1 |
Leaves' Eyes |
"Flames in the Sky" |
The Last Viking |
The snow has been falling since dawn. |
2 |
Neperia |
"The Story Is Told" |
The Story Is Told +1 |
Things for which we have remotely and theoretically prepared ourselves, |
3 |
Song of Anhubis |
"Misantropía" |
Reversed Reflection |
knowing they belong to possible futures, |
4 |
Arvandil |
"Dance in the mist" |
single |
show up outside our doors in the cold. |
5 |
Vanesa Martín |
"... y vuelo" |
Siete veces sí |
My waterproof running shoes are orange and unworn and waiting |
6 |
Marta Soto |
"Volvería" |
single |
to see if I'm really going to do this. |
7 |
NEO JAPONISM |
"LEGEND OF BATACHIKI ~Batachiki densetsu~" |
single |
Dawn was, judging by the sodden darkness lashed by sideways sleet-like snow, a minute ago at most. |
8 |
LEIWAN |
"All right" |
single |
I have been many things: |
9 |
RAISE A SUILEN |
"Sacred world" |
single |
a person who never runs; |
10 |
BOY MEETS HARU |
"SHE IS SEASON" |
single |
a person who never runs except for very short distances if there's a soccer ball involved; |
11 |
Yanakoto Sotto Mute |
"フィラメント" |
single |
a person who runs in fair weather; |
12 |
Nanawoakari |
"クライソング" |
Higher's High 4 |
a younger person who runs in the cold, if the paths are clear; |
13 |
tricot |
"箱" |
10 |
an older person who makes a big breakfast instead of running if it's cold enough; |
14 |
SUPER BEAVER |
"突破口" |
突破口 / 自慢になりたい 2 |
heavier, lighter, faster, slower; |
15 |
a flood of circle |
"ファルコン" |
2020 |
a person who goes somewhere to do a job; |
16 |
9mm Parabellum Bullet |
"Blazing Souls" |
Blazing Souls +1 |
a person who buys records; |
17 |
Pyramaze |
"Particle" |
single |
a kid with a copy of The Portable Nietzsche; |
18 |
Black Fate |
"Ithaca" |
Ithaca |
lonely, married, a parent; |
19 |
Darzamat |
"The Great Blaze" |
single |
fortunate, doomed. |
20 |
Mörk Gryning |
"Black Spirit" |
Hinsides Vrede |
Having unexpectedly become a person who sits at home doing my job, |
21 |
Wake |
"Disparity and Chaos" |
Confluence 3 |
punctuated by short trips to the front door to take in deliveries |
22 |
Liturgy |
"Lonely OIOION" |
single |
and periodic expeditions to the second floor to annoy my teenage daughter by making dumb faces at her while she's trying to survive "remote learning", |
23 |
Death Tour |
"Survive" |
single |
trying to listen to all the world's music at once while trying to convince it of the moral value of self-organizing |
24 |
Mimi Barks |
"11.PLAGUE/666" |
single |
via the oblique persuasions of math and database queries and faith, |
25 |
Ryan Oakes |
"BURIED ALIVE" |
single |
I decided to try not to also become a person who does all this |
26 |
FEVER 333 |
"BITE BACK" |
WRONG GENERATION |
pudgily. |
27 |
Discrepancies |
"Put 'Em up (Ft. Dub Flow)" |
The Rise |
It's dark, it's cold, it's snowing, and I go running every other morning now, |
28 |
Big Narstie |
"Hurdy Gurdy" |
single |
and I've been doing it enough to wake up more relieved on the running days than the rest days, |
29 |
Dizzee Rascal |
"Don't Be Dumb (feat. Ocean Wisdom)" |
Don't Be Dumb 4 |
and you find out what you've really become when you look at the slush or your enemies and think |
30 |
PRXJEK |
"I MISS YOU" |
single |
not "this is horrible" |
31 |
X Lovers |
"I Feel Like Shit" |
Mad World |
but "it will be glorious to know that this did not stop me". |
32 |
Story Untold |
"this song wasn't good enough for the album" |
