1 |
Crippled Black Phoenix |
"Lost" |
single |
It is superfluous to remind ourselves about death, |
2 |
Oceans of Slumber |
"The Soundtrack to My Last Day" |
Oceans of Slumber |
the one thing we reliably eventually remember, |
3 |
Anaal Nathrakh |
"The Age of Starlight Ends" |
single |
but superfluity is a medium, not a pointlessness. |
4 |
Fawn Limbs |
"Sleeper Vessels" |
single |
Grace is a measurement of how you perform the inevitable, |
5 |
LIK |
"Funeral Anthem" |
single |
or perhaps of how performative the inevitable can be made. |
6 |
Sólstafir |
"Drýsill" |
single |
We scoff at Calvinist or Odinist fatalisms, |
7 |
MajorVoice |
"Sunbed in the Rain" |
single |
but then we attribute volition to markets, |
8 |
Sinner's Blood |
"The Mirror" |
single |
and wait for them to improve us by discrete ministries. |
9 |
DGM |
"Hope" |
single |
All of these numbers are us. |
10 |
Landfall |
"No Way Out" |
The Turning Point |
Economics is a quantification of solipsism, |
11 |
Perfect Plan |
"Don't Blame It on Love Again" |
Time for a Miracle |
or a mechanism for disguising individualized yearning |
12 |
Darzamat |
"A Philosopher at the End of the Universe" |
single |
as capitulation to collective demand. |
13 |
Eleine |
"As I Breathe" |
single |
The history of your choices |
14 |
NEO JAPONISM |
"Spica" |
single |
is a compendium, not of your faults |
15 |
NEMOPHILA |
"雷霆 -RAITEI-" |
雷霆 -RAITEI- 5 |
or your constraints, |
16 |
exist trace |
"I'm still not dead" |
The Only Garden 6 |
but of the degrees of freedom you thought you had, |
17 |
SHINGEKI |
"Gouhou trip:boil hazard" |
single |
a psychohistoriography of perspective. |
18 |
#f606 |
"pararira!" |
single |
The picture of our collective choices as humans |
19 |
LAZYgunsBRISKY |
"Dress to kill" |
NO BUTS |
is a mosaic of tentative individual decisions |
20 |
BBHF |
"Ryu Hyo" |
BBHF1 -YOUNG MAN GOES SOUTH- |
obtusely collated by prevailing hue |
21 |
かたこと |
"待ちぼうけ" |
single |
to make an image that stands for our dreams |
22 |
Cidergirl |
"落陽" |
落陽/ID 4 |
in the same way that the name of your elementary school and the expiration date of the last jar of mayonnaise you bought explain why you deserve a Nobel Peace Prize. |
23 |
唐禹哲 |
"算了吧" |
single |
This will have been the point when RNA vaccines were possible, |
24 |
POPSTARBILLS |
"PEEP THIS" |
single |
but too slow to save us from forest fires; |
25 |
PEZZHEAD |
"Beeka" |
single |
when we could discuss Universal Basic Income without invoking ley lines, |
26 |
Mary Mortem |
"Crawl Into the Eyes of Essence" |
single |
but usually did anyway; |
27 |
Wstdyth |
"Magneto" |
single |
when we tried to solve hunger |
28 |
Yandere |
"g'LOSS" |
single |
by tracing the footsteps of the hungry; |
29 |
blackwinterwells |
"take loop" |
single |
when we divided ourselves into doctrinaire left and right |
30 |
d0llywood1 |
"Imgonnagetmyrevenge" |
single |
on the surface of a sphere; |
31 |
JACKIE EXTREME |
"HEAD" |
single |
when we fought over equations for calculating |
32 |
Xadvoi |
"Moshpit" |
single |
the number of angels we are capable of incinerating on the head of a single match; |
33 |
A. G. Cook |
"Xxoplex" |
single |
after we liberated gendered pronouns |
34 |
Petal Supply |
"It's U (Diamond Version)" |
single |
but before we remembered to come back for "we" and "they"; |
35 |
Nadia Tehran |
"Down - Merely's Nightdrive" |
Down 2 |
after remixes |
36 |
Lynden Rook |
"Lvl 99 Mage Robe" |
single |
but before internalizing the truth that there's no "re". |
37 |
New Sylveon |
"я больше не кусаюсь" |
я больше не кусаюсь +1 |
Every monument and netsuke rearranges atoms that were part of our ancestors' skin. |
38 |
Mimi Barks |
"Back OFF" |
single |
You can placate people temporarily by giving them new phones, |
39 |
Ancst |
"Razed Eden" |
single |
