1 |
Brass Against |
"Take the Power Back" |
single |
Repeat after me. Repeat after yourself. Repeat. No more lies. |
2 |
clipping. |
"'96 Neve Campbell" |
'96 Neve Campbell +1 |
We are the ones who survive. |
3 |
Sa-Roc |
"r(E)volution" |
single |
We are every subject and predicate. |
4 |
Juice Menace |
"No Speaking" |
single |
We are deafening in both voice and silence. |
5 |
Tia Carys |
"Intro" |
single |
Nothing makes us different: |
6 |
Thurz |
"Breathe" |
single |
not denial of needs; |
7 |
Strange Bones |
"Menace (feat. Bob Vylan)" |
single |
not drawn lines or overlooked channels; |
8 |
Drippin So Pretty |
"Poppin'!" |
single |
not the moment we wake up, before everything floods back in; |
9 |
POPSTARBILLS |
"FAKE SHIT" |
single |
not the poisons we inhale |
10 |
hm.wav |
"Blckglves" |
single |
or speak. |
11 |
Carl Stone |
"Bojuk" |
Stolen Car |
We have infinite unseen colors inside of us, |
12 |
Anna von Hausswolff |
"Theatre of Nature" |
All Thoughts Fly |
and they pour out of our eyes any time we forget to squint. |
13 |
Sophia Loizou |
"Apeiros" |
Untold |
We draw from deep wells, |
14 |
Lethian Dreams |
"Never Be Found" |
A Shadow of Memories |
and then argue about the contents of a single glass. |
15 |
Era of ephemeris |
"Secret Garden" |
single |
We are all hidden here together, |
16 |
Carpathia |
"In Romance" |
single |
spinning in love, |
17 |
AfterTime |
"Planetary Eyes" |
The Farthest Shore (Deluxe Version) |
hoping to impress alien astronomers. |
18 |
Soulspell |
"Sign of the Cross" |
single |
We are emerging from layers of old sacred skin, |
19 |
Obsidian Kingdom |
"FLESH WORLD" |
MEAT MACHINE |
slowly realizing that the material between our hearts and our air |
20 |
Krashkarma |
"Mechanical Heart (Radio Edit)" |
single |
is a transition from art to artifice, |
21 |
Postmodern Fantasy |
"Pardon Me" |
single |
and thus from anthem to apology. |
22 |
Seven Kingdoms |
"The Great Goat Rodeo" |
single |
Immunity is the dress intolerance wears when it thinks it's alone. |
23 |
A Light Divided |
"Radio Silence" |
Radio Silence +1 |
The clothes we wear are ways we choose to muffle our own voices, |
24 |
SHINGEKI |
"Shinsekai Exodus" |
RAGNARøCK |
sometimes so that we can hear other people over them, |
25 |
MeltnooM |
"NONONO!" |
single |
but sometimes so that we can hear other ways we ourselves could sound. |
26 |
LEVEREVE |
"Into the ARK" |
single |
We can be performatively invisible |
27 |
Yabai T-Shirts Yasan |
"げんきもりもり!モーリーファンタジー" |
single |
or casually indelible. |
28 |
Rekishi |
"Takeda' ~アナザーレキシ ver.~" |
ギガアイシテル 2 |
We can discard alignments, |
29 |
SLOTHREAT |
"Utsusemi" |
THEMIS |
become our own enemies when enmity surges |
30 |
EYES |
"Voiceswhispersecretsandspeakonlytruths" |
Underperformer |
or runs out. |
31 |
Emma Ruth Rundle |
"The Valley" |
single |
Nothing makes us irremediably different. |
32 |
Svalbard |
"Open Wound" |
When I Die, Will I Get Better? |
Remedies, however, are a confused dream of angels. |
33 |
Wintaar |
"World Without End" |
There Is No God in War |
Teleology is the compression tights economy puts on in the morning half-dark, |
34 |
Mors Subita |
"Black and White" |
single |
and then takes off again before leaving the house. |
35 |
Pyramaze |
"World Foregone" |
single |
We have a few more layers left to shed. |
36 |
Teramaze |
"Sleeping Man" |
single |
Wake up, shake off yesterday's lingering hopelessness. |
37 |
Ayreon |
"This Human Equation (feat. Tom Baker, Simone Simons, Marcela Bovio, Caroline Westendorp, Joost van den Broek)" |
Transitus |
Repeat. We can do this again. |
38 |
Emyn Muil |
"Where the Light Drowns" |
Afar Angathfark |
The things that didn't kill us yesterday |
39 |
Alison Wonderland |
"Bad Things" |
single |
are sitting outside the door, |
40 |
Moonrunner83 |
"Bring Dreams To Life" |
You & Me At The Edge Of The World |
hungry and cold, looking less like circling wolves than bedraggled dogs. |
41 |
Silver Sphere |
"ghosts!" |
all my boyfriends 5 |
Half of the furious things we have been trying to hold off with pitchforks |
42 |
Shamir |
"Other Side" |
single |
would be perfectly fluffy with a little bit of intent grooming |
43 |
Goffie |
"Glass House" |
single |
and a lot of courageous close murmuring. |
44 |
Mayday Parade |
"Lighten Up Kid" |