single |
We have been a colony of plague-bringers, |
33 |
A Story Told |
"On and On" |
On and On +3 |
an oligarchy of slavers, |
34 |
Summer Lake Heroes |
"Wind & Tide" |
Full Bloom 6 |
a pale complacency, |
35 |
No Thank You |
"Saturn Return" |
Embroidered Foliage |
a beacon, |
36 |
Tigers Jaw |
"Cat's Cradle" |
single |
a rictus of grievances as orange as my waterproof shoes and yet somehow impervious to nothing, |
37 |
STAR |
"Angel School Anthem" |
Violence Against Star |
darkness, |
38 |
Julien Baker |
"Faith Healer" |
single |
a reforming empire of love. |
39 |
dodie |
"Cool Girl" |
single |
It will be even darker at dawn by next Tuesday. |
40 |
Bronnie |
"Skeletons" |
single |
Tuesdays are a rest day, and anyway I've already voted. |
41 |
Summer Lake Heroes |
"The Missing Part" |
Full Bloom 6 |
I would like to be a person who does all this |
42 |
No Thank You |
"Everything or Nothing" |
Embroidered Foliage |
in a humane democracy |
43 |
Carlie Hanson |
"Is That a Thing?" |
DestroyDestroyDestroyDestroy |
I am not embarrassed to name. |
44 |
KAYE |
"Little Poison" |
single |
I want to run through assemblies of humanity |
45 |
Vivienne Chi |
"Margate" |
single |
unafraid of each other's breath |
46 |
Kudai |
"Escapar" |
single |
or skin, |
47 |
Nilüfer Yanya |
"Crash" |
single |
no more than bemused by venomous entitlement |
48 |
Odette |
"Dwell" |
Dwell +1 |
or the aspirational belief in mercifully fictional toxic magic. |
49 |
Franja Du Plessis |
"Little By Little" |
single |
I want a society of compassionate ambition |
50 |
Maddie Zahm |
"Ways to Break a Heart" |
single |
motivated by obdurate hope. |
51 |
The Shires |
"Lightning Strikes (feat. Lauren Alaina)" |
single |
I want a mask doesn't suck into my mouth when it gets wet, |
52 |
Koe Wetzel |
"Good Die Young" |
Good Die Young +2 |
and dark mornings when I don't need one, |
53 |
Bruce Springsteen |
"Last Man Standing" |
Letter To You |
and mornings that won't suck even if I don't run. |
54 |
The Mountain Goats |
"Bell Swamp Connection" |
Getting Into Knives |
I want to watch my kid walking off to school or Congress with her friends. |
55 |
Hawksley Workman |
"Around Here" |
Less Rage More Tears |
I want to be able to do 25 pull-ups instead of 10, |
56 |
Phelimuncasi |
"I Roof" |
Phelimuncasi: 2013-2019 |
and to remember, ruefully, being a person who couldn't do a single pull-up |
57 |
Umdumazi |
"Imanxebanxeba" |
Babuyile 3 |
and lived briefly in a cruel dystopia of narcissism and contagion. |
58 |
Songhoy Blues |
"Assadja" |
Optimisme |
I want you to want the same future that seems better to me: |
59 |
Zirp |
"5-4-O" |
Circle Divine |
globally varied, |
60 |
Naevius |
"Shame" |
single |
abundant curious, |
61 |
envy |
"Fingerprint mark - Live at LIQUIDROOM Tokyo" |
Fingerprint mark 2 |
benificently abundant, |
62 |
First to Eleven |
"A Whole New World" |
single |
not at war with its own heart. |
63 |
The Animal In Me |
"Thriller" |
single |
I want my kid to only stop collecting candy from costumed strangers due to sullen jadedness, not public-health risks. |
64 |
Leaves' Eyes |
"Varangians" |
The Last Viking |
I want to spend another Thanksgiving cooking with my parents. |
65 |
FEVER 333 |
"LAST TIME" |
WRONG GENERATION |
I want this putrid era of bilious racist enablement to be ended by raucous popular acclaim |
66 |
Summer Lake Heroes |
"The Ending Scene" |
Full Bloom 6 |
and decisive vaccines against its return. |