1 |
TVINNA |
"Inside - The Dark" |
One in the Dark |
We are the children of ritual and halflight, |
2 |
Helalyn Flowers |
"Rosso atlantide" |
Àiresis |
and we have a hundred words for falling in love |
3 |
ZLUTZ |
"Conscious and Earthbound" |
single |
with shapes glimpsed in fire or shadow, |
4 |
Escuchando Elefantes |
"La Estrella" |
¿Por Qué Siempre Cantáis en Inglés? |
but the point of words is not always to quietly take up the places |
5 |
Eva Ryjlen |
"Criatura Salvaje" |
single |
of the thoughts that have died before ours. |
6 |
Zahara |
"canción de muerte y salvación" |
single |
Sometimes we sing to release our convictions |
7 |
Diamond Kobra |
"Twelve Parsecs" |
single |
from responsibility for belief. |
8 |
Elyose |
"Metropolis" |
Persona |
Sometimes we sing to assert a retrospective order |
9 |
Heart Healer |
"This is Not the End" |
single |
on places we have collectively come to rest. |
10 |
MoonSun |
"Falling" |
single |
Sometimes we open our mouths to listen. |
11 |
Crystallion |
"Living on a Lie" |
Heads or Tails |
The skull is a leaky isolation machine, |
12 |
Marty Friedman |
"The Perfect World (feat. Alfakyun.)" |
The Perfect World (feat. Alfakyun.) / Makenaide 2 |
like the heart is a poor shield against hope. |
13 |
Eyes Set To Kill |
"Find Our Way" |
single |
Dusk is both liminal and relentlessly repeated, |
14 |
Icon For Hire |
"Enemies" |
Amorphous |
so it's tempting to wonder whether anything we haven't yet escaped |
15 |
Dessa |
"Bombs Away" |
Bombs Away +1 |
is necessary after all. |
16 |
First to Eleven |
"drivers license" |
single |
All our roads go past all the places we've been. |
17 |
CLEWS |
"Want You That Way" |
single |
We drive faster, but never leave this town. |
18 |
Greywind |
"Am I Asleep?" |
single |
We are the masters of tactile cycling without material change, |
19 |
Linn Koch-Emmery |
"Blow My Mind" |
Blow My Mind +2 |
of practiced steps taken towards anticipatory awe, |
20 |
Moonrunner83 |
"Like We Were Kids" |
single |
of new dances based on how you sway almost imperceptibly |
21 |
Soraya |
"Mysterious Times" |
single |
in the torque of memories of moments of self-contained promise. |
22 |
Parallels |
"Hidden Sun" |
single |
The scientists promised us paradise, |
23 |
Escuchando Elefantes |
"Calma y Tempestad" |
¿Por Qué Siempre Cantáis en Inglés? |
and our mistake was forgetting that science only promises what it has already found. |
24 |
For Tracy Hyde |
"Sister Carrie" |
Ethernity |
We are the enemies of time, but so too statues placed on cliffs facing the dawn. |
25 |
DIGM |
"Freiheit" |
single |
There is a bakery on a hill in a city where we've never been, |
26 |
和氣あず未 |
"いそげあじゅじゅ" |
超革命的恋する日常 |
and you don't have to go there to understand how we are all tourists everywhere, |
27 |
AFTER SQUALL |
"the DAWN" |
THE PINKY |
but they make these almond buns, and you can take them down to where the restless ferries pause, |
28 |
Novelbright |
"フェアリーテール" |
single |
and then if you don't feel lifted from the earth |
29 |
SHE'S |
"In Your Room" |
追い風 4 |
you still have almond buns to eat, |
30 |
H△G |
"君のままでいい" |
single |
and coffee to drink if you also brought coffee, |
31 |
PARADISES |
"消えないもの" |
single |
and you can watch the people who need to leave this shore |
32 |
BiS |
"つよがりさん" |
single |
waiting patiently for the people who need to reach this shore to be done with the sea. |
33 |
nothing,nowhere. |
"pain place (feat. MISOGI)" |
Trauma Factory |
We have declared ourselves as sculptors of regret, |