single |
It won't always be possible to show humanity by putting on a simple mask, |
45 |
FigureItOut |
"Never Too Late" |
Searching for More |
but we have these months of unsolicited clarity, if we can use them: |
46 |
Discrepancies |
"Crawling Back" |
single |
to forgive divergent systems; |
47 |
Two and a Half Girl |
"Drowned And Drained" |
Drowned And Drained +1 |
to rest; |
48 |
The Bunny The Bear |
"At the Top" |
single |
to agree about what we have missed, |
49 |
Slick Shoes |
"Waiting" |
Rotation & Frequency |
and the power and limits of our own patience; |
50 |
The Posies |
"Sideways" |
single |
to remember what we thought we would believe, |
51 |
Moving Targets |
"The Hole" |
Humbucker |
where we were going before we chose a path to stray from, |
52 |
Bob Mould |
"Next Generation" |
Blue Hearts |
and how much future we didn't mean to leave for later. |
53 |
JAGUWAR |
"Valley" |
single |
We have reached the next valley |
54 |
Ultrviolence |
"Cutting the Chords" |
Sally Would Say.. |
in a century of floods. |
55 |
Niiice. |
"trademarked" |
internet friends |
We look at the rising water and think |
56 |
pg.lost |
"E22" |
single |
"I can jump higher than that." |
57 |
Andromida |
"The Pathogen Downfall" |
single |
Now here we are, aloft. |
58 |
Hidden Citizens |
"Won't Keep Quiet" |
single |
It's not that we were wrong, exactly. |
59 |
Deftones |
"Urantia" |
Ohms |
But flood-jumping is an anthropic narcissistic response: |
60 |
LÜT |
"VIEPÅ" |
VIEPÅ 5 |
seeing the damage we have done and yearning |
61 |
Marras |
"Tyhjä Käsi" |
single |
not for the planet before we poisoned it, |
62 |
Uniklubi |
"Sulla on lupa" |
Ajan piirtämät kasvot |
but for ourselves before we acknowledged that we are poisoners; |
63 |
Simone Tomassini |
"C'hanno provato" |
single |
seeing oceans creeping ashore |
64 |
Atlas |
"The Fever" |
Parallel Love |
and reminiscing belligerently about when we were more elevated, |
65 |
Kotak |
"Harga Mati" |
Identitas |
when somehow a collective weight of other wasn't weighting us down. |
66 |
Ultimo |
"22 settembre" |
single |
Repeat this: no more dreams of endings. |
67 |
Midnight Oil |
"First Nation (feat. Jessica Mauboy & Tasman Keith)" |
single |
No more nihilistic nostalgia for days that were no better. |
68 |
Bruce Springsteen |
"Ghosts" |
Ghosts +1 |
Count us in. We can play this. |
69 |
Alana Springsteen |
"Best Nights" |
single |
We have not yet had our best nights. |
70 |
Olivia Lane |
"Fight For Us" |
single |
We are the ones ready for the hardest sleepless peace |
71 |
Kaylee Bell |
"Be With You" |
single |
to begin. |
72 |
Chihiro Onitsuka |
"憂鬱な太陽 退屈な月" |
single |
We have had wars and plagues, |
73 |
Maddie Zahm |
"If He Had Loved Me" |
single |
and whatever you call it when you look in the mirror and think |
74 |
SVRCINA |
"A Little Bit Like Love" |
Elysian Fields |
"almost orange enough...". |
75 |
Gladie |
"Thank You Card" |
Thank You Card +2 |
We have learned the one thing we ever need to know about power, |
76 |
Ericka Corban |
"Comeback Kids" |
single |
which is that it only accomplishes anything good when it's distributed. |
77 |
Keiko Necesario |
"Ready, Let Go." |
Ready, Let Go. |
We have always ultimately chosen cities over bombs, |
78 |
Black Motion |
"Beat of Africa (feat. Celimpilo & Nokwazi)" |
The Healers: The Last Chapter |
disapora over self-siege, |
79 |
Stayela |
"Ibhanoyi" |
Ibhanoyi +2 |
wandering over barricades. |
80 |
Fish |
"Waverley Steps (End of the Line)" |
Weltschmerz |
These fertile wastelands have only been loaned to the murders of crows |
81 |
Donovan Woods |
"She Waits For Me to Come Back Down" |
She Waits For Me to Come Back Down (feat. Katie Pruitt) 4 |
for a year, or maybe only a day. |
82 |
Armada of Secrets |
"Song 2" |
single |
Repeat this with me: I know why I need you. We know why we need us. |
83 |
Ashley Purdy |
"Zero" |
single |
Feel free to spend your remaining prayers on fancy holy hats. Nothing we still need comes from prayers. |
84 |
Lingua Ignota |
"Jolene" |
single |
We have had bad nights, and men we who told us they were the only ones, but we are the ones singing the songs that the nights turn into. We remember Jolene, and how we gradually learned to become her for ourselves. But we forget what that guy's name even was. |