1 |
a crowd of rebellion |
"Meteor" |
Zealot City |
The path runs through the woods to the river, |
2 |
SECONDWALL |
"Rain" |
single |
except without the woods, because I live next to a biotech arcology, |
3 |
藤川千愛 |
"ありのままで" |
ありのままで / バケモノと呼ばれて 2 |
and in "path" I include anything marked green on Google Maps. |
4 |
斉藤 朱夏 |
"月で星で太陽だ!" |
SUNFLOWER 6 |
The river is real, though, |
5 |
MERRY BAD END |
"Restart" |
Restart +2 |
and I run laps around it, |
6 |
Devil ANTHEM. |
"Yuganda Sekai ga Reality" |
single |
mostly alone and not early enough to justify this isolation, |
7 |
Omoi |
"In Case You're Gonna Jump" |
If You Jump 2 |
waiting for the reeking chaos to recoalesce. |
8 |
BASEMENT PROPHECY |
"Guardians of the Light" |
single |
All these songs, then, become running songs. |
9 |
Eleine |
"Memoriam" |
single |
I loop through the expansive initial drafts of these playlists over the course of each week, |
10 |
Snow White Blood |
"Longing For the Sea" |
Hope Springs Eternal |
in reluctant subtractive judgment, |
11 |
Therion |
"Leviathan" |
single |
and the runs are shorter than the songs of the injured and defiant world, |
12 |
Amahiru |
"Lucky Star" |
single |
and thus routes and subsequence themes find strange resonances: |
13 |
Seas on the Moon |
"Break Out" |
single |
burrowing into oncoming rivershore wind to twice as many power-chirp J-pixie songs as I kept, |
14 |
DIAMANTE |
"I Love Myself For Hating You" |
single |
dodging Harborwalk turns to fairytale-metal arias, |
15 |
Dead Sara |
"Hands Up" |
single |
clattering across the locks as slow noises depart post-something for some new pre-something off-world colony. |
16 |
Meg Myers |
"True Liars" |
I'd Like 2 Go Home Now 5 |
The songs are new, so it's easy and often correct to imagine people making them |
17 |
milet |
"Who I Am" |
single |
now, |
18 |
chloe moriondo |
"GIRL ON TV" |
GIRL ON TV +2 |
as their own ritual circuits, |
19 |
Terror Jr |
"Bloody Waters" |
Bloody Waters +3 |
holding in fear of encroaching pandemic |
20 |
Annabel Jones |
"Spiritual Violence" |
single |
or insurrectional ignorance, |
21 |
Anamanaguchi |
"Jaime (feat. Jaime Brooks)" |
single |
or simply finally losing track of the days. |
22 |
blackwinterwells |
"Armageddon" |
single |
Every language has a way of dreaming. |
23 |
hm.wav |
"chew (u)" |
single |
This will be the era of hyperpop collaborations marshaled on Discord, |
24 |
Nosgov |
"laydowninyourbed" |
single |
by ghosts waiting for the next round of Among Us. |
25 |
POORSTACY |
"Nothing Left" |
single |
I run over hills |
26 |
MISOGI |
"Empty Since 16 (feat. Dylan Brady)" |
little*stars 6 |
shaped like bridges, |
27 |
Sinxi |
"Someday" |
single |
forwarding cadently through tracts of melodic glitchcore, |
28 |
grandee |
"rubber" |
single |
testing theories about my new hooks and triggers, |
29 |
glaive |
"eyesore" |
single |
weirdly not quite personally uninvolved. |
30 |
All Wasted |
"Towards the End" |
Towards the End +2 |
The essential malleability of music |
31 |
W.E.T. |
"Big Boys Don't Cry" |
single |
is that all anthems can be anthems of your own steps, |
32 |
Pyramaze |
"Bird of Prey" |
Epitaph |
welcoming you back to body-weights you have weighed before, |
33 |
Shattered Skies |
"Starbound" |
single |
to the nearest corners you've turned a thousand times |
34 |
Intervals |
"Luna[r]tic" |
Circadian |
or the farthest ones only just touched by your range. |
35 |
Black Fate |
"Maze" |
single |
I imagine the hesitant geese |
36 |
Cadaveria |
"Matryoshcada" |
single |
hearing passing djent thud from inside my head |
37 |
Mitochondrial Sun |
"Pulsar 3" |
Sju Pulsarer |
never getting to find out how the songs end. |
38 |
Dark Buddha Rising |
"Uni" |
Mathreyata |
I couldn't tell you, either. |
39 |
Harakiri for the Sky |
"Sing for the Damage We've Done" |
single |
The moment before a song ends, I twitch sideways out of the universe. |
40 |
Jesu |
"Terminus" |
Terminus |
Silences and fade-outs are far too apt, however mercifully brief. |
41 |
Liturgy |
"SIHEYMN's Lament" |
single |
All I ask is for the next one to begin. |
42 |
Katla |
"Húsavíkur-Jón" |
Allt þetta Helvítis Myrkur |
Any amount of in medias res |
43 |
Soul Dissolution |
"Where The Clouds Stand Still..." |
Winter Contemplations 2 |
keeps this interminable chapter notionally finite, |
44 |
Décembre Noir |
"Streets of Transience" |
The Renaissance of Hope |
however transhorizonal its boundaries. |
45 |
Helsott |
"Painless Journey of Death" |
Woven |
Some performative viking from the wrong continent's wrong coast hits a cymbal. |
46 |
Tuatha de Danann |
"The Tribes of Witching Souls" |
The Tribes of Witching Souls |
I come back. |
47 |