34 |
Buffalobang |
"Rock Museum" |
A Beautiful Feeling 5 |
and now we wait for the latent shapes inside of the sadness |
35 |
Nosgov |
"youwouldntnotice" |
vampire night 5 |
to helpfully reveal themselves. |
36 |
Senses |
"take me back" |
single |
We go through these same sequential stages every time: |
37 |
Loli in early 20s |
"The highest fear" |
It is too late to save you 5 |
frantic impulse; |
38 |
grandee |
"stranded" |
single |
the inductive accretion of rules and methods by which we might have become ourselves, |
39 |
SEBii |
"breakOUT" |
single |
but didn't; |
40 |
midwxst |
"Final Breath" |
single |
jurisdictional dance-battles over abandoned spaces; |
41 |
juno |
"conflict" |
moirai 3 |
canonicalization of the coincidental and transient; |
42 |
Jackie Platinum |
"Never Been Real" |
single |
despair; rage; starting over at the same place. |
43 |
93FEETOFSMOKE |
"FIGHTFAIR" |
single |
If you can't hear your music in other people's music, |
44 |
LiL Lotus |
"Girl Next Door" |
single |
then you probably never heard your own music, either. |
45 |
Ryan Oakes |
"SECOND COMING" |
SECOND COMING +2 |
But it's not too late, |
46 |
nothing,nowhere. |
"love or chemistry" |
Trauma Factory |
never too late to hear everything all over again, |
47 |
David Gray |
"Dún Laoghaire" |
Skellig |
starting with whatever plays next. |
48 |
Aman Sheriff |
"Pick Me Up Tonight" |
single |
We are the children of reiteration and quiet roars, |
49 |
Del Amitri |
"It's Feelings" |
It's Feelings +1 |
and our heroes are poets come back to where they were from with fraying foreign shirts. |
50 |
Gary Hughes |
"Electra Glide" |
single |
The stories reach poignancy, but never stop there. |
51 |
nothing,nowhere. |
"trauma factory" |
Trauma Factory |
A tangible and coherent optimism |
52 |
616 |
"Cinderella Valentine" |
single |
wears a pointless cape for the video. |
53 |
Eternal Idol |
"A Touch of Evil" |
Rocking with the Idols |
We need our stories more than we need their morals. |
54 |
Secret Sphere |
"The End of an Ego" |
single |
We know what to do when we fail to lift ourselves clear of the granite quays: |
55 |
Ronnie Atkins |
"Scorpio" |
single |
we line them with another layer of stone or boardwalk and try again. |
56 |
Kayak |
"Mystery" |
single |
We embed our deepest governing truths into meticulous origin myths, |
57 |
Atreides |
"Flor de Madrugada" |
single |
but then shine our brightest lights on the embossed covers of franchised sequels. |
58 |
Orden Ogan |
"Let the Fire Rain" |
Let the Fire Rain +3 |
We sing "tonight" to be heard tomorrow morning. |
59 |
Matenrou Opera |
"hakanakukieruainosanka" |
hakanakukieruainosanka +2 |
The people we were when we started to believe |
60 |
The Crown |
"We Drift On" |
single |
or to love |
61 |
Gojira |
"Born For One Thing" |
Born For One Thing +1 |
are gone. |
62 |
Badlands |
"Out of Reach" |
single |
We have awoken in their clothes and their lives, |
63 |
Thorr |
"Endless" |
Dire 3 |
in a city of inscrutable faeries |
64 |
Dordeduh |
"Desferecat" |
single |
built on rune-inscribed layers, |
65 |
The Devil's Trade |
"Dead Sister Merope" |
single |
with close streets leading to a bakery overlooking a harbor. |
66 |
Mother of All |
"Autumn" |
single |
Sometimes we sing to admit that we miss places we don't remember, |
67 |
Suffering Hour |
"Transcending Antecedent Visions" |
The Cyclic Reckoning |
sometimes we howl just to judge our distance from walls |
68 |
Rise to the Sky |
"Dream the Pain is Gone" |
single |
in the darkness. |
