1 |
Equilibrium |
"One Folk" |
single |
The essence of globalist humanism is saying that we are all one in your own roaring language. |
2 |
Anaal Nathrakh |
"Endarkenment" |
single |
Nihilist grotesques agree, at least, that none of us are immune to apocalypse, |
3 |
Duma |
"Corners in Nihil" |
Duma |
and in shared despair there is at least a grounding for hope. |
4 |
Saltatio Mortis |
"Für immer jung" |
Für immer jung +2 |
It can't take us all is tautologically credible, |
5 |
ENGST |
"Wieder da" |
single |
because we definitely won't live to be proven wrong. |
6 |
Gojira |
"Another World" |
single |
There are other worlds is a fantasist's response to petty dominance in this one, |
7 |
DGM |
"Flesh and Blood" |
single |
and the willingness to imagine the rules and striations of an invented realm |
8 |
Seas on the Moon |
"Opium" |
single |
is the base of an avenging bridge back to this one. |
9 |
Black Rose Maze |
"Earth Calling" |
Black Rose Maze |
We scrape against the void as we spin, |
10 |
Reasons Behind |
"(E)met" |
single |
and against our own lungs as we breathe, |
11 |
Flowerleaf |
"We Will Stand (United)" |
single |
and these abrasions are bows along our veins and wires |
12 |
Canterra |
"No Bitter End" |
Heartmachine |
and resonant chambers of the heart. |
13 |
Unlucky Morpheus |
"Unending Sorceress" |
Unfinished |
Long ago we traded the last magic for the first lever, |
14 |
Kite |
"Bowie ´95" |
Teenage Bliss / Bowie ´95 2 |
and we've had centuries to wonder whether this was a trick disguised as a bargain, |
15 |
Kat Saul |
"Monsters" |
single |
or a gift disguised as a trick, |
16 |
LÉON |
"Chasing A Feeling" |
single |
or just the way that truth amuses itself by varying its modes of arrival and transport. |
17 |
MC Yallah |
"Emcees" |
single |
The lever was a way to mischaracterize cultural problems |
18 |
BABii |
"BEAST - 1011 REMiiX" |
single |
as issues of fulcrum placement, |
19 |
ZOMBIE-CHANG |
"GOLD TRANCE" |
TAKE ME AWAY FROM TOKYO |
and a font of distracting arguments about where to move rocks that were fine where they already sat, |
20 |
Tkay Maidza |
"Awake" |
Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2 |
but also a metaphor of release, |
21 |
Marlowe |
"Spring Kick" |
Marlowe 2 |
and a manifesto of possibility, |
22 |
d0llywood1 |
"ihonestlymightjustgiveup" |
single |
and a revelation that lifted us up, inches at a time. |
23 |
Bully |
"Hours and Hours" |
Hours and Hours +2 |
Victories are all like this: |
24 |
Stand Atlantic |
"Blurry" |
Pink Elephant |
misunderstandings given new codifications, |
25 |
Rews |
"Razorblade" |
Warriors |
and false endings postered over perilous outsets, |
26 |
SCARLET |
"#bossbitch" |
single |
and the only way to make the tiny increments of progress |
27 |
PEDRO |
"pistol in my hand" |
single |
out of which all real progress is assembled. |
28 |
Starmarie |
"KonomamaMonster" |
single |
Neither will a coronavirus vaccine deliver Belarus or America from autocracy, |
29 |
NEO JAPONISM |
"Subliminal" |
single |
at least not technically, |
30 |
Ebisu★Muscats |
"PUZZLE" |
DIGITAL NOISE 4 |
but the correlation between government by belligerent ignorance |
31 |
cawaful tornado |
"innocence" |
single |
and death by preventable contagion |
32 |
kobore |
"るるりらり" |
風景になって |
is hard to miss, and even harder to justify. |
33 |
Dir En Grey |
"落ちた事のある空(Ochita Koto no Aru Sora) - Radio Edit Ver." |
single |
We were probably never really great, |
34 |
SHIN |
"RE:" |
RE: +2 |
but we were definitely better in 2016. |
35 |
Da-iCE |
"DREAMIN' ON - アニメver." |
single |
I dream of a president willing to sit down at the Oval Office desk and hit Undo until the room longer stinks of moldering hair, |
36 |
EdGE |
"Unfuck the world: end up with pop culture" |
single |
and the country no longer of an aristocracy of grifters, |
37 |
HUNGER |
"HAZERU" |
SHITATSUZUMI |
and then stand up one last graceful time and give the chair to the unseated. |
38 |
Earthists. |
"SUNBLOOD" |
single |
And then we will wipe off our levers and get back to making progress by inches: |
39 |
Expander |
"Cryptosteal" |
single |
against manifest destiny recast as cryogenic utopianism; |
40 |
7xvn |
"Jealousy" |
single |
against complacent placidity rebranded as lifestyle; |
41 |
Capoxxo |
"Hmu on Discord" |
single |
against loneliness and too much fear of loneliness; |
42 |
PEZZHEAD |
"Summer Nightzz" |
single |
