1 |
The Weather Station |
"Tried to Tell You" |
Tried to Tell You +1 |
The slow, seductive joy of new familiar things |
2 |
Taylor Acorn |
"Somebody Else" |
single |
is made of the same current as the jolt of discovery |
3 |
Yemi Alade |
"Turn Up" |
Empress |
in the same way that reluctant exhalation |
4 |
Mobi Dixon |
"Ubukho Bakho/ Khanyisa (feat. Berita)" |
The Chapel |
releases the same air collected in mystified gasps |
5 |
Mzee wa Bwax |
"Akutake Nani" |
single |
and held awaiting unlikely outcomes. |
6 |
Samthing Soweto |
"Weekend" |
single |
Exploration is improvised rehearsal for habit, |
7 |
Zete D'roba |
"The Silent" |
Silent Production 3 |
or else habit is exploration given context; |
8 |
Tekno |
"Enjoy" |
single |
the legends are unclear on this point, |
9 |
Mòo & Jo |
"Jupiter - Caiiro Remix" |
Jupiter 3 |
defiant, |
10 |
Tshala Muana |
"Ingratitude" |
single |
as if daring us to make up our own minds. |
11 |
Yvonne Chaka Chaka |
"Umqombothi 2.0" |
single |
"You have heard this song before", they tell us, |
12 |
Mobi Dixon |
"Camagu (feat. Nichume & Blomzit Avenue)" |
The Chapel |
smiling, happy for us to believe them or not, |
13 |
Yemi Alade |
"Rain" |
Empress |
cheerfully anticipating any combination of recognition and doubt. |
14 |
Within Temptation |
"The Purge" |
The Purge +3 |
We fight over their meanings, |
15 |
Aeternitas |
"Fountain of Youth" |
Haunted Minds |
leaving the deeper satisfaction of ambivalence untouched. |
16 |
Chrysilia |
"Dragunera: Act II" |
single |
Love does not nominate and then eliminate. |
17 |
Moyra |
"The Eyes of Rats" |
single |
We aspire nihilistically to reduce each year |
18 |
TRiDENT |
"JUST FIGHT" |
JUST DO IT !!! 3 |
to a single pop performance by a trio or septet, |
19 |
燐舞曲 |
"prayer[s]" |
prayer[s] +1 |
a single production of subversive audio, |
20 |
WAGAMAMA RAKIA |
"SURVIVE" |
single |
one regional Japanese music album (including kawaii metal), |
21 |
H-el-ical// |
"disclose" |
disclose +3 |
one invalid official URL -- |
22 |
m!sa |
"WHITE WAVES" |
single |
or else we resist this constant reductive temptation, |
23 |
eimie |
"Night and Day" |
Kill your ANTHEM -ANOTHER- 6 |
and vote for everyone and all of us at once, |
24 |
小男孩樂團 |
"回不去的回憶 - 三立/台視神幻旗艦大戲《天巡者》插曲" |
single |
unranked-choice ballots exuberantly conflating abstruse subregional politics |
25 |
cosMo@bousouP |
"Fuiuchi no kanjou hatsuro wa konki mo misui ni owaru" |
single |
and symbolic pixelated pageantry, |
26 |
Alisa Takigawa |
"MAGIC" |
prism. 5 |
fighting duotone gerrymandering with brightsparkle chaos. |
27 |
Hitsujibungaku |
"あいまいでいいよ" |
single |
Any force can commandeer hope, or arpeggios. |
28 |
クレナズム |
"キミのいない世界" |
eyes on you 6 |
We fight against entropy, because the opposite of fighting entropy |
29 |
DREAMCATCHER |
"No More" |
single |
is death, |
30 |
Dark Tranquillity |
"Remain in the Unknown" |
Moment |
but who would we be without it? |
31 |
Moonspell |
"The Greater Good" |
single |
10,000 steps :: 10,000 chances to fall. |
32 |
Frosttide |
"We Will Be Gone" |
single |
We pass our most mundane days in inexplicable magic. |
33 |
Human Fortress |
"The Grimoire - Remastered" |
single |
The legends are as emphatic on this point |
34 |
Korpiklaani |
"Mylly" |
Mylly +1 |
as they are evasive on its reasoning. |
35 |
Knogjärn |
"Likbil" |
Kvarlevor |
Do you blame us for wanting preemptive forgiveness |
36 |
The Anix |
"Unveil" |
Unveil +1 |
for the earnest errors we are at this moment preparing to make? |
37 |
Thorr |
"Rogue" |
Wasteland |
Hope is a trap |
38 |
glaive |
"dnd" |
cypress grove |
guarding a secret tunnel |
