1 |
Synthvvitch |
"shimmering mists (into the gloaming)" |
Mortifer |
We set imaginary boundaries |
2 |
Rise to the Sky |
"A Cold Embrace From Life" |
A Cold Embrace from Life |
lightly, momentarily, down on the flowing surface of time |
3 |
The Ruins Of Beverast |
"Kromlec'h Knell" |
single |
as a necessary mechanism for coping with the vertigo of eternity: |
4 |
Akhlys |
"Somniloquy" |
Melinoë |
ceremonially, and they are immediately and unceremoniously borne away. |
5 |
Tomorrow's Rain |
"דורסי לילה" |
Hollow (Hebrew Version) |
We may as well draw our plans on scritta |
6 |
Alekhine's Gun |
"Tonglen" |
Year of the Lazarus 3 |
with molten pens. |
7 |
Aspar |
"Der Aufstieg" |
single |
Nothing ends today |
8 |
Korpiklaani |
"Sanaton maa" |
Sanaton Maa 3 |
of its own internal volition, |
9 |
Hora Zulú |
"El Más Solo del Cementerio" |
single |
but we take our unnumbered inhalations |
10 |
Tribulation |
"Hour of the Wolf" |
single |
and select one to be assigned episodic finality. |
11 |
Crystallion |
"Knights and Heroes" |
single |
Here the old year ends, and we are allowed to choose our roles anew. |
12 |
Mendel |
"Discover" |
Neoblivion |
All structural implications inherently persist, |
13 |
Green Carnation |
"The World Without a View" |
single |
but our collective consensual notion of their implications can be reset |
14 |
Jason Bieler And The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra |
"Bring out Your Dead" |
single |
at any moment, |
15 |
Vajra |
"Sever the Tie" |
single |
and because this is unstable to contemplate, |
16 |
NEVIAH |
"EMBERS IN THE EYE" |
EMBERS IN THE EYE |
and we are even worse at ungrounded reasoning |
17 |
Postmodern Fantasy |
"When Destiny Calls" |
single |
than reasoning in general, |
18 |
Tuatha de Danann |
"The Wind That Shakes The Barley" |
In Nomine Éireann |
we pretend that we can only do so occasionally, |
19 |
Herknungr |
"Frægiligr" |
single |
when fleetingly invested with uncommon power. |
20 |
Myrkur |
"Dronning Ellisiv" |
single |
Our power, of course, is anything but fleeting, |
21 |
Ean Grimm |
"Valhalla" |
single |
profoundly every thing except uncommon. |
22 |
NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST |
"PROPAGANDA" |
The Wasteland 6 |
Every meaningful year begins today, not tomorrow, |
23 |
sunsetinfall |
"Hurts" |
Hurts / Faded 2 |
no matter what tomorrow claims, |
24 |
teto |
"もしもし?もしもさぁ" |
single |
or his pouchy minions disingenuously affirm. |
25 |
Aoi |
"huyugoe" |
single |
The future only retains or understands power as threat, |
26 |
Mr.FanTastiC |
"Night & Day" |
& 3 |
and it dissipates at our touch, at our approach, at our continuing existence. |
27 |
BIGMAMA |
"Ruby Red Shooting Star" |
Snow Motion.EP 4 |
Evil is notional darkness, but real darkness is a barely-oblique story of particular lights: |
28 |
THE PINBALLS |
"Million Dollar Baby" |
Millions of Oblivion |
our headlong rush into the unknown or borrowed, |
29 |
PARED |
"Message ~Tsunagare Inochi~" |
single |
our soaring insistence on explaining to each other our most dubious revelations, |
30 |
mahina |
"Boku No SOS" |
single |
our quiet beliefs in the universality of desperation and resolution, |
31 |
SOMOSOMO |
"Gunjo No Parade" |
Gunjo No Parade / Liberty Marionette 2 |
our willingness to march on secured ground |
32 |
BAND-MAID |
"After Life" |
single |
as proxy insurrection, |
33 |
TRiDENT |
"RIDE ON" |
WE ARE THE WORLD 3 |
resilience or incandescent demise. |
34 |
Escuchando Elefantes |
"Falsa Vanidad" |
single |
A masked year ends. |
35 |
bis |
"Road to Nowhere" |
Music for Animations |
A masked year begins. |
36 |
Ready Steady Steroids |
"If It Means a Lot to You" |
single |
But these masks have become expressions, |
37 |
Glades |
"Get in the Way" |
Get in the Way +3 |
and hide our true faces |
38 |
Lande Hekt |
"December" |
December +3 |
no more or less than words hide our actual emotions. |
39 |
Quimera |
"Nada Es Igual" |
single |
Masks remind us to look over them at each other's eyes, |
40 |
Fear Of Tigers |
"Looking For The Truth" |
Looking For The Truth +2 |
until the next plague requires full helmets, |
41 |
Celest |
"La Carretera" |
single |
and we put screens on the fronts of them to project our selves, |
42 |
Habitants |
"Morgen" |
single |
and thus so-belatedly accept operational responsibility for who we choose to seem to be. |
43 |
Yandere |
"gate" |
single |
You can be a gossamer promise of spectral grace, |
44 |
blackwinterwells |
"you" |
single |
or ribbons zephyred into the shapes of statuary, |
45 |
Ryan Oakes |
"BURIED ALIVE" |
single |
or brutalist variances. |
46 |
Qawi Kamri |
"Janji Mati" |
single |
You can fall in love with other people's lives, |
47 |
Yung Scuff |
"Anywhere but My Arms" |
single |
but when you stand up again, you are still just as alone, |
48 |
Eredaze |
"Misfit Kids" |
Evadere |
just as embraced and integral, |
49 |
Puppet |
"Good Day" |
I Know You Know Who I Am |
just as culpable for every lost other soul mistaking its own unremarkable uniqueness for singular abandonment. |
50 |
Jorge Elbrecht |
"The Clouds Are Gone" |
The Clouds Are Gone |
The atmospheric properties that produce the clouds are never gone, |
51 |
JPEGMAFIA |
"CUTIE PIE!" |
single |
but also never more than a thin layer between us |
52 |
Ithwasa Lekhansela |
"Ithole Likadumo" |
Ijoka Lensimbi |
and the universal manifest destiny |
53 |
Imithente |
"Amashinga" |
single |
we first and ever after earned by looking up |
54 |
Mroza Van Damme Fakude |
"Impilo Inzima" |
Abasemkhuze Khushawa Edonsayo |
and scattering human names among the infinite. |
55 |
Samthing Soweto |
"The Danko! Medley" |
Danko! |
We make borders by saying "Here, where I am standing, none can precisely stand. |
56 |
Bab L' Bluz |
"Gnawa Beat" |
Nayda! |
These things I will list, you must choose half of them to cherish, |
57 |
Julianna Barwick |
"Inspirit - Extended Version" |
Inspirit (Takuya's Ryūteki Dragons) 3 |
half to disavow. |
58 |
Arca |
"Riquiquí(lxxvi76);Bronze-Instance" |
Riquiquí;Bronze-Instances(1-100) |
The songs of our previously united land can never again be sung |
59 |
Loreen |
"Du är min man - Så mycket bättre 2020" |
single |
in this new year of sundered choruses and broken silence." |
60 |
Caroline Polachek |
"Breathless" |
single |
And then time stands still, for a moment or heartbeat or breath, just long enough for us to imagine what it would mean if we were serious, if this next breath were the last swell of a concluded era. |
61 |
Dead by April |
"Let It Go" |
single |
And then we laugh, and turn, and run a foot through the line as we step back into everything. |