PARADISES | "終わらない旅" | PARADISES | not cartoon retribution |
| 11 | NEO JAPONISM | "WORLD END STARRY NIGHT" | OVER TIME | or dreamy apocalypticism. |
| 12 | GO TO THE BEDS | "行かなくちゃ?" | GO TO THE BEDS | Ringing minutes of defiance will not suffice |
| 13 | B.O.L.T | "スーパースター" | POP(通常盤) | one at a time. |
| 14 | Hitomi Yaida | "Anata No STORY" | single | Our story will be that great, but not that simple. |
| 15 | BBHF | "Bokurano Seikatsu" | single | These songs will not be enough, |
| 16 | kobore | "HAPPY SONG" | single | or we would be free already. |
| 17 | HEALTH | "FULL OF HEALTH" | single | But surviving these ordeals reduces to slow moral recapture |
| 18 | Murlo | "Primal" | single | and a lot of minutes of uneasy survival, |
| 19 | Faded Paper Figures | "Bones" | Kairos | and we are fully prepared to survive them three or four at a time. |
| 20 | blackwinterwells | "WEAVER" | single | Or two. Short songs have always been the medium of coping. |
| 21 | 7xvn | "Cry" | single | You don't write Tales From Topographic Oceans while the topography is rising into your house. |
| 22 | Famous Addonis | "Now Do I Make Sense" | single | You don't think "I might have only 2:27 left" and then "Well, I can start to establish the harmonic parameters of an introductory motif." |
| 23 | Manga Saint Hilare | "Dumping Again" | single | You think "Fuck." |
| 24 | JPEGMAFIA | "ROUGH 7" | single | You say "Start recording. I'll think of something." |
| 25 | Maliibu Miitch | "Let's Be Honest" | single | You think "These words are mine, I can say them however I want." |
| 26 | d0llywood1 | "ithinkimdoingbetter" | single | We can't go out? We have laptops. |
| 27 | familypet | "wait for you in the dark" | single | We know where the emo in emo rap comes from. |
| 28 | Goffie | "One Mistake" | single | The disco made us anxious, |
| 29 | Leo IV | "If You Ready or Not" | single | which doesn't mean we don't miss it, |
| 30 | fish narc | "SNOWFLAKE" | WiLDFiRE | but we need it a lot less than empty people need their adoring crowds. |
| 31 | Shamir | "I Wonder" | single | We can coexist with doubt. |
| 32 | Tei Shi | "OK crazy" | Die 4 Ur Love 5 | If you have an inner life, you coexist with doubt. |
| 33 | mxmtoon | "1, 2 (feat. chloe moriondo)" | dawn 4 | All romance is predicated on doubt, |
| 34 | flor | "unsaid" | reimagined 5 | in exactly the way that privilege pretends not to be. |
| 35 | Tinashe | "Rascal (Superstar)" | single | You can't abolish genres any more than you can sloganeer racists into decency, |
| 36 | Ellie Goulding | "Tides" | Brightest Blue | but you don't have to stay in what anybody else says is your place. |
| 37 | Anne-Marie | "To Be Young (feat. Doja Cat)" | single | You can choose your friends, |
| 38 | Meghan Trainor | "Underwater (feat. Dillon Francis)" | TREAT MYSELF | and the lives that matter to you, however you found them. |
| 39 | Kiana Ledé | "Protection." | In My Feelings 6 | You can choose clarity, |
| 40 | Joy Oladokun | "unwelcoming" | in defense of my own happiness | and see what else clarity chooses for you: |
| 41 | Blondfire | "Marigold" | single | unpale colors, |
| 42 | CXLOE | "12 Steps" | single | long recoveries, |
| 43 | Nasty Cherry | "Better Run" | Season 2 5 | danger, |
| 44 | The Aces | "My Phone is Trying to Kill Me" | Under My Influence | weapons. |
| 45 | The Regrettes | "I Love Us" | single | All of these are vectors for desperate attachment, |
| 46 | Madge | "Hey Hi" | Ethanol 6 | and thus also for constant reinvention. |
| 47 | Zen Mother | "Order" | single | If you insist you are always right, |
| 48 | Expander | "Megacorp" | single | you can only grow through consumption, |
| 49 | Havukruunu | "Uinuos Syömein Sota" | Uinuos Syömein Sota | and only move by expansion. |
| 50 | Black Magnet | "Divination Equipment" | single | Modern Odins have their ravens killed and gilded, |
| 51 | Rise to the Sky | "Together in the Grave" | single | and then wonder why the mortals gather outside the gates. |
| 52 | The Lightbringer of Sweden | "Fallen Angels" | Rise of the Beast | But we reinforce the gates by gathering outside them. |