69 |
Harakiri for the Sky |
"Us Against December Skies" |
Mære |
If you can't fall in love with specific undistinguished streets in other people's cities, |
70 |
Lake Of Tears |
"The End of This World" |
Ominous |
then you are not yet at home where you live. |
71 |
Mogwai |
"To The Bin My Friend, Tonight We Vacate Earth" |
As The Love Continues |
We are amateurs of ritual, of method, |
72 |
Immanu El |
"Sparks" |
single |
barely willing to practice our most basic skills |
73 |
Bell Orchestre |
"IV: What You're Thinking" |
single |
and thus barely capable of performing |
74 |
Rabbit Junk |
"Industrial Is Dead (Remastered)" |
single |
our own identity the same way twice. |
75 |
Black Honey |
"Disinfect" |
Disinfect 5 |
But once, at what was thus the dawn of time, |
76 |
Helalyn Flowers |
"Some Kind of Outer Minds" |
Àiresis |
we realized that a captured moment can be replayed. |
77 |
Paula Mattheus |
"Viaje Sin Vuelta" |
single |
Art is not a labor of formation, |
78 |
The Chain Gang Of 1974 |
"Distorted (By You)" |
single |
it is a gesture of permanence. |
79 |
Girlfriends and Boyfriends |
"Colour Shining Bright" |
Fallacy of Fairness |
We die momentarily with every blink, |
80 |
Terror Jr |
"Too Soon" |
single |
and every worthwhile human grace is some kind of opposite of that: |
81 |
Tones And I |
"Fly Away - RIP King T" |
Fly Away 2 |
an aperture of openheartedness, |
82 |
HAIM |
"Gasoline (feat. Taylor Swift)" |
Women In Music Pt III |
or shifted perception |
83 |
Emm Gryner |
"All Love All the Time" |
single |
where the shift is into yourself. |
84 |
Tenille Arts |
"Give It To Me Straight" |
single |
Half of our songs are resignations to things that won't even happen, |
85 |
Our Last Night |
"drivers license" |
single |
and the rest turn the things that happened into things we can imagine imagining. |
86 |
Kodes |
"Avni Yıldırım" |
single |
We have a million words for doubt, |
87 |
Joker |
"kelime kelepçe" |
Kirli Beyaz (Bozuk Kaset) |
but our hearts are certain. |
88 |
Guedra Guedra |
"People's Cabaret" |
single |
Art is not a logistic compromise, |
89 |
Aleksi Perälä |
"FI3AC2139360" |
Midnight Sun 4 EP-2A |
it is a pattern of redemption. |
90 |
Desolate Horizons |
"The Unique Beauty of Noiselessness" |
single |
Some of the cities don't have a hill. |
91 |
Diamantero |
"The Village" |
single |
Presumably it is possible, however undesirable, to have a city without a bakery. |
92 |
Ithwasa Lekhansela |
"Izinyembezi Zenjabulo" |
single |
We have always walked down to the water, or to the edge of what we knew, |
93 |
Nailah Blackman |
"Melancholy" |
single |
to see how air or birds or strangers cross the boundary between our universe and the enfolding void. |
94 |
Ghetts |
"Mozambique (feat. Jaykae & Moonchild Sanelly)" |
Conflict Of Interest |
Sometimes we sing to adjust how time flows back or forth across this line. |
95 |
Ballaké Sissoko |
"Djourou" |
single |
Sometimes we say nothing as we move or erase or redraw the line. |
96 |
Temperance |
"My Demons Can't Sleep - Acoustic Version" |
Melodies of Green and Blue |
If you can't hear other people's music in your music, |
97 |
Rúnfell |
"Skadi" |
Lyrdraces |
you may also be wrong about which side of any line you're on, |
98 |
TVINNA |
"Skymning" |
One in the Dark |
which movements are transit and which are return. |
99 |
Caterina Barbieri |
"Fantas for Saxophone and Voice" |
single |
But the sky, like the skull, arches upward as if to seclude us, only to let in all of the dreams. |