39 |
Yurms |
"A Ballad of Self Worth" |
single |
leading to a hidden world. |
40 |
Call Me Karizma |
"Fire Escape" |
single |
You can go and return, |
41 |
POPSTARBILLS |
"COOL GUY" |
single |
forever changed by insane implausibilities |
42 |
nascar aloe |
"Dysfunctional" |
Battery Clash! EGO Bite 3 |
you have seen implemented with the elegance of inevitability. |
43 |
hm.wav |
"nightspawn" |
single |
Your stories will be disbelieved. |
44 |
5v |
"ur fault" |
ur fault / hazmat 2 |
How you tell them depends on how productively resigned you can become |
45 |
8485 |
"Duress" |
single |
to narrative existence as metaphor. |
46 |
i9bonsai |
"let it out" |
single |
We rarely actually lead. |
47 |
Petal Supply |
"You're So Pretty" |
single |
Leading is too hard, |
48 |
Cowboy Black |
"imperialem" |
Cowboy, Again |
the clearest future still too difficult to distinguish from all the compelling adjacent disasters. |
49 |
Terror Jr |
"Finish Lines" |
Rancho Catastrophe |
To long for leaders |
50 |
Vivienne Chi |
"White Lies" |
single |
is to imagine that uncertainty can be resolved by rotating procrastination from time into space. |
51 |
milet |
"The Hardest" |
single |
You cannot vote away your own crises of identity, |
52 |
Ashnikko |
"Daisy" |
Daisy +1 |
any more than you need to vote in each of your own multitudes. |
53 |
Juice Menace |
"Hadouken Freestyle" |
029 EP 6 |
You can track your heroes by the smell of your own projected grace, |
54 |
Nolay |
"Choke on My Name" |
single |
but you'll find them at the back of a cave, |
55 |
Nyemiah Supreme |
"Blessings" |
single |
huddled in wan firelight, |
56 |
CeeFineAss |
"Kiss and Tell" |
single |
organizing frayed trading cards of you and your friends and your fears. |
57 |
GIRLI |
"Letter to My Ex" |
single |
Turn around. We are not creatures of darkness or stone. |
58 |
Spyres |
"I Don't Care" |
single |
You came from so far, but at the end you are tested for your willingness to leave the cave with nothing. |
59 |
Tired Lion |
"Diet Sick" |
Breakfast For Pathetics |
The legends consume more than they provide. |
60 |
Psychobabel |
"Chaotic Neutral" |
single |
These aren't the druids you're looking for. |
61 |
Lande Hekt |
"Undone" |
single |
It is polite to offer salvation in return, |
62 |
SVRCINA |
"Catch the Light" |
single |
relying on rejection. |
63 |
Ligabue |
"Volente o nolente (feat. Elisa)" |
single |
You can't save other people until you have saved yourself, |
64 |
Roxette |
"Piece Of Cake" |
Piece Of Cake +2 |
and once you have saved yourself, it is too late. |
65 |
Aleks Syntek |
"Eclipse de Luna" |
single |
There are a thousand verses about what it feels like to realize this for the first time, |
66 |
Nitrate |
"Waiting on You" |
Real World |
and half of them begin "We are sure about nothing, |
67 |
ACME |
"RISING SUN" |
RISING SUN +1 |
so that's where we will start." |
68 |
Novelbright |
"あなたを求めただけなのに" |
single |
I miss trying on pants I don't need. |
69 |
BLUE ENCOUNT |
"VOLCANO DANCE" |
Q.E.D |
I miss waiting in tiny glass-walled rooms with friends to see if scheduled meetings are really going to happen |
70 |
DEZERT |
"Your Song" |
single |
or matter. |
71 |
ZON |
"‘Damn it’" |
single |
You cannot vote away your own incomprehensible lungs. |
72 |
Uchikubi Gokumon Doukoukai |
"Kinniku my friend" |
2020 |
Catastrophe is consequence plus rounding errors. |
73 |
Emptiness |
"L'ailleurs" |
single |
In a 10k ocean, |
74 |
Liturgy |
"The Separation of HAQQ From HAEL" |
Origin of the Alimonies |
a 9k peak is the shrouded demesne of contemplative leviathans, |
75 |
Liturgy |