| 53 | Ayreon | "Hopelessly Slipping Away (feat. Tom Baker, Cammie Gilbert, Tommy Karevik)" | Hopelessly Slipping Away / Get Out! Now! 2 | Maybe topography is exactly how to deal with the rising seas. |
| 54 | Carthagods | "Whispers from the Wicked" | The Monster in Me | Maybe the right response, when it seems like you have only 2:27 left, |
| 55 | Varg | "Zeichen" | single | is to say "Tell me that again in 5:13." |
| 56 | Nothgard | "Lightcrawler" | single | Maybe it's not actually any more exhausting to blast the endless minutes |
| 57 | Draconian | "Sorrow of Sophia" | single | than to endure them. |
| 58 | The Lust | "Hate at First Sight" | Honest | It's not that we were never great, |
| 59 | Imperial Triumphant | "Atomic Age" | single | it's that our greatness has always been entropic and unmanageable and mixed with terror and noise, |
| 60 | Ihsahn | "Spectre At The Feast" | single | and dependent on our ability to ascribe meaning to or at least towards it. |
| 61 | Derek Sherinian | "Empyrean Sky" | single | Our rockets keep not reaching Heaven, |
| 62 | Lonely Robot | "Crystalline" | Feelings Are Good (Bonus Tracks Edition) | which is only disappointing if you have the smallest idea of what the sky is. |
| 63 | Chillyman | "Hinotori" | Hinotori +1 | Rockets are about meticulous triangulation, |
| 64 | Waltari | "Step Outside - Single Version" | single | and metrics for trust that are not based on loyalty, |
| 65 | Dotorado Pro | "Can't Believe" | single | and understanding that bursts of light are side effects |
| 66 | Aamourocean | "Parmi Les Mortels" | Parmi Les Mortels +1 | of rational preparation and brutal patience. |
| 67 | Morten HD | "Instructions for Preservation of the Text" | Origins of the World of Light | You don't have to read the manual, |
| 68 | Tiger Village | "Strabismus" | Amblyopiac | but you have to understand why and how it was written. |
| 69 | Keoma | "Gaia" | single | You can't just hold it up, |
| 70 | Rews | "Today We're Warriors" | Today We're Warriors +3 | and then scuttle back across the street to your bunker. |
| 71 | Bob Mould | "Forecast of Rain" | Forecast of Rain +1 | Single minutes of ringing defiance will not prevail, |
| 72 | beabadoobee | "Care" | single | but we have a lot more than one. |
| 73 | Cam | "Classic" | Classic +3 | We didn't just start. |
| 74 | The Chicks | "Sleep at Night" | Gaslighter | Our names are means, not mean goals, |
| 75 | Christia Visser | "Wildste Oomblik" | single | and thus more than viscous glue that adheres us to our worst defining instincts. |
| 76 | Keith Urban | "Superman" | Superman +1 | We know that our country |
| 77 | BraAgas | "Rampelado e Courso de la Tarasco" | Bestiále | is childish in an ancient world, |
| 78 | Simone Tomassini | "Quante volte ti sei perso" | single | but that this can make us students |
| 79 | Oxido | "Como La Flor" | single | of traditions we thought we invented, |
| 80 | Ndlovu Youth Choir | "We Will Rise" | single | or scatterlings and fugitives, |
| 81 | Rofhiwa | "Vhonani Murena Yeso" | single | occluded by discarded faith. |
| 82 | Afel Bocoum | "Dakamana" | Dakamana +2 | We have deserts in our eyes, |
| 83 | Adekunle Gold | "AG Baby" | single | and our emissaries to the seasons have been sent home. |
| 84 | morgxn | "WONDER" | single | Maybe they are us, and this is our reentry quarantine. |
| 85 | EchoDDT | "Ten Times Better" | Ultra Zone Skate Plex | Our story will be great, but probably not that short. |
| 86 | Crystal Skies | "Lullaby" | single | It doesn't end tonight, but tonight is another careful step towards morning. |
| 87 | Silent Rival | "Whole Lotta Love" | single | Tomorrow we will learn a little more. |
| 88 | First to Eleven | "Welcome Home" | single | Some of these arpeggios of revelation are encoded messages from the future; |
| 89 | Alina Lesnik | "Kiss The Go-Goat" | single | some of them are just ways to not give up before we get there. |
| 90 | Kurt Darren | "Impi" | The South African Songbook | But some of them are the legends of how we win. |