against both art lost in its own method and the premature abandonment of the speculatively lost; |
43 |
Sólstafir |
"Akkeri" |
single |
against lines drawn on the ground or along the seabed; |
44 |
Incantation |
"Fury's Manifesto" |
Entrails of the Hag Queen 3 |
against cheap magic sold as a bargain replacement for precious anger; |
45 |
Wintaar |
"A World in the Axe's Shadow" |
Streams of the Paleghosts |
against unwillingness to enumerate the sacraments we have to destroy; |
46 |
Batushka |
"IRMOS I" |
"RASKOL" |
against systems of planet-sharing that are structural guarantors |
47 |
Selbst |
"The Weight of Breathing" |
Relatos De Angustia |
of periodic exploding harbors, |
48 |
DVSR |
"Devil on My Shoulder" |
West Technique |
or the elevation of demagogues or billionaires, |
49 |
Becko |
"Die Lit In Akihabara" |
INNER SELF |
or burning towers or towns, |
50 |
Atrium |
"Beta" |
single |
or EMTs shot in their own homes. |
51 |
sleepmakeswaves |
"embraced" |
these are not your dreams |
I want to hug my friends again. |
52 |
Good Tiger |
"1252" |
Raised in a Doomsday Cult |
I am already exhausted by this momentary Dark Age, |
53 |
Nebula Orionis |
"Purple Dusk" |
Riftgate 3 |
impatient to return to the existential terrors already in progress. |
54 |
Deep Purple |
"The Power of the Moon" |
Whoosh! |
Some of these fires are gambling houses we can allow to burn down. |
55 |
Platinum Overdose |
"Back in Your City" |
single |
Some of these absurd quarantine haircuts are kind of an improvement. |
56 |
Lionville |
"You're Not Alone" |
Magic is Alive |
Some of these days are filled with asses we just can't seem to find, |
57 |
Arctic Rain |
"Lift Me Up" |
The One |
and least not without a lever to lift up each rock an inch. |
58 |
Janet Gardner |
"Running to Her" |
Synergy |
But a lot of this is our own self-destructive fault. |
59 |
PRIZM |
"Can't Bring Me Down" |
Can't Bring Me Down |
We keep running to a two-party political system |
60 |
Moonrunner83 |
"Dreaming Again" |
Dreaming Again (feat. N A T V E S) |
and a thousand other franchised artificial binaries |
61 |
Keith Urban |
"Change Your Mind" |
single |
to answer questions we have asked wrong. |
62 |
The People The Poet |
"Birdie Song - Demo" |
The Light of Day (B Sides and Demos) |
Most of the love songs we are still trying to write are blocked not by separation but by self-doubt. |
63 |
Songhoy Blues |
"Badala" |
Badala +1 |
Maybe we can finish them now that we know they are meant for a world. |
64 |
Vanesa Martín |
"Universo Tarifa" |
single |
I miss people I don't even know. I want to feel another country's air on my skin again. |
65 |
Sofie Svensson & Dom Där |
"Rockstar" |
single |
I miss places I haven't been yet, and the barely distinguishable airports I would walk through on the way. |
66 |
Anne-Marie |
"To Be Young (feat. Doja Cat)" |
single |
I believe we are all one, |
67 |
Kate Miller-Heidke |
"Deluded" |
Deluded +1 |
but you have to check your beliefs in person if you really want to be sure. |
68 |
Christia Visser |
"Ek Is Net 'n Mens" |
Gemaklik Verlore |
We count the innumerable ends of the earth |
69 |
Makhadzi |
"Muya Wanga" |
single |
from the internet traces of a hundred dance videos that all claim to be official. |
70 |
Yemi Alade |
"True Love" |
single |
We hear each other through the walls, and through our masks, |
71 |
Lxg |
"Die Nor Dae" |
Die Nor Dae |
and these temporary walls and masks are not victories, |
72 |
Tsuki Amano |
"Namakemono" |
19 Box |
or all too much like most of the victories we thought we had won. |
73 |
Rian Treanor |
"Hypnic Jerks" |
single |
If you can't move the rock with the lever you have, hit it and see if it at least makes an interesting sound. |
74 |
FRNGE |
"FEVER DREAM" |
DISTORTED SONGS FOR DISTORTED PEOPLE 5 |
The rock is probably not the problem. It's not even your rock. |
75 |
Midnight Oil |
"Gadigal Land (feat. Dan Sultan, Joel Davison, Kaleena Briggs & Bunna Lawrie)" |
single |
The guy who sold it to you, it wasn't his rock either. |
76 |
First to Eleven |
"Killing in the Name" |
single |
But when they show up to ask you what you are going to do with that rock, and you're standing there with a crowbar in your hand, you better have an answer. |
77 |
American Hi-Fi |
"Steppin' Out" |
Anywhere Else but Here 5 |
Like: It's been here forever. Don't you want to know what's under it? |
78 |
The Animal In Me |
"Oops!... I Did It Again" |
single |
Like: Pull with me. Maybe this is our way out. |