Saurom |
"Reina De Mis Sueños" |
single |
Today I turn left. |
48 |
Saltatio Mortis |
"Kaufmann und Maid" |
single |
I have turned left before, but not last time. |
49 |
Alkonost |
"Хладный Огонь Ночи" |
Пиано Версия |
I have run this way before, to songs like these, |
50 |
Fuimadane |
"Gagnsamr" |
single |
but not today, |
51 |
Megara |
"Truco o Trato" |
single |
and these specific ones are new, |
52 |
Tamara |
"No Quiero Nada Sin Ti" |
Básicos 6 |
and we can't be completely doomed while new songs still play |
53 |
Steps |
"Hold My Heart" |
Hold My Heart 6 |
alongside water still flowing. |
54 |
Star Cassette |
"Unspoken Minds" |
single |
It's disappointing to lose a lot of weight during a period when you also don't want to |
55 |
Dani Fernández |
"Puñales" |
Puñales +1 |
touch unsold pants in tiny rooms. |
56 |
La Habitación Roja |
"Taquicardia" |
single |
I bought a new belt, |
57 |
Niccokick |
"Love Can Be a Wonderful Thing" |
single |
but it's 2020, |
58 |
HOTEI |
"Dangerous" |
single |
so I bought it on Kickstarter |
59 |
Alice Nine |
"Toumei no tsubasa" |
Wonderland With Black |
and have to keep myself from using it to smash the monitor with the news feed. |
60 |
Meg Myers |
"Grizzly" |
Thank U 4 Taking Me 2 The Disco 5 |
Will we make movies about this year, |
61 |
FAITH |
"Last Will" |
single |
or will we all be too sick of it to ever go back and act it out? |
62 |
Baby Queen |
"Internet Religion" |
Medicine 6 |
Or, better, we could remember it away. |
63 |
Linn Koch-Emmery |
"Hologram Love" |
single |
Take the notes we need for future public health, |
64 |
Yumi And The Weather |
"The More I Hear the Less I Believe" |
single |
and then discard the rest: |
65 |
The Churchhill Garden |
"Reality" |
single |
the lockdowns and quarantines and fascism, |
66 |
Bathe Alone |
"Limbo" |
single |
the leaking ichor of bad-toothed clowns |
67 |
Raketklubben |
"Tjuv i randig tröja" |
Raketklubben |
or whatever the word is for clowns who would genuinely destroy everything if they weren't so incompetent, |
68 |
LÜT |
"Ingenting Å Angre På" |
Ingenting Å Angre På |
the canceled shows, |
69 |
Sigur Rós |
"Stendur æva (with Steindór Andersen, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir)" |
Stendur æva (with Steindór Andersen, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir) +1 |
the nights we didn't spend in Keflavik in between each other, |
70 |
Sun-El Musician |
"Mandinaye" |
single |
the loneliness and longing and all the light we had to make shine out of us to fight the darkness. |
71 |
Mobi Dixon |
"Andilibelanga (feat. NaakMusiQ)" |
single |
In their place, instead, we can just imagine the year we should have had, |
72 |
UNJOKO |
"Esami isiginxi" |
Isiziba |
awash in giddily unmasked cross-cultural romantic comedies |
73 |
Lovers Turn To Monsters |
"What about my planets?" |
What About My Planets?/In Yr Face Space Coyote 2 |
and social-democratic infrastructure improvements, |
74 |
Defeatist UK |
"Never Enough" |
single |
and RBG "accidentally" kicking Boris Johnson in the face while crowd-surfing on New Year's Eve. |
75 |
Current Affairs |
"West Side Lovers" |
single |
Let art do, literally, what it always does in effect, |
76 |
Del Amitri |
"Close Your Eyes and Think of England" |
single |
and tell us a story of how things could have been, |
77 |
Texture |
"Fall of a Golden Dawn" |
User Illusions 3 |
so that our potential is more vivid and present in our minds than our crimes and failures |
78 |
Smoove'L |
"Period." |
single |
as tomorrow starts. |
79 |
Jucifer |
"نساء الماء" |
نظم |
Let us tell, together, a story of how we went through this together, |
80 |
envy |
"Footsteps in the distance - Live at LIQUIDROOM Tokyo" |
LAST WISH | Live at LIQUIDROOM Tokyo |
assembled in grace and power, |
81 |
Fly By Nightcore |
"Ocean Eyes" |
single |
effortlessly changing shapes exactly as required. |
82 |
Deine Lakaien |
"Because the Night" |
single |
Recall the angels disguised as lust |
83 |
18th & Addison |
"Dreams" |
single |
from their discontented exiles. |
84 |
Ellefson |
"Sheer Heart Attack" |
single |
Tear apart the flags. Line up the rendered stripes to make new solid colors, and vice versa. |
85 |
The Animal In Me |
"Better off Dead" |
single |
We can do better than this. |
86 |
Crashing Atlas |
"More Than A Feeling" |
single |
We don't, always, and we are reminded of this more often than we would like, |
87 |
Roxette |
"I Remember You - T&A Demo March 15, 1990" |
Bag Of Trix Vol. 2 |
but we can. We did. |
88 |
Roxette |
"Sleeping in My Car - The Stockholm Demo Version 1993" |
Bag Of Trix Vol. 2 |
Remember how we did? We were so brittle, but so strong beneath all the shells. |