1 |
Not Secured, Loose Ends |
"Wish/" |
paradox soar |
We have a political process nominally based on elaborately established performative trust, |
2 |
LiSA |
"play the world!" |
single |
but I trust random groups of four Japanese women with no visible backing band |
3 |
ЯeaL |
"Dead or Alive" |
single |
far more deeply than I trust most of the people for whom I will wholeheartedly vote. |
4 |
KAQRIYOTERROR |
"Avant-gardE" |
Avant-Garde 0 point |
I distrust campaigning. |
5 |
Not Secured, Loose Ends |
"ssixth" |
paradox soar |
I trust art. |
6 |
Aimer |
"SPARK-AGAIN" |
SPARK-AGAIN +3 |
I trust bureaucracy that loves art. |
7 |
GO TO THE BEDS |
"現状間違いなくGO TO THE BEDS" |
single |
I tolerate politicians that support bureaucracy that loves art. |
8 |
CYNHN |
"くもりぎみ" |
single |
I would seek politicians who love art, |
9 |
Not Secured, Loose Ends |
"howling hollow" |
paradox soar |
who manage to love art as a political method, |
10 |
PLANCK STARS |
"WAKE ME UP" |
single |
if I thought that was a possible mode of our system. |
11 |
KAQRIYOTERROR |
"BWG" |
Avant-Garde 0 point |
But I'm not sure it is, |
12 |
SOL |
"Sola" |
single |
and I suspect this means I distrust our system, systemically: |
13 |
Kolokol |
"Dead End" |
Dead End +1 |
government by faction and surreptitious sponsored bias, |
14 |
Underbeasty |
"Real Blade" |
Real Blade +2 |
entropic economies of "profit" disappearing over oligarchical event horizons, |
15 |
Not Secured, Loose Ends |
"Arrhythmia" |
paradox soar |
endless growth as an unsustainable substitution for goals, |
16 |
Starkill |
"Reckless and Infinite" |
single |
circular self-destructive optimization of proxy metrics, |
17 |
Rave The Reqviem |
"Riptide" |
single |
nihilist suction. |
18 |
Regardless Of Me |
"Awake" |
Black Flowers Blossom |
And yet I trust strangers singing in languages I can't follow in real-time, |
19 |
Vajra |
"Maya" |
single |
and often don't bother to look up, |
20 |
Cordelia |
"Op My Knieë" |
single |
even though I'm usually happy to have done so when I do, |
21 |
Helion Prime |
"The Gadfly" |
single |
or maybe because. |
22 |
Crown Of Glory |
"Emporium of Dreams" |
Ad Infinitum |
It's not that you can't sing bad ideas. |
23 |
Dark Tranquillity |
"Phantom Days" |
single |
Songs elicit your dreams, |
24 |
Mors Principium Est |
"Lost in a Starless Aeon" |
Lost in a Starless Aeon +1 |
and you can have terrible dreams. |
25 |
Genus Ordinis Dei |
"Hunt" |
Ritual / Hunt 2 |
In our ongoing assembly of peace, |
26 |
Mörk Gryning |
"A Glimpse of the Sky" |
single |
art can still be weaponry, |
27 |
The Unguided |
"Never Yield" |
single |
perpetuating the war even in the interest of ending it. |
28 |
Once Awake |
"Last Days" |
Last Days 5 |
But the wires and knobs of anti-fascist machines |
29 |
Skeletoon |
"Nemesis" |
single |
are not expended in blows. |
30 |
Eternal Idol |
"Into the Darkness" |
single |
Art can beckon towards the void, |
31 |
Apulanta |
"60 uutta ongelmaa" |
single |
but not without the motion becoming a dance, |
32 |
9mm Parabellum Bullet |
"ロードムービー" |
白夜の日々 3 |
and the dance becoming an orbit |
33 |
BLUE ENCOUNT |
"Supernova" |
single |
that distracts the sun from its despair, |
34 |
BUMP OF CHICKEN |
"Gravity" |
single |
and thus grants us another bright day not waiting to die, |
35 |
climbgrow |
"閃光" |
CULTURE |
another chance for light to fall or stab into passages |
36 |
SLOTHREAT |
"ILLUMINATE" |
single |
that lead into buried kingdoms prepared for our return. |
37 |
Soul Glo |
"(Quietly) Do the Right Thing" |
single |
If you want to forgive your enemy, invite them to teach you their toxicity as song. |
38 |
The Anix |
"Die With You (After Life)" |
Die With You (After Life) +1 |
You can sing bad songs, |
39 |
Zora Jones |
"Melancholy Princess" |
Ten Billion Angels |
but not without letting them go, |
40 |
Fraxiom |
"on the porch" |
single |
and thus validating our shared air. |
41 |
1 800 PAIN |
"DESTROYUSALL" |
BEST HOUSE ON A BAD BLOCK |
I don't look down on people who don't read or listen to music |
42 |
lil rhiz0me |
"outs1de" |
single |
until I've quickly climbed out of reach of their tiny rabid paws. |
43 |
POPSTARBILLS |
"SO LIT!" |
single |
Art makes us human. |
44 |
5v |
"Höchste Zeit" |
single |
Even simple art makes us simply human. |
45 |
Tonser |
"Candle" |
single |
Resisting art is like vaccine refusal in logistical reverse, |
46 |
Kevinhilfiger |
"pop rocks" |
single |
correctly distrusting a transformation that will make you better |
47 |
grandee |
"dirt" |
single |
because you have attached your identity to disease. |
48 |
Akure |
"Go" |
single |
I trust random pseudonymous pitch-shifted millennials |
49 |
hm.wav |
"Fntsy/Dream" |
single |
at the same time as I fully expect to pass them unmasked on the street. |
50 |
Zora Jones |
"Low Orbit Ion Cannon" |
Ten Billion Angels |
We go home to our headphones. We play them too loud. |
51 |
Bangladeafy |
"Lifeforms" |
single |