"Apparition of the Eternal Church" |
Origin of the Alimonies |
a 9999m peak is the planet's sword for killing ships of fools, |
76 |
Hermóðr |
"Two Ravens" |
Korpsträd |
and a 1001m peak is the paradise we have sought for plunder. |
77 |
Tombs |
"Void Constellation" |
Under Sullen Skies |
We become free by learning to breathe salt water or open space, |
78 |
Communic |
"Scavengers Await" |
Hiding from the World |
and empowered by how much else we are able to translate into the same revelatory fictions. |
79 |
Maraton |
"Almost Human" |
Meta + |
The legends smile and say "Now you see how we ended up this way. |
80 |
Loch Vostok |
"Disillusion" |
single |
We were as sure as you are in this perfect moment, |
81 |
VOLA |
"Head Mounted Sideways" |
single |
and just as comprehensively wrong, |
82 |
616 |
"Black Diamond" |
single |
and just as magnificently determined to be undeterred by pervasion. |
83 |
Light Field Reverie |
"Ultraviolet" |
Another World |
We stood on a cliff on the edge of a misidentified glacier, |
84 |
pg.lost |
"Oscillate" |
Oscillate |
and claimed all of that ice as sky. |
85 |
Lugburz Sleed |
"ηTau•Αλκυόνη" |
M45•ΠΛΕΙΆΔΕΣ |
It's gone now, melted, |
86 |
Loski |
"Teddy Bruckshot 2" |
Music, Trial & Trauma: A Drill Story |
and in this way our prescience was established, |
87 |
Hacktivist |
"Armoured Core" |
single |
and our statures inscribed. |
88 |
CLOUDLAND |
"Lights" |
single |
We were the ones who knew that helplessness is a muscle. |
89 |
KennyHoopla |
"ESTELLA// (feat. Travis Barker)" |
single |
We were the ones willing to sell ourselves forged credentials |
90 |
Luca Brasi |
"Every Time You're Here (I'm Gone)" |
Every Time You're Here (I'm Gone) +1 |
from a future balanced on the fragile fulcrum between impossible and undesirable. |
91 |
Nomy |
"Want you bad" |
Want you bad |
We got up every morning and drowned |
92 |
Koe Wetzel |
"FGA" |
Sellout |
until the ocean grew tired of this game and went in search of other depths, |
93 |
The Spider Accomplice |
"Oil Meets Rain" |
single |
and that's why it still floods here when it rains. |
94 |
Jet Black Alley Cat |
"Ready for This" |
single |
You have heard this song before. |
95 |
Soft Kill |
"Wanting War" |
Dead Kids R.I.P. City |
We sang you to sleep with it when you were a baby |
96 |
Outline In Color |
"Poison Prescribed As Medicine" |
single |
and we were the intractable wind. |
97 |
Volunteer |
"It's Been a Long Time" |
The Ride |
We taunted you with it from behind the clouds |
98 |
Hindarfjäll |
"Gudarnas Skymning" |
Från Tidernas Begynnelse |
when you were in love and alone |
99 |
Herknungr |
"Hólmgöngumaður" |
Langfeðgar |
and not yet become your own gods in turn. |
100 |
Agðir |
"Fordums Veg" |
single |
We sing it, still, knowing that one day your voice will join ours. |
101 |
Sewerslvt |
"Live at A2B2 Night of Fire 13/11/20 - Live" |
single |
The slow, inexorable return of tears and other water |
102 |
PassCode |
"Maze of mind - PassCode STARRY TOUR 2020 FINAL at KT Zepp Yokohama" |
PassCode STARRY TOUR 2020 FINAL at KT Zepp Yokohama |
is made of the same history as the sinkholes and oases |
103 |
Diamond Head |
"No Remorse" |
single |
we mapped as if geology could be disentangled from belief. |
104 |
Ellefson |
"Holiday in Cambodia" |
No Cover |
Exploration is a meager apology for complacency, |
105 |
Helene Fischer |
"Who Wants To Live Forever" |
single |
but the only one of any value. |
106 |
8-Bit Arcade |
"Jump (8-Bit Computer Game Version)" |
The Ultimate Van Halen |
We are clear on this, if little else. But maybe you can do better when it's your turn, one day, today, now." |