like they will stop for a moment in mid-battle to admire themselves in the blade of a new sword. |
40 |
Dauþuz |
"Erþæ" |
single |
But you have given them reflection, |
41 |
ColdWorld |
"Ragnarök" |
The Stars are Dead Now |
and now they see that they look like you would look |
42 |
Antαres |
"Outer Worlds And Inner Voids" |
single |
without the pallor of corruption |
43 |
Thurisaz |
"Eternity Expires" |
Re-Incentive |
or its inextricable fear. |
44 |
Alkonost |
"Prorochestvo" |
Prorochestvo +1 |
Now they have bright swords. |
45 |
Devel Sullivan |
"Until the End" |
single |
Now the legends turn molten, |
46 |
KYOTY |
"Eliora Bat Avraham V' Sarah" |
single |
and extrude the next form of themselves. |
47 |
Yours Truly |
"Funeral Home" |
Funeral Home +1 |
Goodbye smugness, |
48 |
Kelsy Karter |
"Love Me or Hate Me" |
Love Me or Hate Me 6 |
goodbye fleeting irrational self-confidence. |
49 |
A Swift Farewell |
"The Fire" |
single |
We trusted our elders |
50 |
Stages and Stereos |
"Love Is Wasted on the Young" |
Maybe We'll Make It After All 6 |
until we realized how barely wiser than us we ever become. |
51 |
Niiice. |
"shlonkey kong" |
single |
We will get literally no younger, |
52 |
Touché Amoré |
"I'll Be Your Host" |
single |
but essentially no older. |
53 |
Korine |
"For Sure" |
The Night We Raise |
We know enough. |
54 |
Unit 406 |
"Parang Kahapon Lang" |
single |
We have always known enough. |
55 |
Efelante |
"Luna" |
single |
All we have ever lacked is leftover moonlight after reaching the breath of night |
56 |
Bultur |
"Seguir Bailando" |
Las Nuevas Luces |
with which survival concedes bewitchingly to as-yet-unseen dawn. |
57 |
Vaya Futuro |
"Heima" |
El Peso del Mundo |
It is easiest, at the level of moments, to reverse the smallest amount of entropy at a time. |
58 |
Kevin P. Gilday & The Glasgow Cross |
"Break of Dawn" |
Break of Dawn +1 |
But this is entropy's favorite fight. |
59 |
Stunde Null |
"alte lasten liegen schwer" |
single |
Law and order is not a symbiosis. |
60 |
All The Damn Vampires |
"Holding On" |
single |
Order is how your blood knows which way to exit the heart; |
61 |
EEVAH |
"Apology" |
Apology +1 |
law is how people protect the illusory hoards granted them in myths. |
62 |
FRANKIE |
"Home Alone" |
single |
Order is how we reach the chorus; |
63 |
Laura Pausini |
"Verdades a medias" |
single |
law is how we settle for versus. |
64 |
Laura Voutilainen |
"Kesäkuun 4." |
single |
Order is how we count the days |
65 |
LYRA |
"New Day" |
single |
until we have lived through this; |
66 |
Carly Pearce |
"Next Girl" |
single |
law is the accumulation of systemic superstitions |
67 |
Throwing Muses |
"Dark Blue" |
Sun Racket |
that didn't keep it from happening. |
68 |
Fightmilk |
"If You Had A Sister..." |
If You Had A Sister... +1 |
Order is what we can become. |
69 |
Afel Bocoum |
"Djougal" |
Lindé |
Law is the way we have surveyed what we thought were our limits. |
70 |
Mfiliseni Magubane |
"NomaGugu" |
single |
It is superfluous to defend order as if it has boundaries, |
71 |
David Jones David |
"One of a Kind" |
single |
and counter-productive to defend law where it delusionally asserts them. |
72 |
Blacksea Não Maya |
"Africanalidade" |
Máquina De Vénus |
But apparent superfluity is a matter-state of curiosity, |
73 |
Max Cooper |
"Reflect" |
single |
not a waste of time. |
74 |
Evian Christ |
"Ultra" |
single |
We hold these truths, running our fingers along their self-evidentnesses, |
75 |
Lau Nau |
"Ixodida" |
single |
feeling for the potential difference between seem and seam. |
76 |
HALIENE |
"Walk Through Walls" |
single |
We place our hands on your walls, not wondering whether they have flaws, |
77 |
Thurz |
"T'challa" |
single |
but deciding what shape to make the next hole |
78 |
LAZYgunsBRISKY |
"The Sea" |
NO BUTS |
between our world and the rest of our world. |