We had a president who makes playlists. |
52 |
Cloudkicker |
"Code Language" |
Solitude |
We got one who only encounters the names of singers |
53 |
Uniform |
"The Shadow of God's Hand" |
Shame |
in lawsuits received after campaign rallies. |
54 |
Theotoxin |
"Through Hundreds of Years" |
Fragment : Erhabenheit |
Public-policy proposals are hard, |
55 |
Ihsahn |
"Losing Altitude" |
Pharos 5 |
and can encode moral failure in complex and implicative ways. |
56 |
Völur |
"Psychopomp II" |
Psychopomp 2 |
But dancing on a rooftop is easy |
57 |
Lafawndah |
"Old Prayer" |
The Fifth Season |
if you are willingly human, |
58 |
Playa Cuberris |
"Gigantes" |
single |
and onerously impossible if you are too afraid of even descending ramps to climb that last flight of stairs. |
59 |
David Otero |
"La Noche Suena" |
single |
The problem is not that we chose Hamilton's country over Jefferson's, |
60 |
David DeMaría |
"Nueva vida" |
Capricornio |
it's that we kept both of their corpses in badly-sealed cases until they decayed into flaccid caricatures of antagonism as principle |
61 |
Fish |
"This Party's Over" |
single |
and then we elected them to represent Kentucky in the Senate. |
62 |
Richard Thompson |
"As Soon As You Hear The Bell" |
Bloody Noses EP 6 |
Look around when the anti-fascist machine turns on. |
63 |
Of Monsters and Men |
"Visitor" |
single |
See who smiles. |
64 |
The Overstory |
"Until We Do" |
Until We Do +1 |
These are your people. |
65 |
Linea Aspera |
"Solar Flare" |
Linea Aspera LP II |
These are our people. |
66 |
beabadoobee |
"Worth It" |
single |
These are people. |
67 |
Shrimp |
"fear of failure / scared of success" |
single |
We have 50 years until AOC is Nancy Pelosi's age, |
68 |
Bob Mould |
"Siberian Butterfly" |
Siberian Butterfly +2 |
and my dream is not about the transfer of power but its munificent dissipation. |
69 |
Slick Shoes |
"The Worlds Were Mine" |
The Worlds Were Mine +3 |
I want to see our pathological government dismantled by the industrious and elated, |
70 |
Saltatio Mortis |
"Löwenherz" |
Löwenherz +3 |
not plastered over with self-aggrandizing wallpaper by the indolent and bloated. |
71 |
I Botanici |
"Sfortuna (feat. maggio & Tanca)" |
single |
I don't idolize nations, |
72 |
Marmi |
"Tu Foto Del DNI" |
single |
even during this collapse of my own country's self-respect and decency, |
73 |
Not Secured, Loose Ends |
"Mezzo Forte" |
paradox soar |
or especially. |
74 |
Colouring |
"Fading" |
single |
We have built walls to hold you out, but we will tear them down again. |
75 |
Anakin |
"Solstice" |
@-4 2 |
We are a gallery of misconceptions. |
76 |
Future Get Down |
"Dance With Me, Anna Karina" |
Here We Go, Wonder |
Dance with us. Look at all these ways we have been compellingly or brutally wrong. |
77 |
Steps |
"What the Future Holds - Single Mix" |
single |
The future is an empty gallery, the next one, |
78 |
Julie Bergan |
"One Touch" |
HARD FEELINGS: Ventricle 2 4 |
ready to celebrate how slightly less wrong we made each other. |
79 |
Black Motion |
"Uleleni" |
single |
You cannnot sing a bad song without admitting that songs are made out of wonder, |
80 |
Azana |
"Umaqondana" |
Ingoma |
and thus you cannot really sing a bad song. |
81 |
Songhoy Blues |
"Barre" |
Barre +2 |
Open your mouth and inhale to sing a cynical word, |
82 |
Ijong'elihle |
"Indoda Ayijoli" |
Igwinya Nojeqe |
and the air from better songs gets inside of you, |
83 |
We Will Kaleid |
"Mogilalia" |
single |
and you get to make only this decision: |
84 |
Danheim |
"Runar" |
single |
stop breathing, or let your voice amplify every other message along with your own. |
85 |
Down for Whatever |
"Ennyi Volt" |
Zuhanás |
Music discovery isn't just a subscription-service retention vector, |
86 |
Andromida |
"The Abyss" |
single |
it's a scaffolding bolted over the molten chasms in our souls. |
87 |
Sole Massif |
"Former Survivors Data" |
Capture |
Art can bear us downwards, accelerating towards darkness and flame, |
88 |
Jesse Osborne-Lanthier |
"Self Care, Covered in Potting Soil" |
Left My Brain @ Can Paixano (La Xampanyeria) OST |
wings pressed obdurately against our sides in misguided defense of aerodynamics as teleology, |
89 |
The Future Sound Of London |
"Cascade, Pt. 7" |
Cascade 2020 |
but only by admitting that we have wings. |
90 |
It Lives, It Breathes |
"Mad World" |
single |
We may let ourselves be unheard by people who won't even hear themselves sing, |
91 |
Disturbed |
"If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" |
single |
but we are also the tireless archivists of every unsung song as it is unsung, |
92 |
Lingua Ignota |
"Wicked Game" |
single |
limners of every earnest iterative revision of revision, |
93 |
Bronnie |
"All the Things She Said" |
single |
armorers of bright swords that can pass through everything but flesh, |
94 |
Volymian |
"Larger Than Life" |
single |
and the mechanics of every machine that destroys silence. |